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Where was The HRockstar in 2010?

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I’m about to update my Tour Dates for 2011 so I thought I’d do a wrap up of 2010.

If you want to know more about any of the conferences or events I spoke at in 2010 then just leave a comment!

 

February:

9th Building Effective Relationships Blaze Unlimited

March:

4th Ignite Brisbane Conference QCA Graduate Centre South Bank

6th TEDx Brisbane Conference State Library

9th DiSC Profiling Accreditation Intergro Learning

12th AHRI HR Practices Day Conference Stamford Plaza

16th Skype Meeting with Angela Lussier my365degrees.com

17th Agreeable Differences & Negotiations Institute of Public Administration Australia

April:

6th Effective Communication Queensland Health

7th – 9th Connect Now Social Media Conference Sydney

13th Writing In the Public Sector Queensland Health

14th Emotional Intelligence Blaze Unlimited

21st AHRI Specialist Events Clayton Utz

22nd AHRI HR Young Professionals – Hosted and Spoke on the topic of networking

May:

10th Invited guest to the QASMT Career Mentoring Breakfast

14th Whole of Government Graduate Forum

18th AHRI HR Young Professionals – Hosted and was on the panel on the topic of: I didn’t know what HR was when I was a kid but look at me now

28th QUTAHRS Event – Guest speaker on ‘How to stay sane at university’

June:

2nd Guest speaker at the AHRI Specialist Events on the expectations of young professionals in the workplace Clayton Utz

8th Business Driven Team Based Learning – AHRI L&D Forum

21st – 22nd Maximising Your Training and Teaching Impact – Mindworks

23rd Time Management – Queensland Health

July:

15th Presented to the District Executive my project on Social Media

22nd Attended my deferred Graduation Ceremony from QUT with a Bachelor of Business in Human Resource Management

August:

3rd AHRI L&D Forum

4th AIM National Networking Week – Open House

5th Commenced by 8 week Cert. IV in Training and Assessment

10th Hosted the AHRI HR Young Professionals Event with Mark Moore speaking about what young HR professionals can do to create a high-performing workforce

13th Institute for Learning Practitioners National Learning Expo

23rd AHRI National Awards Judging Teleconference

September:

9th Speaking a Mental Health Symposium on Graduate Recruitment Processes

10th Speaking at the Learning Special Interest Group Forum on Web 2.0 for L&D Professionals

14th AHRI Leadership Conference

22nd Guest Post on Women of HR – Climbing the Ladder to Your Success

October:

1st Completion of Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

6th Successful Job Search Training by Blaze Unlimited

November:

20th TEDx Youth @ Brissie – State Library


#TruLondon & Women of HR

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Why do you attend conferences?

  1. It’s the only way I can get a day off work!
  2. They always give me a really great bag of goodies!
  3. The speakers leave me inspired and full of ideas!
  4. It’s the chance to connect with new people and engage in real conversations with my peers!

Personally I pick 4. Why? Because ideas are everywhere, speakers put videos and free goodies online everyday and if it’s the only way you get a day off work then seriously run long and fast from wherever you are working!

Seth Godin recently wrote how no matter what conference he attends, including the TED conference, he sacrifices attending the sessions in order to engage in real conversations which you can read all about here.

So what sort of conversations did I engage in at #TruLondon? Well I had the privilege of meeting some amazing Women of HR. At first I was a little overwhelmed by so many ‘internet’ and ‘twitter’ celebrities/personalities in one room. But at the end of the day I realised that we are all just people who go through the same routines as everyone else. We still wake up and put our pants on one leg a time and considering it was a global conference we were all experiencing different side effects from travel such as an interrupted poop schedule!

So if you want read about the conversations I engaged in then head over to Women of HR to read my latest guest post and don’t forget to let me know why you attend conferences in the comments section! 

#TruLondon – The HRockstar in London Part 1

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So I’m officially back into the swing of things. It’s been 6 days since I landed back in Australia after my four week holiday/conference expedition over to Europe and I think my sleeping pattern is back to normal now.

My three days at the #TruLondon were amazing. A big thanks to @BillBoorman for all his hard work. It blows every other conference out of the water. The quality of the participants and the conversations were second to none and the relationships that I built were developed over the three days and unlike the networking at other conferences I’ve been to this felt a lot more genuine. I look forward to staying in touch with everyone and hopefully seeing them again at another #tru event.

To celebrate my international speaking debut I’m dedicating the month of March to a wrap up of my time at #trulondon as well as introducing you to some of my favourite people I met over there.

Part 1 of my journey will be the video of a panel I was on in the jobsite.co.uk live stream room. After picking up the flu on the final day of the conference my Australian accent seems to be as strong as it’s ever been. I’m speaking with Maren Hogan, Charlie Duff & Rhiannon Hughes on employability.