HR on Purpose:
Building Strategy Around People and Performance
Attention:
8:00am-8:30am: Registration/networking
8:30am -10:00am: Meeting
Location:
RiverMead 150 Rivermead Road Peterborough, NH 03458
Directions:
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Session Overview:
The world of work is changing rapidly, driven by shifting labor markets, evolving employee expectations, new employment models, demographic changes, and the growing influence of technology and artificial intelligence. HR on Purpose: Building Strategy Around People and Performance explores how HR leaders can respond to these forces by moving beyond traditional HR practices and intentionally connecting people strategy to the organization’s broader business strategy.
Strategy requires making deliberate choices about what an organization will—and will not—do. Organizations create competitive advantage by developing an approach that fits their unique circumstances and, very importantly, is difficult for competitors to copy. For HR professionals, this means thinking differently about culture, talent, technology, and AI while asking better strategic questions: moving from “What should we do?” to “What might we do?” and from “What do I believe?” to “What would I have to believe?” By taking a thoughtful, evidence-based approach to people and performance, HR can become an important contributor to organizational strategy rather than simply a provider of HR programs and services.
Duration: 60 minutes
Speaker and Company Bio:
David Watts is the Principal of WattsUp Human Resource Solutions (wattsuphr.com), which provides fractional HR leadership and HR strategy consulting services throughout northern New England.
He has twenty years of success in healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and other spaces, including employment at Dartmouth Health, Simon Pearce and Kendal at Hanover, as well as officer level leadership roles at several non-profit organizations. WattsUp is a values-forward firm, focused on integrity, authenticity, discipline, fairness and excellence.
David earned a Master of Science degree in Labor Studies from the University of Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology (industrial/organizational concentration) from the University of Connecticut. Additionally, David completed a one-year Chief Human Resource Officer program at the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in 2024.
Meeting Sponsor:
TBD
Credit Hours:
Greater Monadnock SHRM is certified by SHRM as a Preferred Provider to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP, and this program has been registered for 1.00 PDC in the SHRM Body of Applied Skills & Knowledge™ (SHRM BASK™).
Programs are submitted for 1.00 General HR Credit toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR certification through the Human Resources Certification Institute.
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