Event Photo Galleries
CRHRA Delegation at 2008 SHRM National, Chicago:
Mary Ellen, Jim, Alison, Ruth, Dennis
2007 Events
February Meeting
Photo Gallery - Our speakers and sponsors.
Workers Compensation: What Can Employers Do?Attendees of this presentation learned how to work with their insurancecarriers to manage claims, how to communicate with medical providersand how to properly document information. Our speakers also updated CRHRA members on the changes in NYS Workers Compensation Laws..
  January Meeting -- Photo Gallery
Human Resources & CEO's Partnering for Success
One of CRHRA's most popular programs--our annual CEO Panel! HR Professionals
in all industries benefited from hearing how company executives partner with Human Resources.
2006 HR Leadership Class
Congratulations to the graduates of the 2006 HR Leadership Class! The HR Leadership Class of 2006 including human resource professionals from the following organizations:
-- AFLAC New York
-- Members United Corporate Federal Credit Union
-- Albany Medical Center
-- Ordway Research Institute, Inc.
-- Albany Molecular Research, Inc.
-- Rensselaer County Chapter NYSARC, inc.
-- Capital Care Medical Group
-- The Research Foundation of SUNY
-- Center for Disability Services
-- Sunmark Federal Credit Union
-- Healthcare Association of New York State
-- Vanderheyden Hall, Inc.
-- MapInfo Corporation
2006 Events
December Meeting -- Photo Gallery
HR Metrics & The Balanced Scorecard - Demonstrating HR and Organizational Effectiveness. This information-packed session focused on helping HR professionals select areas that offer the greatest opportunity for cost savings and effectiveness improvements - both in the HR budget and in overall company costs affected by HR practices.
 September Meeting -- Photo Gallery
The September meeting presenter - Edward Cupoli, PhD is the Head of Nanoeconomics Constellation and a professor of Nanoeconomics at the University of Albany, State University of New York. Participants learned about what nanotechnology is - how it's revolutionizing Our World and the Capital Region!
 June Meeting -- Photo Gallery
1946 to 2006 - CRHRA Celebrates 60 Years of Serving Human Resources Professionals! On June 14th, 2006 we celebrated the past 60 years of CRHRA and honored the many volunteers who contribute to the success of the organization. Past presidents also shared how the industry has changed over the years. Hosted aboard Dutch Apple Cruises, festivities included a buffet dinner, bar, nostalgia from the past 60 years and a brief business meeting to induct the 2007 Board of Directors. The DJ also enticed some dancers to the floor as we cruised down the Hudson! Congratulations and thanks to all of our volunteers, members, partners and sponsors!
 May Meeting -- Photo Gallery
Recruiting for Non-Recruiters
CRHRA members were joined by a panel of seasoned HR veterans who shared the latest recruiting trends and developments—both internal and external—touching on such topics as sourcing methods and succession planning.
 April Meeting -- 2006 CRHRA Expo -- Photo Gallery
The 2006 CRHRA Expo was a huge success! Held at the Holiday Inn Turf, HR professionals spent the day learning how to become prepared for the many challenges the workplace can throw at you. Along with concurrent sessions, our keynote speaker (Chip Madera) spoke on "How to Take Your Life and Career Up a Notch!" A diverse marketplace with over 50 vendors with products of interest was also available to conference goers.
 March Meeting -- Photo Gallery
Our March meeting topics was one of our most popular - The CEO Panel Discussion. Three well known and respected CEO's from various industries, in both the public and private sectors within the Capital Region, shared their views and perspectives on what they are looking for from their HR Teams. The distinguished panel of speakers included Philip W. Welsh, President of Environment One Corporation, Douglas Hamlin, President and CEO of Versatrans Solutions, Inc. and John Flynn, President and CEO of the Capital District YMCA. HR professionals in various industries and sized companies benefited from hearing how company executives strategize and partner with Human Resources.
February Meeting -- Photo Gallery
Our February meeting was led by Bidhan Chandra, Ph.D. Dr. Chandra described the topic of Global Diversity and its impact on human resources management. In this presentation, we gained an awareness of the key dimensions of the global cultural diversity and how they affect various aspects of global team building and performance. We also discussed how managers can gain cross-cultural competence for creating successful global development and delivery teams.
2005 Events
 December Meeting -- Photo Gallery
November Meeting -- Photo Gallery
 September Meeting -- Photo Gallery
June Meeting -- Photo Gallery
June was our annual CRHRA business meeting
May Meeting -- Photo Gallery
Ken Moore, of Ken Moore Associates, spoke to us about the “Performance Scorecard”. In our businesses and organizations, score is often kept by our company’s bottom line, or our control of expenses. Ken walked us through a variety of annual reports, to see how HR might be contributing to the company’s performance scorecard.
April Meeting -- Photo Gallery
 March Meeting -- Photo Gallery
Our March meeting was devoted to 1 ½ hour panel discussion with our CEOs and, this year, with their respective HR leaders. As always, we were honored that the CEOs took time out of their busy schedule to share their thoughts with us. It was a value added pleasure to also hear their HR leaders provide their perspective to the questions. Our participants are listed with their photos. Many thanks to all six for an exciting and informative panel discussion representing 3 distinct organizations, with 3 distinct purposes.
