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ASHHRA eNews Brief
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Last weekend I had an opportunity to read the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. In case you are wondering why I read a business book for my summer vacation, the answer is school. It was a homework assignment! The book is full of interesting ideas and facts on the underlying factors that help us to succeed. Throughout the book, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule," claiming that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours1. Why is this important to ASHHRA members? Many of our members have spent their entire careers in the health care human resources field, well over 10,000 hours. Does this mean they are experts? By Gladwell’s standards, possibly yes.

Are you recognized as an expert in your field by your peers and others in your organization? Two of our ASHHRA Board Members have been working on a program that will help us to demonstrate our expertise once and for all. Maureen O’Keeffe and Grace Moffitt have been diligently and persistently working on a health care human resources certification (thank you both for staying with this!!!). This certification is being designed in conjunction with the AHA Certification Center. They first begin with the human resources health care competencies. These are aligned with the ASHHRA leadership competencies that you are familiar with: HR Delivery, Health Care Business Knowledge, People Strategies, Community Citizenship, and Personal Leadership. Then, they will work with a team of ASHHRA volunteers to develop the exam that will test our individual competencies. Finally, the exam will be piloted, tweaked and improved, and rolled-out as the only health care human resources certification exam available in our field. So, how far along are you on your 10,000 hours? Are you ready to prove your expertise in health care HR? We are about a year away from rolling out this exam, but would love to hear from you if you are interested in volunteering for this effort. Feel free to ashhra@aha.org and put your name on the list of those interested.

Along the lines of certification, are you a lifelong learner? Are you still working on your 10,000 hours? If yes, then sign up now to attend ASHHRA’s 48th Annual Conference and Exposition from September 22-25 in Denver, Colorado. The session begins with speaker Tom Flick who will deliver a message about high performance strategies for leadership, teamwork, change, and personal growth. We have multiple learning sessions on topics from accountable care to mergers and acquisitions and labor relations. The exhibit hall has some great vendors that can make work easier, faster, and better for those around us. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the great networking that takes place as we share our time with others that have similar problems and interests. Lastly, Carson Kressley is our closing speaker. He is out to make over the world! So you know he is going to be a lot of fun and have a great message to close our conference. If you haven’t registered for the conference, it’s not too late to get energized. Register now! See you in September.


Leading People Through Change,

Irma L. Pye, SPHR
ASHHRA 2012 President
Senior Vice President & CHRO
Valley Baptist Health System
Harlingen, Texas

1 Outliers (book). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (accessed on Aug. 2, 2012). Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
 
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