Date – Tuesday 13 September 2011

Time – 5:30pm for 6pm

Venue – The Delany Hotel, Darby St Cooks Hill

Click here  http://360friendorfoe.eventbrite.com/  to secure your place.

Join us upstairs in the function room of The Delany Hotel for a forum on 360 degree feedback. Is it a useful tool or could it be your worst HR nightmare?

Greg Lourey and Adelle Richards of The Leadership Circle will be presenting their thoughts and answering your questions. 

Register now as places are limited.

 “What the #@!^% is Coaching and do we need to know about it in HR?”

 Date- Wednesday 1 June 2011

Time- 5:30pm for 6pm

Venue- The Delany Hotel, Darby St Cooks Hill

Join us upstairs in the function room of The Delany Hotel for a panel discussion on Coaching moderated by Olivia O’Brien and Jenny Roberts.

Find out: What is it? How is it used? What are the costs and benefits? How to coach and be coached.

Our panel will be made up of Hunter based Executive, Personal and Business coaches who will share with you their insights, offer suggestions and action plans and answer your toughest questions. Register now as places are limited.

Click here to REGISTER NOW!

Well after a very busy end of year….. HR Club Newcastle is back on deck and ready to roll for our second year of action, events and excitment! So get ready for bigger and better things from us in 2011.

Details of our first event for the year are being brewed by the team and we look forward to sharing it all with you soon.

In the meantime, hit up our discussion board on Linked In for more sharing, learning, venting and lots of HRing!

Looking forward to another great year of HR Club with you all. Thanks again for your support in 2010.

Just a reminder to everyone that registration for Wednesday night’s event will open at 5:30pm sharp (in the anteroom- same as last time).

So get in, grab a drink from the bar and a canapé or three and be front and centre for the interactive presentation from Jason Roberts. For some information on Jason and the work he does in Emotional Intelligence prior to Wednesday – check out our LinkedIn group (and join LinkedIn if you haven’t already, it’s the best way to contact other members).

Can’t wait to see you all there!

More on our presenter Jason Roberts…

When, in 2005, faced with the challenge of building an organisational culture that fosters reativity, initiative, leadership and productivity, Lake Macquarie City Council General Manager, Brian Bell decided to focus on developing ‘Emotional Intelligence’ (EI) within LMCC leaders. In partnership with Jason Roberts Business Consulting (JRBC), Mr Bell has since then led a program of EI-focused leadership development, along with incorporating a behavioural focus within the Council’s recruitment and selection process.

To objectively assess LMCC’s EI growth and its relationship to variables such as ‘commitment’ and ‘job satisfaction’, Swinburne University was engaged in 2007 to annually research and report on the program. Year-on-year evidence has consistently trended positively. Jason Roberts says that the success of the five year program is attributable to two essential components – the consistent approach to leadership development using an EI-focused approach, and the constant support of the General Manager and Executive team. The results of the research are currently being prepared for submission to the International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management.

This HR Club Event is proudly sponsored by Humanomics.

Event: HR Club Newcastle Presents – Emotional Intelligence at Work with Jason Roberts

Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:30pm registration 6:00pm presentation

Location: Quality Hotel Noah’s on the Beach

Kris Dunn over at the HR Capitalist posted the below recently in reaction to an ‘MBA Oath’ which has caught on amongst MBA grads in response to the GFC/Wall Street meltdown.

Kris has formulated an HR Oath – It’s hilarious, and poignant (especially number 8 )

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this- so… to the comments section!

THE HR OATH

I, ……… , member of the HR community, promise to:

1. Never say the phrase “seat at the table”, unless I say it in the voice of the Church Lady  or Samuel L. Jackson. (The Samuel L. Jackson voice from Pulp Fiction or Snakes on a Plane is preferred).

2. Avoid dumping 50 candidates that I secured via the “post and pray” model to the hiring manager in question, encouraging her to “take a look and see what she likes”.

3. Take off my SHRM Convention badge before I’m seen vomiting on a main street of city hosting the annual SHRM convention.

4. Carve out 2 hours per week of project time designed to do nothing but figure out a way to add value to the business.

5. Refrain from spending my entire personal development budget on the always challenging “Employment Law Seminar 20XX” – for the sixth straight year.

6. Speak up at the possible risk of my job when I see my boss or a peer doing something that blatantly runs counter to the people mission of our company.

