So You Want to Be Strategic - What's Next? (Keeping it Simple).
Milton Perkins, SHRM North Central Region Director
The buzzword among HR professionals is strategic. We all want to be strategic partners in our organizations. We want to make a contribution to the development of the organization's strategy, and we want to assure a strategic perspective of the HR function. To accomplish this objective we need to answer four key questions: What is strategy? What is the appropriate strategic role of HR? How do we integrate organizational and HR strategy? And how does one become strategic?
In this session you will be given practical tips and information on how to answer these questions and to take the next step on the road to strategic partnering.
Milton J. Perkins, MHRM, SPHR is a Regional Director, Member Services for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). In this role he is responsible for facilitating strategic planning and provides advice and counsel to the Society’s volunteer members and leaders. He is responsible for ensuring executed regional strategies are aligned with the overall organizational vision, mission, values and goals of SHRM. He provides leadership and supervision to the regional Member Services team, as well as contributes to the strategic direction of the organization as a member of the Member Services Management Team and SHRM’s Senior Management Team. Lastly, he is the Diversity Panel Staff Leader and the Governmental Affairs Core Leadership Area Liaison.
Prior to joining SHRM, Milton was the Managing Partner for Kaufman, VonStuben and Associates (KVA) www.kvaexec.com. KVA specializes in helping organization develop and implement strategies, processes, policies and metrics associated with attracting, motivating and retaining top talent. As a senior human resource executive his focus has been in the area of integrating business and general human capital strategies with alternative and non-traditional labor market sourcing methodologies. He specialized in talent program development, employment branding, sourcing, training, screening, interviewing, selecting, hiring, acculturating talent, and career transitions of top talent. Additionally, as a member of several HR leadership teams, he has a perspective on integrating talent systems across all major HR functional areas. He is currently on KVA’s Board of Directors.
Other roles Milton has held are Director of Global Talent Acquisitions and Career Transitions for Hewitt Associates; Senior Counsel for Recruitment, Training and Retention for Schwan’s Enterprises; and President of The Genesis Group. He has experience developing human capital strategies in partnership with global line of business leaders, internal affinity groups, staffing leaders, community-based organizations and external affinity group partners. He is known for his innovative, research-based, out-of-the-box, and sometimes, humorous approach to the topic of getting the right people, to the right place, at the right time. He has assisted several firms in building sourcing strategies that have resulted in lower acquisition costs, lower cycle times, greater productivity and increased diversity applicant flow. Mr. Perkins has nearly 24 years of human resource and management experience.
Among his current research interests are cultural nuances and axiology, the labor market entrance of Echo Boomers/Gen Y, the exodus of Baby Boomers, alternative labor markets, diversity and talent acquisition strategies to address them all. His recent accomplishments include Employment Committee member - Society for Human Resource Management; Conference Organizer for the Rainbow Push Annual Conference, a member of the Employer Management Association and the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Mr. Perkins has been featured in Diversity Inc., The Black Collegian Magazines, Savoy and Black Enterprise magazines. He has been a speaker at the HR Masters, the HR Forum, AIRS Diversity Summits, Computer World Diversity Recruitment Conference, ERE Forum, Savoy Magazine’s Diversity Summit, the National Black MBA Association’s Conference, The World Diversity Summit in Prague, the National Society for Hispanic MBA’s conference, TMP Worldwide’s conference on diversity and college recruitment, and the Employer Management Association’s Chicago Chapter Convention. He has authored articles/whitepapers on various topics for the Society of Human Resource Management and has been interviewed for numerous publications.
Mr. Perkins received his Masters of Science in Human Resources from Keller Graduate School of Management, and his Bachelors of Science in Management Computer Information Systems from Parkville University. He holds certifications as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) by the HR Certification Institute, and is a Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC) with the National Association of Personnel Services. He has completed human resource leadership studies at the Disney Institute, the Society for Human Resource Management/HR Certification Institute, as well as the executive leadership development program at Babson College, Wellesley, MA