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Understanding the D.I.S.C. Personality Assessment and How It Can Communication In Your Organization
Communication is a two-way process to exchange ideas. We communicate in order to elicit some type of response. Some examples of a response could be more knowledge, a specific action, or some type of emotion.Understanding the D.I.S.C. profile will help understand the four different personality type and how they like to receive information. Do you have a clear understanding of how to communicate with others? ..
Understanding the Drug Supply Chain Security Act: Latest Regulatory Developments and Best Practices
The Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) outlines requirements for pharmaceutical manufacturers, repackagers, wholesale distributors, dispensers, and third-party logistics providers. Some requirements began in November 2014 and several key requirements began at various stages in 2015. The requirements, development of standards, and the system for product tracing will continue to be phased in until 2023. H..
Understanding the Value of Meaningful ERM
The concept of Enterprise Risk Management as a strategically-aligned, portfolio management approach to risk management was first proposed nearly 30 years ago. This session will briefly discuss the history of ERM, clarify the distinction between ERM and risk management, and discuss the value that ERM brings to any complex organization. Key steps in implementing and maturing an ERM program will be covered.Are..
Understanding Your Profit & Loss Statement and EBIT/EBITDA
If you don’t prepare your own Profit & Loss Statement, you may not understand what yours are trying to communicate about your business’ financial performance. Many of the business owners and senior executives I’ve worked with over the past 10 years came to me with stacks of reports they never even looked at because none of it made any sense to them! Understanding your P&L’s is vital to small busines..
Unlimited PTO – Financial, Emotional And Practical Considerations For Implementation
Unlimited PTO – Considerations for Implementation – will walk you through everything you need to consider prior to implementing “unlimited” time off to your employees. The goal of this presentation is not to convince you it’s the “right” thing to do, because this type of time-off program is not for everyone. Indeed, you may walk away with the sound belief that your current vacation policy is just right for ..
Unrelated Business Income Tax – Updates under TCJA
This topic will start off with a general understanding of what is unrelated business income. It will look deeply into how to tell if income streams are related or unrelated to the non-for-profits mission along with the other rules that could exempt the income from this category.We will also look at how to calculate the unrelated business income tax under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The TCJA made it so non-fo..
Update on US Sanctions: Hot Topics and Compliance Best Practices
This program will cover a range of sanctions compliance topics. Beginning with an overview of US economic sanctions and embargoes rules and regulations, the panel will then cover key sanctions compliance issues. This will include topics such as conducting business with or in Russia, identifying and preventing prohibited facilitation of prohibited transactions, and strategies for conducting compliance audits..
Update Your Business Writing Skills – The Rules Have Changed!
Someone, somewhere, for some reason, decided that English needed to change. They changed the rules for punctuation, spacing, and style without notice or warning. If it has been five years or more since you've taken a business-writing course, then you NEED to take this one! This course offers effective strategies to sharpen your writing skills by structuring your ideas logically, exercising diplomacy in lett..
US Expatriate Taxation
This session will cover the US Taxation of Expatriates. Specifically, we will focus on the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, the Foreign Tax Credit and State Tax Issues. During the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion section, we will discuss the two tests to qualify for this exclusion and the additional housing exclusion. During the Foreign Tax Credit section, we will discuss the difference between US and Foreig..
US National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Act (GMO Labeling)
The new rule was highly anticipated by industry and will hopefully bring clarity to the long-standing GMO questions, cover financial and risk impact to businesses as well as helping consumers with educated food choices based on science, in short session encapsulates everything industry needs to know on launching the NBFDSA.Areas Covered Background on US GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) LabelingBasi..
USDA New Proposed Rule on BioEngineered (GMO) Food Disclosure
The USDA announced the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard on December 20, 2018. The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law, passed by Congress in July of 2016, directed USDA to establish this national mandatory standard for disclosing foods that are or may be bioengineered. The standard will provide a uniform way for food manufacturers to disclose whether food or its ingredients were bioeng..
Using Behavior Based Interviewing To Select The Right Candidate
Companies erroneously spend too much time looking for the correct skills and knowledge for the job and paying little or no attention to attitudes and behaviors necessary to a candidate perform at a high level. The fact is that most involuntary terminations occur because of improper attitudes and behaviors.The best way to hire the correct candidate is to see into the future and see how that candidate will pe..
Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Better Performance
This session will go over how to construct a balanced scorecard. We will cover how to survey the key deliverables for success, how to measure them, how to set standards, and how to assign values to each. The balanced scorecard is not new. However, not enough companies are using it.We will discuss using the balanced scorecard as a basis for a manager and executive bonus system. We will use an actual example ..
Using VLOOKUP, MATCH, and INDEX
Lookup formulas are far superior to manually searching for specific data elements in a spreadsheet. VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX, and MATCH are some of the most well-known (and most useful) functions in Excel which are used to return data from other locations in worksheets. VLOOKUP enables you to quickly and easily look for value down a column of data and return a value from the same row in a different column. P..
Valuable Communication Skills: It’s How You Say It
Your message may be a very important one but if no one is willing to listen, its value will be lost. Effective Communication is a commonly used phrase; wherein, effective basically means being successful in what you are trying to accomplish. While you have been successful in sharing the information, it is important that what has been shared is understood and meaningful. Less than 10% of what you say is part..