UW–Madison’s Office of Human Resources (OHR) and University of Michigan University Human Resources (UHR) continue to partner—following OHR’s July visit to the Michigan campus.
HR CoP director Lynn Freeman invited Michigan HR Strategist Dyan Jenkins-Ali to deliver the keynote at the 2019 HR@UW Conference on December 3. As a strategist, Jenkins-Ali helps her organization focus their resources to ensure that key initiatives are successful. She’ll dedicate her keynote to exploration of the conference theme: Driving Successful Change.
University of Michigan is one of the only other higher education institutions that dedicates HR staff to the communities of practice model. Former director Harry Webne-Behrman began conversations in May 2016 with Michigan’s HR CoP staff to explore the possibility of a learning visit between the two institutions. All worthwhile things take time—and this learning visit was no exception.
Darrell Washington, senior HR representative of Michigan’s HR CoP, reached out in April of this year to Sarah Carroll of OHR’s HR CoP team to invite OHR staff to visit in July. The invitation was prompted by their plan to host HR legend David Ulrich at a learning event at Michigan’s Ross School of Business. OHR’s HR CoP Office incorporates Ulrich’s work in the HR Competencies Program, making the visit doubly exciting.
Travelers to Michigan included (pictured L to R) Sarah Carroll, HR competencies program manager; Lynn Freeman, director of HR CoP and its umbrella unit, Talent Development; Chris East, organizational career development specialist; and Catharine DeRubeis, director of OHR’s Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) Team. Each met with University of Michigan HR staff from among the following offices:
- Diversity, Equity &Inclusion (DEI)—leadership development
- HR Community of Practice
- Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems
- Human Resources Records and Information Services (HRRIS)
- Michigan Medicine HR Solutions Center
- Office of Institutional Equity: Mediation Services
- Office of Research
- Organizational Learning
- Risk Management—“Children on Campus” program and policy
- University Human Resources (UHR) Strategy and Planning
OHR is excited to continue building partnership with HR at University of Michigan—and is looking forward to having Dyan Jenkins-Ali kick off this December’s conference.
Don’t miss this opportunity! Register here: https://go.wisc.edu/1k8m1k.