Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Welcome to the Institute for Human Resources for Employee Wellness! Thank you to everyone for your participation and support. Join us over the next two days for our exciting lineup of speakers with many informative sessions covering the hot topics and trends surrounding the Employee Wellness community. This introductory session will give you an overview of the Institute for Human Resources - Employee Wellness certification program. The Institute for Human Resources (IHR) Employee Wellness certification program launched on September 14 & 15, 2011 with a two-day virtual event and this is now our 7th virtual event in the area of Employee Wellness.
All of these webcasts have been approved for HRCI recertification credits (the only exception being this introductory webcast). This short, 15-minute webcast will provide you with complete information on what is required to obtain certification from the Institute for Human Resources.
Throughout this session we will:

• Introduce you to the Advisory Board
• Introduce you to the Institute and the Certification program
• Help you learn how to become an expert in Employee Wellness
• Offer an opportunity for YOU to host an educational session and educate your peers
• Learn why this Institute is important to the employee wellness industry and how you can contribute to its success
• Share a calendar of future events so that members can pre-register now to add the dates to their calendars

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.

HR departments are inundated with all kinds of paperwork requiring signatures, approvals, routing and filing. Learn how to get your documents working for you, whether they are policies, procedures, contracts or forms.

Today, companies are tasked with the challenge of keeping up with fast-paced business cycles and those that don't use web-based tools will get left behind. From document preparation and sending to signing or tracking and filing, Speaker Chad Seps will demonstrate how a robust, easy-to-use, online signature feature works for you and your business flow. With dashboard visibility, you’ll know what documents are out for signature, you can see which agreements are signed and when, and send reminders with a single click. Automated audit trails provide detailed information with dates of execution for each document. You can quickly send, track & file any document to one or 1,000+ individuals. All your documents are organized and archived online with no scanning or uploading required.

“How can Canadian HR Practitioners ‘Walk the Leadership Talk’?” This is a critical time in the Canadian public sector. There has been talk of modernization for years now, but programs and policies have yielded, at best, mixed results. As HR Advisors we play an important role in this equation and need to modernize our own approaches. Rather than come at organizational or complex cases with carefully worded strategies and programs, we need to begin to identify and address the root causes of the leadership gap that our clients are facing, and advise them on how to close it. In other words, current and aspiring leaders don’t need HR technocrats but HR partners they can trust to provide them with strategic and frank advice on how to resolve complex HR issues and lead their people.

Have you ever have the uneasy feeling that the independent contractor your company has been using is really an employee? Or that the Employment Agreements your employees sign are dangerously inconsistent and out of date? What about feeling that that there may be some overtime owed to a group of employees, but they haven’t complained yet?

In this webcast, HR Options will discuss the common mistakes employers make. This webcast will give us the forum to discuss the common pitfalls employers can fall into, even with seemingly appropriate human resources practices in place. We will discuss practical solutions to keep employee complaints at bay.

During the webinar, we'll review the new provisions specific to small employers such as:

• Premium rating rules for non-grandfathered individual and small group plans (in 2014, carriers may vary premiums based only on age (3:1), tobacco use (1.5:1), family size, and geography)
• Deductible limits for non-grandfathered, small group plans. In 2014, deductibles for small plans cannot exceed $2,000/$4,000, with limited exception for plans unable to reach the actuarial value of a given coverage level (e.g., Bronze)
• Small business healthcare tax credit
• Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP)
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• Employer Shared Responsibility provisions (identifying full-time employees)

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