Sunday, March 30, 2014

Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Event Announcement

Dear Friends,

Happy Spring!

If you strictly want information about our next event, please look at the links to the right and go to Event Registration.  Before you go, please check out the links at the bottom of this page. 

Before I get to my musings, the HR Symposium is coming May 13.  They extended a discount to our group and it was due April 1.  If you missed the discount, you can still register on their site but you won't have that discount.  I hope to see you there.

I am going to move us away from maintaining the Forum and encourage you to use our LinkedIn Group for posting This will be a gradual change on the technical side.  More people are using LinkedIn than the forum at this point, and it has been challenging to register people, help them through password problems and other maintenance issues.  It served a great purpose for a long time, and it was all my husband's idea.  Bill is an Electrical Engineer but he learned some code, set up our board, and taught me how to update and maintain it.  Many people have posted resumes, jobs and events over the years, and I know a lot of people found work as a result.  It honestly makes me very happy and proud to know it was so successful.  Thank you, Bill!

I occasionally write about people I've known and lost.  Bill and I met Andrea in one of our classes around 8 years ago and we were in many semester classes, summer classes and lectures together.  Although her health suffered in recent years, she continued to be active and went to the classes I mentioned along with several others.  She went to museums, movies and plays, and had an interesting and inquisitive mind.  She was such an inspiration and I'm glad she didn't suffer.  That's the kind of older age I'd like to have.

Many thanks to Margaret Almeida and Galina Karpinska, SPHR-CA for planning last month's event with  Patty Woolcock presenting "Making Sense of Your Company's Data."  Click on the Previous Speakers' link and search for a download of the presentation.


1. HR Women and Friends April 16 Community Event - Jane Kow presents "Accommodating and Disciplining Employees with Medical Conditions."

2. Discounts
3. Using our Forum
4. Spam Filter Alert
5. To change you email address
6. Unsubscribe
7. Potential Speakers/Topics
8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts.

1. HR Women and Friends April 16 Community Event - Jane Kow presents "Accommodating and Disciplining Employees with Medical Conditions."  Please click on the registration tab for detail and to RSVP.  I hope you're able to attend!

2. Discounts and Offers – view them on our discount pageThanks to everyone for extending the discounts to our group!

3. We have a Forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. I am going to move us away from maintaining the Forum and encourage you to use our LinkedIn Group for posting.  On the Forum, you can view messages without registering, but you must register to reply or post a message. You are not automatically registered because you receive this email. Please review the Terms and Conditions available under any topic on the forum. It’s your responsibility to keep track of your user name and password, and if you change email addresses, please log in and update your profile. If privacy is an issue, please be careful when you post anything: use a separate email if necessary and you can skip your street address if you’d like.

4. SPAM Filter Alert: please add mstein@ourhrsite.com to your address book.


5. To change your email address, click here and go to the correct form.


6. Unsubscribe: To discontinue mailings please respond with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line or go to the form. If you receive mail at more than one email address, please note all addresses to delete.

7. Potential Speakers/Topics. Please see http://ourhrsite.blogspot.com/p/potential-speakers.html for details and a form to submit your information.  This will be reviewed during the January 2015 meeting.

8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts. If you email me right after I’ve sent a mailing, I can update the website, but I can’t send a separate mailing to the group. It will be in the next mailing.
Because of my commitments I can’t mentor you, and please don’t send me unsolicited resumes. Come to an event and meet someone who can help. I receive a lot of unsolicited resumes (from our group and strangers) and I refer people to the forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. See the blog post for more thoughts. http://marciastein.blogspot.com/2009/02/setting-boundaries-and-professionalism.html

We have a page on our site for advertising with links to Amazon products. Our site also has Google ads, and you're welcome to click on relevant links. These links provide a small amount of money to help pay for our domain.

I hope to see you soon.

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, PHR - www.linkedin.com/in/marciastein

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting"
Blog: http://helpingparentsofteens.blogspot.com/ 


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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Event Announcement

Dear Friends,

How are you?  I hope you're well.

If you strictly want information about our next event, please look at the links to the right and go to Event Registration.  Before you go, please check out the links at the bottom of this page. 

