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Improving Employee Retention and Engagement Through Stay Interviews
Turnover today is rampant because employees can be choosy with:The lowest unemployment rate in 48 yearsFor the first time ever in the U.S. there are more job openings than eligible candidatesOver half of U.S. employees saying it is ‘somewhat likely’ or ‘very likely’ they can find a job as good as the one they have50% of employees & 60% of millennials considering new employment opportunitiesThe average t..
ISO 21502 Project, Program and Portfolio Management
ISO 21502 - Project, Program and Portfolio Management 21502:2020 is the international standard for project, program, and portfolio management, providing critical guidelines and recognized best practices for project management. The standard applies to all types of organizations, including public, private, and charitable entities. It offers guidance on project management irrespective of the life cycle model u..
Preventing Sexual Orientation and Transgender ID Discrimination in Your Workplace
For most of us, work is stressful in and of itself. Imagine carrying the added emotional weight of having to deny or suppress one of the most fundamental aspects of who you are: your gender identity and sexual orientation because either one does not conform to society’s norms regarding gender expression.A historic Supreme Court ruling in 2020 outlawed workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and..
Essential Job Functions According to the American with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Every company is empowered to design its own organizational structure by carving out engaging and compelling work, configuring teams, and supporting individual development and growth. Yet, when it comes to documenting the job functions both essential and marginal of each job position, leaders get confused and fail to do it “right.”In this special training session, you will learn key topics in order to compl..
Forensic Accounting: When The Office Is a Crime Scene
Embezzlement happens often to many small businesses. Unfortunately, the lack of internal controls allows the embezzlement to remain undetected for years. But when it is discovered, the small business owner will most likely contact their CPA for advice. What should you do when your client contacts you about their employee embezzling money from their business? What options should you present to your client? H..
The Risk Paradox: How Effective Risk Management Undermines Risk Management?
Improving an organization’s risk management efforts can seem like a Sisyphean task - one step forward, two steps back. Why? Is there something inherent in human or organizational behavior that makes us incapable of sustaining and improving our approach to risk?While risk management theory continues to advance, improving implementation on the ground has been problematic. Though most executives readily acknow..
Independent Contractor Or Employee? How To Avoid Misclassifying Your Workers?
Misclassifying workers is one of the costliest mistakes in all of personnel management. Even as the cost of employing workers rises, facing an audit of workers you put on 1099 can mean an expensive payroll tax assessment one that often ends in bankruptcy. Although the IRS has remained relatively consistent in its evaluation of working relationships, many states are forcing more and more workers to be put on..
FATCA – What You Need to Know?
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is a federal law designed to combat offshore tax evasion by requiring individuals to report their financial accounts held outside of the United States and foreign financial institutions to report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about their American clients.Areas Covered This webinar addresses the requirements of FATCA and its impact on the reporting..
Quality for a Sustainable Future
As an introduction we point out how important sustainability is for the planet as a whole and how companies will be faced with increasing demands on their impact on society, in all aspects of the term. We also give a brief overview of how sustainability has been wrongly tackled in the past. Surprisingly there is still very little knowledge on the basics of sustainability, so to set the scene we will start w..
Identifying and Addressing Bribery and Corruption Red Flags
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense, undertaken by a person, or an organization entrusted with a position of authority, in order to acquire illegal benefits or abuse power for one's private gain. Corruption may involve many activities, which include bribery and embezzlement, and it may also involve practices which are still legal in many countries.Political corruption occurs when an off..
Middle Managers are Struggling: How You Can Help?
Middle managers serve as communicators for upper management, improve morale by acting as employee advocates, and help ensure employees follow company policies, procedures, and culture. Managers also account for at least 70% of employee engagement scores.Yet, despite their influential role, only 20% of managers strongly agree that their organizations help them be successful as people managers according to Mc..
New Overtime Regulations
Overtime and minimum wage have been a hot topic for the last several years, legislation almost went into in effect in 2017 but was stopped by several states coming forward with legal action. But new legislation was released on April 23, 2024, that have updates beginning as soon as July 1, 2024 to the salary thresholds put employers into the situation to make some key decisions on how to handle there exempt ..
The Everything You Need to Know About Labor Relations Survival Guide A-Z: Part 1
Attendees of Part 1 of this 4-part webinar series will have the opportunity to widen their skill set enough to be able to hit the ground running to meet the challenges of most labor management environments. Among the many areas to be explored will be the groundwork and guidelines for positive labor management relationships along with an examination of the roles of the Union and its representatives/Stewards,..
New Pregnancy Protections Regulations in the Workplace for 2024! How Should Employers Comply?
The U.S. Senate passed two acts that help working moms who are pregnant or breastfeeding. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (known as the PUMP Act) were added to the 2023 omnibus spending bill, which now passed the Senate and is headed for a House vote.The PUMP Act: The PUMP Act for nursing mothers requires organizations to provide time a..
Aligning Your HR Strategy with Your Business Strategy
A business strategy is the course of action that assists your workforce in achieving specific business objectives. It is the plan leadership implements to secure a competitive position in its market. A people strategy serves as a lever through which organizations can rally their employees around a unified, forward-looking visionThe HR function, more than functions, engages in and affects the operation and e..