Event Details
Engaging with the Military Person: Military Friendly vs Military Familiar
| Date: | September 17, 2019, 11:30am – 1:00pm |
| Organizer: | HRMA of Northwest Missouri/Mercer |
| Location: | Empower U Board Room 518 S 6th St St Joseph, MO 64501 https://www.heartlandfoundation.org/ |
| Price: | Member $15; Guest $20 |
| Event Type: | Chapter Event |
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HRMA of Northwest Missouri Presents:
Engaging with the Military Person: Military Friendly vs Military Familiar
Program Description:
HR professionals are often the first exposure to a non-military work environment for transitioning military as a new occupation is a priority upon separation from service. When you meet someone with a military background, are you able to create rapport? Do you understand their value and potential to your organization? Are you able to understand some of the military-ingrained language or behaviors they have yet to break a habit in? Or is your engagement with a military person a bit awkward and possibly uncomfortable for lack of smooth communication?
Military friendly is not the same as military familiar. Being patriotic and wanting to support their transition is friendly. But to a military person, understanding a bit about who they are and where they are coming from is being familiar and translates more sincerely as military-friendliness.
Engaging well with the military person to achieve consistent, positive, and measurable outcomes requires understanding some basics about the environment and the people. An intent for military-friendly is not enough as education and tools are needed to envision, implement, and sustain a program.
If your company has a strategic military-friendly corporate message, are your HR practitioners at the tactical level equipped to deliver a military-friendly experience to recruits, candidates, new hires, or current employees? Do they know how to engage well or do they merely engage?
Presenter Information:
Emma Toops, Retired US Army
Emma is a retired Army Major who served on Active Duty from 1996 – 2013. She served at all organizational levels in the United States / Overseas and deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. Emma applies her military experience and educational background in consulting businesses on Military Programs and Strategies, does public speaking and educational workshops, and mentors transitioning military.
Her love of teaching, learning, and meeting new people has her actively engaged in many endeavors, to include non-profit and volunteer organizations, networking groups, a tutoring agency, a direct-sales business, and being a student herself. She is Chapter President for the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the Association of the United States Army (KC AUSA), Co-chair of the Community Veterans Engagement Board for Kansas City (CVEB-KC), Chair of the American Warriors Affiliate Club at the ACA Business Club, an Academic Coach with ABC Tutors, a Senior Consultant in Thirty-One Gifts, and an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) student at Rockhurst University.
Recertification Information:
HRMA of Northwest Missouri is recognized by SHRM to offer 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for this event for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP certifications.
This program will be submitted for 1 General PHR/SPHR/GPHR recertification credit through hrci.org
Registration:
- Members: 15.00
- Guests: $20.00
