Pleasure to speak on HRP

I had the pleasure this week to address an audience of esteemed peers. The occasion was a nifty luncheon held by the Delaware County Human Resources Association, a local SHRM Chapter.   It was the first kickoff meeting of their 2010 / 2011  annual events calendar and I was charged by their VP of Programs, Garrick Weaver, to “Start the year off with a bang!”   You will have to ask those present if I succeeded in the assigned mission.

Here’s a link to their new website now under mucho construction. By the way, did I mention that Switch HR does web sites?  Sorry, back to the pin-point:  It has been a while since I addressed a local HR audience and, I must say, they seemed most receptive to the nontraditional, unconventional, some-say radical approach to workplace management that I espouse with much conviction.  It was a true pleasure to see my HR colleagues so engaged and a real honor to be asked to speak before them.  In recent time my speaking engagements  had gravitated away from HR groups and more toward top company leaders via Vistage (formerly TEC) forums and like President Groups. But, now so impressed by DCHRA,  I think I’m going to throw my speakers hat back into the HR ring for a while and take the Switch HR message out for a new spin.

The Presentation

The topic of yesterday’s forum was Seven Tenets to Talent Building–our tried and true Human Resource Planning (HRP) methodology. Our most ardent leader-readers know that I have a detailed blog series in the making on the entire process, which, to remind, is referenced below.  But you know you have something good, when the presenter can’t get past the third Powerpoint slide because of audience participation, curiosity and enthusiasm.  That’s what happened yesterday and we had a lot fun. The PowerPoint presentation offered (but mostly unseen!) at the meeting is re-offered here.  I believe the DCHRA also intends to have it on their web site.  In any case, I want to thank Garrick Weaver, Michelle Bitzberger, Jennifer Sosa and the rest of the DCHRA gang for a pleasant afternoon at Maris Grove in beautiful Glen Mills, Delaware County, PA. Participants at yesterday’s meeting are most encouraged to comment by Reply below on what you thought of the topic and the presentation in general.  I value feedback very much so.

The Blog Series

And here’s the blog series so far.  I have written six posts on it to date—an Introduction, HRP 1, 2 and 3 an Interim post and HRP 4 as follows:

• INTRO: Seven Tenets to Talent Building
• HRP 1: Talent Building is Not Recruiting;
• HRP 2: Inventory Your Talent Base
• HRP 3: High Performance Leadership
• HRP 1, 2, 3 Halfway There (Interim Post)
• HRP 4: The Talent Pipeline
• HRP 5: Focus on Top Notch Performance
• HRP 6: Strategic Communications Infrastructure
• HRP 7: Knowledge Sharing as Universal Requirement

Three more to go to complete the Series!  Stay Tuned.