West Georgia Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Hello fellow HR and business professionals, We are happy to announce our October Program: Updates on Federal Salary Thresholds Levels with Patrick L. Lail This meeting is designed to help HR professionals stay informed on the latest changes and regulations affecting salary thresholds under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), ensuring compliance and helping businesses avoid costly penalties.As HR professionals, staying ahead of federal changes to salary thresholds is critical in managing employee classifications, payroll, and labor costs. These updates can have significant implications for: - Employee classification: Ensuring your team is compliant with exempt vs. non-exempt status. - Payroll management: Avoiding wage and hour disputes by understanding new legal thresholds. - HR strategy: Providing strategic input to leadership on staffing and financial planning. Patrick will provide insights into the updated regulations, key compliance requirements, and best practices to mitigate risks. This session is a must-attend for HR professionals looking to navigate the complexities of federal salary thresholds and ensure that their organization remains compliant with the latest laws. Please join us Thursday, October 17th at 11:45am EST for the West GA SHRM October General Meeting. Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 16th, so that we know how much to order for lunch. See details below to RSVP. Speaker: Patrick L. Lail Topic: Federal Salary Threshold Location: Callaway Conference Center, 220 Fort Drive, LaGrange, Ga. 30240 (SHRM/HRCI credits pending) Link to RSVP: https://lnkd.in/eJu7ef3C

Hello fellow HR and business professionals, We are thrilled to announce our August Program: Leveraging the Temp Agency Relationship with CoWork - a premier WOMEN-Owned & DEI-focused staffing agency with clients around the country. In today's competitive job market, effectively leveraging your relationship with staffing agencies is more critical than ever. Whether you're focused on reducing turnover, developing temp talent, or improving your employment metrics, a strong partnership with your staffing agency can be a game-changer. We are excited to invite you to our upcoming training designed specifically for HR and business professionals who want to maximize the value of their staffing agency relationships. During this session, you will learn: - Strategies to Reduce Turnover: Discover how to align your staffing agency's recruitment practices with your organization's culture to ensure a better fit and higher retention rates. - Temp Talent Development: Gain insights into fostering the growth and development of temporary staff, turning them into valuable long-term assets for your organization. - Enhancing Employment Metrics: Learn how to collaborate with your staffing agency to track and improve key employment metrics such as time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, and employee satisfaction. - Boosting Customer Service: Understand the role of your staffing agency in maintaining high standards of customer service, ensuring that both internal stakeholders and external clients receive the support they need. This training is an excellent opportunity to refine your HR strategies, ensuring that your organization not only attracts top talent but also retains and nurtures it. Please join us Thursday, August 22nd at 11:45am EST for the West GA SHRM August General Meeting. Please RSVP by Wednesday, August 21st, so that we know how much to order for lunch. See details below to RSVP. Speaker: Senior Staffing Team from CoWorx Topic: Staffing Resources and Strategy Location: Callaway Conference Center, 220 Fort Drive, LaGrange, Ga. 30240 (SHRM/HRCI credits pending) Link to RSVP: https://lnkd.in/e83UV6wK

Hello fellow HR and business professionals, We are thrilled to announce our August Program: Leveraging the Temp Agency Relationship with CoWork - a premier WOMEN-Owned & DEI-focused staffing agency with clients around the country. In today's competitive job market, effectively leveraging your relationship with staffing agencies is more critical than ever. Whether you're focused on reducing turnover, developing temp talent, or improving your employment metrics, a strong partnership with your staffing agency can be a game-changer. We are excited to invite you to our upcoming training designed specifically for HR and business professionals who want to maximize the value of their staffing agency relationships. During this session, you will learn: - Strategies to Reduce Turnover: Discover how to align your staffing agency's recruitment practices with your organization's culture to ensure a better fit and higher retention rates. - Temp Talent Development: Gain insights into fostering the growth and development of temporary staff, turning them into valuable long-term assets for your organization. - Enhancing Employment Metrics: Learn how to collaborate with your staffing agency to track and improve key employment metrics such as time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, and employee satisfaction. - Boosting Customer Service: Understand the role of your staffing agency in maintaining high standards of customer service, ensuring that both internal stakeholders and external clients receive the support they need. This training is an excellent opportunity to refine your HR strategies, ensuring that your organization not only attracts top talent but also retains and nurtures it. Please join us Thursday, August 22nd at 11:45am EST for the West GA SHRM August General Meeting. Please RSVP by Wednesday, August 21st, so that we know how much to order for lunch. See details below to RSVP. Speaker: Senior Staffing Team from CoWorx Topic: Staffing Resources and Strategy Location: Callaway Conference Center, 220 Fort Drive, LaGrange, Ga. 30240 (SHRM/HRCI credits pending) Link to RSVP: https://lnkd.in/e83UV6wK

