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.

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.

Sometimes an initiative to improve the performance of individuals, teams, and entire organizations hits a wall.

• Why are traditional change models insufficient when it comes to overcoming the Knowing-Doing Gap?
• What does it take to engage people in a way that will allow old habits to be replaced by new ones?
• How can HR business leaders and other change agents support implementation and execution of change when people are not putting needed changes into practice?
• How do you measure performance improvement when it comes to implementing change?

This presentation is delivered in a lecture format and also includes involvers, interactive group discussion and review of actual business case studies.

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.

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

Are you tired of recruiting and training sales reps with just a 5% to 20% success rate? At last there is a pre-employment screening process to help you consistently select top sales producers who are the best fit for your organization's unique needs. Just think…a process to improve your batting average by up to 70%; a process that will allow your organization to save time, resources and money as well as provide dramatically reduced turnover rates.

Attendees of this webinar will learn a combination of sourcing strategies and tactics combined with a break through in pre-employment screening methodology that is custom to your organization's culture and competitive environment.

The Crucial First 100 Days of a Payroll Leader Managing for Implementation Excellence and Market Responsiveness Managing the Political, Cultural and Operational Minefields as you begin a new assignment, role or launch a project Session Leader: Scott Hamilton, President & CEO Executive Next Practices Institute Managing Director, NextWorks In general, leaders and the success of their plans are determined in the first 100 days of their new role or management of a strategic initiative within an organization. The continuing high profile exits by leaders of major organizations make it clear that effective planning both prior to assuming a position and effective, value-based action after onboarding make all the difference in longer term success. Fast changing internal dynamics require leaders to have foresight, insight and act with decisiveness, yet be inclusive and collaborative. This highly interactive presentation focuses on improved techniques for payroll leaders to maximize success in the first 100 days and beyond of their initiatives and projects. The session includes assessment methods for examining the cultural, political, team and structural issues that the individual must understand and balance- quickly. In addition, the session will include new techniques on how to transform payroll to a more strategic contributor. By participating in this webinar session, you will find out how industry leaders use internal engagement techniques to reinforce compensation decisions and align leadership to effective payroll programs. Among the topics covered are: • A strategic template for the first 100 days • How to launch a new payroll/compensation initiative

In a recent large scale global survey of CEOs and senior executives 76 percent cited leadership development as important yet only 7 percent thought their organization was doing it effectively! A big part of this gap is caused by traditional needs assessments and gap analysis. This weakness-based approach is ineffective and undermines participant motivation for change. A series of pre and post studies examined the impact of leaders choosing to fix weaknesses versus building on existing strengths. 12 to 18 months later the leaders who magnified their existing strengths showed two - three times more improvement in leadership effectiveness than leaders who worked on fixing their weaknesses.

Today’s companies are placing a much higher emphasis on the ability to be creative and innovative in order to move ahead in this economy. They are eagerly looking at ways people, tools and techniques can spark a rebound that gives them a competitive edge. Making innovation and creativity a key cultural value is a goal of any highly effective organization. HR can play a crucial leadership role in helping to get there.

In this lively session, participants will learn how to increase the creative intelligence of their organizations in order to stay ahead of the competition. Participants will come away with new insights, fresh perspectives, and actionable steps to make creativity and innovation meaningful cultural values within their own organizations.

Why is it that HR budgets are often the first to be cut in economic downturns? Is it possible that some HR professionals have the opportunity to improve their financial literacy as the basis for defending their budgets? This presentation provides a solid overview of how to present and defend budgets from a perspective understood by C-suite executives. Three key human capital metrics will be discussed which can potentially improve the way ROI in human capital is managed and measured. In addition, step will be suggested for HR professionals to take the same steps as their functional counterparts in budget submission.