Event Details

*2025 Location change: We're back at Bay City! 

Please register and pay online by Monday, February 17th by clicking the link: https://forms.office.com/r/jLt2f0z2AP and following the payment link (https://hanover-area-hr-association.square.site/).    

Your Registration is NOT CONFIRMED until you submit Payment.  

Certification: This program has been pre-approved for 1 SHRM PDC. The Hanover Area Human Resources Association is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.

• Registration begins at 11:00am
• Plated Lunch starting at 11:15am
• Programming runs 12:00pm – 1:30pm (Time for Q&A at the end!)

*Please note that in order to keep our event registration fees down in a constantly rising economy, we observe a policy regarding last-minute cancellation of registrations. If you RSVP and are no longer able to attend, you will still be responsible for the registration fee and no refund will be provided if you do not notify us at hahramembership@gmail.com prior to the registration deadline above. Immediate refunds will be provided to those who notify by the deadline. We appreciate your understanding in this matter!* 

Program Overview:  

Over the past few years, employers have been challenged and faced with obstacles when it comes to hiring and retention. Unfortunately, many organizations are hiring warm bodies to fill open positions. Supervisors and managers fear holding employees accountable because they may leave and there will be open positions. We have accepted the philosophy that "any body is better than no body!" This warm body syndrome is causing numerous problems in organizations, and it is time to overcome the obstacles and create an environment and culture that focuses on employee and organizational success.

Session Description

Can we hold employees accountable in the changed workplace? We will discuss the challenges facing HR and business leaders today. We’ll ask and answer the following questions:

1. Have you felt, based on current labor market challenges, you have had to lower your performance expectations?

2. Have you felt reluctant to hold employees accountable for their work expectations out of fear they might quit and leave you with yet another open position?

3. Do you suffer from the “warm body” syndrome, preferring to have someone in a role rather than no one in the role, just to save the hassle of recruiting someone else?

Speaker Bio:  As a passionate human resource professional, Kim Nash has spent more than 30 years as a trailblazer to advance the profession and mentor human resource professionals along their growth and development journey.  After several years of working for organizations as their first HR leader, Kim transitioned into a consulting role. She has partnered with hundreds of organizations in a variety of industries, for profit and not for profit, to mentor their human resource professionals and to assist in strengthening the human resource function of the organization.

In 2017, Kim founded her company, THriv, LLC to mentor, coach, teach, and train human resource professionals and leaders for success. She partners with organizations to provide a variety of business consulting, training & development, compliance management, and other human resource related services. In the spring of 2023, Kim’s first book was published, Burn the Plow, her story of career journey, and the lessons learned along the way.  Her Vlog, Fill My Cup designed to renew and inspire leaders launched in August 2023.

Kim has had the opportunity to speak on leadership and human resource related topics at a variety of events locally and nationally including the 2019 & 2022 National SHRM Conferences.  Kim has spent more than 20 years teaching the SHRM HR Essentials, the SHRM Learning System, and other human resource related courses to mentor and encourage human resource professionals to grow in their professional development and pass the certification exam! Kim teaches through a variety of universities and SHRM Partners; and is a member of the SHRM Instructional Team and delivers training at SHRM Headquarters in Alexandria, VA.

Kim holds the SHRM-SCP certification through the Society of Human Resource Management, the SPHR certification through HR Certification Institute, the Compensation Management Specialist designation from the International Foundation of Employee Benefits, and has completed the John C. Maxwell Certification Program to teach, coach, train, and speak.  Kim is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and a Past President of the Human Resource Professionals of Central PA.  She is a graduate of York College of PA with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Business Education, and holds an MBA/Human Resource Management from the University of Phoenix.