Sharing the LUV

Over the past few weeks, I have not posted as many blog entries as I would have liked.  It seems that I do not quite yet have the right recipe down between doing and communicating.  Hopefully, you can bear with me as I perfect the recipe this year.  In the meantime, let me share with you what I have been up to with the extraordinary leaders I get to work with on the San Diego SHRM Board of Directors.

Over the past month, Board members and I have had dialog with various media outlets in the hopes that we can provide our value to a wider audience.  In addition, we are hoping to help you, the HR practitioner, with educating your organization’s leadership on the business value of human resources.  Stay tuned as we hope to be sharing some greater insights soon.  In addition, we have also been busy putting the finishing touches on our February 29^th LUVfest program.  This newly redesigned February program is intended to highlight the human resource excellence that exists in San Diego, as we annually do.  However, this year, we will be doing so by providing attendees with a DVD compilation of the 2011 Workplace Excellence Award winners’ stories.  In addition, we plan on acknowledging the winners’ excellence through bringing a storied keynote presenter.  Colleen Barrett, President Emeritus, Southwest Airlines, will be telling the story of the U.S. corporation with the best performing stock over a 30 year period of time and a firm identified by Jim Collins as Great by Choice in his book of the same name.

Of course, was this all that we are doing in 2012, I would have not been so time challenged as to have been unable to properly blog and communicate.  Needless to say, we are planning so much more.  LUVfest will unleash the knowledge of a successful U.S. corporation which will be the launching point for our subsequent programming.  In March, through both North County and Mission Valley locations, we will be introducing Root Learning to San Diego’s HR community.  Through these programs, our members will learn how to bridge the gap between people and possibilities.  The skills learned in the three hour workshops will enable attendees to return to their organizations and begin to unleash the power of their people to tackle the most important business priorities.  Then, in April, we have a thought leader program featuring Dr. Chris Collins, Director of Cornell’s Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies.  Chris will help attendees understand the strategic landscape and how human resource practitioners can maximize the value provided to their CEOs.  Then, in partnership with SHARP Health Plan, we will offer a program to teach members the skills necessary to intentionally design and deliver experiences.  This skill will serve members well as the next iteration of the U.S. economy may well be an experience based economy.  Authors Pine and Gilmore believe that we have moved from agricultural, to industrial, to service/knowledge, and next up is an experience economy.

I LUV human resources.  In my day job, I get to do interesting work, work alongside of people that I respect, and am allowed to make a difference.  How lucky am I that as a volunteer leader at San Diego SHRM, I can say the same.  I look forward to sharing the LUV with you throughout our 2012 programming.