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For Immediate Release:\

BUSINESS NEWS               August 2002

Contact:         Kathi Petersen, Publicity Chair      

HR WORKSHOP INCLUDES SESSION ON RECOGNIZING VIOLENT EMPLOYEES

Annual Conference Open To Public - Includes Motivational Session By Author on Entrepreneurialism

(ASHEVILLE, NC): The Western North Carolina Human Resources Association will conduct a day-long workshop for human resource professionals, business managers, and other interested individuals on Thursday, Sept. 26, 8am-4:30pm at Holiday Inn-Asheville Airport, 550 New Airport Road in Arden. Session topics include: 

·         Identifying Behaviors & Intervention – Speaker: Dr. Bill Roskin, retired industrial/organizational psychologist. Session focuses on employee behaviors that signal a problem or may be an indicator for violence, and how to respond in a way that will improve performance. 

·         Situational Leadership – Speaker: Greg Mayo, president, Human Resource Solutions, Inc. and a supervisory development consultant and diversity specialist with Western Carolina Industries, Inc. The Situational Leadership Model identifies styles of leadership according to the development or readiness level of individual employees. 

·         Recruiting & Retaining Good Employees – Speaker: Clark Duncan, recruiting manager, CompuServe/Charlotte 

·         E-Learning – Speaker: Dr. James Kirk, WCU director of M.S. degree program in HR and author of Training Games for the Learning Organization and Training Games for Career Development. 

·         Creating & Administering the Family Medical Leave Act  – Speaker: Bill Hart, membership director for Western Carolina Industries, Inc. and veteran HR management consultant. 

                The workshop concludes with a motivational session presented by John Gardner, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneurial Soul. Gardner, a South Carolina attorney for 25 years and former member of the SC General Assembly, is the co-founder of The Eagle Institute, providing education in leadership to business professional.

                 The event is open to the public and includes lunch. Pre-registration is required by contacting Deborah Stewart.  Cost is $89 for members of the association, with an early bird rate of $75 available through Sept. 6. The rate for full-time graduate or undergraduate students is $59; nonmembers pay $99. A registration form is also available at http://wnchra.info. For more details, contact Lorraine Poe.

NOTE: Bios on speakers & detailed agenda/schedule available. Contact Kathi Petersen.

The Western North Carolina Human Resources Association is a certified chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and is comprised of human resource and other professionals from various area businesses and industries. The purpose of the association is to develop the personnel function in each participating company by close contact and cooperation with others in the same field, to facilitate the dissemination of information of value to human resource professionals individually and collectively, and to promote positive human relations principles. 

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