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Fundamentals of Compensation Communication
Creating a culture of productivity and success requires appropriate communication around compensation. Inappropriate compensation conversations can be detrimental to the psyche of employees and may have legal or governance ramifications. This session will explore corporate policies around compensation communication.

Turn Hiring Into a Profit Center
Now more than ever is the time to impact the bottom line by identifying and taking advantage of the HIRE Act, Geographic, Work Opportunity and State Tax Credits. Learn about the latest legislation and how to streamline and automate your efforts by building it in earlier in your process.

Espree “Payroll Loaded” Debit Card Solutions Providing Unbanked Employees A Means Of Direct Deposit
Espree Card Solutions can help organizations GO GREEN by providing unbanked employees a means of participating in Direct Deposit. Achieving 100% Direct Deposit will eliminate paper checks, provide employees immediate access to their pay and save your company tens of thousands of dollars each year in costs associated with paper paychecks.

Health Savings Accounts – Making Consumer Choice Pay Off
With the passage of health care reform, many employers are looking at Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) as a smart and affordable way to meet the new health care coverage requirements. In this unique 60-minute Webcast, a key figure with one of the industry’s leading HSA custodian banks will give you an insider’s look at the benefit and share some of the insights the Bank has gained through its work with thousands of businesses throughout the country.
Over the course of the hour, HSA Bank’s Mike Olaiz will give you the Bank’s take on where HSAs are going and what its clients are seeing in terms of reduced costs and increased employee wellness and productivity. He’ll also share with you some of the Bank’s plans for 2011 and beyond and the specific things it is doing to help clients meet their objectives.

Advance your career with HR certification
From this webcast, HR professionals will be able to learn how their careers and companies can benefit by earning the Professional in Human Resources (PHR®) Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR®) and/or Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR®) certifications from the HR Certification Institute.

HR’s Role in Protecting the Customer Experience, Especially as CS is Outsourced or Moves Offshore
Find out why the HR and recruiting leaders at companies with large customer service operations are starting to test the English communication skills of customer service agents – and learn how they are getting positive business results by changing their new hire screening processes to implement standardized English language testing.

Healthcare Executives to Share HR Wisdom at Upcoming Fifth Annual Kenexa World Conference
Healthcare Executives to Share Human Resources Wisdom at Upcoming Fifth Annual Kenexa World Conference HR Experts from Baxter Healthcare, Lee Memorial Health System, Tenet Healthcare Corporation to Speak at Transformative Event

THE ECONOMIST TO HOLD IDEAS ECONOMY: HUMAN POTENTIAL EVENT IN SEPTEMBER
Management Event To Focus On Trends That Will Impact Organizations In The Next Century

PEO Leaves Benefits to Brokers and Discovers New Technology
Aspen Resource Partners Enhances HR Offering with SaaShr.com Partnership

Upcoming TALX Webinar Addresses Clearing Regulatory Hurdles when “Going Paperless” with Paystubs
Upcoming TALX Webinar Addresses Clearing Regulatory Hurdles when “Going Paperless” with Paystubs and Paycards

Driving Better Employee Benefits Communications Through Knowledge Management
Employee comprehension is the key to communication efforts around your health plan, Health Savings Account (HSA), or (Flexible Spending Account) FSA program. Health literacy is critical to creating a health culture where your employees take responsibility for their health and become better, more informed consumers of health care. Asset Health’s Knowledge Management platform effectively drives comprehension and health literacy around health and health care and allows you to look at your employee’s health as an asset, not as an expense.

Integrating Returning Veterans into the Workplace -- What Every HR Professional Should Know
Berkshire Expert to Give Presentation at 2010 NILG Conference & Exposition

WorldatWork Announces Additional Scholarship Recipients
WorldatWork has awarded certification scholarships to 20 more deserving HR professionals. Scholars will receive a package that waives fees for WorldatWork e-learning certification preparation courses and exams as well as Premier Membership for 12 months.

Impact Achievement Group Article Helps New Managers Handle Difficult Situations
"Handling Difficult Situations: Tips and Guidance for New Managers," the seventh in a 12-part article series from Impact Achievement Group, provides new supervisors with practical tools to deal with a variety of workplace issues.

HireVue Inc., has raised $5 million in Series B funding
HireVue Inc., a Salt Lake City-based provider of video interviewing and decision management solutions, has raised $5 million in Series B funding. Granite Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backer JCP Capital.

