Introducing CHRO/i: A Purpose-Built Community for You, the HR, Talent, & OD Professional

Real collaboration, leading to growth, opportunity, and stronger connection

What this is not: some huge group servicing itself, it’s not some expensive membership for high-end exec professionals. This is not just a brand to slap on your profile.

Announcing two professional community and networking groups:

The first, is a professional development and networking community launching now with our first session the week of June 17th, CHROi, (Collaborative Human Resource/Return on Investment)

The second, will be more of a “consortium” or individually represented firms that service clients, and will be invite only. There is a small blurb on this later in today’s newsletter.

I’m planning to partner with a community building expert to help launch and foster these groups, helping cultivate real value for members.

For today, we’re going to focus on CHRO/i:

1. CHRO/i (Collaborative Human Resources/Return On Investment)

CHRO/i is community-guided, so a lot of the focus will be based on what you want and need. This is not the same as the national association some of you may belong to, which is a great forum, but this community is different. How? Join, and let’s make it different, how we want a group to work.

Here are a few things I want to embrace-

• Member-guided

• Collaborative

• Supportive

• Authentically human

• Curiosity-driven, no strict boundaries

• Not here to check the box, but for real learning and connection

• Unique, specific, and tangible with a global reach

• Local meet-ups for concentrations of members

• Ground rules established for broader ways of working, not on details

Basics

• Who: HR, Talent, and Organizational Development professionals

• What: Community of professionals sharing, learning, and connecting

• When: Monthly sessions initially

• Where: Online video, with future local meet-ups where possible

• Why: We want connection, collaboration, growth, and opportunity

• How: Monthly membership

Shout out to Rand Larsen, Bruce Sing, Bernie DeSantis III, for the inspiration recently, amongst other thought leaders I have followed for the last two years. And thank you to groups I have learned about over the last couple years, as this has shaped this group influencing into a group that is different, unique to its own audience and style.

Here is what I am thinking:

• More efficient connection for HR, Talent and Org Dev professionals

• This is not nationally affiliated, no local chapters of some large association

• Forum for career search support

• Career growth opportunities

• Leadership and organizational development

• Personal development and growth

• Problem solving or challenge coaching

How did this group come together?

Purpose: I’ve been fortunate to meet hundreds of HR, Talent, and OD professionals over the last several years, and one-one connections just aren’t sustainable at scale to support the community how I would like to serve and collaborate.

With dozens of HR professional introductions and meetings over the last few months, I realized there was something here beyond quick 1-1 intros online, and it seems silly, and frankly transactional and unproductive to just have one-off networking calls or intro meetings where there are other ways to serve and connect. Unfortunately, 1:1 is just not scalable and when you do so many they all run together, it’s difficult to make real connection and initiate collaboration, connect others, and facilitate a meaningful environment.

The need to offer more to this community of professionals seeking -

• More career and personal development investing in yourself

• Connection & collaboration

• New career opportunities

• Information and education, with learning and curiosity

Support other professionals

• What can we do to help

• Build a community to make real connections

• Share information and opportunities

• Introduce ourselves and have more meaningful and collaborative conversations and discussions

• Both as a group and 1:1

Serious with fun, about improving, connecting, and not just looking for a membership on their profile

• Well intentioned

• Professional

• Build a real community

• Lift the collective group up, supporting the group to level up their skills, knowledge, and connections

Structure

• Small membership fee $9/mo for founding members to cover technology (Skool and LI initially) investment, this rate is good for the lifetime of your membership

• Welcome to try out first meeting before joining

• Founding members stay @ $9 for lifetime of membership if you join community during summer special

• Switching to $19/mo for standard membership October 1st, 2024

• Member-guided content, delivering what you want

• Guest speakers

• LinkedIn Group - interact, share the best content, invite new prospective members

• Skool group - CHRO/i - community home base

• Workshops from Graham Peelle including a few potential topics

• Life’s work

• Building great organizations

• Leadership leverage

• 10x Integrated Talent

• Includes consideration for invite only community, Indefinite Sum, as discounted rate (if interested)

Hopefully, this added a little value to your business or your career. Thank you for reading. Please repost or share with someone who may benefit from this edition.

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