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Onboarding Best Practices for Millennials and all Employees
Reducing turnover and fast-tracking new employees to productivity is a key business imperative. The reality is that about 30% of employees don’t make it past their first year and it’s expensive. Good recruitment and hiring can be quickly undone by disorganized poorly executed new employee orientation. And as millennials become a driving force in the workplace, they represent special opportunities and ch..
Onboarding is Not Orientation, Improving the Employee Experience
In this webinar, we will learn the reasons onboarding is important today. We will learn that the terms orientation and onboarding are not interchangeable. We will learn that orientation is in reality just one step in the onboarding process. We will learn that the onboarding process begins before the hire is made.Areas CoveredThe points covered in this webinar include:The cost of turnoverThe steps involved..
Onboarding New Hires: How to Get Them Quickly Up To Speed, Engaged and Productive
You’ve made your decision about whom to hire. You’ve gotten them excited about their new job. You’re excited about what they can bring to your team. Now what? If you’re like most good organizations, you’re doing something more. The Aberdeen Group reported that 70 percent of all organizations currently deploy some sort of onboarding program with leaders entering new roles. While this is a good thing, there i..
OSHA Focus Four / Fatal Four : Hazard Recognition & Avoidance – Falls; Electrocution; Struck By; Caught In or Between
These are the top four categories of loss on construction & industrial job sites. They constitute a growing number of preventable incidents, with clearly defined protective measures. Statistically, they represent nearly 24% of occupational losses annually. OSHA will likely target their presence and the effectiveness of controls in the inspection and investigation cycles.The Focus Four are categories o..
OSHA Materials Handling – The Safe Way
Many organizations have to handle and move heavy or bulky materials. Depending on their size and weight, the means available to handle them varies. Handling such materials involves risk of injury to workers. For that reason, OSHA regulates the way materials are handled in the workplace.Become familiar with safety regulations on powered industrial trucksUse OSHA standards to improve working conditionsIdentif..
Overview of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. This is the greatest tax law change since the 1980s when Congress added the passive loss rules. With it being such a large tax bill, there are many changes between the old law, new law, and future law (as many of the changes do eventually expire).This course will cover all of the major changes in the tax law. For individuals, we will look at the impact of ..
Painless Business Writing: Better Communications on Screen and On Paper
This webinar is designed as a skill-building refresher for all employees who have to write as part of their jobs. While business writing has changed from print to screen, there is more to crafting good messages than just emails. People judge your potential career success on the words you say aloud and on paper.This session teaches tools that are fast and effective, to help you write with more power, clarity..
Pay Equity! The New Tsunami for Employers
State and local governments are increasingly adopting laws and regulations that prohibit employers from requesting salary history information from job applicants. The laws are aimed at ending the cycle of pay discrimination and some go further than merely banning pay history questions. A few also prohibit an employer from relying on an applicant's pay history to set compensation if discovered or volunteered..
Payroll Compliance in 2020: W4, 1099, Exempt/Non-Exempt and Time Reporting
When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was signed into law in December 2017, sweeping changes to Form W-4 became a matter of “when,” not “if.” Those changes—arguably the biggest since the form debuted in 1943—are finally materializing for the 2020 tax year, after a one-year implementation delay prompted by feedback from payroll and tax communities. Let’s provide some context for the current W-4 situation bef..
Payroll Deduction overview
This webinar will give a general overview of the types of deductions that employers take from an employee’s check. We will review the laws that surround all types of deductions you can take with or without employee consent along with proper calculation of the deductions. This webinar will give you the knowledge to be sure that how you process employee payroll deductions are in accordance with the law for bo..
Payroll Deductions: What Can and Cannot be Deducted from an Employee’s Wages
In this webinar, we will discuss what can and what cannot be deducted from an employee’s regular paycheck as well as their final one. Failure to follow the regulations pertaining to employee wage deductions can result in substantial penalties and interest. In payroll, we calculate the gross wages of an employee by meticulously following strict regulations on what must be or must not be counted as hours work..
Payroll Requirements For Terminated Employees
Managing termination pay requires knowing the federal and state laws. Human Resources and Payroll professionals must know the proper way to handle the final payment for non-exempt and exempt employees. Although the State will mandate how and when employees should receive their final payment, it’s the employer's responsibility to ensure all payments such as dismissal pay, severance pay, stock options and gol..
People-Reading Made Easy: A Simple Framework for Building Effective Workplace Relationships
No matter what your career level, occupation, or industry, chances are that much of the stress you experience at work is related to ‘people’ issues – and these issues often result from basic personality differences. Chances are that you work and do business with people of varying personality styles – some similar to you and some quite different, so treating people the way you want to be treated doesn’t alwa..
Performance Management Excellence
Is your company ready for the next level of efficiency, productivity, and profit? Then you are ready to initiate and implement a Performance Management Plan.Your management can change the conditions of the workplace in order to measure the true success of your business. It includes activities that ensure organizational goals are consistently met in an effective and efficient manner. The overall goal of perf..
Pitch Perfect: The Art of the Elevator Pitch
Your elevator pitch is an invitation to get to know you, what you do and to discover any possible connections. Sadly, most people, whether a novice employee, a beginning entrepreneur, or a seasoned corporate executive, do not know how to present themselves well and are losing prospective clients and relationships as a result. Don’t be “most people;” understand how to make the most of those first important o..