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Virtual and in-person Onboarding: Beyond Handbooks, Benefits, and Photo IDs
Whether you call it Onboarding, Induction, Enculturation, or New Employee Orientation (NEO), the process used to welcome and train your new employees while capturing their excitement of a new job and reducing their new job jitters is critical to their success. NEO is not a one-day event, but rather a process that begins after their acceptance of the job and extends through the first year of their employment..
Wage and Hour Laws: Ensuring Compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act and Anticipated Changes in 2023
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), commonly referred to as the Wage and Hour Act, was passed in 1938 and since then has been amended many times. The major provisions of the FLSA are concerned with minimum wage rates and overtime payments, child labor, and equal rights. The US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, oversees federal labor laws. Additionally, State DOLs administer state labor laws. Fai..
What is in Store for Employers When Updating Employee Handbooks in 2025?
If there’s ever a time to rethink your handbook, it’s now. The timeliness has less to do with the 2025 year, the obvious time to roll out a replacement handbook and more to do with the wave of changes that recently swept the workplace.The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) now has submitted its new Employee Handbook changes that can make Employee Handbooks legally unlawful. The NLRB has the..
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..
Why Employee Recognition Programs Don’t Work And What Leaders Should Do Instead
The goal of employee engagement is to earn the gift of discretionary effort. Discretionary effort is a gift because employees make a decision on a daily basis whether or not to give discretionary effort. Discretionary effort is the difference between what an employee does to get a paycheck and what the employee is capable of contributing. In a culture of rich employee experiences, employees naturally give d..
Women’s Hostility to Women at Work: Myth or Reality
Are women really each other’s worse enemy or is it just a myth and a stereotype? What does the research show about women’s hostility to other women, sometimes called bullying, in the workplace? Bullying is a learned behavior that gets fine-tuned during our school years. Girls and women tend to bully using more subtle nuanced types of tactics that are relationship-based. Men’s ways of bullying tend to be mor..
Word Tips and Tricks
In today's world, it is very important to communicate using documents like letters, emails, books, etc. Microsoft Word is the standard word processor.This course will show you how to be more efficient in Microsoft Word.Areas Covered Topic Include:Selecting textNumber lists Bullet listsSectionsHeader and FooterPage number Table of Contents Index TablesScreenshotHyperlinkCourse Level - Begin..
Workplace Insubordination: Strategies for Preventing, Identifying and Dealing with this Employee Issue
Instances of insubordination can cause conflicts in your workplace. This concept refers to any employee who disrespects or intentionally disobeys authority figures and this type of behavior may lead to consequences to the employee. Understanding what constitutes insubordination and how to address this issue can help managers maintain a positive, productive work environment.Areas CoveredWhat constitutes insu..
Workplace Privacy Issues
If you, do not know what an employee and employer’s privacy rights are and do it wrong, are you prepared to face the consequences of actual, compensatory, or punitive damages and damage to your own professional reputation and standing within your work community? And what about COVID-19 or the next pandemic? For the foreseeable future, the workplace will be raising issues about an employee’s privacy ri..
Writing Effective Audit Observations
This webinar will provide the basic principles for writing effective audit observations. The audit observations represent the end result of weeks of reviews, analyses, interviews, and discussions. It is used to provide important information to management on the area you reviewed. And, more importantly, it provides details to management on significant issues that need to be addressed. How well you communicat..
Writing High Impact Executive Summaries
During this webinar, we will go through creating an executive summary by understanding the appropriate structure, what goes into it and how to align it to your target audience using real practical experiences.Course Level - AllWho Should AttendAnyone in complianceWhy Should You Attend An executive summary is simply a summary of summaries providing a concise summary of your current assignment to executives. ..
Writing Successful Request for Bids and Proposals
This webinar begins by defining the difference and focus of quotes, bids, and proposals as well as selecting the right format to match the purchase. These documents are critical to the success of contract management/administration as well as the ultimate outcome of the project. Bids require a significant base of suppliers qualified to bid and may require a show of interest and capability before access to th..
Your Employees Are Organizing A Union
Managers and Supervisors are taken to task everyday in managing their non represented employees. It is important for them to learn the Initial warning signs of union organizing long before a Union gets the appropriate number of signed authorization cards and the NLRB conducts a secret election. Learn here the best election is the one that is never held. This course will delve into the 20+ Initial warning si..
Zap! You're a Manager – Getting Off on The Right Foot
The basics of good management are the same for first-line supervisors and CEOs. The successful approaches have a track record of success in the public, private, and nonprofit/NGO sectors. The first step is to understand the unique challenges new managers face, especially if you have been promoted from within the team and are now expected to lead your former peers. The first task is to build a strategic plan..
Hiring and Onboarding New Employees: A Primer for HR and Supervisors
Finding and hiring the right people is often cited as the number one concern of businesses today. It seems we are all competing for the best and brightest workers. A critical component of the HR and supervisors job is to hire and onboard talented people who enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals. Did you know that research has shown that 88% of organizations don't do onboarding well, yet gre..