CRHRA ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND MARKETPLACE Thursday, March 24, 2016 Drive Your Career to Success with CRHRA! Breakfast Keynote: It s Okay to Be the Boss: Highly- Engaged Management for the 21 st Century Presented by Bruce Tulgan, Best-Selling Author, Nationally- Recognized Speaker, and founder of RainmakerThinking, Inc.
8:00 8:30 AM: Registration and Breakfast 8:30 9:45 AM: Welcome and Keynote Speaker 9:45 10:45 AM: Coffee Break in the Marketplace 10:45 11:45 AM: First Concurrent Session 11:45 1:30 PM: Lunch and Keynote Speaker 1:30 2:15 PM: Dessert in the Marketplace 2:15 3:15 PM: Second Concurrent Session Conference Schedule 3:15 3:45 PM Final Marketplace and Grand Prize Drawing 3:45 4:45 PM: Third Concurrent Session Empire State Plaza Convention Center Albany, NY 12242
Drive Your Career to Success with CRHRA Breakfast Keynote It s Okay to Be the Boss: Highly-Engaged Management for the 21 st Century Presented by Bruce Tulgan, RainmakerThinking Nine out of ten leaders and managers provide their direct-reports with too little guidance, direction, support and coaching. Under-management afflicts leaders and managers at all levels in organizations of all shapes and sizes in every industry. In this session, Bruce Tulgan will share the lessons from leading hundreds of his legendary manager s boot camps in which he helped managers confront under-management in themselves and learn to practice the basics of strong highly-engaged leadership. Attendees will come away with fresh insights and actionable tools and techniques that will make them more effective managers almost immediately. Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace and one of the leading experts on leadership and management. Bruce is a bestselling author, an adviser to business leaders all over the world, and a sought-after keynote speaker and management trainer. Before founding RainmakerThinking in 1993, Bruce practiced law at the Wall Street firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. He graduated with high honors from Amherst College, received his law degree from the New York University School of Law, and is still a member of the Bar in Massachusetts and New York. Bruce continues his lifelong study of Okinawan Uechi Ryu Karate Do and holds a sixth degree black belt, making him a Renshi master of the style. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut with his wife Debby Applegate, Ph.D., who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for her book The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Doubleday, 2006).
Drive Your Career to Success with CRHRA Lunch Keynote Speaker: Legal Update What s New in 2016 John M. Bagyi, Esq., SPHR, Bond, Schoeneck & King Join us for a fact-filled and informative session from longtime friend of CRHRA, John Bagyi. Learn what you need to know in 2016 to stay on top of the latest trends and developments in employment law. An attorney and certified Senior Professional in Human Resources who is a Member (Partner) at Bond, Schoeneck & King, John counsels and represents employers of all types and sizes in a variety of labor and employment-related contexts. He has served as a guest lecturer at Albany Law School, the University at Albany, Union Graduate School and the Lally School of Business at RPI and is a frequent speaker at national, regional and state conferences, including the National SHRM Conference. John also serves as General Counsel to the New York State Society of Human Resource Management. John has been selected for inclusion in New York Super Lawyers Upstate Edition as well as the Super Lawyers Business Edition and Corporate Counsel Edition of Super Lawyers. John has also been recognized in Who s Who in America, Who s Who in Emerging Leaders. John has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for labor and employment law since 2007, when he was the youngest attorney in New York State to be recognized. Most recently, The Best Lawyers in America named John the 2014 Albany Labor Law - Management "Lawyer of the Year" and Albany Employment Law- Management Lawyer of the Year.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE 8:00 8:30 AM Attendee Registration and Breakfast 8:30 9:45 AM Welcome and Keynote: It s Okay to Be the Boss: Highly-Engaged Management for the 21 st Century, Bruce Tulgan, RainmakerThinking, Inc. 9:45 10:45 AM Coffee Break in the Exhibitor Marketplace 10:45 11:45 AM Concurrent Session I 1. Successful Outcomes in Mentoring and Leadership Programs - Kathleen Caggiano-Siino and Laurel McAdoo 2. Onboarding Employees in the 21 st Century Workplace: Good Beginnings Make Good Outcomes Judi Clements, Judi Clements Training & Development 3. Your Roadmap to Health Plan Compliance Amy Klein, Esq,. Bond, Schoeneck & King 4. Morning Keynote Follow-up Workshop with Bruce Tulgan 11:45 1:30 PM Luncheon and Keynote Speaker: Legal Update for 2016 - John M. Bagyi, Esq., SPHR, Bond, Schoeneck & King 1:30 2:15 PM Dessert in the Exhibitor Marketplace 2:15 3:15 PM Concurrent Session II 1. Is this a Development Opportunity or Drag? Debra Antonelli, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Delark HR Solutions 2. Dynamic Presentation Skills Joan Hebert, MBA, MS, Hebert Performance Training 3. Recruiting in 2016: Putting You in the Driver s Seat Miriam Dushane, Linium 3:15 3:45 PM Coffee Break and Final Marketplace: Exhibitor and Grand Prize Drawings 3:45 4:45 PM Concurrent Session III 1. Building and Executing a Tailored Well-Being Strategy Lauren Benz and Dan Harding, MVP Health Care 2. 5 Key Steps to Drive Your HR Career Forward Lisa Adams, Bishop House 3. Panel Discussion Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation: Perspectives from Employers and Employees Attorneys Sarah Delaney Vero, Esq., Law Offices of Delaney Vero, Noreen DeWire Grimmick, Esq., Hodgson Russ, Giovanna D Orazio, Esq., Dorazio Peterson, LLP, Cheryl L. Sovern, Esq., DuCharme, Clark & Sovern, LLP, and Joanmarie M. Dowling, Esq., Dowling Law, PLLC