Before I get to my musings, here's a reminder about our discount for the HR Symposium:

The HR Symposium is coming May 13!  They have been very generous to us in the past and they have extended a discount again this year.  Check the post on our discount page for details.  Meanwhile, they sent this note and I hope you have a good nominee!
Nominate and Celebrate! The HR Symposium’s nominations for the HR awards of excellence are due March 24th. Surely you’ve admired and/or experienced the leadership and achievements of a particular HR professional or team, colleague or HR business partner and have always felt that their achievements should be recognized.  Now is your opportunity to honor them.  We are accepting nominations for the HR awards of excellence ceremony at the 2014 annual HR Symposium held at the Santa Clara Convention Center on Tuesday, May 13th.  As part of our program we will be recognizing individuals or teams whose efforts have advanced initiatives and/or contributed to the betterment of the HR field.   http://hrsymposium.org/

Do you want a "seat at the table" in your organization?  If you do, you must know what data is important in your organization, how to obtain it and what it means.  How many job descriptions - in HR and other roles - mention the importance of metrics?  If you want to expand your thinking about data, you must come to our March 18 event!  Patty Woolcock will talk with us about how she utilizes data for planning and coaching business partners.

A couple of years ago, I enjoyed a coffee date with Patty.  She is so interesting as a person and she explained what she did, giving an example that concerned planning an organization's staffing needs and all of the items she took into account.  After all those years in HR, going to many workshops, seminars, and reading a lot of materials, I can honestly tell you that I was given a whole other level of information than I'd ever gotten.  

I hope you're able to attend!

Many thanks to Idit Stefanson and Margaret Almeida for planning last month's event with Barbara Gottesman presenting "How to Slay a Pirate: Lessons on Success from Sailing the Pacific."  I had a wonderful time learning Barbara's story and hearing the goals of the people who attended.  Click on the Previous Speakers' link and search for a download of the presentation.

1. HR Women and Friends March 19 Community Event - Patty Woolcock presents "Making Sense of Your Company's Data."
2. Discounts
3. Using our Forum
4. Spam Filter Alert
5. To change you email address
6. Unsubscribe
7. Potential Speakers/Topics
8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts.

1. 
March 19, 2014, 6:00-8:30 p.m. - Wednesday - Community Event - 
Patty Woolcock presents "Making Sense of Your Company's Data."Please click on the registration tab for detail and to RSVP.


2. Discounts and Offers – view them on our discount pageThe HR Symposium is coming May 13!  They have been very generous to us in the past and they have extended a discount again this yea and details will be posted soon.  Thanks to everyone for extending the discounts to our group!

3. Using our Forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. You can view messages without registering, but you must register to reply or post a message. You are not automatically registered because you receive this email. Please review the Terms and Conditions available under any topic on the forum. It’s your responsibility to keep track of your user name and password, and if you change email addresses, please log in and update your profile. If privacy is an issue, please be careful when you post anything: use a separate email if necessary and you can skip your street address if you’d like.

4. SPAM Filter Alert: please add mstein@ourhrsite.com to your address book.


5. To change your email address, click here and go to the correct form.


6. Unsubscribe: To discontinue mailings please respond with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line or go to the form. If you receive mail at more than one email address, please note all addresses to delete.

7. Potential Speakers/Topics. Please see http://ourhrsite.blogspot.com/p/potential-speakers.html for details and a form to submit your information.  This will be reviewed during the January 2015 meeting.

8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts. If you email me right after I’ve sent a mailing, I can update the website, but I can’t send a separate mailing to the group. It will be in the next mailing.
Because of my commitments I can’t mentor you, and please don’t send me unsolicited resumes. Come to an event and meet someone who can help. I receive a lot of unsolicited resumes (from our group and strangers) and I refer people to the forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. See the blog post for more thoughts. http://marciastein.blogspot.com/2009/02/setting-boundaries-and-professionalism.html

We have a page on our site for advertising with links to Amazon products. Our site also has Google ads, and you're welcome to click on relevant links. These links provide a small amount of money to help pay for our domain.

I hope to see you soon.

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, PHR - www.linkedin.com/in/marciastein

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting"
Blog: http://helpingparentsofteens.blogspot.com/ 



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