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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 HR Must Know About Protecting Confidential Information
There is no doubt that people on the outside and inside of your company are looking to access critical confidential information. Failure to protect this information can result in lost customers, regulatory fines, lawsuits, brand damage, and more.HR professionals and other managers are privy to salaries, financial information, health insurance information, social security numbers, and other sensitive employe..
What the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 Means to Tax Professionals
This session highlights the tax and non-tax provisions of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022. Although many of the provisions are not effective until after December 31, 2024, some are effective upon enactment of the legislation. For example, the 50 percent excise tax for failing to take a RMD is reduced to 25 percent and the RMD age increases to 73 in 2023.Thus, clients are going to hear a lot about the new legisla..
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..
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..
ISO 20700 - Management Consultancy Services
The standard focuses on five key areas of project management: governance, planning, implementation, monitoring and control, and closure. Governance is the process by which program objectives are established and monitored to ensure that projects remain on track. Planning encompasses resource estimation, scheduling, and risk management activities. Implementation includes budgeting, organization structure desi..
Management Accounting and the Cost of Quality
Managing quality is an imperative for any organization to remain competitive. Measurements of quality are essential, however supplementing that information with financial information further adds to success in managing quality.Ultimately the language of money is what executives and managers rely on to make better decisions.Unfortunately, most financial reporting neglects to report quality information such a..