Concurrent Session I 10:45 11:45 AM Concurrent Session Summaries Successful Outcomes in Mentoring and Leadership Programs, Kathleen Caggiano-Siino and Laurel McAdoo, The Research Foundation for SUNY This interactive workshop will assist participants in developing, implementing and evaluating professional development programs on a tight budget. Learn how to create a successful Leadership Academy for all staff levels with impressive outcomes for employees and their managers. Participants will be given design techniques for Mentoring Programs that the SUNY Research Foundation has been using for several years. Onboarding Employees in the 21 st Century Workplace: Good Beginnings Make Good Outcomes, Judi Clements, Judi Clements Training & Development This presentation will cover preparing, conducting, and evaluating effective new employee onboarding programs; updating existing programs to reflect new technologies and learning styles of 21st century employees. From the first day new employees start on the job, they begin to make judgments about the company, their manager, their peers, and the job they ve been hired to do. Too many first days are wasted days with new employees sitting around doing nothing while they wait for their managers to pay attention to them. Often they are funneled into half-hearted orientation programs & bombarded with information overload. Avoid these wasteful traps by using Judi s program on organizing and delivering a comprehensive onboarding program. You ll learn how to develop a process that will have new employees immediately productive and quickly invested and enthusiastic about their new job. Your Roadmap to Health Plan Compliance, Amy Klein, Esq,. Bond, Schoeneck & King Set your GPS to a fully compliant group health plan! You can t take your eyes off this road for a minute! Amy Klein will describe the latest tolls, detours, and rough roads on the compliance highway, including: Speed traps: Affordable Care Act reporting issues, the Cadillac tax, eligibility on-ramps and off ramps, and such road-side attractions as opt-out payments, health reimbursement accounts, cafeteria plans, and health reimbursement accounts. Road signs: what notices, disclosures and reports are required and when? What s under your hood? Does your section 125 plan need a tune-up It s Okay to Be the Boss Follow-up Workshop Bruce Tulgan, RainmakerThinking More details to come stay tuned!
Concurrent Session II 2:30 3:30 PM Concurrent Session Summaries Is this a Development Opportunity or Drag? Debra Antonelli, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Delark HR Solutions Why are you paying more attention to the employees creating drag for your business rather than those who are the keys to your success? Unemployment is very low. Indicators suggest it will remain low though 2016. During a time when recruiting talent is very difficult, leading HR practitioners must provide their organizations with the tools to retain great employees. This program will present best practices for HR practitioners to train, lead, and consult with management teams to develop great employees and remove the drag, yielding a high performance culture and retention of key talent. Dynamic Presentation Skills Joan Hebert, MBA, MS, Hebert Performance Training Are you a new or experienced presenter, yet haven t had the opportunity to learn the tricks of the trade? Learn the essentials, as well as what makes an exceptional presenter. Learning objectives include: how to engage and energize participants, deliver powerful presentations, set a positive environment, and how to convey and gain more enthusiasm for the topic. Takeaways include: 11 TIPS for E-X-C-E-P-T-I-O-N-A-L Presentations, and Comprehensive Checklist for Prepared Presenters. Learn the presentation techniques and best ways to get your message across, from a 25+ year corporate trainer and presenter. Recruiting for 2016 Putting you in the driver s seat Miriam Dushane, Linium In this presentation you will learn more about the latest trends affecting business large and small in their competition for top talent regionally and nationwide. You will gain insight and strategies in the following areas: Becoming more mobile in your recruitment strategy Finding new ways in attracting passive candidates Strategies to overcome the challenges of the skills gap Branding and selling your company to prospective employees Market research of the capital region and beyond related to recruiting, recruiting difficulty and talent acquisition trends Technology advances and how to leverage them for an effective recruitment strategy.
