Philadelphia SHRM Professional Development Series:
Total Rewards Thursday, March 27, 2008
7:30am-11:30am
This program has been approved for 2.25 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). Please be sure to note the program ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.
How to Under Promise & Over Deliver to a Demanding Workforce
There are many companies who will over promise and under deliver to their employees and there are employees who take on too much responsibility and lack productivity; which result in employees under performing or the company losing credibility within their industry as being trustful. When committing to achieve specific outcomes, it is crucial your team has reviewed all possible outcomes, both positive and negative, before opening the lines of communication. The underlying business strategy is simple - deliver what you promise which leaves you opportunity to over deliver; ultimately, when promises go unfulfilled, employees become cynical and untrusting, always being extra cautious. During this panel discussion, 3 HR professionals will show you how to make promises that will over deliver instead of over promising and lacking integrity when your employees or your role within the company is a huge asset to the business’s development.
Panelists:
Linda Mitchell, HR Communications Specialist,
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Ron Seifert, Senior Consultant, Hay Group
Lorraine S. Webb, Vice President of Organizational Development,
Philadelphia Gas Works
Linda Mitchell Bio:
Linda Mitchell is the HR Communications Specialist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Linda has been with the healthcare system for 25 five years, and has been implementing employee events and recognition programs for the Hospital since 2004.
Ron Seifert Bio:
Ron works with Boards of Directors and Senior Executives to provide them with business and market insight, while ensuring their reward programs are appropriately competitive, well designed and aligned with the strategic interests of the organization.
Lorraine S. Webb Bio:
As Vice President of Organizational Development for the Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW), Lorraine S. Webb is responsible for succession planning, performance management, staffing, diversity, employee relations and training and development for the nation’s largest municipally owned natural gas utility. PGW serves more than 500,000 customers and has annual operating revenues of more than $859 million.
Roundtable Breakout:
Wellness Perks - Improving Health & the Bottom Line!
Does your company feel healthy employees are crucial to the daily operations of your business? If so, you want to make sure you join this breakout session which will focus on sharing your company’s best practices for improving health and the bottom line. Learn how to create a wellness program to promote physical and mental wellbeing at your company to encourage healthy living which can help employees achieve optimal physical and mental health, resulting in better, more productive employees – not to mention lower healthcare costs. This roundtable session will have you leaving with new ideas for implementation within your company along with many new contacts who can help your organization increase wellness perks. At the conclusion of the session, we will open the entire floor for a forum where each table will have a few minutes to share their group's innovative ideas for improving health. Learn from other’s how you and your co-workers can be encouraged to make staying healthy a priority.
Keynote Speaker Session:
Give Them What They Want, When They Want It (Without Breaking the Bank)
How can barriers be overcome? How does an organization align giving employees what they want, when they want it while staying financially responsible for the company? It is often heard that most of an organization's employees work hard to produce results for the business and should be compensated but, in many cases, this seems nearly impossible without breaking the budget. Research shows by recognizing employee accomplishments, you can make your staff more productive without shaving one millimeter off your bottom line. You’ll walk away with an amazing collection of reward and recognition ideas for implementation within your organization or to share with your boss! After sharing in this keynote session, there will be no excuses to miss an opportunity to create motivating programs that drive business results without fear of breaking the bank while keeping employees smiling!
Speaker: William Strahan, V.P. Compensation and Benefits, Comcast
Bill Strahan has been involved in various aspects of Human Resources work for almost 25 years. He began his career with over a decade of work at Macy’s Department Stores and Riggs National Bank. At those companies his work ranged between recruiting, compensation, benefits and employee relations work. The second decade of Bill’s work included practicing law in the area of Compensation and Benefits – mostly in the context of mergers and acquisitions and in initial public offerings. He was with Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette, a Washington, D.C. boutique firm specializing in financial institutions. For nine years Bill was with Mercer HR Consulting. Mercer is the country’s and world’s largest HR consulting firm. Bill was the Office Head in Philadelphia, the firm’s second-largest US office. His area of personal consulting expertise was Executive Compensation. His client list included numerous Fortune 25, 50 and 100 companies. Bill has returned to corporate HR work and is currently the VP for Compensation and Benefits at Comcast – the country’s largest cable system operator and a leader in telecommunication and information distribution.
