Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

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.

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.

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.

Welcome to a workshop that is inspirational and will provide you with information and thought provoking ideas that you can use.

For decades, research and ongoing workplace surveys around the world, have explored what makes companies, leaders and teams great. Analysis of the results show data patterns and identified one question that showed the greatest correlation to the most positive business outcomes:

At work, do you have the chance to do what you do best every day?

This inspirational and informative “Leading from Strengths” event will allow you to understand why investing in Strengths returns the greatest ROI on performance and talent management. It may challenge your thinking and the myths you have likely believed for many years.

It is time to to archive your company's "Performance Management" practices and "Annual Review" process into the Museum of Motivation?

News Flash: Recent studies by brain scientists studying motivation also tell us that reward (yes reward) can be de-motivating. How performance reviews are structured and how supervisors and managers offer "feedback" to change behavior and improve performance is often ineffective and de-motivating.

What's an HR Director to do?

If you are a leader at any level, you already understand your people are your greatest asset. Now it's time to upgrade our approach to motivating Human Beings 3.0 from the field of brain science, at the intersection of communication, emotion and motivation.

How do you keep your workforce engaged and excited? What can you do to assist management in aligning employee value to organizational vision?

In her dynamic presentation, executive coach and bestselling author Libby Gill shares a conceptual framework as well as concrete takeaways for creating client expectations that get measurable results.

The author of the award-winning You Unstuck: Mastering the New Rules of Risk-taking in Work and Life, Libby’s interactive webinar ensures that you will:

• Discover keys to articulating expectations with power and clarity
• Align employee’s value with your organization's vision
• Offer “Hope and Tools” to increase engagement and bring out the best in your workforce
• Overcome “Feedback Fear” and learn to give meaningful criticism
• Learn Libby’s method of 360 Interview Assessments to drive behavioral change
• Master “Foolproof Factors for Accountability” to maintain standards of excellence
• Experience a rousing call-to-action to keep clients equipped - and responsible - for their own success.

Libby is the former head of communications and public relations for Sony, Universal, and Turner Broadcasting. She is now CEO of Libby Gill & Company, an executive coaching and consulting firm. She has shared her success strategies on CNN, NPR, the Today Show, and in BusinessWeek, Time, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more.

Her clients include ABC-Disney, Avery Dennison, Deloitte, Eli Lilly, GoDaddy, John Frieda, Kellogg’s, Microsoft, Oracle, PayPal, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Safeway, The Conference Board, Wells Fargo, and many more.

Addressing performance is the least favorite activity for most leaders. However, failure to handle these situations effectively will drastically impact the success of both the leader and the team as a whole. Unfortunately many leaders either choose to ignore the situation or utilize an approach that only exasperates the problem.

Leadership in the business world today requires a new set of skills. In order to accomplish the goals of the organization and his or her team, a leader depends upon complete commitment from every member of the team. Utilizing a coaching style will help leaders to instill ownership within their individual team members while unlocking their potential.

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.

Employee recognition programs can ultimately fall short of the desired impact if they are not aligned with your corporate objectives.

When a recognition program is correctly implemented and carried out, recognition is the best way to engage your employees with the mission, vision, and values of your organization. Giving appropriate recognition for the contributions you value will inspire your employees’ enthusiasm, loyalty, and engagement. This session will lay the fundamental groundwork for establishing a recognition initiative that accurately reflects your organizations objectives, and that helps you set your employees on the right course. Learn how to give recognition in a way that helps your employees ‘own’ your organization’s mission.

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.