Webinar

Illinois Fox Valley SHRM and the Elgin Area Chamber of Commerce are pleased to present our semi-annual very popular Employment Law Update by Mike Wong, Partner with the law firm Amundsen Davis, LLC.

Topics to be covered include:

The Illinois Fox Valley SHRM’s mission is to provide essential resources and opportunities through educational programs and to prepare individuals for their roles as leaders and decision makers within their organizations.

We want to welcome our new members to the Chapter and invite them to a New Member Meeting. The purpose of these meetings is to get to know you personally, the HR challenges you are facing and how the chapter can support you.

These are informal conversational meetings.

The Illinois Fox Valley SHRM’s mission is to provide essential resources and opportunities through educational programs and to prepare individuals for their roles as leaders and decision makers within their organizations.

We want to welcome our new members to the Chapter and invite them to a New Member Meeting. The purpose of these meetings is to get to know you personally, the HR challenges you are facing and how the chapter can support you.

These are informal conversational meetings.

One of the key competencies for HR Professionals is the ability to resolve and/or mediate conflicts in a respectful, appropriate and impartial manner.

The 2022 SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge (BASK) defines culture as the basic beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors and customs shared and followed by members of a group, which give rise to the group’s sense of identity.

Having an inclusive work culture provides the context for everything we do in HR and how employees experience their work. In this session we will discuss ways that the HR leader can work with management to foster a more inclusive culture. 

The session will deal with these key learning points:

Thank you to our Co-Sponsor:

Please note, this meeting has been changed to online only.

You know the basics of performance management program (PMP) but what if you want and NEED to take it to the next level to make your program more effective and get a better return on your investment. Even smaller organizations can implement a PMP with limited resources that gets results.

The Illinois Fox Valley SHRM Chapter is thrilled to present a talk by Doug Conant, a Fortune 500 CEO who is a New York Times best-selling author, a Top 50 Leadership Innovator, a Top 100 Leadership Speaker, and one of the 100 Most Influential Authors in the World.

Employers faced with misconduct need to have a consistent process to find out the facts and take appropriate action in a timely manner. Workplace investigations come with a number of pitfalls such as failure to act, not acting quickly enough, not being consistent, not being thorough, not keeping confidence and not being fair, to name a few. HR needs to provide strong guidance to management to ensure that an investigation not only meets its objectives, but  also that it does not create a actionable event in itself. 

Many organizations have strong diversity and inclusion initiatives as their commitment to a more open and accepting environment.  Now it is time to take a deeper look at the issues and explore how implicit bias works, how it can create inequitable structures and what actions organizations can take to eliminate it.

In this interactive session we hope to accomplish the follow objectives:

·      Understand the concept of implicit bias.