You CAN Handle the Truth: Reducing Applicants’ Response Distortion in Pre-employment Assessments
Oftentimes people “stretch the truth” during the job application process. During this session we’ll discuss applicants’ “response distortion”, its implications, and some of the ways we can reduce it based on research conducted in several organizations. Based on the information provided in this session, you’ll be better equipped to ensure your organization is gathering accurate information during the talent acquisition process!

SHRM Marks 20th Anniversary of ADA with Recommitment
New Resource Offers Employers Information on Disability Employment

Breaking Through the Employee Engagement Plateau
Has your organization’s engagement level reached a standstill? While it is important to maintain engagement levels, the ultimate goal is to steadily increase your engaged population. You may be anxiously anticipating your heightened engagement results after employee survey action planning, but alternatively continue to receive limited success. Instead of hoping for success, it may be time to take another approach. Have you considered the fact that management has bore the sole responsibility of building a workforce culture of engagement? Learn more about how to correct the lopsided approach to employee engagement that has been occurring for more than 20 years. This session will also discuss tips for implementing a joint model of Engagement, and best practices on how to create a fun, Magnetic Culture® where employees want to come to work.

Service Awards: Six Missteps Businesses Make and How to Turn them into WOW!s
Could your company’s service award program be performing at a higher level and reaping greater returns for your business? Find out if your service recognition program is keeping pace with today’s best practices. If you’re just getting started with a service recognition program, this presentation will help you ensure that your program gets off on the right foot.

7 Keys to a Successful Online Rewards & Recognition Program
This webcast will share the 7 keys to creating a successful rewards and recognition program and using technology to enable it. 99.4% of today’s employees expect to be recognized when they do good work. Many great companies have not only realized this, but more importantly understand the value of rewarding and recognizing their talent to increase engagement and productivity. As the marketplace and workplace becomes more competitive and more global, utilizing technology to enable recognition is key. Dr. Bob Nelson, Best Selling Author of over 3.5 Million Books (including 1001 Ways to Reward Employees) and Razor Suleman, CEO of I Love Rewards show you the importance of recognition, and how online SaaS (Software as a Service) is trending to be the default platform for all HR recognition programs.

Managing Your Critical Talent Pools To Improve Workforce Performance
Most organizations can no longer afford to spread their HR investment indiscriminately across all workers and job types. Instead, leading firms have discovered that there are key job families that disproportionately drive business results, and targeting HR investments there can reap great dividends. This webinar discusses how leading organizations leverage integrated talent management processes and technologies to manage their critical talent pools and increase workforce and business performance.

MeetingWave Launches Private Label Versions and Obtains Geolocation Patent from US Patent Office
MeetingWave employs patented technology that allows users set up networking meetings with new people that can be targeted and controlled for maximum efficiency, effectiveness and privacy.

PlanStartGrow.com Launches Contest for Small Business Owners to Win a Free Website
To Promote a New Online Resource Coming Soon to Help Small Business Owners to Plan, Start, and Grow Their Businesses, PlanStartGrow.com is Awarding One Lucky Person a Free Website Package Valued at $2,500. People Are Encouraged to Enter by Visiting www.PlanStartGrow.com and Completing the Online Entry Form.

Record Registration Pace for 13th Annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition
Pre-Early Bird Conference Rates for the World’s “Best Conference on HR Technology” Expire on July 30th

Navigating Health Care Reform
While the health care reform debate was certainly lively, the process did little to clarify the actual bill’s substance. Now that the bill is law, it’s time to look beyond the rhetoric to determine what the new legislation will mean for your benefit offerings, business, employees and, most important, your bottom line.

Population Well-Being Assessment as a Workplace Indicator
Over the past decade health management has been used by to manage and moderate healthcare cost increases. More recently population health management has also focused on productivity improvement. New discoveries around the role well-being plays and its potential for broad impact have led to a deeper understanding of how healthcare costs, productivity, and organizational culture can be impacted to collectively drive better business performance. John Harris, Chief Wellness Officer and Vice President-Innovations, will focus on how populations can be impacted at work, at home, through medical care, and in the community, and how this impact can improve overall business performance. Dr. Michael Taylor, Caterpillar, will discuss how his organization is measuring the well-being of employees.

