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Documenting Misconduct that Will Stand up in Court
It is estimated that 60-70%o f litigation is employment-related. Let’s face it. If you stay in business long enough, your company will inevitably be sued. The time to prepare your defense begins before that suit is filed. Juries look to your documentation when they are making the decision of whether you ran afoul of the law. At the same token, plaintiff attorneys try to pick apart your documentat..
Don’t Shoot the Messenger – How to Deliver Bad News to your Clients and Teams
Project managers and business analysts deliver “bad news” to our clients and teams almost daily from scope creep to budget issues to scheduling problems. If these conversations go badly, they can ruin a client relationship, project, and team culture. If handled carefully and effectively, your relationships will be enriched. This makes message management critical it takes skill to effectively avoid arguments..
Do’s and Don’ts of Documenting Employee Behavior, Performance, and Discipline
The absence of solid documentation is the single most common mistake employers make when handling employee performance, behavior, and discipline issues. Not properly documenting, or not documenting at all, can hurt employers and employees in several ways. Documentation can make or break a manager’s ability to discipline, terminate, fairly promote, reward, and recognize employees. Additionally, solid documen..
Dress and Appearance Code: Rights, Responsibilities, and Potential Liabilities for 2022
From the style and length of one’s hair, to the number and location of visible tattoos, to recognizing gender non-conformity style, to creating a summer dress code, employers are facing an increased need to determine their organization’s culture and policies, as well as following federal and state laws. How does an organization balance employees’ rights to express themselves with the organization’s ri..
Dress Codes for the Modern Workplace
Since employees typically are the first contact made with a company it is often necessary to control that image projected. In the past, employers used dress and appearance policies to help employees work comfortably and safely while still projecting a professional image to clients, customers and future employees. Over the years employers have also used dress and appearance policies to help create an employm..
Driving Down Turnover Through Effective Employee Engagement
Employee engagement programs have grown in popularity. One reason they are so popular is as a strategy to drive down the turnover of average workers and superstar performers. This webinar will describe the components of an employee engagement program, how to make the business case for such programs, and how to use an employee engagement program as a deliberate and systematic way to drive down avoidable turn..
Early Completion Schedules – Benefits, Risks and Defenses
A contractor’s right to complete work early was acknowledged by U.S. Courts in the 1960’s. Delayed early completion claims arose shortly thereafter and became somewhat common in the industry. It was then, and remains now, a controversial issue in the construction industry with many project owners refusing to accept early completion baseline schedules. Others crafted contractual mechanisms to defeat such cla..
Early Warning Signs of Construction Claims and Disputes
It is axiomatic that claims and disputes on a project do not simply appear out of nowhere. Experience indicates that when a dispute occurs, there is normally a back story or history of events, decisions, lack of decisions, etc. that can be traced back from a few weeks to several years that gave rise to the dispute. It is these past events or decisions that are identified as “early warning signs” of cl..
Easy Delegation With Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook can be a powerful partner in your quest to improve your delegation skills and the need to have employees finish assignments on time. Combine the power of Outlook, which everyone opens daily, with this instruction and delegation will become part of your natural workflow.The training is hands-on as attendees are encouraged to use two screens or be able to toggle back and forth between the in..
EEOC Report: Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Not Working - Workplaces Fail To Implement Systemic Changes
You have been in Human Resources or management for years. Your plate is full - too much to do and to know in your increasingly stressful job. You are expected to stay current in discrimination and harassment case law for all the federal and state-protected classes. Are you current? It seems like an unending responsibility. You remember hearing something in the news about a change in the pregnancy law, but c..
Effective and Compliant Technical Writing
This webinar will discuss how to write effective, clear and well-organized technical documents. In this webinar, you will learn how to write in the correct person using the most effective and attention-catching words. The attendees will learn how to write comprehensible clear-to-the-point statements. They will also learn the correct ways to formats to use for each type of Technical document. Areas Covered C..
Effective Batch Record Review
Most Regulatory Agencies require firms to have written procedures in place to document production and process controls, better known as batch records. Additionally, there must be written procedures for a batch record review process that demonstrate compliance.A strong batch record review system is essential in order to properly document all critical processing parameters that go along with the production an..
Effective Boardroom Leadership
Across the world, business cultures have the important topic of board leadership exactly backwards. For most jobs, we vet candidates based on their experience, training and previous success for a position. Only after rising to the top through a tough winnowing process do we name the final candidate to the role. Over the past century, we’ve developed an infrastructure of business schools, MBA programs, profe..
Effective Engagement in Times of Change and Uncertainty: Leadership Communication Skills and Strategies
We live in a wired, 24/7 world that's often cycling between "do more with less" or "lean-and-MEAN" reorganizing and ever faster upgrading while demanding higher levels of transparency and accountability. And these days, especially, it can feel like we are spinning scarily out of control. Hey, today it’s less a matter of “downsizing” or “rightsizing” than it is of sheer “fright sizing!” Not surprisingly, man..
Effectively Handle Toxic People For Better Productivity and Less Drama
Stress, uncertainty, and crisis impact how we communicate and how we interact with our colleagues and customers. During the beginning of COVID-19, we saw a focus on patience, support, and collaboration. Now, we are seeing that patience is waning. Expectations are higher. And negativity is on the rise. How do you ensure that this negativity is not toxic and contagious within your team?Through COVID-19 we are..