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On July 24^th  I spoke at the Louisville City Salesmen’s Club which is a business networking group of business owners and salesman for various different companies in the Louisville Metro Area. The purpose is to increase the business efficiency of each member and to cultivate the highest ethics of salesmanship by the exchange and discussion of idea and the promotion of good fellowship.  Each member represents a different type of business or services and do not compete with each other but support each other.  I was asked by one of their member’s Lori Mangum of Yes 502 Media (social media marketing firm) to speak about recruitment.  I presented a shorten version of my past speeches on this topic.  See my blog on Tips on Recruitment for more details https://randifrank.com/category/hr-tips-techniques/hiring-tips/tips-for-recruitment/

On July 20^th to 22^nd I attended the fifth Truman Scholars Reunion. As a member of the first class of Truman Scholars – 1977 from CT I enjoy these events to meet the new Scholars and see many of my friends from past years such as Mark Cannon (Executive Dir APCO), Bob Van der Velde (Dean of CA College), Kent Bradley (Medical Doctor and Past Public Health Advocate) who have been attending these events for many years. I also caught up with many other friends from past meetings. The Truman Scholarship Foundation gives out at least 53 scholarships each year for a student from each State, DC, Puerto Rico and the Islands. The Scholarship is in honor of Harry S. Truman in the form of scholarships for those going into public service instead of a Statue. [ For more information about the Truman Scholarship (scholarship for Juniors in college going into public service) see website https://www.truman.gov ] .

Friday Night we had dinner and speaker at the DC Press Club. Madeline Albright – Past Secretary of State and Member of the Truman Foundation Board and Jake Sullivan a Truman scholar from MN 97 spoke about Foreign Policy. Sullivan is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Brady-Johnson Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy at Yale University. He served in the Obama administration as national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State, as well as deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It was a lively discussion

Saturday, we had a number of sessions and luncheon speaker of another Truman Scholar from MD 1987. Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, one of the National Institutes of Health within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Appointed in 2016, he leads the federal agency for research on mental disorders. He is a former assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University, and former associate director of the Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute Adult Psychiatry Residency Program. He spoke about opportunities in Public Service with Science from Academia to Government Service.

Attended a great networking meeting with Women from NEW- Network of Entrepreneurial Women. The topic was “If I had only known these Lessons”.  Mindy Munson, President of Munson Business Interiors – an office design firm for mid to large size companies that provides office furniture and solutions.  Mindy has over 30 years of experience with this business that she started which now as grown to 24 employees and annual revenues of over $10 million. She is currently training her daughter in all aspects of the business as her succession plan for her eventual retirement.  These were some of the things she said she wished she had none when she started in business:

1. Find your niche – what you are good at and passionate about!
2. Understand your cash flow – find a bank that represents you and vendors that will give you a line of credit
3. Always take the cash discount by paying your bills quickly
4. Manage and collect your account receivables
5. Find a smaller legal and accounting firm that can provide personal service
6. Develop an employee handbook (this is something that we at Randi Frank Consulting can help your with)
7. Document your procedures so if someone is out others know the process
8. Make sure you have the right insurance
9. When hiring look for grit, can they continue to learn and will they work hard (again Randi Frank Consulting can help you with this see our blog on Reviewing resumes & Executive Searches)
10. You should have panel interviews so you get different perspectives from your staff on new employees (See Blog Tips on Interviewing)
11. What gets measured get done – have goals and objectives
12. What gets celebrated gets repeated

These are all great ideas for new businesses and entrepreneurs. If you are just staring your business call Randi Frank Consulting for your Human Resources needs. [email protected]

I have been networking with a number of woman’s groups within the Louisville Metro area to make more connections for my business. I attended my first meeting of the Southwest Woman’s Roundtable a group of woman in business that focus on their businesses in the Southwest part of Louisville.  They meet each month to support each other’s business and have different speakers.  The speaker at the meeting I attended was Colonel Pamela Stevenson – U.S. Airforce (retired). Her topic was the “The Power of me – Personal Leadership that Makes the Difference”

She highlighted the issues she faced as one of the rare woman in the Airforce (it was man’s world then and she felt it still is but we can change that as woman). She highlighted a Woman’s Power:

• Power of me is a declaration of self
• Build a team around you
• Believe in you
• Be bold leaders with confidences, courage, vested interest and tenacity
• Don’t get in your own way with excuses and negative thoughts.

She then recommended woman use their power to move your city and community forward in some way such as: empower other woman, empower girls behind us, and end racism.  Pick a cause and move forward step by step.  I enjoyed this inspirational speaker.

I attended a meeting recently of the Kentucky International Public Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA-HR). The topic was the State of Talent Management given by Jayne Hale Jarvis of Talent Bar Recruiting, LLC. She said the days of posting/advertising a job and praying are over. In today’s environment you need to sell your organizations.

This is happening by making sure your organization is on the various social media sites to generate interest in your organization, so when you advertise the position people know it is a great place to work. Human Resource personnel need to have a sales mentality about their organizations and positions. They need to make more than one touch with potential candidates to attract their attention. This means various social media sites and various professional sites via advertising and emails.

But the talent management doesn’t stop with advertising/recruiting. You need to make sure the candidate has a positive experience throughout the recruitment process and on-boarding process. In addition you need to continue a positive atmosphere for employees so they enjoy working for your organization until they retire. Happy employees are your best sells people to help with your talent management.  Ms. Jarvis then talked about Workforce planning & retention as part of talent management including:

• Personal assessment to get people read for promotions
• Engaging employees
• Recognition programs for employees
• Stay interviews to make sure your good employees don’t leave and you help them with their goals for their careers

As Ms. Jarvis mentioned recruitment and on-boarding are very important parts of the Talent Management and Workforce planning & retention systems.  Please click on my tips for recruitment and on-boarding as part of my blogs.