Upcoming Webcasts

Encourage workforce Health, Wellness and Safety and promote a healthy, dynamic workforce. The outcome of these programs are easily determined by assessing decreases in lost-time injuries, improvements in sick days and other measurable data points. These programs tend to pay for themselves very rapidly. If you are considering running a Health, Wellness or Safety Incentive Program or are already running one to mixed results, this webinar is for you. The first half of the session will cover industry trends, best practices and updates on government rulings that may affect your programs. In the second half of the webinar, you will hear, first-hand, how Airgas East made their safety program a success.

“Creating a high-performance culture” – as learning and talent management professionals, this is something we hear about often. But what is the best way to achieve this?

Through the alignment of learning and performance processes including cascading goals, linking personal goals to organizational goals, learning and talent management leaders can communicate required competencies and identify potential skill gaps. Learning priorities are then based on performance goals and from identified skill and competency gaps a personalized learning path can be created that provides tailored development linking back to performance goals.

Sound like talent management Nirvana? Not sure where to start? It’s more attainable than you think. Join us as we discuss how your people and your organization can benefit by connecting performance and learning to create a high-performance culture. During this webinar we will discuss how you can:

• Connect learning and talent processes to tie learning to goals and performance
• Leverage Talent Expansion technologies to cascade goals throughout the organization, provide contextual learning and give people the tools they need to be great at their jobs
• Set and measure learning and talent management results with integrated analytics
• Start building your integrated learning and talent management program immediately with a few easy steps

We all know that no employee learns from a single exposure to a training. Indeed, within two hours, more than 50% of content is forgotten, and within a week, 95% is forgotten. It is no wonder training seldom results in transfer to the workplace.

This webinar will review four important techniques that overcome the forgetting curve. These techniques include booster quizzing, social elaboration, strategic coaching, and depth of processing.

In this hands-on webinar, we will teach HR professionals techniques to incorporate these techniques into both their formal and informal trainings. Within a week, your trainings will be significantly more effective and transfer will increase.

Watch "6 Steps to Improving Employee Retention" to find out the best ways to establish a culture of employee career growth, satisfaction, and shared commitment to teamwork and company success.

The cost of high turnover is not merely quantified by the money spent to fill vacant roles; the tacit knowledge lost in the transition can be equally as devastating.

Organizations with high turnover should be able to answer the questions: What is it about our organization’s value proposition that is not resonating with employees? What can our organization do in 2013 to retain valued employees?

Learn how to inspire a culture of retention in your organization and reverse your high-turnover trend in just 6 steps.

Workplace mental health issues present significant costs to Canadian businesses. Estimates are as much as $1,494 per person per year. How much does that add up to at your organization? These costs are not obvious, and are hidden in places like turnover, drug plans, absence, disability claims and presenteeism. However, they can be tackled while also improving employee engagement—if you have an integrative mental health program.

Whether your goal is to understand the impact of the recently released National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, to develop a new strategy and plan or to improve what you are doing now, this webinar will provide the guidance you are looking for. Three industry experts will demonstrate how an approach that is measurable, integrative and flexible is able to deliver financial ROI and employee engagement.

Our presenters will identify successful approaches to identifying risks, building a business case, increasing leadership awareness and developing and training people managers and employees. During this webinar you’ll have an opportunity to compare your mental health readiness to the average of your competitors—getting instant, confidential results—with Morneau Shepell’s free Mental Health Pulse Check tool.

The journey of choosing and implementing a VMS is over. Now what? In this webcast, IQNavigator will examine the best practices and lessons we have learned from more than a decade of VMS deployments with many of the world’s best-known brands.

Find out the building blocks to put into place in order to build a solid program foundation that will maximize the return on your VMS investment. Cut through complex reports, erase adoption resistance, and achieve stakeholder alignment with these tried and true best practices.

Participants will walk away with:

Ability to Chart Your Course to Evolve to a Best-in-Class Program

An Understanding of the Hidden Pitfalls that can Derail Your Program

Tools to Benchmark your Program to the World’s Best Known Brands

Truly integrated talent management impacts every level of the business from the C-level all the way down to the last employee, leading to reduced turnover, higher revenue, and increased employee engagement.

In this 3-part webinar series, we’ll dig deeper into what specific value integrated talent systems bring to three different roles; the Business Leader (May 30th), the Manager (June 13th), and the Employee (June 27th).

Three different companies will share how integrated talent management:

• Allows senior leaders to guide their business growth
• Enables managers to better assess and develop their teams
• Makes employees feel more appreciated, encouraging them to work harder

Several years ago, I worked with a client who had developed a very detailed plan - for each key position of the company - for what would happen if the person in the key role was hit by a bus. While the company’s crude metaphor “bus” plan was far from a mature Workforce Planning framework, they were still far more prepared than many companies are today.

The workforce Planning challenges facing many organizations today are slower moving than a bus but are nonetheless enormous threats to the success of our organizations. The wave of retiring baby boomers will be exacerbated by the large skill and competency gap between those retiring and those that are next in line. Many will be caught off guard, despite the fact that everyone has known that this demographic bubble was coming. As an ever increasing proportion of an organization’s value is directly tied to Human Capital, a strategic Workforce Plan is absolutely mandatory for an organization to thrive and survive.

Will you be ready?

In this session, we will detail a simple yet effective approach for using talent benchmarks to drive Workforce Planning success.

This session will provide a background on how lean thinking and tools can help safety and any HR function. Following the teachings of W. Edwards Deming, Toyota created a production system, now commonly referred to as lean production. What is not well understood is that “lean” works in any office and business, regardless of size. Whether healthcare, small enterprise, food service, or non – profit, “lean” can help improve teamwork, culture and drive continuous improvement, but only if we go back to basics and strip away the mystery that this thinking is only for the manufacturing floor. Participants in the session will gain new insight into both “how” and “why” standards should be developed.

We often get requests for information on how to manage difficult people. Our work environment inevitably creates conflict situations on a daily basis. Conflict can be about the work (e.g. my approach versus yours, schedules, priorities) or about relationships (e.g. I don’t trust you, your style is different than mine). Conflict can be a source of creative solutions... but only if people understand both the value of conflict and how to resolve it. Join us to learn how you naturally respond to conflict and how you can leverage conflict for win-win outcomes.

Say “Goodbye” to anxiety when conflict arises!! As women we have an underutilized resource that can be leveraged to improve safety and environmental performance—our feminine energy that projects caring and empathy. These are key to preventing and resolving conflict.

Research consistently shows that women have leadership strengths and frequently receive higher performance reviews than men. Yet many women in EHS express frustration that their observations, opinions and ideas are not taken seriously, even in areas as basic as safety design for women’s bodies.

Now be honest ... not one woman in EHS can honestly say they don't experience conflict with co- workers and business associates. Do you understand the cause of conflicts in starting new programs, implementing solutions or finishing projects? If you're concerned with these questions ... or your response to these questions ... you're not alone.

Our webinar is strongly recommended for any woman in EHS who faces more work in less time and higher expectations from top management.