Learn what organizations are doing to drive successful transformation, including bridging the gap between strategy and implementation, achieving individual commitment aligned to organizational objectives and quickly changing the mindset and capabilities of their workforce.

Join your colleagues for a new HRMAC offering in partnership with Second City Works. Learn how to identify and stop harassment as a bystander through this interactive workshop. The learning format builds knowledge and practical skills through a series of skits, short videos, exercises and improvisation.

HR plays a major role in developing and leading the strategy of the company. The relationship between the CHRO and CEO are critical to the success of the organization; whether it is setting the strategy for growth or being a trusted advisor.  In this session, we will share stories where the relationship between HR and the Executive team was extremely valuable, and where the "lack of relationship" hurt the business.  Our panel will include executives as well as the HR professionals supporting them. 

How people communication within an organization can impact connection to purpose, engagement and overall performance effectiveness. This session will focus on the nature of communication in the workplace and HR’s role in shaping the narrative—including interpersonal communication, conflict management, and creating a favorable point of view about your corporate environment.

There are more job openings than there are people to fill them. The power is back in the hands of the employee. Never has the war for talent been so high up on the minds of your CEO's. Creating a development culture that enables you to hire the best, retain the best and build talent from within will differentiate your business from mediocrity. One of the key pieces of creating a development culture is investing in your people, especially the leaders at all levels. Aligning them to your values, and motivating them to model the right behaviors, connects your workforce to a higher purpose. Having a disconnect between the cultural aspirations you put on your website, annual report, and hiring interviews, and the behaviors of your leaders will eventually lead to unnecessary talent turnover.

Continuing the conversation about creating a collaborative culture to drive business results, this session will reveal the real accelerators of organizational performance. Hear from three local HR experts who will share their thoughts on what you, as an HR professional, can do to drive an agile culture and make team enhancements to improve business results.

As mental health and mental illness have become an ever-present topic in our daily lives, the HRMAC Total Rewards Interest Group Committee is assembling a diverse panel who will tackle this topic from a legal, professional, and HR Practitioner Perspective as it relates to the employee experience and internal employee benefits strategy.

Today, being effective in getting the right people on board is a key HR activity that directly supports the organization’s strategic plan. Successful staffing professionals need the skills to communicate effectively to entice a selected job candidate to really want to work for the company. Knowing the best tools and techniques for communicating the emotional content of the potential job is a key requirement to mitigating that risk. The Helping the Job Candidate Make the Right Decision seminar teaches a set of tools and techniques proven to enable this sort of communication.

Developing a network of personal and professional contacts can be crucial to the successful growth of any career. Knowing what to do with that network is truly what creates a competitive edge for young professionals as they navigate how to make decisions, influence at all levels and drive results. Our experienced speakers will take you through how they built their own personal board of directors, how they leveraged those connections to reach their career goals, and how you can too! Join us and learn how to network like a pro.

We know that anyone who recruits for a living or has recruiting as part of their job has a competitive side to them.  In this very competitive job market speed is essential.  This will be a simulation workshop that will take participants though a high-speed recruiting process starting with sourcing through screening and finally making the hire!

Join the HRMAC Talent & Organization Effectiveness Interest Group for a panel discussion on the latest trends in performance management, including the removal of performance ratings. The panel speakers will provide insight on this topic, including the rationale on decisions made related to performance ratings. Following the panel, participants will engage in table topic discussions around the key success factors, organizational and change readiness and best practices. We hope you can join the discussion!

A strong learning culture helps improve a company's bottom line by keeping business competitive, boosting productivity, and improving retention/engagement across the organization. The best organizations prioritize learning, coaching, feedback, training, and more to learn continuously to ultimately drive value. Join us in HRMAC’s Learning and Development Interest Group’s interactive panel to hear from some of Chicago's best and brightest companies and understand how they have established learning cultures at their organizations.

Kick off the summer and enjoy delicious appetizers, beer and wine from Wishbone, conveniently located within walking distance from the Chicago Metra and the CTA!