In less than two weeks, I will be attending the SHRM conference with my colleagues in Atlanta at the George World Congress Center! As I help prepare our exhibition booth and travel plans, I have also been looking at all of the great SHRM sessions being offered that center around recognition, incentives, engagement and wellness. There are so many to choose from (download the full SHRM Sessions by Day pdf here), I compiled a list for readers this week of just some of the sessions related to benefits and compensation. In between sessions, don't forget to come visit us at the Awards Network booth, #1948! Our experts will be available to answer any of your recognition and rewards questions.
Creating a Culture of Health to Help Curb Expense and Earn 'Best Places to Work'
Workplace Application: You will leave this program with the knowledge and tips to assist your organization in controlling healthcare costs through changing your organizational culture.
Learn how changing employee behavior can help your company achieve a near ZERO health plan cost trend year after year while simultaneously earning the title of Best Place to Work in your community or state. Mr. Layman will share his vision and experience by explaining methods on how to transform your organization into a place that will both retain and attract the healthiest, most engaged, and brightest talent in the region.
Presenter: Doug Layman, EVP & CSMO, Gilsbar, Inc.
Session Dates: 06/25/2012 | 07:00 AM - 08:15 AM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
Credit: 1.25 General Recertification
Track: Benefits & Compensation
Focus Areas: Wellness
MEGA SESSION: Disney's Approach to Selection, Training and Engagement
Communicating and nurturing the culture of your organization is vital to the successful management of your employees. From recruiting to career management, employees want to know your expectations and how you are going to support them in meeting those expectations. This program will help you to: select employees with the skills who are the right "fit" for your organization's culture; train employees to make their best contribution and provide them with opportunities to improve their performance; communicate with all levels of your organization; and provide a supportive environment that celebrates success.
Presenter: Scott Milligan, SPHR, Business program consultant, Disney Institute
Session Dates: 06/25/2012 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
Credit: 1.25 General Recertification
Track: Talent Management
Focus Areas: Engagement & Morale
Health and Wealth: Adding Financial Wellness to Your Wellness Program
Workplace Application: This session will show you how to use a fully integrated financial education initiative as part of an overall wellness program.
Finances are employees' #1 cause of stress, which leads to higher health care costs for your company, and negatively impacts employee productivity and morale. For many companies, employee financial wellness is the missing piece to maximizing the effectiveness of existing wellness programs, and fully containing health care costs. Not to mention, fostering a workforce of healthier, happier and more productive employees who are more engaged and empowered and no longer distracted by financial issues.
Presenter: Linda Robertson, Senior financial planner, Financial Finesse, Inc.
Session Dates: 06/25/2012 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
Credit: 1.25 General Recertification
Track: Benefits & Compensation
Focus Areas: Wellness
Engaged Leadership: The Leader Side of Employee Engagement
Workplace Application: This session addresses the leader's role in building a culture of employee engagement.
During great times, employee engagement is needed to help an organization thrive. During tough times, employee engagement is required to help an organization survive. With only one in four employees engaged on the job, the key to success lies in the ability to lead disengaged employees. In this session, we will discuss the responsibility leaders have to build a culture to overcome employee disengagement. We'll introduce ways to move employees from disengagement to engagement by breaking down the art of effective leadership into three culture-building areas that all great leaders must master to achieve uncommon results.
Presenter: Clint Swindall, CSP, President & CEO, Verbalocity, Inc.
Session Dates: 06/25/2012 | 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
Credit: 1.25 Strategic Business Management
Track: Talent Management
Focus Areas: Engagement & Morale
MEGA SESSION: Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! 99 Low-Cost Ways to Recognize Employees, Raise Retention & Profits
Workplace Application: Learn 99 practical and easy ways to implement ideas to recognize and reward your employees to increase motivation, retention and revenue growth.
Not every HR Professional has a wheelbarrow full of cash to pass out for work well done. Workplace success is traced back to motivated employees and a culture that recognizes and appreciates them. A winning system acknowledges and rewards two types of activities---performance and behavior. Learn 99 effective and low-cost actions you can take to recognize all levels of your workforce which in turns results in higher retention, customer satisfaction and revenue growth.
Presenter: Mindy H. Chapman, Esq., President, Mindy Chapman & Associates, LLC
Session Dates: 06/25/2012 | 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
Credit: 1.25 General Recertification
Track: Talent Management
Focus Areas: Engagement & Morale
Convert Dis-Engagement and Turnover to Dollars!
Workplace Application: You will leave with formulas for converting disengagement and turnover to dollars to influence executives to set goals and accountabilities.