Employee Confidence Second Quarter Update: Leveraging Insight for Better Business Strategy
This webcast will review the action-focused, performance oriented construct of Employee Confidence and how it can forecast and enhance the success of organizations. Dr. Anne Herman will share how Employee Confidence relates to multiple economic and business performance outcomes at the individual, organizational, industry and country levels. Featured in this 2nd Quarter update are analyses on U.S. Employee Confidence by industry and job type.

Time: The Next Dimension of Employee Engagement
Learn about a new approach to survey technology and engagement methodology that allows companies to listen and respond to their employees immediately, globally, accurately, and effortlessly. The result? The engagement survey is now engaging.

Culture as Competitive Advantage: How your Culture can Help Fight Talent Flight
According to recent studies, US job satisfaction is at an all-time low and 45% of employees intend to or have already begun searching for new jobs as the economy slowly recovers. Will your workplace culture enable you to retain your best talent as the market picks up? Learn how the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® use workplace culture as a competitive advantage – resulting in outperforming their peers 3:1 in terms of financial returns and 7% voluntary turnover, on average, compared to the national average of 21%. Join us for this 60-minute session and understand how to build an internal business case for investing in your workplace culture.

The Joint Commission and Performance Management — 5 Critical HR Processes You Should Automate
Are you Joint Commission survey-ready?

The benefits of the right performance management solution are significant. Automating manual, time-consuming, and error-prone processes, helps HR professionals and business managers reduce costs, improve productivity, and focus on higher value initiatives. Learn how to simplify Joint Commission compliance and be better prepared for your next survey.

Communications Skills for Project Managers - Summary
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Communications Skills for Project Managers
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Communications Skills for Project Managers - 600 review
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Communication Skills for Project Managers - 300 review
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Four of Ten HR Professionals Say Their Company is Prepping for Green Job Creation
A poll from the Society for Human Resource Management shows that 40 percent of HR professionals say their organization is currently focused on creating green jobs or adding green duties to existing jobs.

Human Resources Management Consultancy, eePulse, Hires John York as CTO
Human Resources Management Consultancy, eePulse, Hires John York as CTO to Lead Efforts to Continue Development in Fast HRM™ Agile software development specialist to lead Fast HRM technology team at www.eepulse.com

Four of Ten HR Professionals Say Their Company is Prepping for Green Job Creation
A poll from the Society for Human Resource Management shows that 40 percent of HR professionals say their organization is currently focused on creating green jobs or adding green duties to existing jobs.

Team Advantage: A Complete Framework for Driving Extraordinary, Sustainable Team Transformation!
The acceleration of change in organizations, emerging needs for innovation, and alignment of values are all factors creating a need for new leadership and new ways for people to succeed. Leaders want to know how to stretch an already high - performing team, turn around a team that is underperforming or stuck, or assimilate a new leader so they have a strong start with teams that are weary of too many changes. The Team Advantage process picks up where traditional team building stops – coaching the team leader and the team through the developmental stages and giving the team the experience of genuine team transformation.

Finding the Missing Piece: Creating Person-Job Fit Interviews
Interviews are the most commonly used tool in employee selection, but if not used properly, can waste time and effort and ultimately lead to bad hiring decisions. We’ll discuss how to design employment interviews to measure critical characteristics of candidates not typically assessed by other hiring tools. Important aspects of designing an interview process will be covered including training, scoring, and maintaining procedural and scoring consistency among interviewers.

Measuring Work Tolerance to Reduce Turnover in Front Line Jobs
Let’s face it, front-line, customer-facing jobs are challenging. During this session we’ll discuss those unique work tolerance characteristics that determine why some people fail while others succeed, so you can be equipped to make better hiring decisions. Learn how to analyze jobs for work tolerance demands and to use that information to improve your talent acquisition process!

Investigating Ethics Violations - What You Don’t Know May Land You In Jail
Internal investigations of alleged ethics violations have never been more critical. Federal sentencing guidelines continue to raise the bar for establishing strict ethical and compliance guidelines. This workshop will focus on the investigation practices that satisfy these critical ethical guidelines. We will depict "real life" challenges that arise during an ethics investigation, and examine key steps to take when investigating allegations of ethical misconduct.

