Explore UKG's HR & Payroll eSymposium: Change the Conversation

UKG eSymposium for HR and payroll change the conversation

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Mark your calendars! The UKG HR & Payroll eSymposium is scheduled for Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 10a to 4p Eastern. The theme for this event is “change the conversation”.

I can definitely see how the “change the conversation” theme is relevant to today’s workplaces. I believe organizations and individuals have been looking for an opportunity to do a reset. Organizations are still trying to find that exact right mix of onsite, hybrid, and remote work. They’re also trying to balance the needs of customers, shareholders, and employees. Meanwhile, employees are trying to find their own sense of balance in terms of their personal and professional goals.

This eSymposium has several sessions designed to help individuals and organizations examine their current strategies and invent some new ones. You can check out the full agenda, speaker profiles, and register by visiting the UKG eSymposium website but, here are a few sessions that immediately caught my attention.

Hot Topics in Employment Law 2024

The pace of workplace change is rapid. Struggling with the uncertainty of recent Supreme Court decisions and the changing dynamics of union labor and strikes, employers also face a tidal wave of federal and state changes affecting the workplace. HR leaders must stay informed of the latest developments to avoid often-unseen legal issues or penalties. Employment law experts Christopher Olmsted and Brittany Brantley, from Ogletree Deakins, will share detailed insights on these breaking topics, including best practices for building alliances with your legal team.

Understanding, Identifying, and Leveraging Your Key Stakeholders

The solution to making an impact in the workplace is delivering quality and relevant work. Achieving this goal requires that you know your strengths, your areas of opportunity, and your business. Leveraging all those elements and knowing your key stakeholders not only changes the conversation, but it can also change relationships in the workplace. Coretha Rushing, former CHRO for Equifax, will discuss how to identify the most crucial stakeholders impacting your workplace goals and how to forge stronger connections with them.

More Time, More Impact: How Generative AI Gives HR Pros Superpowers

How many of us in our daily work get to do those things that drew us into our profession in the first place? If we’re honest, we often spend too much time on busywork, repetitive tasks, and other activities that don’t bring out our best abilities and passions. In this session, Ben Eubanks, chief research officer at Lighthouse Research & Advisory, will share how generative artificial intelligence can help you tackle your “to do” list and refocus your efforts and attention on creating better relationships and impact.

Strategy Activation: A Proven Gameplan

This session delivers a walk through on how you can bring organizational change to life with proven, easy to follow methodology while feeling good about the work you’re doing. Participants will be able to translate business priorities into tangible actions. UKG experts Regent Cornell, principal organizational development specialist, and Nick Jordan, lead talent development consultant, will lead the conversation on overcoming resistance to change and using strategy activation tactics with intention.

I hope you’ll agree with me that the agenda for the UKG eSymposium looks very interesting and relevant to what’s taking place right now in the workplace. Like many of you, I’m always on the lookout for FREE professional development events that really deliver on providing quality information. I’ve been participating in the UKG eSymposiums for several years and consistently find them to be a high-quality learning opportunity.

Taking Time for Our Professional Development is Important

I have to remind myself that taking time out for my own professional development is important. Now is the time to take some of our own advice. If a manager or employee came to us about not having time for learning, we’d tell them that “developing our knowledge and skills makes us better at our jobs.”. And it’s true. Here are a few reminders about the benefits of attending this event.

It’s FREE. Sometimes free things are good and sometimes … well, they’re not. The UKG HR & Payroll eSymposium is one of those good, free events. As much as we might want to travel to an event right now, the cost of travel is (still) very inflated. So, when we can identify a good, free event, we need to take full advantage.

The content is relevant and high-quality. Let me say it again. One of the things that I always enjoy about this event is that the information is relevant. I also like that the eSymposium brings together HR and payroll. I’ve been responsible for both functions a few times in my career, and this is one of the few events that has topics which are relevant to both. Since the event is free, your organization can have multiple people attend, and then maybe set up a meeting to discuss takeaways from the sessions. It’s a great way for HR and payroll to learn from each other.

You can earn recertification credits. The educational sessions have been pre-approved for recertification credits with several HR and payroll professional groups (listed below). UKG will be providing a certificate of participation for your files.

The sessions will be recorded. While this is a virtual event and being able to attend the live sessions is always beneficial, if you’re not able to, no worries. Most sessions will be made available on-demand. That way if you’re torn between two sessions then you can listen to one live and the other on demand. Honestly, I will admit I sometimes rewatch sessions again to catch some tidbits I may have missed, especially if I’m trying to use the information in a budget proposal.

The UKG HR & Payroll eSymposium is designed to deliver education on the topics we face every day and could potentially face in the future. It has the ingredients many of us look for in professional development opportunities: 1) high-quality content, 2) no cost to attend, and 3) pre-approved for recertification. We all know this doesn’t happen very often.

HR and payroll professionals are focused on a lot of things, like recruiting and retention. There are days when we say to ourselves that we can’t possibly think about taking time off to attend a professional development program. But we just have to find the best way to build in our own professional development. It’s important. Sign up for the UKG HR & Payroll eSymposium. Here are the registration details:

UKG HR & Payroll eSymposium: Change the Conversation

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

10a to 4p Eastern