Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

The Workforce Management space continues to have tremendous financial and operational opportunity for companies. The space has gone through numerous operational, iterative, and technical changes over the past decade. Always remaining a constant business requirement is that every healthcare system, retail chain, manufacturer, casino, and school system with hourly employees uses a, or part of a workforce management suite of software and hardware solutions, to empower employees, budget hours, schedule employee’s time, enforce pay practices and rules, manage leave and attendance, and track their highest controllable cost, their people. The balance they face is to improve customer service and control and reduce labor costs at the same time, while retaining and improving employee satisfaction and retention, not an easy task.

Everyone’s talking "cloud" these days but what exactly is it and how can it impact your payroll organization? Also, are all clouds created equal and, if not, what should you be looking for? Are all cloud solutions really safe? In this webinar, we will demystify the promise of the cloud and arm you with what you need to make tracking employees' time in the cloud simple and safe. We’ll discuss why and how the cloud is impacting business – and your life - today and why it can be an optimal solution for your employee time tracking needs. We’ll share real-life examples of how the cloud is being used to automate time and attendance while transforming payroll organizations from administrative centers to business partners with a new focus on helping the organization drive greater workforce productivity. We’ll also share best practice tips on what to look for in a cloud provider and how to spot cloud “imposters” and get exactly what you need to quickly, easily and safely deploy a cloud-based time tracking system that streamlines your payroll process. By attending this webinar, you will learn:

• What the cloud is and how it impacts your organization
• How an organization can benefit most from a cloud-based time and attendance solution
• How to use cloud-based time tracking to streamline payroll, increase productivity and drive visibility across your organization
• How to evaluate cloud-based providers and what key competencies you should look for in an ideal partner for your time tracking needs

The release of the new Form I-9 provides an excellent opportunity for employers to provide training and re-enforce compliance in their organizations.

The new form is indicative of other changes which clearly illustrate the government’s view towards immigration compliance. This webinar, from practical employment law compliance site XpertHR, presented by Davis Bae of Jackson Lewis, will address the challenges all employers will face in connection with immigration reform. In addition, the program will cover the complexities of implementing E-verify across your organization. Listeners will gain a clear understanding of the new Form I-9 and best practices on how to avoid pitfalls in their immigration compliance programs from participating in this webinar.

Few businesses face as much complexity in payroll administration and accounting as manufacturing. Unions, irregular hours, government contracts, high turnover and immigration issues add to the challenges of multiple jobs, pay rates, state jurisdictions, and industry-specific reporting standards.

Ammu Warrier, a recognized expert in managing contingent workers for manufacturing companies, will provide practical advice for managing industrial worker time and expense. The session will cover:

• Work scheduling techniques that provide the workers needed for each production run
• Establishing and enforcing pay and work rules – consistently and accurately – across the organization.
• Curbing the rising rate of litigation over alleged violations of state and federal labor laws
• Building a Link between time management and worker safety
• Generating workforce intelligence data that ties actual labor costs to production, even when your labor picture includes complexities such as different wages, premium pay, partial shifts, and team allocation.

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 Affordable Care Act (ACA), or ObamaCare for short, is going to change how individual stores are managed for Human Resource, Operations, and Information Technology managers.

Ensuring compliance with the ACA is creating new and challenging endeavors for every role in the organization with the need to track staffing and scheduled hours, ensure proper coverage for the business, determine the right mix of full time and part time staff members, and decide whether it's right to pay or play with shared responsibility.

Compliance with ObamaCare is not just an “HR problem”, but the responsibility to notify everyone of their roles will likely fall into a “shared responsibility” with HR, operations, and IT, so it's important that you understand where everyone should fit in.

Make sure everyone in your organization knows their role in the new and changing landscape!

This brief 15 minute session is the introduction to the two day event. There will be an overview of the sessions and speakers for the event, but more importantly, it will give you an overview of the IHR certification program and the progress we’ve made within the Institute. You will learn about the opportunity to become certified within the Workforce Management Institute and the other HR verticals that are available for either yourself or your colleagues. There will also be an introduction of the Institute's Advisory Board. You will be given guidance on how to chat online with colleagues and access the virtual exhibit hall. You will also have the opportunity to ask any questions as it relates to the overall program, prior to its commencement. Even if you have attended one of our events in the past, we’d still encourage you to attend. If this is your first time attending an event, the introduction will provide you an overview of the certification program

This presentation is about how to use social media to build your profile and brand as an HR Professional in your organisation and industry. The key to this is to create a personal brand whereby your audience - ie your peers, employees, senior managers, external contacts - see you as a thought leader, a 'go to person' in your area of expertise. Once you have developed that 'status', you will be in a much better position to influence in your role both within your organisation and externally. Before the advent of social media it was much harder to do this and was a fairly lengthy process affected by many variables. In this social world, with the level playing field it creates, we have a massive opportunity to expedite this mission using the social tools that we now have at our disposal.

Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn and YouTube are changing how our world communicates. A vast majority of CEOs remain hesitant to embrace the new era of emerging media and continue to wonder if it’s possible for an organization to truly leverage these tools and grow their business as a result?

According to Eve Mayer’s book; titled The Social Media Business Equation™, the answer is a resounding YES! This seminar dispels common social media myths, and rather focuses on the logic behind using social media regardless of an organization’s size or industry. In her presentation, Eve will review several different case studies from a variety of small, medium and large companies like Lane Bryant, Mayo Clinic, and General Motors to exemplify how social media worked with their particular marketing scenarios. At the conclusion we’ll also review how a return on investment can be coordinated to engagement on social networks.

Leadership and their companies are learning how to do business in the Social Era, necessitating new skills and practices, and in some cases, creating major cultural shifts, in order to remain competitive. Most companies continue to operate under the “command and control – process to output value chain” business model, which isn’t always “Social Media friendly”. The question is not IF, but WHEN, and HOW companies will give way to operating under the expansive, open and nimbler Social Era business model of the “3-C’s”: Connect, Collaborate and Co-create. How can C-Suite leaders make this transformation for themselves and their organizations?

At the focal point of this transformation is the use of Social Media amongst company leadership, employees and their customers. We discuss how can leaders adopt the skills and implement the growing/changing list of social media technologies needed to meet these challenges. Furthermore, we will explore what role HR can play in this new era of connecting, collaborating and co-creating.