Making Your Case to Attend
The conference lasts three days,
but the ideas and successful strategies you take home benefit your institution all year.
In this climate of financial uncertainty, it’s more important than ever to work smarter and achieve more with less. CUPA-HR can help. At the annual conference, the agenda is chock-full of sessions to help HR professionals like you tackle the top HR issues facing your institutions.
Need help convincing your leadership of the value of attending this conference? Here are some of the benefits:
- Attend educational sessions and return to your institution better informed and armed with ideas and practical strategies to implement immediately.
- Understand workplace trends with up-to-the-minute information from leaders in the areas of AI and HR; recruitment and retention; cultural competence; HR data and analytics; leadership development; and more.
- Compare notes with colleagues from other institutions facing issues that are similar to yours.
- Gather information from corporate providers in one convenient location.
Looking for ways to make your case to attend?
- List the challenges your institution is facing. Then provide specific sessions that will help your business overcome those challenges.
- Call attention to sessions that offer revenue-generating opportunities and cost-cutting tactics.
- Develop a detailed plan for sharing information with your colleagues after you return.
- When calculating the ROI of your trip, be sure to include the cost of not attending, such as paying for virtual learning opportunities, conducting in-depth research on your own, and purchasing print resources.
- If you’ve attended in the past, list the follow-up actions you took post-conference.
If attending the conference is out of the question, be sure to check out CUPA-HR’s chapter meeting schedule to find a meeting close to home, as well as our free, members-only webinar offerings.