CTHRA
2010
By Lisa Chang, CTHRA’s
President
 Lisa
Chang, SVP of HR of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. became
the president of CTHRA on January 1. She is a long-term
CTHRA board member and founder of CTHRA’s Human Capital
Benchmark Survey Committee. She also serves on the national
board of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) and is
a past board member of The Emma Bowen Foundation, Leadership
Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) and the Asian and Asian
Pacific Alumni Network of the University of Virginia.
Chang is a Betsy Magness Leadership Fellow and the recipient
of the National Association of Multi-ethnicity in Cable’s
(NAMIC) Luminary Award and WICT Atlanta’s Woman to
Watch Award.
I was recently asked to describe the upcoming year for CTHRA,
and the word dynamic immediately popped into my head.
Merriam-Webster defines it as “a: marked by usually
continuous and productive activity or change b: energetic.”
There’s no doubt that CTHRA epitomizes this definition!
In January, three talented executives
joined our board of directors, Tomas Mathews, EVP of HR
for Time Warner Cable, Christopher Powell, EVP of HR for
Scripps Networks and Gerard Zack, Director of HR for Cisco
Systems. This trio has already brought fresh ideas and an
abundance of energy to our dedicated group of veteran
board members. During the board’s first face-to-face
gathering of the year in February, this powerful group of
innovative thinkers embarked on an intense strategic planning
process to chart the course for CTHRA in 2010 and beyond.
The Board refined CTHRA’s mission
to“providing an industry-specific forum and resources
for HR professionals to drive organizational success”.
In our quest to achieve this mission,
we have established three key strategies that we will focus
on:
- Assure that CTHRA’s offer is targeted,
relevant and uniquely valuable to our members and the
industry.
- Create a more fully engaged CTHRA membership
community.
- Establish CTHRA as highly valuable
to our industry’s HR and business leaders.
Of course, we are already busy at work
planning several initiatives for 2010! At the top of the
list is CTHRA’s Annual HR Symposium. This year’s
event will take place on Tuesday, June 8 in Atlanta. Please
block out that day so you can gather with colleagues from
across the U.S. to gain practical insight from experts and
industry practitioners. I sincerely hope to see you there!
Another new venture that we initiated
in 2009 was the introduction of a CTHRA forum on Linked
In and Facebook.
We’ll continue our efforts to explore and leverage
the high tech phenomenon of social media to help you connect
with CTHRA colleagues in a meaningful manner at any time
or location and further building the CTHRA membership community.
You can tap into the industry’s brain trust of HR talent
simply by posting a question or comment.
In addition, we’ll continue to publish
six issues of this newsletter. Each month you’ll find
a Strategy Showcase focused on a real-world, industry
success story, describing CTHRA members' new programs and
resources. If you missed any of the issues in 2009, visit
the archives to check out the interview with WOW!’s
CEO and VP of HR, the article about Time Warner’s outboarding
effort to integrate 11,000 employees from acquired systems,
reorganization tips from Discovery, and much more! And if
you have a winning strategy, we’d love to hear about
it. We’re always looking for initiatives to spotlight.
I’m extremely excited about what
lies ahead for CTHRA. Shortly you’ll receive a member
survey; I encourage you to take the time to send us your
feedback and suggestions. This will ensure that we are delivering
the best for you, our members.
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