Communications Skills for Project Managers - 300 review
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Communication Skills for Project Managers - Summary
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Globoforce to Present with Biogen Idec at IHRIM’s 2010 Global Forum
Grant Beckett of Globoforce and Biogen Idec’s Susan McGowan to Share Proven Strategies and Best Practices on Re-Igniting a Global Workforce

Transforming Talent Systems: The Mercy Behavioral Health Story
In the past six months, Mercy Behavioral Health has dramatically transformed their approach to talent. By partnering with Select International, they have developed a comprehensive competency model for all levels in the organization and have leveraged this robust competency work to drive key changes to all of their talent systems. In particular, their competency work has provided the backbone for their performance management systems, promotions processes, and comprehensive selection processes for all positions in the organization. In the coming months, this foundational competency work will be leveraged to inform their on-boarding and succession planning initiatives. Mercy Behavioral Health takes talent very seriously. By using a comprehensive and scientific approach to ensuring they have the talent systems in place, they continue to improve their position in the healthcare industry. In this webcast, we will discuss MBH’s talent strategy and provide an illustrative example of how their approach has transformed their organization-wide employee selection process.

New study spotlights opportunities and barriers for working women worldwide
An innovative new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit opens a window on to the economic landscape that women face globally and highlights which countries offer the most and the fewest opportunities.

For Many Managers, Career Advancement Means Breaking the Deadly Cycle of Micromanaging
Micromanaging Leads to a Negative Reputation and Fewer New Opportunities Within Organizations; Micromanagers Should Switch That Energy to Adopting the Discipline to Delegate Effectively, According to John Beeson, Succession Planning and Organizational Development Expert

HR Technology Demonstration Spots Already Almost 50% Filled at HR Demo Show
Innovative Approach that Makes Software the Star Being Rapidly Embraced by Leading Vendors

PR Teams Should Call Upon All Levels For Planning, Says Punch
Teams that encourage junior and senior members alike to be forthcoming in developing strategy are better placed to succeed in the contemporary PR world, according to Digital PR, Search and Social agency Punch Communications.

Trends and Forecasts from Salary.com's 2010 Economic Downturn Survey
In this session, Salary.com compensation expert Athar Siddiqee will review the results of Salary.com's 2010 Economic Downturn Survey, which focused on the ways in which HR practitioners are changing programs and practices in response to economic uncertainty. The Salary.com Economic Downturn Survey covered a broad range of compensation and benefit practices. Register to learn how HR and compensation professionals all over the world responded, and discover what the results reveal.

Protect Your Employees and Company from the #1 At-Work Killer
Are employee health & wellness and emergency preparedness your responsibilities? Then you need to know about sudden cardiac arrest – the #1 cause of death at work according to an OSHA-based study – and what you can do to protect your employees and company. With knowledge, you may just save a life.

Tell Cardiac Science what you want to learn at their upcoming webcast by answering this 10-second survey.


ObviO Software Inc. Announces the Release of ObviO Enterprise Management System (EMS)
ObviO Enterprise Management System to streamline Accounting, Project Management and Material Resource Planning

HR Professionals Can Now Let Employees Test Drive Online College For Free Before They Commit
EducationDynamics Introduces Test Drive College Online to HR Professionals at Society of Human Resource Management Conference

Square Pegs, Round Holes—Aligning Your Selection Process to Drive Lean Manufacturing
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) performs tens of thousands of federal and state inspections, doling out more than $84 million in fines each year for safety violations. Increased competition across the globe puts additional pressure on manufacturers to reduce costs while improving the quality of the goods and services they produce. To do this effectively, an organization must have team members and frontline leaders who have both a passion for continuous improvement and a safety orientation. This event will detail the importance of talent for a successful manufacturing organization and of selecting the people with the skills to work effectively in teams to make Lean work.

Chantel Sheaks of Buck Consultants Among Top 25 Consultants Selected by Consulting Magazine
Chantel Sheaks, a principal based in Buck Consultants’ Washington, D.C., office, has been named to Consulting magazine’s Top 25 Consultants for 2010.

Kinetic Data’s Request Management Tool Offers Unmatched Flexibility for HR Departments
Kinetic Data’s Request Management Tool Offers Unmatched Flexibility for HR Departments Whose Complex Needs Go Beyond the Limited Capabilities of “Off the Shelf” Products Vendor brings game-changing software to annual SHRM event with a self-managed HR portal that allows personnel to save time and gain independence from IT.