7. Never own or wear a sensible pair of shoes that make me look like a fool. Or an Aztec.

8. Ship product regularly (if you don’t know what this means for a HR Pro, click here for the description).

9. Give a s###. Every day. Or get out.

Words to live by people.

Date:            Wednesday 25 August 2010

Time:            5:30pm for 6:00pm

Venue:          Quality Hotel Noah’s on the Beach

                           Cnr Shortland Esplanade & Zaara Street

Members and guests are invited to join us for an interactive session on ‘Emotional Intelligence at Work’ with Jason Roberts.

The bar will be open in the cocktail lounge from 5:30pm for pre-session networking. We’ll then move to the promenade room for the session at 6pm.

Remember- The more the merrier, so feel free to bring along anyone who is interested or who you feel might contribute to the club.

Jason Roberts

Jason is a Workplace Learning and Development Consultant with more than 15 years experience. He has a Bachelor Degree in Training and Development and Psychology Studies, is a three-times Commonwealth Games medalist and former employee of the South Australian Sport Institute. Informed by research recording the transition from being an elite athlete to a non-sporting life, Jason has a profound understanding of how people manage and deal with change. He has also carried out African wildlife conservation work and in 2005, was an invited judge for the Australian Humanitarian of the Year Award.

Register for this event now!

If any members’ organisations are interested in providing sponsorship for the August event. Please contact me at hrclubnewcastle@gmail.com

We have an exciting guest speaker in the works and some plans for an interactive session with some great learning outcomes so it should prove to be a fun session!

Please forward this link on to any and everyone you think might be interested in coming along (remember they can be anyone associated with or interested in HR in any way).  It would be great to crack the 150 member mark on LinkedIn so please encourage those who are interested to get on the site and join our group. The more the merrier I say!

I can’t wait to see you all again – last time was such a fun evening.

More details to come on this event…stay tuned…

Dan Pink is the best selling author of Drive which is all about what motivates us. This video was put together by media company RSA following one of Dan’s keynote speeches. They edited his speech and matched it with these great illustrations which make it really easy to watch and oh so engaging!

This really amped me up to talk to my stakeholders about providing the right atmosphere in which motivation can flourish. Hope it works for you too!

How is the financial health of your employees? Could they use some solid knowledge about the basics of handling their finances?

It’s amazing how distracting financial difficulties can be for employees and how providing financial advice and support can be a great retention tool.

I recently came across the guys from Innergi who provide just this sort of education. They’re holding a workshop soon  on caring for your employee’s financial wellbeing so I thought I would pass on the details.

These guys are leaders in their field and have had articles published on HR Daily and Human Capital Magazine, I think you will find the workshop really valuable. If you are working on attraction and retention strategies, or you are a caring employer or you want to keep abreast of the latest employee engagement strategies, then I think this workshop is really worth looking at.

It looks like it will be incredibly popular and I’m told there are limited seats, so best to book in early to avoid disappointment.

The workshop is from 3pm on the 15th July at the Newcastle Club, the numbers are limited and it is at no cost.

I should also point out that from time to time I will recommend sessions or products like this on the blog but have no vested interest (and although I’d like to receive bribes, I really don’t ) I really only recommend things like this which I believe can really add value.

So if you’re interested, check out the link below to book your seats. http://www.stickytickets.com.au/3774/Positively_influence_the_financial_health_of_your_employees_Priceless.aspx

Get it? Get it? Oh…you got it. Ok.

Just a quick note to a.) let you all know I’m still alive, well and able to blog! and b.) to draw your attention to an observation I made last night.

Like most good things, it came to me while watching Masterchef….stay with me….stay with me…

It’s all about Trust.

On last night’s episode, chef and resturateur George Calombaris (voted in 2009 as one of the Top 40 Chefs of Influence in the World by the Global Food and Wine Magazine) put the relaunch of his flagship restaurant The Press Club in the hands of a crew of random, shaky handed, sweat-slick foreheaded amateurs.

These guys can hardly tell the difference between a pork and a veal schnitzel (warning: in-joke) yet when entrusted with George’s ‘baby’, they rose to the challenge and acquitted themselves well under the circumstances.

This caused me to think (again – I blogged about trust at work a while ago here) about how we can affect performance by instilling trust and raising expectations…

Do you find yourself doubting others’ abilities at work, or have you ever thought “I just don’t trust anyone else to do it as well as I will”.

Why not try extending your trust and raising expectations of your team, you might just find they surprise you.

At the end of the day, you’re still the head chef yeah?

YES CHEF!