SWVA Manufacturing HR Conference

The Southwest Virginia Alliance for Manufacturing and the New River/Mount Rogers Workforce Development Board welcome HR professionals in manufacturing to a conference focused on ways to overcome the feelings of burnout. This conference will provide an opportunity for attendees to add to their mental health tool box with tips and skills to overcome feelings of burnout. Attendees will be given opportunities throughout the conference to build their HR peer network.

Plan to learn, plan to have some fun, and plan to meet some other awesome human resources professions!

Conference Topics:

1. Embracing Burnout provided by Kate Steiner, Life Wellness Consulting, LLC
2. Resilience for Life and Work: How to Build Your Flourishing Blueprint provided by Dr. Natalie Pickering
3. Delegation Excellence: From Overwhelmed to Organized provided by Peter Mierke, OpX Solutions, LLC
4. Prioritizing Fun in Your Workplace, provided by Michele Campbell, Somic America, Inc., and Stephanie Surrett, Center for Manufacturing Excellence in SWVA, Inc..

Agenda:

8:30am – 9:00am: Registration & Networking

9:00am – 9:10am: Welcome/Opening Remarks

9:10am – 10:10am: Training: Embracing Burnout

10:10am – 10:30am: Break/Networking Activity

10:30am – 11:30am: Training: Resilience for Life and Work: How to Build Your Flourishing Blueprint

11:30am – 12:15pm: Lunch (Provided)

12:15pm – 1:15pm: Training: Delegation Excellence: From Overwhelmed to Organized

1:15pm – 1:45pm: Break/Networking Activity

1:45pm – 2:45pm: Training: Prioritizing Fun in the Workplace

2:45pm – 3:15pm: Peer-to-Peer HR "Gab Session"

3:15pm: Closing Remarks & Prize Giveaways

Thank you to our sponsors!

OpX Solutions, LLC,
Dr. Natalie Cupples Pickering,
Life Wellness Consulting, LLC,
Center for Manufacturing Excellence in SWVA, Inc.

Interested in sponsoring this event? Contact Lennie Gail Mitcham at [email protected].

Ticket Fees Notes:

If this cost of this conference is a hurdle for your company, please contact Lennie Gail Mitcham at [email protected].

To pay by check, use code "InvoiceMe" at checkout.

Training Descriptions

Topic 1: Embracing Burnout

Provided by Kate Steiner, LIFT Wellness Consulting

Description:

Discover how to empower yourself in the face of career burnout, a common challenge when continuously engaging with students, employees, faculty, and peers while upholding a mask of calm, confidence, grace, and patience.

How can you make room for self-care when the demands of your job seem never-ending? In this dynamic session, you'll be introduced to an empowering model that equips you to build resilience against burnout. It's not just about finding balance; you'll learn to actively observe your well-being, proactively prepare for burnout triggers, and personally recover in meaningful ways.

Outcomes:

Elevate Your Productivity and Career Longevity: Participants will gain access to research-backed strategies that enhance productivity and help them maintain a successful career.

Craft Your Personal Burnout Action Plan: Participants will design a personalized roadmap to effectively observe, strategize, and recover from burnout events.

Define Your Boundaries for Work-Life Integration: Participants will identify and establish the personal boundaries necessary to support a harmonious work-life balance.

Topic 2: Resilience for Life and Work Life

Provided by Dr. Natalie Cupples Pickering

Description:

•What is resilience

•The relationship between burnout and resilience

•Burnout factors specific to manufacturing

•Practical options to build personal and professional resilience, specifically considering

Emotional, Physical and Mindset Resilience-building strategies

Topic 3: Delegation Excellence: From Overwhelmed to Organized

Provided by Peter Mierke, OpX Solutions, LLC

Do you feel like doing things yourself is the only way that it will be done correctly? You don’t have to do it all yourself! Let’s cool off from the burnout by diving into a strategy to implement effective delegation, where you will be able to manage your workload more efficiently, foster a supportive and productive team environment, and maintain your well-being. Successful delegation requires planning, careful introduction and training, commitment of all team members, and effective follow-up. Effective delegation always involves adequate communication, and we know that people accept responsibility and act when they know what you expect.

We’re going to talk about the behaviors and habits that impact your ability to effectively delegate. Just as importantly, we will touch on the attitudes we all bring to the table that help or hinder us in being effective delegators. We all know that delegation can be an effective way to create and promote a better-balanced team, but it also helps to; reduce overload, focus on priorities, improve decision making, reduce procrastination and enhance communication. Wouldn’t it be great to leverage your team’s strengths, develop their skills, build trust, and thereby, give you more time for strategic planning?

Along with this open discussion will be the presentation and practice of several basic exercises that help determine what should be delegated and how to develop a plan of action – focused on what can be done immediately!

Topic 4: Prioritizing Fun in Your Workplace

Provided by Michele Campbell, Somic America, Inc., and Stephanie Surrett, Center for Manufacturing Excellence in SWVA, Inc.

This session will focus on the benefits of prioritizing fun in the workplace. Stephanie Surrett, Executive Director for the Center for Manufacturing Excellence in SWVA, Inc. will explain the benefits of prioritizing fun as well as ways to incorporate fun at work. Michele Campbell, Human Resources Manager for Somic America, Inc. will share examples of fun activities that her company offers as well as how these activities have benefited her companies.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, One Partnership Circle, Abingdon, United States