Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. In the business world, however, the only absolute is the starting point and the line is never straight. Navigating your way to success requires a solid team of employees and a solid strategy. Organizational planning means knowing who you have, how they’re helping or hurting your business’s growth, and the best way to align them to realize your company objectives. This process of evaluating and re-evaluating talent helps organizations identify gaps and redundancies, manage workforce changes more effectively, and increase productivity. In short, organizational planning keeps businesses moving forward while also preparing them for the road ahead.

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.

This presentation, based on the experiences and "next practices" of hundreds of HR leaders and projects, will examine the five (5) critical issues that must be addressed in the critical first 100 days and beyond of HRIS project implementation.

This session will include a 100-day template to HRIS implementation excellence, and the strategic to tactical steps that must be taken to accelerate user alignment and adoption. The session will examine not only the technical aspects of launch, but also the fundamental behavioral aspects that must be considered.

Finally, the session will give several "next practice" case examples of users who successfully implemented HRIS projects in small to large scale environments.

Finding and keeping good talent is difficult these days. It's not uncommon for employees to be poached, which leaves executives and HR teams asking, "How do we keep the talent we already have?" It's imperative that companies know how to build career ladders/lattices. Companies also need to understand the important role they play in fostering career mobility by outlining the critical skills that employees need to acquire as they move up or around in the company.

During our webcast, "Career Pathing: How To Create A Career Development Framework," we'll discuss:

• The downfalls of not having career development frameworks for employees
• How to create career paths for job roles that empower your employees to take control of their careers
• How to create a gap analysis and align career development resources to close skill gaps
• How to effectively track an employee’s career path and ensure they're doing the right things to get them where they want to be.

Knowledge -- once you have it, how do you make use of it? Organizations often have an untapped resource, the knowledge resident in their workers. When workers enter an organization, they bring with them knowledge and skills they have acquired over time through their experiences, education, and associations. This session will explore ways in which knowledge can be managed effectively. We will discuss techniques and resources that enable an organization to acquire, create, store, use, and share knowledge. Then we will examine a planned approach for knowledge management. Relevant technologies to assist in this effort will be discussed. Finally, one award winning knowledge management approach will be examined.

Every minute employees aren’t fully productive and up-to-speed has a significant financial effect on any organization. Learn how the Learning Paths methodology, a radically different and more efficient approach to performance and learning can result in revenue and productivity gains while reducing training and staffing costs, and decreasing development time. this webinar, you will learn the secrets to slashing time to full productivity on the job by 30-to-50% or more using the Learning Paths methodology. This proven methodology is a global best practice in rapid performance improvement that accelerates learning and dramatically reduces the time, waste, variability and cost of training employees, and trains them at the speed of business.

Does your company suffer from having unclear roles and responsibilities, what about poor standard operating procedures or failure to get to the root cause of recurring and nagging problems? Do you have suppliers that introduce more problems and risk into your organization? These are common things that contribute to the risks organizations attempt to manage on a daily basis. Some do it well and others do not. Failure to get to the root cause of these problems may lead catastrophic results. This webinar presented by Oscar Combs, President and Senior Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group based in Houston, Texas will offer some solutions to common problems within organizations that often introduce risk, if they go unchecked.

Employee surveys receive a great deal of criticism from both consultants and employers. “They don’t work” and “They’re a waste of time” are common complaints. Yet, many complaints have to do with bad surveys that were not conducted according to best survey practices. Essentially, we don’t know what we don’t know about good survey methods. Dr. Fairlie, an HR professor and consultant, will present the 10 deadly sins of employee surveys and their atonement through evidence-based best practices. Surveys can be a powerful tool for diagnosing organizational problems, discovering strengths, and establishing competitive advantage. Attendees will learn tips and surprises about common employee survey practices.

In this session, I’m going to give you the secret to victoriously attracting and retaining Gen Y workers. If you have a current RPO engagement, I would go to your provider and demand that they put together a plan that addresses the unique needs of this generation. If you are considering moving to a RPO model – that could still be a very wise and cost effective decision (especially in light of the secrets I’m going to share with you today). Just make sure that the provider you select has some idea of what the new recruitment strategies will look like to get you the very best talent. If you are considering a RPO model, get this information first before approaching any providers!

Globalization, increasing specialization and the cost of time and energy to travel, together with the increasing availability of technologies that bridge time and space make virtual work, teams and organization structures increasingly necessary. HR professionals are challenged to support these virtual and remote teams and organizations. This presentation will address why virtual organizations and teams are continuing to grow in importance (including their role in talent management). The presenters will discuss 11 critical success factors for effective virtual teams from their book: Building Effective Virtual and Remote Teams Handbook, and they will explore key strategies for Human Resources to help enable the virtual workforce.