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.

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.

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.

What does your CFO need to approve an effective wellness budget that will create a positive ROI? Do Health Fairs, Health Risk Assessments or Lectures create the evidence you need to get a wellness budget approved? What needs to happen in order to create a positive return on investment? The answers are more basic than most corporations realize. We will show you what actions you can take to create a measurable ROI with your wellness program, how to create sustainable behavioral change and how to get CFO approval for your next budget. Not tricks, no gimmicks! Just a workable and repeatable system that will create the behavior change that is measurable, sustainable and provable: the basic on the chain for creating positive ROI.

Electronic Recognition systems give a whole new set of workforce analytics and questions can be tracked, measured and answered. These new systems deliver great value to the workforce, increasing the levels of recognition, feedback and overall employee engagement. These systems are providing great value to management and offer a new level of information and insight into the organization's most valuable asset, its workforce. Learn what Electronic Recognition is, why it is proving to be so effective, and the benefits organizations are gaining from it. Electronic Recognition is becoming the keystone to understanding many of the hardest questions HR professionals have been trying to figure out for decades.

How to reduce employee stress and improve performance, morale and attendance. Stress at work has been proven to contribute towards cancer, heart attacks and strokes. This has been proven to impact performance and morale, which can spread within teams. Learning the early warning symptoms of stress and easy ways of how to reverse it can save your business time, money and the lives of your workforce. Educating employees about what to look out for and how to reverse the early warning symptoms of serious disease is essential for the smooth running of an effective company. By the end of this educational talk you will be able to identify some of the early warning symptoms of cancer, heart attacks and strokes and reduce the chances of them occurring for you and your employees.

In this session we will outline the labor management challenges facing the energy industry and the need to adopt workforce management solutions in order to operate more profitability and efficiently into the future.

The intense competition in the energy sector is forcing companies to continually seek out improvements in business results and as such, effective labor management has become more important than ever for the Energy, Petrochemical and Oil and Gas industry. Effective Labor management helps to optimize production and increase efficiencies - pivotal to reducing costs, improving performance and increasing margins – which are key objectives in many Lean and Six Sigma initiatives.

The reasons why employers implement an automated time and attendance solution are many and varied and the process of automating time and attendance can seem daunting. From choosing a vendor whose solution fits the current and future needs of the organization to getting that solution adopted by employees, employers face challenges that can potentially derail or seriously impede an effective implementation.

This webinar will identify the top challenges organizations need to consider to effectively automate their time and attendance and ensure the smooth and trouble free transition from their old manual time processes to their new automated time and attendance solution.

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.

Learn how to use alternative shift schedule strategies to not only capture cost savings, but improve the morale of your staff. Changing schedules is emotional and potentially disruptive. Learn how to design labor strategies that work with this session. We will walk you through a wide variety of shift schedules and answer questions from the audience about their own specific challenges. If you use predominantly 8-hour shifts, this session is right for you. Learn how to break away from this classic mistake. Management teams should watch this session especially if they are currently using traditional 8-hour shift models as their approach to meeting customer demand. Other indications that this session will be right for you is if you pay a shift differential, have high turnover, or general issues with morale. We will work on recruitment strategies as well.