Concurrent Session III 3:45 4:45 PM Concurrent Session Summaries Building and Executing a Tailored Well-Being Strategy Lauren Benz and Dan Harding, MVP Health Care Looking to turn your well-being program into a success or to develop a program from scratch? We ll teach you the tips and tricks to building an overall well-being strategy that works for your population. Come learn the steps we took to build our award-winning Journey to Well-Being worksite wellness program. 5 Key Steps to Drive Your HR Career Forward Lisa Adams, Bishop House Do you understand the value you bring to an employer? Do your business partners undervalue you? Are you so busy helping everyone else s careers that you forgot to nurture your own? In this workshop you will learn how to develop your internal brand which in turn will strengthen your career opportunities. You will be pushed to think differently about your career and your presence inside the organization. Panel Discussion Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation: Perspectives from Employers and Employees Attorneys Sarah Delaney Vero, Esq., Law Offices of Delaney Vero, Noreen DeWire Grimmick, Esq., Hodgson Russ, Giovanna D Orazio, Esq., Dorazio Peterson, LLP, Cheryl L. Sovern, Esq., DuCharme, Clark & Sovern, LLP, and Joanmarie M. Dowling, Esq., Dowling Law, PLLC Discrimination, harassment and retaliation cases present some of the most common and most divisive employment disputes. In this panel presentation, we bring together advocates for both sides (employer and employee) for a spirited discussion on liability prevention, litigation strategies, and trends in discrimination, harassment, and retaliation law. Come hear how plaintiff s attorneys decide what cases they will take on and what mistakes they think employers are making!
CRHRA HR Conference & Expo Registration Form You may register and pay online at www.crhra.org or register by mail by completing this registration form. Registrant Name: Title: Company: Street Address: City/State/Zip: Email: Phone: Name & Certifications for Badge: SHRM (national) Membership No.: Local SHRM Chapter Name: Conference Fees Same Price, New Location SHRM or CRHRA Member Non- Member Student Early Bird (By March 1 st )* SAVE 15% $185 $200 $40 Regular $215 $230 $40 Breakfast Program Only (ends at 9:45 AM) $50 $60 $20 Conference Fee includes all sessions, all meals, prizes (must be present to win), access to Exhibitor Marketplace, and conference program. Note: Parking at the Plaza is not included in the above registration fee. Normal parking fee is $10 for the day. Conference expenses may be tax deductible; consult your tax advisor. Meals: Please indicate any special dietary needs you may have: Cancellation: Cancellations will be subject to a $50 processing fee. No refunds after 03/18/2016. Total Conference Payment due: $ Note: Full Payment Must Accompany Registration Form Payment method: Check MasterCard VISA DISCOVER AMEX Name as it appears on card: Signature: Card No.: Expiration Date: Make checks payable to: CAPITAL REGION HUMAN RESOURCE ASSOCIATION. Send payments to: CRHRA, 1450 Western Avenue Suite 101, Albany, NY 12203 518-463-8687; fax 518-463-8656; crhra@caphill.com
Concurrent Sessions: Please circle the concurrent session topics you plan to attend. Session Time Concurrent Session I 10:45 11:45 AM Topic 1. Successful Outcomes in Mentoring and Leadership Programs - Kathleen Caggiano-Siino and Laurel McAdoo 2. Onboarding Employees in the 21 st Century Workplace: Good Beginnings Make Good Outcomes Judi Clements, Judi Clements Training & Development 3. Your Roadmap to Health Plan Compliance Amy Klein, Esq,. Bond, Schoeneck & King 4. Morning Keynote Follow-up Workshop Bruce Tulgan, RainmakerThinking Concurrent Session II 2:30 3:30 PM 1. Is this a Development Opportunity or Drag? Debra Antonelli, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Delark HR Solutions 2. Dynamic Presentation Skills Joan Hebert, MBA, MS, Hebert Performance Training 3. Recruiting for 2016 Putting You in the Driver s Seat Miriam Dushane, Linium Concurrent Session III 3:45 4:45 PM 1. Building and Executing a Tailored Well-Being Strategy Lauren Benz and Dan Harding, MVP Health Care 2. 5 Key Steps to Drive Your HR Career Forward Lisa Adams, Bishop House 3. Panel Discussion Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation: Perspectives from Employers and Employees Attorneys Sarah Delaney Vero, Esq., Law Offices of Delaney Vero, Noreen DeWire Grimmick, Esq., Hodgson Russ, Giovanna D Orazio, Esq., Dorazio Peterson, LLP, Cheryl L. Sovern, Esq., DuCharme, Clark & Sovern, LLP, and Joanmarie M. Dowling, Esq., Dowling Law, PLLC You may also register on our website: www.crhra.org For Questions Contact: Victoria Palasieski, crhra@caphill.com, 518-463-8687 Reminders: The dress is business casual. Remember to bring plenty of business cards or address labels for drawings & networking. Special Note: ONE FORM PER APPLICANT. Please photocopy for additional registrations.