What I wish I had learned at SHRM 2010

Final thoughts and comments on 2010 SHRM Global Conference

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Things were very well done at SHRM 2010 from a conference point of view.  There were lots of hopeful signs about the organization listening more closely to some of its more vocal constituents, like bloggers.   The social media effort was ambitious, and a great start.  The promising alliance with Monster was worthy of note.   There were plenty of opportunities for improvement.  Mark Stelzner published a piece on his blog that does far more justice to this thought track than I can.   Check out what he had to say here.

Things I learned at SHRM 2010

My big learning was really just a verification of what is an old discussion – HR needs to reinvent itself, and it is the practitioners who need to make that happen through aggressively transforming the way we think and work.   Here’s how I plan to do that in the next 12 months:

Aggressive Transformation #1 – I am going to take the advice I got from Gerry Crispin.  I am going to get more involved personally in SHRM at all levels.  (National, state chapter, local chapter)

Aggressive Transformation #2 – Doing so will permit me to try and bring some impactful change to the organization and the HR profession by  working angles from inside and outside the organization to make changes.

Aggressive Transformation #3 – work to ensure that the voice of the loud minority of bloggers and HR peeps who want to see continued proactive changes at SHRM remains strong, and  even louder than it is now.  SHRM is listening to the soft core dissidents that are us.   We need to keep the “pressure” on SHRM to change by continuing to share meaningful ideas with our commentary,commitment and contributions. We need to own our organization. If the rules weren’t stacked against it, I’d say we should be striving to lead our organization.

Things I wish I had learned at the 2010 SHRM Global Conference

  1. I wish I had learned that it was a hoax that China Gorman resigned from  SHRM.   Alas, that was not to be.  If you want to keep up with what China is doing, you can check out her new blog here.
  2. I wish I had learned that Lon O’Neil actually made it to the first ever SHRM Tweetup.  He didn’t, even though, although he did launch a Twitter account which is sort of cool.
  3. I wish that I had learned that someone had written and released the perfect  “How to do social media in HR” book through the SHRM book store.  That didn’t happen.  Over the next 6 months, I am going to be working on two separate projects intended to correct that gap.    The first of those will be taking place  as part of a large social media effort that will be taking place as an integral part of the 2010 HR Florida State Conference and Exposition.  More details coming soon!
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