HR Compliance
Behavioral Interviews-500% More Effective Than Traditional Methods
Regardless of skill, hiring a person who is a bad fit is the wrong decision. In fact, traditional interviewing predicts future success by only 10%. With a bad fit, the employee is never going to reach optimum performance, be fully engaged, and they are likely to leave. The company is then left with another expensive recruitment along with the disruption of having talent walk out the door. (Recruiting expens..
Best Practices For How To Structure And Write A Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
Using a library of SOP’s to help organize and control your operations is just good business sense. This is particularly important in high-risk and critical operations, construction or industrial, where a mistake can be costly or result in catastrophic accidents or failures.One of the prime reasons to create an SOP is to predict and eliminate incidents, errors, accidents, failures, poor quality outcomes, etc..
Best Practices for HR Ensuring Confidentiality of Medical Records
Human resource professionals are entrusted with keeping employees medical records confidential. There are many related but different federal laws that have medical record confidentiality provisions. What is a medical record under one law that may not be a medical record under another law? To fully comply one needs to be not just familiar with but proficient with the various employment laws and the need for ..
Best Practices for NEW Managers
Unfortunately, being good at your job doesn’t guarantee that you will be a good leader or manager. Yes, you were good enough to get promoted but being a manager has challenges you never dealt with when you were an employee. The transition to management isn’t just a promotion and a pay raise—it’s a shift into a new type of role that requires new skill sets and you are bound to trip up along the way when you ..
Best Practices for Retaining Millennials and Other Employees
The Millennial generation is a force to be reckoned with. They are talented, innovative, entrepreneurial, and creative. They are also highly mobile and prone to job-hopping. Retaining top talent is a key business imperative and old strategies are no longer effective.More than 60% of Millennials leave their company in less than three years and their turnover is greater than any other generation. In addition,..
Best Practices in Hiring - This would include Sourcing, Screening, Selection and Onboarding
This webinar will highlight several best practices in the hiring lifecycle from finding great candidates to converting the best of them into new members of your team and getting them up to speed as quickly as possible.It will include proven approaches in the following areasWhere to find candidates, both through paid and free sources, how to screen candidatesHow to screen candidates, through their resumes, L..
Beyond Lessons Learned: Break Through Project Barriers
Whatever you call those extra assignments or even your larger "regular" work responsibilities, learn to apply project management tools and approaches to get better outcomes when facing barriers to completing work successfully. Identify the business problem you are solving to keep your work focused, efficient, and moving toward the desired solution. Expand your standard responses to barriers to include more ..
Building a Culture of Respect in the Workplace
Building a respectful workplace is essential for your organization to grow and flourish. In a respectful workplace, all people have the right to be treated with dignity and respect. But respect goes far beyond legally defined protected rights. Employees feel valued by their employers. Productivity is high, conflict is low and business interests thrive. Even in difficult times such as terminations or discipl..
Building an Accountable Organization
This session is designed to help you understand how to build an organization of accountability that stays focused on results within a team environment. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand how accountability benefits your organization and know how to build a culture of team members who hold each other accountable. You will also be able to understand how to build in results focused ..
Busted! Top Employee Handbook Mistakes of 2020
Do you know the top ten provisions of your employee handbook that can get your company in legal trouble? You need to, and you need to fix these issues immediately. This webinar will focus on your company’s employee handbook pitfalls, the omissions that you need to add, and the right language to avoid creating legal lability. Make sure you attend this program to find out what dangers are hiding in your handb..
Calculating Overtime Correctly under the Fair Labor Standards Act
Lawsuits under the Fair Labor Standards Act have reached an all-time high. The Department of Labor estimates that 87% of all employers are not in compliance with their obligations to pay overtime to non-exempt workers. Even employers with the best intentions find themselves violating some aspect of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In addition to misclassification issues, employers fail to recognize what time m..
Effective HR at Work: Creating a High-Performance Workplace
As Human Resources, we are always balancing a the tightrope between keeping the C-suite happy and effectively working with our employees. It is neither simple nor easy. Our jobs are a lot easier when we work in a culture of highly motivated employees who want to do their best every day. But how to reach that pinnacle? Motivating employees is difficult, but not impossible; using a few tried and true techni..
Elements of Effectively Coaching Employees
Coaching is a process of helping another individual realize their inner potential, delivering fulfilment to both the individual and the related organization. Coaching in the workplace typically focuses on an improvement in individual performance against key performance indicators or job expectations but can also focus on career development and employee growth. Unfortunately, coaching is the part of a manage..
Emotional Intelligence (EQ): It's More Important For Success Than Your IQ!
Emotionally intelligent managers, supervisors and professional staff are your greatest assets. They solve problems, resolve conflict and build teamwork. Researchers and business experts agree that people with high emotional intelligence (EQ) are consistently the top performers in their organizations. They’re more resilient and flexible when things get tough, and are held in the highest regard by their bosse..
Employee Classification - Exempt or Non-exempt
The misclassification of employees has been a hot topic with the IRS and the Wage and Hour Department (DOL) for years. Efforts to identify and audit employers who deny proper minimum wage and overtime protections due to the misclassification of workers as minimum wage and overtime exempt have been greatly increased. The Questionable Employment Tax Practices Initiative (QETP) is a little-known program that c..