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Putting Business and Analysis back in Business Analysis
Do you sense business analysis and business analysts are falling behind? Is it as fulfilling as you’d like or expect, and do others give it the respect it needs and deserves? For instance, increasingly business analysts seem left out of Agile projects. These all can be signals business analysis is failing to provide adequate business value. It may merely reflect difficulty communicating value that actually ..
Ratios the Road to Improve Profits & Productivity
All business professionals need a good working knowledge of financial statements to include how they are created and how they can be used to make key business decisions. Business/financial transactions are transformed into financial statements through an accounting process.Three required statements are produced:Income StatementBalance SheetCash Flow StatementThe statements provide Results of business activi..
Recruiting for Hard to Fill Positions (Easiest Isn't Always Best)
Generally, staff within most companies will open a position without investigating why the previous person left to determine the root cause. Was the Job Description poorly written so sourcing identified the wrong talent? Was the manager inept? Did the incumbent get promoted? Wouldn’t it be nice to learn/review ways to look at the Recruiting Process to find the elusive passive candidate instead of the over-po..
Reignite Recruiting: 9 Ways to Incorporate Diversity Strategies at Work
The demographics of the workforce are changing and companies are struggling to keep up with the challenges that can be caused by ignoring this elephant in the room. Are you an employer of choice? If not, why not? From reputation management to recruiting to employee engagement, this workshop will help you identify the many areas in which your decision-making process is unintentionally impacted by bias, as we..
Reporting on Impact: How To Write Your Annual Report
You operate your nonprofit to have an impact on its mission. Everyone interested in your mission wants to know how much of an impact you make, so they are waiting actively for you to tell them about it. The most powerful vehicle for conveying this information, after your website of course is your annual report. In this webinar, you will learn how to craft an annual report that educates, inspires, and motiva..
Resolving Workplace Conflict
Whether people sit and work side by side or have to collaborate from thousands of miles away, there will be misunderstandings, hurt feelings and conflict. In this course we are going to explore some of the multiple reasons for conflict and look at appropriate interventions and solutions to solve them. Some conflict is simple to resolve, just some understanding of the impact your behaviour has on other. Othe..
Respect in the Workplace
In today's diverse workplace is a reflection of North American society at large. Often we see a wide range of behaviours that display a lack of respect and politeness, both inside and outside the workplace. Various polls and studies have highlighted that workers view impoliteness as a serious issue which must be dealt with. As the workforce becomes even more diverse than it is now, it is important that each..
Responding to EEOC Discrimination Charges
In Fiscal Year 2017, The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 84,254 discrimination cases. Think about it, we have 200 work days a year – so this equates to over 400 a day and 52 every hour. Sheer numbers indicate that it’s just a matter of time before a discrimination charge crosses your desk. Get the information you need NOW to be prepared.Your first reaction to receiving a charge of discrimin..
Rest Periods, Meal Breaks, and Overtime – Oh My! What You Need To Know About Wage & Hour Laws
Once an employee punches in, it is not just the start of their day – but also the start of an employer’s review for wage & hour compliance. Non-exempt or hourly employees are subject to and required to be given different meal breaks, rest periods, and compensation for things like travel time. This webinar gives employers the rules and regulations that need to be followed and also offers tips and techniq..
Return to Work: COVID-19 Considerations
We will review consideration for opening businesses in light of COVID-19. We will consider reasons to open and the liability risks associated with that activity. If the decision is made to open, we will discuss how to minimize liability by adopting policies, changing shifts, modifying physical space, screening employees, and requiring the use of PPE such as masks.Areas Covered Reason to OpenLiability RisksE..
Rewards and Recognition Retaining Your Best Employees in Turbulent Times
An engaged workforce is a major competitive advantage for any business. It is clear that engaged workers work harder, produce more, generate greater profits, have more satisfied customers, have fewer attendance issues, and are better in almost every regard. Yet about two-thirds of employees are NOT engaged. That is a problem and an opportunity.Simply put, employee engagement is the extent to which employees..
Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis using PMI and ISO/IEC 21500 Project Management Methodologies
Learn to properly use Project Management Principles to prepare for an impact on the business for any organization. We will cover how to identify, analyze and document the events and environmental surroundings that can adversely affect the organization. You will learn how to both prepare and review the continuity planning program. Areas such as Project Management of IT Outsourcing and other risks will be cov..
Risk Management – “Best Practices” / Management Roles and Responsibilities
The key to effective risk management in a corporation or other operating entities is knowing and understanding the types of risk present in its business activities, the ability to identify operating weaknesses that may generate a risk condition, and having formal mechanisms for addressing an identified weakness with the objective to eliminate or modify the associated potential of a risk event. The first lin..
Sales and Use Tax Compliance
Sales and Use Tax is among the most complicated areas of compliance there is. 45 states levy a state-wide sales tax and each state does it differently. In addition, the digital era and online purchases bring with it its own issues. This webinar will teach you the basics of the sales and uses tax environment and how best to comply. We will touch on audits, and when use tax might apply to a given situation. F..
Sales in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
There's no doubt that the sales world is undergoing change. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are already in place in today's leading organizations. And it's no doubt that every boardroom (and maybe many watercooler chats at other levels) is talking about how to use technology effectively to sell more.This means changes for sales personnel and sales teams. The old ways of selling are going to be ..