Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

This session will focus on absence management in the workforce today. Proper absence management is key to helping organizations maintain the highest levels of productivity, minimize the total cost of labor, and ensure compliance with constantly changing Federal and State leave management legislation. Tools in the areas of leave requests, benefit accruals, vacancy tracking, and case management help organizations streamline benefit and leave tracking processes. This results in lower absenteeism, increased productivity, less manual processing, and overall compliance with leave standards. When organizations utilize absence management best practices, they can reach these goals and focus attention back on a productive workforce.

As our economy begins to get back on track – more companies are hiring and there are a whole lot of possible candidates to choose from. How do you go about finding the Right people for the Right jobs? How do you sort through all the hay to get to that perfect needle?

We will show.

In this webinar you will learn how to hire the right people the first time - get those you hire placed into the right jobs by utilizing a customized benchmarking process, in-depth personal assessments, a healthy dose of Emotion Intelligence, and a whole lot of effective coaching so you can build an atmosphere of creativity and accountability for your client or your employer.

Under health care reform, voluntary benefits will play an increasingly important role in many employers’ benefits strategies. Many employers will shift toward providing only bare-bones core medical coverage and transferring more responsibility for additional coverage to the employee via voluntary benefits offerings. In this webinar, you'll learn how employers are reacting in different ways to changes under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and how voluntary benefits could help you react seamlessly to these changes. We'll outline key ingredients for a successful voluntary benefit program, commonly offered voluntary benefits, and ways that voluntary benefits can solve employers' and workers' headaches under health care reform.

Gamification, including “serious gaming” and “social gaming,” is an innovative enabler of today’s multigenerational workforce that is increasingly used to support learning. Serious games and mobile learning are serious business today. What does a real-world serious game look like? How and why does it work? How are the games developed, delivered and played? What features are critical for learning success? And how do you get started? IBM learning experts from three perspectives will walk you through real-world success stories and answer your questions about how your organization can harness the benefits available today from gamification and mobile learning.

Workplace mental health issues present significant costs to Canadian businesses. Estimates are as much as $1,494 per person per year. How much does that add up to at your organization? These costs are not obvious, and are hidden in places like turnover, drug plans, absence, disability claims and presenteeism. However, they can be tackled while also improving employee engagement—if you have an integrative mental health program.

Whether your goal is to understand the impact of the recently released National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, to develop a new strategy and plan or to improve what you are doing now, this webinar will provide the guidance you are looking for. Three industry experts will demonstrate how an approach that is measurable, integrative and flexible is able to deliver financial ROI and employee engagement.

Our presenters will identify successful approaches to identifying risks, building a business case, increasing leadership awareness and developing and training people managers and employees. During this webinar you’ll have an opportunity to compare your mental health readiness to the average of your competitors—getting instant, confidential results—with Morneau Shepell’s free Mental Health Pulse Check tool.

How often have you hired someone with a great track record who turned out to be a bad hire? By discovering what a candidate’s previous managers and colleagues candidly say about their work style, skills and behaviors, you can objectively assess the candidate’s ability to be a top performer. Through this session, you will learn how technology has introduced a way for talent acquisition professionals to capture behavioral feedback from five references in just two days for each job candidate, and how to avoid candidates who score low with references. Also, see an overview of how this technology infuses compliance, consistency, reliability and validity into each reference-check and obtains feedback that identifies developmental needs of candidates.

Effective Assessment Strategies: What You Need to Know How can pre-hire assessments add value to your hiring process? Online assessments have proven their value as a predictive tool to support informed hiring decisions. Our webinar will help you: • Maximize your ROI. • Integrate assessments into your hiring process. • Increase efficiency. • Prepare for future developments. >> Register now! Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 | 1:00 p.m. (EST) | 10:00 a.m. (PST) Join eSkill’s webinar with Charles Handler, Ph.D., president and founder of Rocket-Hire consultants, whose extensive experience provides a wealth of knowledge about the impact of current and future hiring technologies. Learn how to apply assessments to your “job funnel,” to: • Screen out undesirable candidates • Screen in only the best, most suited applicants. Sign up today, to get a glimpse of the future of online assessment and recruiting! Eric Friedman, Chairman & CEO www.eskill.com 1-866-537-5455

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a New two page Form I-9 on March 8, 2013. This Form can be used immediately, but will be mandatory as of May 7, 2013. DHS gave employers very little time to make this administrative change, which can be especially challenging for employers that have several people responsible for this function through many different field offices.

This session will review the new Form in detail, and will also review the most common errors based on the new form, including how to correct errors made on the Form.. The initiation of a new form is also an excellent time to review all I-9 policies, including whether to make copies of supporting documents, how to process remote hires and rehires, when to reverify in Section 3, and how long to retain I-9 Forms. The speaker will provide practical solutions, especially for those employers that continue to rely on paper I-9s.

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.

Temporary, freelance and project-based workers are fast becoming a staple of the U.S. workplace and research suggests that around a third of all jobs are now temporary in nature.

While utilizing temporary labor can provide significant cost savings over taking on internal, direct hire workers, engaging temporary staff of all kinds can expose your company to significant risks....especially in the great state of California!

Our virtual conference - led by Emergent President and California native, Bill Inman - will alert you to key CA compliance issues to watch out for and will show you how your company can mitigate these risks effectively.