This time of year, HR pros (and all other business professionals) are being bombarded by various conferences, trade events, and the like.  For the most part, they all sound appealing, if not spectacular and sometimes glamorous with destination cities, celebrities and riveting keynote speakers. Is it about the content? Or is it your favorite 80’s band—reunited “one-last time” just for THIS special occasion?  Or, the chance to go to the fabulous “insert your dream city here”? How can you refuse?  You are torn.  You want to attend but, how do you sell to the Boss?

When proposing conferences, here is a list of “Don’ts and Do’s”: read more »

Our User Conference is coming up in May.  It is so exciting to see the agenda coming together and the customers lining up to speak.  I am excited about hearing Cox Communications’ story about their success with our OrgPublisher Mobile, and how it is bringing the connection between their employees to their fingertips.  Now everybody has everybody else’s contact details throughout the organization, regardless of which business unit they are in.

We had previously kept our conferences pretty tight to just Users of Aquire’s software, but this year, with 4 HRCI credits available to earn, and the power of networking with so many great HR professionals facing the challenges of our day, we decided to open it up to all HR professionals.

Beth Carvin, a dynamic, say-it-like-it-is professional, is Key-noting with information near and dear to my heart – Mentoring, and its value to all involved.  By connecting people to their company through personal and professional development, while building closer relationships, everybody wins. read more »