Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Join us at this session and you will learn how to set your organization apart from the others. Engage employees, engage management. Have healthier employees, have healthier management. Help sustain the company, help sustain the employees. Assist the company to be the one that is emulated by other organizations by leading your company to the future. Take back valuable information to your company.

Learn the final piece of the puzzle in unlocking the mystery of creating a true healthy workplace. Dr. Sheldon Cooper might try to explain this using the string theory but in reality – BANG. Come find out for yourself. This sounds like fun!

In a time of talent shortages and economic competitiveness, employee engagement has never been so important to organizational success. This presentation will address how to quickly and effectively engage your employees by weaving engagement into the entire employee life cycle, from his/her first day with the company, to his/her last day on the job.

The speaker will share the importance of properly on-boarding employees, how to boost employee performance and productivity through engagement, and how a departing employee can help improve the workplace. Webcast participants will learn how to optimize the employee experience to maximize success and minimize turnover by addressing the following areas:

• Accelerating productivity and engagement through on-boarding, orientation & training, and socialization
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• Boosting performance by optimizing engagement on the job
• Managing retention through controllable and regrettable exits

Participants will learn about the role of employee surveys in measuring engagement throughout the employee lifecycle, and how to best leverage survey results to develop successful action plans.

There’s little argument today that a workplace health/benefits plan cost management strategy that relies on plan cutbacks and increasing employee cost is not sustainable. Many Canadian organizations feeling the pain of benefits cost increases still focus, however, on short-term, cost-control opportunities. Often, organizations undertaking these measures would prefer to be shown a better way to manage their spend, and this session will explore some opportunities for employers in this regard.

Organizations often consider their health/benefits programs from a cost perspective rather than the value to the organization. We know however, from decades of research, that organizations benefit from improved employee health; for example - through more sustainable health care and disability costs. And current employee engagement research has shown that improved productivity and overall performance improve as employee engagement increases.

The majority of small businesses fail due to mismanagement, lack of experience, knowledge or foresight. Entrepreneurs typically have high levels of passion and energy; however, once they become business owners they must ensure that every facet of their operation is protected and aligned with objectives. Knowing the ins and outs of legislation, effective management standards and the critical practices that ensure a solid, internal strength is not only daunting, but also often overlooked. During this webinar you are going to learn about:

• Common Internal Threats
• What You Can do to Protect Your Business and Mitigate Risks
• Essential Policies to Develop
• How to Gain Support
• The importance of Implementation

The Institute for Human Resources (IHR) Canadian Masters in HR Strategy and Execution certification program launched in August 2011 with a two-day virtual event. Subsequent events have been held on February 22/23, 2012; May 2/3, 2012; August 1/2, 2012, November 19/20, 2012 and March 23/24, 2013. Archives of all of these events and webcasts are available on www.hr.com. To date, over 7,000 HR professionals have registered for this programs. The purpose of this introductory session (about 15 minutes) is to provide you with an update on the webcast topics and speakers that will be presenting over these two days. In addition, for those of you who have not participated in one of these events in the past, you will be shown how to register for any newly-added webcasts and make use of the virtual Exhibit Hall, where you can increase your knowledge on product and service suppliers in the Canadian marketplace.

Most retailers agree transforming and improving the in-store experience is critically important for success, but not enough has been said about the role of the store employees who shape that customer experience (positive or negative). Earlier this year, RSR released their benchmark report WFM 2013: The Store Employee in the Customer Age, and noted: “Aside from the instant gratification that comes from taking a product home after a purchase, it’s the store employee that can make the difference to the in-store experience. But getting the most value out of the employee investment remains a challenge.” In this webinar, Paula Rosenblum from RSR will walk us through the report findings and recommendations for retailers nationwide.

You've spent countless hours choosing the right medical plan for your company and your employees – now what other attractive options can you bring to your employees to reduce absenteeism, retain top performing employees and attract the best of the best? Non-insurance products and telehealth services provide consumers with choices designed to spend less of their hard-earned benefit dollars. Help your employees fully maximize their healthcare spending by providing these low cost consumerism programs.

Implementing products such as telehealth, medical bill saver and medical health advisor can help your employees and your organization save time and money as well as teach your employees how to be better healthcare consumers.

Greg Schlatter, EVP Business Development at New Benefits, will speak about how non-insurance products and telehealth services can fill that gap for your organization.

As health insurance costs continue to spiral upward at an alarming rate, it has become painfully clear, that the “traditional” strategies of changing insurance carriers, changing plan designs, and changing employee contributions will not and cannot provide any form of sustainability or predictability over the long term. All these strategies do is shift risk from one insurance carrier to another, or shift costs and liability from the insurance carrier or employer onto the employee.
Employers must change their thinking from that or RISK TRANSFERENCE to RISK MANAGEMENT when it comes to their employee benefits program. This presentation will outline the three areas of risk in an employer sponsored health insurance plan, and how to effectively manage that risk.

Today’s knowledge economy, more than ever before, has made an organization’s people its most critical asset and one of its greatest investments. It is clear that mastering talent management helps organizations differentiate themselves in the marketplace, and thereby gain a competitive advantage. HR is firmly rooted in the belief that talent has impact, but can the same be said for an organization’s senior leadership—do they believe this to be true? Executives want evidence that HR is boosting their organization’s bottom line, but can HR substantiate and deliver this proof that talent equals financial reward?

Workforce analytics as part of a complete talent management strategy is critical for HR professionals as it enables them to connect the dots between their company’s overall performance and their investment in their workforce.

Corporate Wellness is becoming vastly accepted as one benefit you can't afford to do without. How do you know if you have a comprehensive program and what is on the horizon within this aggressively changing industry?
Our class is designed to educate you on how to incorporate Customized Care Plans and Building a Wellness and Health Promotion Network to create an evidence- based wellness program. Bringing in individualized and customized tools ; designed with the human touch in mind can ensure that your wellness program is also Productivity Insurance. We also take a look at other ROI factors beyond controlling healthcare costs to motivate additional tracking and planning within a wellness committee. We will discuss an example of a Diabetic Employee and their potential costs on a company (well beyond healthcare costs) in comparison to a healthy employee.
Understand what diseases and disease symptoms are quickly becoming the latest expenses in the healthcare world and how you can insure you are screening for these potential claims.
Learn how providers can customize, create, and track an employee care plan, as well as build a CAM network to assist your higher risk employees.