Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

This webinar will provide key insight from the July 2012 Bersin & Associates research, “Leadership Strategy, The Link between Business Goals and Leadership Development Solutions.” In addition each participant will receive a leadership development template that can be modified to fit the specific need of their organization. This leadership strategy template will outline a plan for finding leaders, aligning them with the business, training/developing them and rewarding them. This practical insight gained from this webinar is applicable to companies of all sizes. If your part of a team is responsible for creating a plan for a large corporation or if you, the single source, are charged with creating a plan for developing a single leadership team, this webinar is for you.

The intense competition and consolidation in the dining industry has forced businesses to continually seek out greater efficiencies and improved yield. As such, effective labor management has become more important than ever for the food and beverage industry.

Management is faced with the daily challenges of increasing guest satisfaction while minimizing employee turnover, and improving the business’ bottom line. Labor management issues such as optimal employee scheduling, wage and hour compliance, and the administration of new legislation such as the Affordable Care Act has forced many organizations to seek out more comprehensive technology beyond the features of existing Point-of-Sale (POS) systems.

Additionally, with labor costs being the largest, variable operational expense for food and beverage organizations (as high as 40% - 50% of costs), management is challenged with ways to reduce labor cost spending while decreasing employee turnover and not jeopardizing customer satisfaction. A comprehensive workforce management solution equips management with tools to monitor real-time staffing information, analyze budget performance and control labor costs, all while continuing to focus on increasing customer satisfaction and profit margins.

Within this session we will highlight the importance of managing labor, increasing labor effectiveness, ways to ensure labor compliance and how to motivate employees in a food and beverage setting. We will discuss strategies for operating your workforce more efficiently and ways to increase overall productivity and profitability.

The goal of this session is also to outline the labor management challenges facing the food and beverage industry and the emerging need for organizations to adopt more sophisticated workforce management solutions in order to stay competitive and to operate more profitability.

Employee health asssessments indicate that as many as 70% of employees report that they 'don't get enough sleep' or are 'often tired at work' and research shows that sleepy employees are sick more often, miss more work and have more accidents and injuries.

What does this mean for your organization? In this presentation, Carolyn Schur, a sleep and fatigue management specialist, will highlight the primary factors contributing to sleep deprivation and outline the consequences for the workplace. She will also provide practical, immediate and long-term organizational measures that can be implemented to ensure better employee performance, health and safety and reduce benefit costs.

Manufacturers today are looking for new ways to increase productivity and control operational costs while continuing to support and focus on strategic growth initiatives. Manufacturing organizations are learning that an easy-to-own, integrated HR & payroll solution provides the complete automation and high-quality information you need to control labor costs, minimize compliance risks, and increase productivity – without the service bureau fees.

Join Kronos and Magnetek to hear how one manufacturer of digital power and motion control systems is using integrated HR & payroll solutions to streamline processes, reduce costs, and increase employee engagement.

Caitie Bowers, Senior Human Resources Generalist, Magnetek, will share insights and best practices on how to:

• Automate error-prone manual HR & payroll transactions
• Assess the impact of bringing payroll in house to eliminate service bureau fees
• Establish a single source for all employee information
• Leverage self-service capabilities to increase employee engagement

Most retailers agree transforming and improving the in-store experience is critically important for success, but not enough has been said about the role of the store employees who shape that customer experience (positive or negative). Earlier this year, RSR released their benchmark report WFM 2013: The Store Employee in the Customer Age, and noted: “Aside from the instant gratification that comes from taking a product home after a purchase, it’s the store employee that can make the difference to the in-store experience. But getting the most value out of the employee investment remains a challenge.” In this webinar, Paula Rosenblum from RSR will walk us through the report findings and recommendations for retailers nationwide.

On January 1, 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impose a $2,000 per employee penalty on employers with 50 or more workers who do not offer health insurance to their full-time staff. This webinar shows HR professionals what to do right now to comply with this mandate.

Participants that join this webinar can expect to have a more complete understanding of how the Internal Revenue Service defines full time employees. We’ll also discuss leveraging the safe harbor method for determining the full time status of an existing employee. Using that same method, we’ll outline how to define the status of a new employee. Objectives also include determining the status of variable hour and seasonal workers, to ensure compliance as well as a thorough understanding of standard measurement and stability periods, as a means to classifying employees.

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.

Absenteeism is not something that is confined to a few sectors of the economy. It is one of the most persistent obstacles to productivity, profitability and competitiveness. In this webcast we look at how the latest developments in Time & Attendance and Labor Scheduling solutions are assisting World Class organizations to permanently reduce absenteeism. We uncover the many associated costs of absenteeism including; overtime, dissatisfied customers and the morale of workers expected to cover for absent employees. We explain why absenteeism remains a persistent problem for organizations, despite the fact that many organizations have first class policies on absence management in place.

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

Get the Reliable Data You Need to Make the Right Decisions

With the Affordable Care Act, employers of every size need a strategy to reduce their compliance risk and control costs. The only way to do both is with robust and accurate data.

Register for this complimentary webinar, featuring Todd Black of Kronos Incorporated, to learn how the right workforce management solution can both ease your company’s compliance and control costs by:

• Providing accurate historical data
• Providing accurate employee eligibility
• Monitoring employee eligibility changes
• Documenting compliance through system reports

In this webinar you will learn ways to avoid penalties and minimize costs as you navigate new and complex employment laws.

**This webcast is not approved for Certification Credits**