HR Compliance
Tips for Successfully Working from Home
With the current COVID-19 pandemic, employers are taking active steps to ease the spread of the disease by allowing or mandating that employees work from home. Though there has been a recent trend toward employers offering remote working and telecommuting arrangements, being forced to work from home unexpectedly can be daunting and overwhelming. This webinar will give you the most proven tools and productiv..
Toolbox Safety Talks that Don’t Bore you Death: Find Great Content and Make them Engaging!
Do your Toolbox Safety Talks engage your audience, provoke great discussion all while compelling people to take action on safety and health in their personal and professional lives? The soft-skills or people skills of presenting, public speaking, and a powerful delivery have fallen by the wayside. This Webinar resurrects these skills in a fun and easy-to-apply mannerIf you find it difficult to lead a meanin..
Toolkit for Conducting Exit Interviews
An employee hands in his resignation and walks out the door and with them walks out valuable skills, knowledge, and capabilities. You are sorry to see them leave and you don’t want to lose anymore. Also walking out is the key to how to keep good employees and how to make your business better than ever. The key is Exit Interviews.Exit Interviews can provide critical information that only leaving employees ca..
Top 10 Strategies for Managing (and Minimizing) Interruptions in the Workplace
Anticipating the pressure and finding ways to redirect it in more meaningful directions so you can maintain control of your work is important. While interruptions at the workplace are inevitable, it doesn’t mean that they cannot be minimized or reduced. How you deal with interruptions and what your strategies for handling them matters. Learn to effectively handle interruptions so you can refocus quicker and..
Top Habits of Highly Successful HR Departments
Any HR professional knows that there is never a lack of work in their department. From replying to an employee’s question about benefits to following-up with a manager on how to best restructure her department, there seem to be fewer hours in the day to accomplish all the tasks that HR needs to do. And this is the perfect reason why it makes sense to stop, assess, and understand what highly successf..
Training New Technical Writers
The objective of the webinar is training to become Technical Writers. Technical Writing is labor-intensive. By that, I mean that someone learns to be a Technical Writer by creating Technical Documents. Simply stated, a Technical Writer learns to do by doing. Training for Technical Writers involve General Comments about Creating Technical Documents, actually Creating Technical Documents, understanding the di..
Understanding Diversity in the Workplace
The definition of diversity in any given situation depends on who you ask. People define the concept based on their individual backgrounds and upbringing. As a result, these definitions are as numerous as the individuals defining it. In today's workplace, there needs to be a consistent definition to facilitate a harmonious work environment. The talk will assist an organization to define and develop a divers..
Understanding Pay Structures and Compensation Systems
Having a competitive and well-designed compensation system is the cornerstone of employee recruitment and retention for most organizations. But did you know, that 30 percent of U.S companies have no formal pay structure in place? And that number increases for small businesses - 50 percent of companies with 100 employees or less are lacking a proper compensation system. When you have an ill-designed or inade..
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? ..
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 ..
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..
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 ..
Verbal Self-Defense For Workplace Violence
De-escalation, diffusion, Verbal Judo, or “talking someone down", are all names for keeping the potentially violent person from becoming an actual violent person. This program will provide strategies, tactics, and techniques for keeping situations from devolving into dangerous confrontations. We’ll take a quick look into the problem of workplace violence, how often it happens and what is the effect on indiv..
Wage & Hour Misclassifications
With new regulations, you want to make sure you’re in compliance with all levels of your staff. We discuss compensation at the hourly and salary levels, DOL definitions and exemption categories. We will talk about the new generations and how their work preferences fit into the wage and hour labyrinth. Don’t forget the most common myths! Stay up to date on the changes and stay out of trouble with the Departm..