February Meeting -- Photo Gallery
John Bagyi, Esq., SPHR and Diane Lustenader, SPHR, GPHR, CCP co-presented a program on Conducting Internal Investigations, legally and effectively. As usual, they both did a great job in highlighting the information that we need to know as HR professionals. If nothing else, we should all remember – DO IT NOW! And document, document, document! Thanks for a very informative and timely session. Unfortunately, the speaker photos didn’t come out for the website.
2004 Events
 November Meeting -- Photo Gallery
Our speaker for both the afternoon and evening programs was Nicholas J. D’Ambrosio, Jr., of Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC. Nick spent 2 hours in the afternoon providing the condensed version of Developments in Employment & Labor Law in 2004. A very clear, concise presentation. Imagine, a lawyer who is concise. For the dinner program, Nick presented a fantastic and very humorous multi-media program about Bizarre Employment Cases. Imagine, a lawyer who is concise and has a great sense of humor. A tough assignment to keep our interest for both the afternoon and evening programs. Job well done! Thanks Nick!
 October Dinner Meeting -- Photo Gallery
Employee Assistance Programs are valuable services offered to individuals and families and increasingly popular initiatives to benefit company employees. Patricia Spataro’s presentation “Beyond the Basics: A Look at the Depth and the Breadth of EAP Services” provided a great overview of core EAP services including counseling, management consultation and training. She also reviewed the role of EAPs in the “Stable Table” concept, and how HR is integrated into this philosophy. Perhaps the most important point Pat made was the impact of EAP services in the workplace, as they relate to productivity, management support, intervention and training. Well done Pat, and thank you.
 September Dinner Meeting -- Photo Gallery
"We were both educated and entertained by our guest speaker, Joan M. Hebert, principal of Hebert Performance Training. Joan helped us to learn through this experiential program how to: present our best personal self, communicate with more ease, use visual aids, manage diverse and difficult participants, utilize adult learning principles, deliver powerful presentations, and many other critical components of being a more dynamic and effective presenter. What a clever idea to divide 125 people into four different working groups. A difficult task handled very effectively. Thanks Joan."
2003 Events
 The Best Conference & Exposition Yet! -- Photo Gallery
Better than the national SHRM conference. Better than the NYSHRM conference. Without a doubt, if you couldn’t attend this year’s CRHRA conference, you missed the BEST of the BEST! The day long conference and exposition kicked off with a dynamic presentation by Michael W. Mercer, Ph.D. on “Turning your HR Department into a Profit Center”. All six concurrent sessions that followed ranged from excellent to superb. If you missed any of the sessions, or the keynote, there remain a limited number of conference CD’s which can be purchased by contacting Brian Buff at CRHRA. Kudos also go to all of the vendors that combined to make the exposition hall an information center and wonderful social experience. As special recognition for their support of CRHRA, please click here to see the entire list of vendors that attended the exposition. Special thanks to everyone who helped to make the conference a HUGE SUCCESS!!
 March Meeting - CEO Panel -- Photo Gallery
We always expect great things from our CEO’s, and our CEO panel more than met our great expectations. Many thanks to the panel: Bruce Beaudette, President/CEO pf Sunmark Federal Credit Union; Joan R. Hayner, CEO of CapitalCare Medical Group; Ed Mitzen, CEO of Palio Communications; and Diana Jones Ritter, NYS Executive Deputy Controller of the NYS Comptroller. Each panelist brought a slightly different perspective on want they want from their Human Resources staff. However, one theme clearly resounded – HR has to be able to fully support the needs of the business. And we will.
 Februrary Meeting -- Photo Gallery
We were honored to have Mike Aitken, from SHRM national, department of government affairs, give us a great update on Federal legislation initiatives. Mike highlighted information about: FLSA; Fair & Accurate Credit Transactions Act; Minimum Wage Act; Genetic Information Nondiscrimination; Pension Funding Equity Act; and others. You can find Mike’s complete presentation in the “Members Only” section. We all agreed that we don’t know how Mike keeps up with all of the legislation that affects us as HR professionals, but he sure knows it all! Thanks Mike.
January Meeting -- Photo Gallery
Our January meeting started with a “show and tell” about the new CRHRA website, during dinner. Tracy Spargo, PHR, Michele Wilkes-Hawkins, SPHR, and Kelly Conroy provided an overview of the new features and changes. Our speaker, Mr. Kevin P. Neary, Chief of Operations for NY SEMO, did a great job of taking a normally very dry topic, Emergency Preparedness for Your Company, and turning it into a light and learning experience. Well done Kevin!
 December Holiday Luncheon Meeting
Everyone was in a festive holiday mood, for a great Luncheon Meeting. The two highlights of the meeting were the presentation of the student chapter members who received their multi-campus chapter charter, and of course, the informative presentation by Bob Provost on a Strategic Perspective of the Capital Region. Now we all know what nanotechnology is, or do we? (There were no additional photos taken at this meeting.)
 November Meeting -- Photo Gallery
 October Meeting -- Photo Gallery
 September Dinner Meeting Draws A Crowd -- Photo Gallery
CRHRA's September meeting, sponsored by Adams Career Transitions, Inc., was a great success. The evening's speaker, Paul Kelly, presented on Leadership Development at Delmar Publishing. This was a joint program with the Hudson Mohawk Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development.
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