Hello fellow HR and business professionals, We are happy to announce our 3rd and final program in our Spring Speaker Series: Organizational Health Management. Please join us Thursday, June 13th at 11:45am EST for the West GA SHRM June General Meeting. Please RSVP by Wednesday, June 12th, so that we know how much to order for lunch. See details below to RSVP. Speaker: Consultant Team Members from LEAD Advisors (SHRM Members) Topic: Organizational Health Location: Callaway Conference Center, 220 Fort Drive, LaGrange, Ga. 30240 (SHRM/HRCI credits pending) Link to RSVP: https://lnkd.in/e9YDG8aa After our upcoming meeting, we invite you to join us in supporting local students by donating school supplies. Supplies will be donated to Troup County Schools Title I program. Your contributions will make a significant difference in the lives of students in our community. Thank you for your generosity and commitment to our community. Follow us on online: westgashrm.org

As we close out the month of May, we would like to extend a special thank you to Dr. Nick Griffin for providing his insights on supporting employee stress management. Dr. Griffin shared with our team some of his tried and true strategies for supporting the holistic needs of the colleagues and students that he works with in Troup County; and, leading teams through personal change and growth journeys. From him, we learned how to better leverage the relationships between industry, education, and community to create healthful outcomes for all. Thank you again Dr. Griffin and we look forward to seeing our attendees and members at the penultimate Spring Stress series meeting in June. Please stay tuned for those details in the coming week! "Daring is saying 'I know I will eventually fail, and I'm still all in.'" - Brene Brown, "Dare to Lead"

Hello fellow HR and business professionals, We are thrilled to announce our 2nd program in our Spring Speaker Series: Employee Mental Health Management. Please join us Thursday, May 9th at 11:45am EST for the West GA SHRM May General Meeting. Please RSVP by Wednesday, May 8th, so that we know how much to order for lunch. See details below to RSVP. Speaker: Dr. Nick Griffin, Transition Facilitator Topic: Employee Mental Health Management Location: LaGrange-Troup Chamber of Commerce (SHRM/HRCI credits pending) Link to RSVP: https://lnkd.in/eUxhTZBX Follow us on online: westgashrm.org

Hello fellow HR and business professionals, We are thrilled to announce our Spring Speaker Series: Stress Management. From April through June, we will dedicate our meetings to providing tools to manage stressors across HR, employee-hood, and organizations. April's meeting will be provided through an on demand video link that will be delivered to this distribution list on Thursday at 11:45am (in lieu of an in person meeting). We encourage you to treat this session as a lunch and learn and bring your peers in to watch together!   Speaker: Meredith Key, Ed.S., LPC, CPCS Topic:   The Balancing Act: Equipping HR Professionals to Thrive Amid   Stress (SHRM/HRCI credits pending) Location: Virtual (Link to be shared on Thursday 11:45am) Follow us on online: westgashrm.org

Patricia-Anne Brownback, thank you for an incredibly informative presentation on upcoming legislative changes with ADA relative to pregnancy, religion, and disability. Keeping our HR and business community updated on these changes helps for us to strategically align our organizations to be ready for the future. We look forward to hearing from you and other attorneys from Constangy, Brooks, & Prophete at the SHRM Legal Summit in Macon on April 19th. Copy and paste this link to register to attend: https://lnkd.in/edFp3uKJ Special thanks again to Wellstar West Georgia and Tommy Britt for hosting us in the beautifully renovated ECCC Education Conference Room in the Oncology Administration Suite at the Enoch Center. Please also be on the lookout for the announcement of our Spring Lecture Series on Stress Management!

Hello fellow HR and business professionals, please join us Thursday, March 14th at 11:45am EST for the West GA SHRM March General Meeting. Please RSVP by Tuesday, March 12th, so that we know how much to order for lunch. See details below to RSVP. Speaker: Patricia-Anne Brownback, Attorney, Constangy & Brooks, LLP Topic:   A Guide to Managing Accommodation Requests for Disabilities,           Religion, & Pregnancy (SHRM/HRCI credits pending) Link to RSVP: https://lnkd.in/eXuSKbW6 Follow us on online: westgashrm.org