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It’s About You
As a member-driven association, the key measure of our value is how effectively we support and advance our member's careers.
To accomplish this we need to achieve three major goals:
- Evaluate member needs, build programs that upgrade valued skills and create new designations that authenticate these skills;
- Build a highly influential association that effectively communicates to organizations on the value of our members' capabilities and their professional designations; and
- Increase demand at all levels in organizations for HR professionals with those skills.
From this, HRPA has created a strategy that will:
- Continually review and assess the educational foundation of the CHRP designation to ensure it meets the future professional needs of members at all levels;
- Assess the opportunity for a senior CHRP designation;
- Strengthen connections with colleges and universities to ensure they continue to create programs that optimize our members' careers;
- Review alternative educational routes to obtaining the designation;
- Expand our suite of certifications, designations, assessment tools and educational programs to match members' needs as their careers evolve and so retain and engage senior leaders in the association as role models and mentors;
- Increase senior executives' understanding of the intrinsic value that HR professionals bring to organizations by promoting the profiles of successful senior HR leaders, including those serving on company boards;
- Ensure members have the international outlook which Canadian organizations increasingly need;
- Install a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to provide members with improved access to research, data, membership information and personal activity logs;
- Work with chapters to create a governance blueprint that supports HRPA's strategic direction;
- Create a Code of Professional Standards and Practice that combines all ethical and professional behaviours required of HRPA members;
- Build on our revitalized government relations program with a new full-time director, committee and chapter representatives to influence policies that affect the profession;
- Expand membership through continued focus at the student level, as well as additional programs to attract and retain mid-level and senior HR professionals.
These are long-term plans and will not all be completed in 2008; but HRPA aims to get most, if not all, underway. |