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The HR Excellence Awards Luncheon will be on the 18th of June. This will be our combined Metro and South meeting for the month of June, so register soon and bring a colleague! Click here for more information and to register.
2009 Tennessee SHRM Conference & Expo Update
Even before the first promotional brochure has hit the mail, we have filled more than one-third of the Expo Marketplace and pre-registered more than 250 conference attendees! Click here to see a list of our exhibitors.
If you haven’t signed up for a spot at this conference, either as an exhibitor or attendee, what are you waiting for? For more information about exhibiting, contact Leslie Stevens at 615-727-4660.
For more information, including the detailed educational track, or to register for the Conference, visit www.mid-southshrm.org.
Strategically Aligning Your Benefit Plans in a Tough Economy
James Horrell, Principal from Mercer, will be presenting this topic at our Evening Workshop at St. Thomas Hospital on June 16. This workshop has been awarded 2 hours of General HRCI credit.
Mr. Horrell will demonstrate how Benefits professionals can take a proactive approach to aligning benefit strategy and plans to be a recruitment and retention tool, while also communicating best practices when it comes to health and wellness.
Would you like to win a 2009 TN SHRM Conference Registration?
All current members are eligible to participate from June 1st - August 31st in a contest to bring in new members!
Where's the catch? No catch, just a few requirements! The new member must be an Associate or Professional Member who registers and pays by August 31st. Here is the online registration link. You may also download our new brochure to help you communicate MT|SHRM's benefits to potential members.
After your referral registers, send their name to Betty Johnson at betty.johnson@givegw.org. The person who refers the most new members will win the registration! If we have more than one person who refers the same number of members, we will have a drawing. Register for the conference today to hold your place (if you win, you will receive a refund)!
Keep an eye out for more announcements about this contest!
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2009 MT|SHRM GOLF SCRAMBLE
September 29, 2009
10:30am – 8:00pm
Gaylord Springs Golf Links
In conjunction with the TN State SHRM Conference, MT|SHRM’s 5th Annual Golf Scramble will to raise money for professional development and training in the in Middle Tennessee.
Volunteers are needed to assist in a variety of areas such as: registration, hole-in-one spotters, putting challenge, beverage carts, after-event reception table, and photographers. Volunteering at this event is rewarding, fun and is an opportunity to meet other professionals in the human resources field.
If you would like to volunteer for the Golf Scramble, email Deidra Baldwin, Volunteer Committee Chair, at dbaldwin@centuryii.net.
Diversity Equals Letting Go of Stuff And Building Bridges For Understanding presented by Darren Johnson, the Letting Go Pro - InsideOut Learning, Inc.
Pictured above are Kathy Peck and Michael Hurdle. Kathy is the Human Resource Trainer for Trinity Marine Products, Inc. Michael Hurdle is an IT professional attending as Kathy’s guest.
Kathy’s comments were: “I am a trainer for six divisions of Trinity Marine Products Inc. in Missouri, Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee. This diversity training will be extremely helpful to me as I train supervisors to manage our employees in these diverse areas of the country. I particularly liked the “Self-Managing Grid”, a tool that helps identify areas where one has some control and therefore can achieve positive goals, while making a conscious choice to let go of areas one cannot control. This tool can be helpful in any organization."
A number of you who attended the meeting asked for a copy of the poem guest speaker Darren L. Johnson read at the end of his presentation, The Cold Within by James Patrick Kinney.
"The Hamster Revolution”…this is not about rodents up in arms! Managing Email before it Manages You
“The typical professional will send and receive 20,400 emails in one year.” Is that YOU? Mike Song, coauthor of the book The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email before It Manages You.
Mr. Song has found a practical way to increase workforce productivity. “It is life changing,” he claims. If you follow some basic strategies, you can save ten to fifteen days per year while getting more done with less stress. You will cut emails by 20% and increase the quality of those emails by 35%. Aren’t you tired of the never ending, ineffectively written emails? Don’t you wonder how to get your real work done when you have so many emails to read and respond to?
The mantra Song wants you to live by is: Send Less, Get Less. Remember, over 20,000 emails are sent and received in one year by one person. Ask yourself before you send an email:
Is it timely, relevant and complete?
Is it appropriate, compliant, professional or inoffensive?
Is it targeted and is this the best channel? For example, sometimes a phone call is a better way to communicate.
If an email is appropriate, make it count with clear, concise writing.
Strengthen the subject line with an action, a request or confirmation.
Sculpt the body of the email, meaning write less.
Start with a brief warm greeting.
Use a summary format: be specific, have purpose, list response time.
Use bullet points or numbers for the background. Be relevant and clear in the points you make.
Close with next steps and use auto signature.
Article and photograph contributed by Rhonda Sherry, Member, HR Transition Team and Communications Committee.
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