CPE Courses
Investigate, Document, Excel: A Writing Bootcamp for HR
Workplace investigations are not limited to addressing harassment complaints; they encompass a broad spectrum of misconduct, from theft and safety issues to retaliation, substance abuse, and policy violations. These investigations are crucial for maintaining a safe and equitable work environment. The responsibility often falls on HR or management, and determining the need for an outside investigator can be ..
Investigations that Work
How a company manages a workplace investigation affects its legal exposures, corporate culture, and brand. That investigation may involve a claim of sexual harassment, suspicion of theft, or a threat made against another employee. The failure to properly investigate can lead to lawsuits, brand damage, and ruined reputations. Don has been an employment law attorney for more than 40 years and has investigated..
Leading the Next Generation: Managing Generation Z in the Workplace
As managers and leaders, it's important for us to understand this generation and how to effectively work with them. By doing so, we can not only improve our own leadership skills but also create a more productive and positive work environment for everyone. So let's explore what makes Generation Z tick!We are going to deep dive into their generation. How and where they grew up. Normally using technology, com..
LGBTQIA+ in 2023: Compliance and Best Practices
This program will cover a variety of aspects of the LGBTQIA+ community and its relationship to the workplace. We will discuss the many definitions applying to the LGBTQIA+ community, trends in gender fluidity, the value of “HR as PR” in worker diversity, the antidiscrimination provisions of Title VII and other federal laws to the LGBTQIA+ workers, the application of wage and benefits laws to LGB..
Linking Pay To Performance: Increasing Employee Engagement and Organizational Performance
Organizations spend an enormous amount of time, energy, and resources each year to set their organizational goals. To attain those goals, a company relies on its greatest asset: its employees. Employees who feel recognized demonstrate a stronger desire to help the company grow and succeed. Therefore, having pay for performance system incorporated into your organizational structure could leverage employee en..
Managing Conflict For Productivity
Although conflict may never be comfortable, understanding its causes and learning strategies to address it can relieve much of the stress that it triggers. In this webinar, participants will better understand the nature of conflict, potential sources, and strategies to resolve and prevent it.This session covers how to address conflict in the workplace. The program will provide understanding of conflict as w..
Managing Stress as an Executive Assistant: Getting Out of Overwhelm
Workplace negativity and stress affect more people and organizations today than ever. The advent of the pandemic intensified the level of stress most organizations experienced, whether people were onsite or working from home. Managers and team members alike report being more stressed as they are being asked to do more with less. Learn strategies to reduce your personal stress and create a positive, more pro..
Marijuana in the Workplace
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), studies suggest specific links between marijuana use and adverse consequences in the workplace, such as the increased risk of injury or accidents. One study among postal workers found that employees who tested positive for marijuana on a pre-employment urine drug test had 55 percent more industrial accidents, 85 percent more injuries, and 75 percent grea..
Multistate Handbooks in 2022: When Laws and Policies Collide
With the explosion in litigation in the past decade, employee handbooks have changed from employee benefit explanations to legal compliance manuals. These policy collections have grown even more complex when you are present in multiple states where different laws apply. So, what is an employer to do when they are present in states with different laws and requirements? New handbooks every time? Adding footno..
New Form 1099 Reporting Requirements: 2024 Compliance Update
1099s report payments made to non-employee service providers, as well as payments to suppliers and other entities you do business with. Think of your own organization: Can you name all the types of service providers you use? Do you know which payments are reportable on 1099s, and the minimum amounts you must pay before they are reportable? There is a new 1099-k threshold for tax year 2023 that was slated fo..
New Thinking on Employee Performance Management
Performance management systems, while intended to enhance employee performance and development, often face criticism due to various challenges and shortcomings. Some key complaints about performance management include:Subjectivity and Bias: Critics argue that performance evaluations can be subjective and prone to bias. Managers may exhibit favoritism, and personal relationships can influence ratings, leadin..
Non-Resident State Payroll Withholding Requirements
With the market shifts since the COVID-19 pandemic more and more employers are finding the need to hire remote staff which brings with it challenges for non-resident and resident tax withholding. This webinar will give the tools if what is the employers responsibility and what isn’t so employer's can be compliant.Areas CoveredMulti-State withholding rules - What is a residency and how to determine the ..
Now that I’ve Got Them, How Do I Keep Them?
Employee Turnover is an expensive problem. Coupled with the difficulty in hiring, turnover is putting additional pressure on existing employees and managers. It limits growth opportunities, causes stress, morale problems, customer dissatisfaction, and brand damage.Compensation challenges, the demand for job flexibility, an unwillingness to “come to work”, cost of living, and other factors are driving the tu..
Onboarding that Drives Productivity, Teamwork, and Retention
How’s this for a fact: half of all employees are onboarded better than the other half! And then there are the companies in the top 10%. The Great Ones. The bottom line of every company is impacted by employee engagement and productivity both of which are directly impacted by the onboarding experience. In this fast-moving session, the Speaker will provide the latest in onboarding strategies and tools. All em..
Overcoming Remote Work Challenges
There are a couple of key techniques that are specific to remote management. Trust needs to be established quickly when working with remote team members, as well as communicating expectations to collaborate towards successful outcomes. You need tools that will help you to influence others to address differences and establish credibility while learning how to supervise across time zones and even cultures. In..