Welcome to the 51st Annual PIHRA Conference & Exhibition website. The Conference is just around the corner, taking place October 6-8, 2008, in Long Beach, California. Program and registration details are available by clicking the navigation buttons on the left of the screen.
Before you begin exploring the website, I'd like to take this opportunity to personally introduce you to the exciting program we have planned for you.
PIHRA, given its increasingly strategic HR focus, has chosen the theme, Advancing the Business of HR, to bring a respectable balance between ‘compliance’ and ‘strategic’ program components.
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) research shows that some executives still view HR professionals with a critical eye. Our keynote conference speakers, Mike Losey, a past president of SHRM, and Barbara Sanfilippo, a leading customer service expert, will invigorate our conference with insights particular to our HR profession. They will share with us how we, as HR professionals, can bridge the gap to the executive suite.
HR professionals play an increasingly important role as partners to the executives at their companies and have the opportunity to view themselves as consultants, with the business leaders as clients. The challenge is to step forward and take full responsibility for providing services to business leaders that demonstrate a measurable impact on the core business operations, while at the same time, building relationships with those executives.
We believe that the wide array of educational sessions offered at the conference will advance your ability to be agents for change, be the strategic partner and form critical alliances both inside and outside your organization.
Lastly, we know how you like to have a good time while you're at the PIHRA Conference so Scott Christopher, head of speaking and training at O.C. Tanner Company, joins us for another Wake-up Session to demonstrate Why Fun at Work is Serious Business.
