Corporate Governance
Employee Monitoring in 2022: The High Tech Tools vs The Legal Rules
This program will discuss the various scalable options for employee monitoring, including tools for on-location time tracking, biometric collection for information security, and remote access monitoring tools. Many of these tools attach to programs you probably already use, such as Google®, Microsoft Teams® and many other popular apps. This program also will explore the legal issues that arise with th..
Evaluating Your Board
The membership, structures, and functions of most boards of directors come about by happenstance and continue through inertia. Members are named through ownership, networking, and personal or family connections. Board operations likewise are structured to meet basic legal requirements, but too often ignore structural, support and meeting practices that could nurture the most value from membership. Only with..
Legal Compliance Beyond the Handbook: Crafting Tailored Policies for Success
Crafting tailored policies goes beyond the generic provisions found in employee handbooks. This session delves into the intricacies of legal compliance, providing a comprehensive guide to developing policies that align with organizational goals. Topics include understanding legal requirements, tailoring policies to specific industry needs, and creating a framework for ongoing policy evaluation and adaptatio..
PCI Compliance – What Your Company Needs to Do to Get There
Your company must be PCI compliant if it receives payments in the form of credit cards, checks and wires? As our technology base in the world has improved and made our lives easier, so has the threat of having our identities stolen. Each year we hear of several companies that have experienced data breaches and the major negative impact it has on all consumers. Data breaches are not only detrimental to consu..
Personalized Development Touchstone Tool
Our “Personalized Development Touchstone” Tool helps you to reflect and start to live your life with purpose, clarity and direction by taking daily action through a series of focused and tailored activities on the Core Focus Areas of your life that really matter to you.The PDT tool will help you to take daily action through a series of focused and tailored activities to get you moving forwards, achieving yo..
Planning and Managing Organizational Change
Turn change into a positive force!Change is inevitable. But when changes are made, many employees lack the broader knowledge of why new systems and structures are necessary. As a result, frontline managers and human resources professionals must partner together and help organizations lead and manage change. This case-study-based seminar will prepare managers responsible for facilitating or implementing chan..
Putting Board Committees to Work
The savvy business people who make up boards of directors know how to effectively run complex business operations in their “day jobs.” They hire people with proven, specialized skills and a track record of achievement. They structure and organize their efforts so talent with specific skills manage and perform specific functions, all for a smooth-running corporate machine. Yet boards of directors, who today ..
Regulatory Compliance on Deposits
During this session, we will explore consumer compliance regulations for deposits in our current regulatory climate and the impact they have on institutions and clients. Specifically, we will go over the following regulations:Regulation D: Reserve RequirementsRegulation DD: Truth in Savings ActRegulation CC: Funds Availability ActRegulation E: Electronic Funds Transfer ActAreas CoveredNecessary plan updates..
Risk Management and Compliance Functions
The presentation will be prefaced by a review of the risk consequences that risk management and compliance functions are intended to prevent or at least, modify.This follows with a review of how risk management and compliance functions differ and then interrelate.Firstly, the presentation examines the roles and responsibilities of the compliance function. Specifically, it focuses on the function being respo..
Risk Management and Oversight for Boards
The corporate board of directors is a group of well-meaning, part-time amateurs, trying to monitor, control, and assure the work of the full-time professional managers who actually run the corporation. That means at best, your board will be several steps behind in having an accurate, current, complete insight into the company, its operations, its finances, and its dangers. At worst, you could, sometime in t..
The Best Practice Boardroom
The corporate board model was never designed to do real business work, so it fails time and again. This is the Big Secret of corporate boards that none of us want to admit. It originated as a ceremonial legal body, but now we increasingly demand to fulfill a very functional role. The odds are very much against the board of directors doing its job effectively.Our program will help you even those odds. ..
The Effective Board Leader
Across the world, business cultures have the important topic of board leadership exactly backward. For most jobs, we vet candidates based on their experience, training, and previous success for a position. Only after rising to the top through a tough winnowing process do we name the final candidate for the role. Over the past century, we’ve developed an infrastructure of business schools, MBA programs, prof..
The FTC Ban on Non-Compete Agreements: What Employers Need to Know
The FTC estimates that 30 million people – one in five US workers – are bound by a noncompete clause in their current jobs. And for most of them, the agency asserts, such a clause restricts them from freely switching jobs, lowers wages, stifles innovation, blocks entrepreneurs from starting new businesses and undermines fair competition.The final rule is a somewhat narrower version of the proposed rule that..
The Keys to an Effective NPO Board of Directors : Legal and Management Roles and Responsibilities
Today's non-profit organizations, from large community hospitals to small community arts groups, must gear their operation to an atmosphere of rapid change, their chosen goals ever open to evaluation, their methods flexible, and their programs and services responsive to the needs of their constituencies. An effective and well-trained Board ofDirectors is an essential key for the long-term success of t..
What is Section 321 De Minimis? – Controversies and Possibilities
This webinar will provide a comprehensive discussion of the history and policy behind the de minimis provision; the opportunities and challenges associated with the de minimis provision; and various proposals to improve or restrict the provision.Areas Covered The webinar will coverBackground, history, and policy behind the de minimis provision under Sec. 321 of the Tariff Act of 193Details of the language i..