Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Do you have your finger on the pulse of your message? Is it what you intend it to be? Are you connected to the nerve center of the audience...are you calling them to action? Doesn’t matter if it’s it written form or spoken word? Are you connecting to your intended audience, the way in which you want?
This webinar will explore how to make a solid connection with your intended audience, every time you address them. Whether they be front-line staff, management, clients, or prospective employers. It will examine the three key aspects of communication (both written and verbal), explore how to curtail your message for accuracy and detail without error and suggest how to solicit a professional check up as necessary.

Listening is probably the most important, yet undervalued, skill for success in both our personal professional lives. Raising your awareness of what listening is, and understanding how to overcome the barriers to being good at it, can help you sharpen your own communication skills to BE A BETTER LISTENER & BE LISTENED TO! Business coach, speaker and author Alan Adler will share his years of experience with you on the best ways to become a better listener and to make a connection with your audience -- whether it's 1 person or 1,000. You can also ask Alan your questions and "listen" to his advice.

Today’s business environment is more demanding than ever, with HR professionals and their employees being required to do more with less, resulting in burnout, declining morale, and disengagement. Can you relate? Would you like to learn how one simple shift can yield benefits such as reduced stress, more clarity of mind, better decision-making ability, and increased productivity (to name just a few)? Attend this session and discover why living and working as if "this moment matters" is the key to being productive and achieving our goals, to getting healthy and fit in the face of fast food and inactivity, and to finding simplicity and peace amidst chaos and confusion. Best of all, you'll also learn five real strategies and practices you can implement IMMEDIATELY to help you be more present for more of the moments at work and at home.

As the workplace migrates from the traditional model of the past to the mobile and virtual workplace of the future, it is imperative that organizations adapt to these changes. With email, conference calls, Skype, chat, and Web-conferencing, it's now common for people to work together and rarely see each other face to face. These changes have impacted the way employees and teams not only work but how they disagree and resolve those disagreements. This webinar will take you through the new world of Virtual Conflict Resolution and provide you with tools and practices you can bring to your organizations today.

Five New Ways to Move Beyond Status Quo Technology Implementation HRIS and other talent technology intiatives such as ERP and cloud migrations can fail in implementation due to mis-alignment with business objectives and/or user adoption rates. In many cases, internal business users will avoid or fail to give their buy-in to the launch of a solutions launch. It is time to move beyond the "status quo" of typical HR technology applications to an experience that supports workforce effectiveness and personal productivity. This session, based on the studies of hundreds of successful technology implementations, will help HR leaders and their executive team counterparts use new "next practices" alignment and engagement techiques to accelerate successful outcomes to their technology launch(es). The session will give participants both strategic perspectives and practical tips, as well as provide a case study with the Boys & Girls Clubs, around the selection, creation and implementation of new applications that enhance the overall work experience rather than simply compliance or maintenance uses. > How to link to technology projects to overall business objectives- not HR but PA (People Apps that work). > Building a user experience that truly engages them. > Integrating other major initiatives such as intraprenuership and employer branding to your technology launch.

Every day, we see them! Those awkward, uncomfortable and emotionally charged situations we’re just not sure how to address. You know, the “Elephant in the Room”. Unclear of a course of action, we’re tempted to simply ignore them, hoping they’ll go away. Problem is, these issues do just the opposite of what you’d like. They grow, propagate and start breeding new problems. There’s good news! These “Elephants” can be overcome – successfully and permanently. What’s more, they can empower you to achieve results you’ve never thought were possible.

Join us for this interactive, results-driven discussion on how to identify, address, and eliminate these “taboo topics” we try so hard to ignore, avoid and sweep under the rug.

Fifteen states and the District of Columbia currently have laws permitting certain individuals legally to possess and use marijuana. How should employers handle employees who qualify for marijuana use under these statutes? Can employees be fired for the medical use of marijuana? Must an employer accommodate an employee’s use of marijuana under the Americans With Disabilities Act? What if the employer wants to make an exception to its drug free workplace policies for the medical use of marijuana? Would such an exception violate federal law? In this program, we will examine state statutes permitting medical use of marijuana and recent case law interpreting these statutes in the context of the employment relationship. We will also discuss best practices in drafting and enforcing an effective drug-free workplace policy.

No matter how you label it, disruptive behavior, workplace bullying, incivility or harassment, it's all drama. Could it be that we are using different language to describe the same issues? In this webinar professional speaker and author of Stop Workplace Drama, (Wiley 2011) Marlene Chism gives you a new language to identify and eliminate drama at the core before it turns into turnover, absenteeism and low morale. You will learn about the Karpman Drama triangle as a method to identify behavioral issues and to help you lead others while managing yourself. You will get specific communication skills to help you coach employees who are stuck or resisting your direction.

As employers consider adopting LGBT-friendly benefit policies, they confront questions regarding eligibility, verification issues, plan amendments, tax compliance, civil rights issues, compliance with ever-changing state and municipal law, and even new requirements for companies seeking certain government contracts. Companies that have adopted domestic partner policies will have to deal with eligibility, compliance, and tax reporting issues that they did not have before. Moreover, the domestic partnership landscape has been changing constantly as more municipalities add domestic partner registries and impose new requirements on contractors, and as more states recognize gay marriage. This session educates the HR professional on the various compliance and legal issues they may face when implementing and administering a plan that provides domestic partner benefits.

As the term ‘workplace bullying‘ becomes increasingly anchored in everyday language, people are quicker to label some legitimate managerial activities as bullying. And in an increasingly bully-saturated landscape, some employees have become increasingly militant in exercising their rights, even when no real harm was intended or done. In this landscape, even good, well-intended managers can inadvertently find themselves accused of bullying. When that happens, it’s costly to the organization and messy for all who are involved. This powerful session will reveal the top three situations that get managers into trouble. We will then outline a clear roadmap and industrial-strength strategies for establishing a proactive leadership style that will prevent these false accusations from getting triggered in the first place.