@SHRMcoo Perspective: A Conversation with China Miner Gorman

SHRM's COO Reflects on the SHRM Annual Conference, Social Media, Blogging, Twitter, Her Congressional Testimony, and Goals for 2009.

China Miner Gorman

Welcome to a special Leadership Development Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio, with our continuing coverage of the SHRM 2009 Annual Conference in New Orleans. Joining Peter Clayton is the chief operating officer of the Society of Human Resource Management China Miner Gorman.

An in-depth profile of China appeared in The Washington Post in November, 2007, shortly after she accepted the position of COO at SHRM. "Taking on the role of chief operating officer builds on all my experiences, and the timing of it is particularly meaningful to me. I'm bringing this set of experience and skills to the top of our profession at the beginning of one of the most important election cycles for the world of human resources. The issues that will be impacted by the outcome of next year's elections are critical to the future success of businesses and critical to the success of human-resources leaders in helping to create their organizations' strategies around attracting, developing and retaining talent as the baby boomers leave the full-time workforce."

"The government and business community will also begin to tackle the difficult issues of maintaining a competitive workforce, health-care reform and legal immigration. These aren't just human resources issues, they are business survival issues. Being able to lead the Society for Human Resource Management, which is providing strategic agenda-setting thought leadership for the human resource profession, is a very exciting next step for my career."

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Questions:

SHRM Annual Conference - your take-aways from New Orleans?
What were the highlights for you?
What has been the member feedback from the Conference?
How many people attended this year’s conference?
You moderated a session called HR Bloggers: Who are these people and why should I care? So who are Kris, Lance, Jessica and Laurie?
What did you learn in this session?
How important has blogging - and social networks become in HR?
The Bloggers session, and several others, were live streamed to members. Is this something you plan to do more of next year?
Speaking about social networks, these questions are from Franny Oxford via Twitter: What are your top three goals for the year? What are you most proud of so far? How is the job different than you thought it would be?
In that same vain you’re relatively new in your role as Chief Operating Officer at SHRM, and SHRM has a new CEO, Lon O’Neill -- Cathy Martin wants to know where where you see SHRM in the next few years and what is (the leadership’s) plan for delivering value to the membership?
You recently testified at a congressional hearing regarding your opposition to the “Healthy Families Act.” WHAT? YOU'RE AGAINST HEALTY FAMILIES??!! :) Can you give us some background on the bill and why SHRM opposes it?
What was it like testifying in front of the House Education and Labor subcommittee?
What haven’t we discussed that you would like to share with our audience?