Welcome to the Northwest Louisiana Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management

Message from Chapter President, Daphne Jenkins:

Happy New Year! The start of every year brings about the opportunity to meet new challenges and goals. I am excited to have accepted this new challenge of being the 2009 President for the Northwest Louisiana Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). I have many expectations for myself, for the newly-elected Board, and for the organization as well. I also have a dynamic slate of officers for the 2009 Board of Directors to help me see these goals through and meet the new challenges that are set before all of us.

SHRM is the world’s largest professional association devoted solely to the Human Resources profession. Representing over 250,000 members nationally, the local chapter is made up of Human Resource representatives from different employers in the Northwest parishes of Louisiana, including Caddo, Bossier, Webster, and Desoto. It also includes representatives from the counties of Harrison and Panola, in East Texas. Representatives range from the owners of their businesses, to Lawyers, to HR Directors, HR Specialist, HR Generalist, Assistants and even local college students with aspirations of climbing the corporate ladder in field of Human Resources.

As we all know, our great nation is headed for a period of enormous change and expectation. As history is being made with the first African American, Barack Obama, to be elected as President of the United States, many changes will occur and Human Resources and SHRM will play a significant role in making sure that the challenges and goals of our new Administration and Congress will be carried out with competence. SHRM has a considerable voice in the making and voting of new laws affecting our workplace. 2009 have already started to bring about new legislative laws and public policy changes… and guess who will have to make sure that you not only are aware of these changes, but guess who will be there to make sure that they are carried out properly ….. Human Resources will be!

The new Board of Directors held their first meeting to discuss goals and directions for 2009. Our chapter’s first goal for 2009 is to enhance the recruitment and membership drive. We would like to welcome new members as well as retain our current members. The Board of Directors would also like to send out a call for all of our “at-large” members (those that are national members, but are not local members). We would like to build on and utilize the expertise knowledge of those members that’s been in Human Resources, Employment Law, and Legislative Affairs for a number of years, to help those that are new to the arena. We would also like to highlight the need for and exposure to enhance your knowledge as a HR professional, by studying for the test to get certified as a PHR, SPHR, or GPHR. As President, I would like to see more involvement and input from our members. We will be hosting a Spring Conference and some of you will be asked to help serve for this event as well as other events being planned. We would like to see a community-service project completed as a group this year…. So be thinking of what you would like to do for that.

As always, our goal is TO SERVE the needs of the Human Resources Profession with an influential voice both locally and nationally. I am very grateful for the growing membership and looking forward to serving you as President this for this year. Should you have a need for anything relating from Absenteeism to Worker’s Compensation, and all that in between…. Feel free to contact your local Human Resources Professional organization – Northwest Louisiana – SHRM.

Daphne W. Jenkins, MBA
President- 2009

SPRING CONFERENCE INFORMATION

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