HR Strategic Leader

To order CDs and tapes of conferences (where available), please call BNA Plus at 800-372-1033 and refer to conference title and which date.

January 12, 2006

Stepping Into the Boardroom: What HR Must Do to Become a Strategic Leader

Agenda Summary: This HR audioconference defined what it means for HR to be "strategic"; reviewed HR's success in transforming itself from administrator to strategic thinker and doer; provided insights and practical guidance for identifying and leveraging opportunities to increase HR's effectiveness at all organizational levels, collaborating with finance and other business units to effect change, and re-framing HR activities as value-adding business activities; discussed strategies to position HR to partner in efforts to improve company performance; and suggested specific steps HR can take to participate in meaningful ways to help achieve business objectives. The featured speaker was business consultant and organizational and management development expert, Jane Tamagna.

CD or tape still available for price of conference ($149.00, BNA subscribers; $224.00, nonsubscribers).

September 23, 2003

Maximizing Your Seat at the Table: Strategic Ways for HR Leaders to Boost HR’s ROI.

Agenda summary: Strategies for effectively using tools and metrics to drive business decisions; ways that HR’s role is evolving to meet business challenges; tips on how HR professionals can help top executives understand the language of human resources; and more. Featured speaker was Dr. Robert L. Mathis, Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and noted author of best-selling HR books.

CD or tape still available for price of conference. (Non-subscriber price is $224; $149 for BNA subscribers.)

August 21, 2003

HR's Role as Strategy Leader

Agenda summary: Registrants learned how HR professionals can use information technology to support business functions; what the important "talent issues" are that face companies today; how HR can best demonstrate the connection between talent and business performance, share price, and shareholder value; what HR professionals can do to help top executives understand the language of human resources; and more! On Aug. 21, senior HR professional and consultant Jackie Blanchard and Steve Lane, founder of Vertical Leap Consulting, led the conference for an informative discussion of HR's role as strategy leader. Our speakers reviewed aspects of HR strategic leadership, and offered insights along with practical information that you can use to make a difference to your organization.

CD or tape still available for price of conference (Non-subscriber price is $224; $149 for BNA subscribers.)