Sessions
Concurrent Session
Business Smarts for HR Professionals
Convention Center 152
Tuesday 06/21/2016 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM
1.25 SHRM PDCs, 1.25 Business Credit
| Competencies: Critical Evaluation, Business Acumen
| Intended Audience: Mid-Level
Workplace Application:
This session will help you improve your literacy and ability to grasp and communicate financial matters, especially with respect to the value that HR provides.
Repeated from Wednesday at 11:30 a.m.
This will give you a fundamental grasp and refresher of financial statements that makes them breathtakingly simple to read. You will also see how you too can reflect the value of your people and increase the return on HR investment. Suitable for all, including non-numbers people, the session is a must for leaders wanting to align their HR department with the financial goals of the business units, as well as improve financial communication in the organization. This session will help you:
- Read financial statements in a way that makes them meaningful.
- Overcome the (often hidden) pitfalls that have people miscommunicate about finances.
- Gain insight into how your business generates and consumes value.
- See how to capture the value of your organization's HR expenditures to reflect their contribution to profits.
- Take away a tool that makes all financial communication more robust and effective.
