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The Human Resources Certificate Institute (HRCI) sets HR professionals apart! HRCI certification demonstrates to peers and colleagues within the Human Resources profession that you are a recognized expert and have mastered the core HR principles. Earning an HR certification wreaks many benefits for both the employee and organization.

Employee Benefits:
• Enhances your resume and candidacy. “One out of two recruiters prefer those (job applicants) with an HR certification” www.hrci.org.
• Certified professionals drive business through increased self- motivation, empowerment and confidence
• Certified professionals remain competitive in the workforce and raise their professional value
• network with HR professionals

Employer Benefits:
• Uphold competitive advantage in the market place because of the mastery held by human capital
• Internal career advancement for certified staff reduces hiring and onboarding costs
• Clients have more confidence in the results of certified staff

HRCI statistics record that the average pass rate of the PHR and SPHR exam is 59 to 67 percent and 52 to 60 percent, respectively. An academically aggressive and reliable means of preparing for these exams is now available to ensure you don’t fall within these statistics.

HR.com has partnered with the Human Resources Certification Preparation (HRCP) program to help professionals prepare and pass their PHR or SPHR exam. This program, like no other, offers a 100% guarantee or your MONEY BACK!!
Features of the HR.com prep course include:
• 24 hours of live online blended learning classes with an HR practitioner and HRM
• 6 study manuals, each covering the body of knowledge as prescribed by HRCI
• Flash cards to test your knowledge
• Online practice exams

A couple of well known exam preparation resources are available, however their correspondence based product has not proven to drive high turnover of successful pass rates. As you will see within this product demonstration, HR.com Exam Prep Course is proficient, reliable and intimate. The key ingredients to supporting fellow professionals get certified.

“Awaken the Sleeping Giants” poignantly speaks to the pivotal role HR plays at this crucial time. Through a deeper understanding of the upcoming talent shortage and its future implications, HR will be compelled to claim their place at the boardroom table. It will mean partaking in company direction, strategy and equipping the corporate culture with the “Attraction Factor”. HR will have to “stand in the gap” to create a sea-change in thinking, new levels of conscious intention and developing company culture by design rather than by default.

This powerful talk is a must-attend for HR Professionals interested in their organization’s survival.

Strategic Talent Sourcing: Finding existing talent is a great skill for a world-class recruiter but it often is reactionary: the enterprise has an active need that needs to be filled today. Most sourcing for talent today draws in ONLY those actively searching or thinking about a career change – this approach ignores a huge addressable market of non low-hanging talent - generally more of the top talent not yet actively seeking you out. This session will highlight an approach to combining a short-term active approach with a longer-term prospective candidate engagement strategy to ensure a robust talent pipeline. Learn how to build talent relationships, for the long term.

Electronic Recognition systems give a whole new set of workforce analytics and questions can be tracked, measured and answered. These new systems deliver great value to the workforce, increasing the levels of recognition, feedback and overall employee engagement. These systems are providing great value to management and offer a new level of information and insight into the organization’s most valuable asset, its workforce. Learn what Electronic Recognition is, why it is proving to be so effective, and the benefits organizations are gaining from it. Electronic Recognition is becoming the keystone to understanding many of the hardest questions HR professionals have been trying to figure out for decades.

Want to make your workplace more productive? Want to build lasting, meaningful relationships in all areas of your life? Effective listening is the most important communication skill in developing good interpersonal relationships in all situations. Through an understanding of the many complexities which interfere with clear communication, we can then apply that knowledge toward becoming a more active listener. This session will improve performance, reduce conflict and miscommunication, as well as enhance productivity, efficiency, and creativity. Finally, if you employ the elements presented, a greater happiness factor will be experienced in all aspects of your life. The key takeaways will be: - Interferences & Roadblock - What Effective Listening Means - What Effective Listening Looks Like in practice.

Organizations today are facing a number of people challenges. We have an aging workforce, a talent shortage, a leadership talent shortage, lack of succession planning – succession development, a mobile work force, and a work force that has a high level of disengagement. This webinar will look at the definition of succession planning and its history. We will look at the business challenges that are facing most organizations today and how the lack of succession planning will have a huge impact on their success moving into the future.The webinar will provide a snapshot of some of the steps that are required in the development of a succession plan and the development strategy that is part of an effective implementation strategy.Organizations must begin the succession planning process and must ensure that they have a succession development strategy as well. Don’t end your legacy on a bad note. Take the time to plan and implement properly. “Can you afford not to?”

Surveys have reported that up to 70% of organizations are unhappy with their new HR system. While some of the blame should rightfully be directed at the software provider, a significant portion of the issues can be traced directly back to an inadequate implementation. There’s a lot more to a successful system implementation than simply letting your software vendor configure your new software. There are a host of things you, as the HR practitioner, should address.

This session will identify and discuss the keys to a successful implementation. It is non-technical and is designed to provide the HR practitioner with practical tips for conducting a cloud-based systems implementation.

What You Will Learn: 1. Why online HR System implementations are different

2. Why implementations fail, who is to blame and how to avoid them

3. What are the key areas to focus on and how to address them

4. How to marry process with technology and apply best practices

5. How to take advantage of delivered system functionality

Workplace grief costs U.S. businesses billions of dollars a year in reduced productivity and increased errors and accidents, yet the word grief rarely shows up in reports. In The Hidden Annual Cost of Grief in America’s Workplace 2003 report, the keyword in the title of this report is the word "hidden." It is just that factor that has caused the problem to escalate to now unimaginable proportions and it is the essential reason that it is getting worse rather than better. In this presentation we will address the definition of grief, the grief/workplace connection, the cost of "presenteeism" to corporations and we will discover how managers and other employees can support coworkers who have experienced personal loss.