Would your C-suite executives take stronger actions to improve engagement and turnover if survey scores and turnover percents were converted to dollars…for your organization and each manager? You will leave this session with precise formulas for these conversions along with tips for leveraging the costs to develop goals, accountabilities, and monthly reports. The result is immediate improvement on both metrics and overall productivity. Case studies will be included.
Presenter: Richard P. Finnegan, Founder, Retention Institute
Session Dates: 06/25/2012 | 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
Credit: 1.25 Strategic Business Management
Track: Talent Management
Focus Areas: Engagement & Morale
CARE Enables Change: Four Actions to Improve the Health and Morale of Your Company
Workplace Application: You will learn how implementing a wellness program can impact the engagement and morale your employees.
Many companies are feeling the pressure of increasing health care costs and decreasing employee morale. Unfortunately, adding a wellness program to solve these problems will only be effective if done carefully. At worst it has the potential to decrease morale while failing to inspire improvement. How can you be sure that your investment in your employees is going to be effective? What is the secret to truly creating positive change in a corporate culture?
Presenter: Elizabeth Dixon , Wellness director, Chick-Fil-A and Cooper Aerobic Enterprises
Session Dates: 06/26/2012 | 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
Credit: 1.25 General Recertification
Track: Benefits & Compensation
Focus Areas: Wellness
Make It Fun: Why Online Social Games Are So Effective at Improving Employee Wellness and Engagement
Workplace Application: This session will provide real-life examples of easy-to-rollout online social games that will help you develop the most effective wellness solutions possible for your company.
Find out how you can introduce online social games into your health and wellness programming and specifically what to look for in the new games. You'll learn which elements are most effective at engaging employees and what's involved in rolling out the games in your organization. If you make getting healthy fun to do by making it a game, your employees will be clamoring to exercise more and eat better because adopting these kinds of behaviors earns them points, rewards and positive social and team interactions. And it all leads to happier, healthier and more productive employees.
Presenter: Adam Bosworth, Founder & CTO, Keas
Session Dates: 06/26/2012 | 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
Credit: 1.25 General Recertification
Track: Benefits & Compensation
Focus Areas: Wellness
The Five Most Dangerous Trends in Employee Wellness Programs (and What You Can Do to Avoid Them)
Workplace Application: You will learn how to make the most of your current and future employee wellness strategy maximum return on investment.
Almost every company now offers an employee wellness strategy. Unfortunately many of these miss the mark (significantly!) and don't provide the expected return on investment. In this session created specifically for SHRM, you will discover the five most dangerous trends that are reducing the effectiveness of employee wellness programs, and what practical steps you can take to avoid them. In addition, the nationally recognized Employee Wellness Micro-audit will be provided for instant scoring and review.
Presenter: Brad Cooper, MSPT, MBA, ATC, MTC, Chief executive officer, US Corporate Wellness, Inc.
Session Dates: 06/25/2012 | 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
Credit: 1.25 General Recertification
Track: Benefits & Compensation
Focus Areas: Wellness
Wellness Done Well vs. Wellness That Fails
Workplace Application: This session will reduce the risk of wellness initiatives failing, and increase the probability of building a sustainable culture of fitness and health.
Some wellness plans have an impact, and some are quickly forgotten. If you can build a lifestyle of health in an organizational setting, you will have a real competitive advantage. To do this, a complex mix of motivators, strategies and communications must be applied. In this fast-moving presentation, we will review actual case studies of wellness plans that succeed and some that fell short, and discuss the three key components of sustainable wellness.
Presenter: Karl Ahlrichs, Senior consultant, Gregory and Appel
Session Dates: 06/26/2012 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
Credit: 1.25 General Recertification
Track: Benefits & Compensation
Focus Areas: Wellness
Employers’ Guide to Healthier Employees
Workplace Application: This session will discuss a case study showing innovative tools and programs to have been developed to help employees become better consumers of health care.
More than five years ago, Aetna tackled a challenge facing employers everywhere today: chronic health issues among employees drive up costs and put employees at risk. As a leading health insurer, Aetna recognized that many of the same challenges the company faced as an employer were the same challenges their customers were facing. Working with Aetna employees as the pilot group, the company was able to create strategies, workplace programs and tools to help employees recognize their health risks and then do something about them. Many of these early experiments went on to become new solutions for Aetna's customers. Elease Wright shares valuable insight and lessons learned during the journey to a healthier workplace.
Presenter: Susan Kosman, RN, BSN, MS, Chief nursing officer, Aetna, Inc.
Session Dates: 06/27/2012 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
Credit: 1.25 General Recertification
Track: Benefits & Compensation
Focus Areas: Wellness