Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

As health insurance costs continue to spiral upward at an alarming rate, it has become painfully clear, that the “traditional” strategies of changing insurance carriers, changing plan designs, and changing employee contributions will not and cannot provide any form of sustainability or predictability over the long term. All these strategies do is shift risk from one insurance carrier to another, or shift costs and liability from the insurance carrier or employer onto the employee.
Employers must change their thinking from that or RISK TRANSFERENCE to RISK MANAGEMENT when it comes to their employee benefits program. This presentation will outline the three areas of risk in an employer sponsored health insurance plan, and how to effectively manage that risk.

Performensation invites you to join Sam Reeve in a discussion on Global Pay for Performance. During this webcast you will learn the foundation systems and processes that are necessary to establish compensation and performance programs across the globe. The global expansion into markets of opportunity is a critical growth period for many firms and ensuring your talent is supported by a high performing compensation and performance program is vital. If you are already a part of a multinational company or are soon planning to reach beyond the borders, this webinar will provide you with essential knowledge that you can use in your global pay for performance planning process.

With labor costs already rising, will additional healthcare costs cut even more into your margins? And with new, complex, and hard-to-understand regulations before you, how can you ensure you have visibility for compliance purposes? The right labor strategy could prove invaluable in managing these new challenges while continuing to meet increasingly demanding customers. The webinar Labor Strategies for Surviving the Affordable Care Act offers insight and actionable approaches that you can use now. As benefits continue to rise, what does that mean for your staffing strategies? Overtime? Part time and seasonal workers? Get ahead of this issue with a short web seminar on the immediate impact.

The California Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) recognizes the value employers provide to the child support program.

As a payroll or human resource professional it can get confusing keeping up with your roles and responsibilities as an employer.

Today’s webinar will provide you with the education you need regarding the child support process. Our focus is to provide employers with the latest changes, updates, laws and requirements as we work together to improve the lives of children. The law requires parents who owe child support to have it withheld from their pay. We hope you find this information helpful.

Cooperation between employers and the child support program is essential in supporting family self-sufficiency. We appreciate your cooperation and look forward to building a stronger partnership for the future.

Recognition is a powerful tool in helping employees become and remain engaged in their work. Employee engagement, as defined in a recent Towers Watson survey, “ is the extent to which employees “go the extra mile” and put discretionary effort into their work — contributing more of their energy, creativity and passion on the job.” Learn how companies can create a high performance culture with employees around the world using recognition as a strategic engagement tool. John O’Brien, Vice President of the Employee Performance Group at BI WORLDWIDE will present Creating a High Performance Culture on October 29, 2012 from 10-11 am central time. Attendees will learn a global recognition model to engage employees, best practice standards for recognition design, global recognition case studies and industry trends and best practices. John O’Brien is the Vice President of BI WORLDWIDE’s Employee Performance Group. In his leadership role, John’s primary focus is to develop employee engagement strategies and solutions that change the behaviors of employees to align with our customers’ business objectives. John has worked at BI WORLDWIDE and the employee engagement industry for 27 years. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Recognition Professional International. As a board member, John educates HR professionals around the world on how to best engage their employees through employee engagement strategies, solutions and best practices. John holds a Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Psychology and Communications from St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud Minnesota.

As organizations seek to improve the effectiveness of contingent labor management programs, a holistic view of the workforce and strategies for optimizing spend is essential. A solution that combines information about full time and contingent workforces provides visibility into total talent and allows organizations to more effectively source talent, control costs and manage a blended workforce.

This webcast will provide insight into ways that organizations can achieve visibility into their talent pipeline. Key takeaways from the presentation will include:

• How an integrated system can manage permanent and contingent workforce
• How reporting can be used to change recruitment behavior across your entire workforce
• How technology can be used to drive change through the business

The numbers don't lie. While North American companies spend $38 billion annually on incentives for their employees, 70% are not engaged and 60% are actively looking for work citing lack of appreciation as the reason.

It’s time for a reality check - monetary incentives don’t buy workplace happiness. The age old methodology of motivation, using monetary ‘carrots’ – such as perks or financial remuneration – has a weak exchange rate with today’s knowledge worker, for whom the most valuable currency is recognition. As the Harvard Business Review explains: “Though necessary, these extrinsic motivators [perks, promotion, pay] don't necessarily excite people to work smarter or harder. Instead, they prompt employees to do only the minimum required to get that next raise or job title.

In this 60-minute webcast, David Bator, Director of Marketing & Customer Strategy will talk about the win-win that non-monetary social recognition delivers to organizations. Using customer case studies, David will demonstrate that social recognition is not only far less expensive than traditional monetary rewards programs but has also proven to be more effective in engaging a motivating knowledge workers.

As a payroll manager, you are faced with many external and internal forces driving your decisions. Although your goal may be 100% direct deposit, you must navigate issues of compliance to reach that benchmark. By putting processes into place that proactively address said issues while streamlining your operations, you will make your life easier. At TFG Card Solutions, we closely follow issues of compliance surrounding direct deposit and pay cards and will share our collective knowledge in this webinar.

In this webinar we will cover hot topics in the payroll industry including direct deposit legislation around the country and the increasing need for pay cards. If your goal is 100% direct deposit and paperless payroll, you will need to know about electronic pay stubs for your employees.

Discussion will include best practices, requirements, and compliance surrounding pay stubs. Our final topic will answer the question, how does one go about choosing the best pay card provider? What should you look for in a vendor? With so many vendors out there, it can be difficult to find the one whose services fit the needs of your organization and those of your employees, the cardholder.
Since 2004, TFG Card Solutions has helped over 1,900 US employers of all sizes eliminate paper checks by providing a two-pronged approach:

1. Provide a first rate value offering that employers and employees can be excited about
2. Assist our extremely busy clientele with effective marketing tools to message the enhanced benefit offering and company initiative.

Your company does not need just another review of ethics for the payroll department. Do you know that people who cause the most ethical problems are the ones that know the ethics code and how they are expected to behave?

The code of Business Ethics is a set of principles that summarizes a Company’s ethical standards. Its purpose is to guide employees in making good decisions in regards to their position.

This presentation will provide you with real world solutions to build and maintain great ethics, while showing you how to spot ethical issues before they develop and what to do when they arise. We will take a look at roadblocks you face every day and how to put procedures in place to head them off.

Whistleblower claims brought under federal safety, health and environmental statutes can be costly and disruptive to your business, and claims may involve actions that an employer did not realize could be considered discriminatory. Find out how best to coordinate between safety and HR activities, to avoid prosecution under these statutes, and how to defend against claims when a complaint is filed.

This presentation will cover how to structure your incentive and disciplinary programs to avoid scrutiny by the government, how to document adverse actions properly, and how to address situations involving "bulletproof" employees in a legally sound manner.

The remedies available to whistleblowers and unique aspects of some laws - such as "temporary reinstatement" provisions that may require actual or economic reinstatement while a case is pending - will also be discussed.