The Customer Rules
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ARMA International Announces Open Registration for 55th Annual Conference & Expo
ARMA International, the authority on records and information management, has opened registration for its 55th Annual Conference & Expo to be held November 7-10, 2010, at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, Calif.

Mercer to acquire ORC Worldwide, creating an unparalleled provider of human resource information
■ Transaction creates the pre-eminent leader in international HR information and talent management solutions ■ Acquisition strengthens related consulting, conference and educational services ■ ORC’s international positioning complements Mercer’s global network and capabilities

AREVA Recognized as a Top Work Place in San Francisco Bay Area
AREVA, a global leader in nuclear energy and a significant, growing player in renewable energy, announces today that it has been named a Top Work Place by the Bay Area News Group* for its operations in San Jose, Calif. AREVA is ranked at 29 in the small business category.

STR Responsible Sourcing Becomes First Accredited Responsible Jewellery Council Auditor
STR Responsible Sourcing (STR RS), a leading global provider of ethical sourcing consulting services, today announced that it has become the first auditing firm accredited by the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) to verify members’ compliance with the RJC System.

SHRM Names Former Board Chair Janet Parker as New Chief Global Membership Officer
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) today announced the appointment of Janet Parker, SPHR, to be Chief Global Membership Officer.

The Case for AEDs in your Organization
Did you know that sudden cardiac arrest is among the leading causes of death in the workplace?

Using Predictive Models and Simulation to Identify Opportunities for Minimizing Employee Health-Care
Although many businesses are establishing health and wellness programs for their employees, they are not necessarily able to forecast the true costs of health risks and chronic diseases, or the benefits of implementing these programs. Learn how advances in simulation and predictive modeling enable companies to estimate and identify ways to minimize, the financial impact of employees' health risks.

Managing the Mobile Workforce: Proven strategies for implementing a successful flex work environment
The responsibility of launching and maintaining a workforce mobility program inevitably falls on Human Resources. While it may seem simple enough, those who have already instituted some form of a flex work initiative quickly realize there are numerous factors that can make the difference between a thriving mobile workforce and one that flounders. Join industry leading change management consultant and author Diane Stegmeier and Jeff Roof of PeopleCube as they present proven strategies for implementing and managing a flex work environment. They will draw on their consulting expertise and leverage real-world case studies to showcase the various approaches companies from around the world have employed to improve the productivity of the increasingly mobile workforce.

EIGHTH ANNUAL AMERICAN BUSINESS AWARDSSM CROWN WINNERS OF AMERICA’S “BEST IN BUSINESS”
Winners of 2010 Stevie® Awards Announced http://www.stevieawards.com/aba

Upcoming TALX Webinar Reveals How to Diminish the Barrier Between HR and Sales
HR Chally Group and Mercer Human Resource Consulting, sponsored by pan, the assessment division of TALX

HR Winners at 2010 American Business Awards
CROWN WINNERS OF AMERICA’S “BEST IN BUSINESS” Winners of 2010 Stevie® Awards Announced http://www.stevieawards.com/aba

"The Why of Work:" A McGraw-Hill Publication
According to studies, we all work for the same thing – and it’s not money. It’s meaning. Through our work, we all seek a sense of purpose, contribution, connection, value, and hope.

Performance Appraisals that Managers Will Love
Manager engagement in the appraisal process is critical to the success of ongoing performance management. Yet often the process is seen as an uncomfortable chore, with little value, instead of an important tool for development and improvement. So how can HR professionals create a tool for that works for managers and HR?

Maximizing Your Lump Sum Relocation Program
Is your organization considering adding tiered, lump sum or direct reimbursement options to its relocation program? Is your organization getting the most value from its current relocation program? During this session you will learn how to ensure your organization is getting the most out of its Lump Sum Relocation Program. We will present creative ways to design and deliver a Lump Sum Program that will add value without adding costs and how to maximize your employees’ household goods moving budget.

CastlePointe Announces “Free Lunch” IT Transformation Webinar Series
Webinar Series to Provide Ideas and Insights to Help IT Executives Improve Efficiency, Drive Performance and Evolve their IT Organizations to Provide Greater Strategic Value; First Webinar to be Uniting IT: Bringing Apps and Infrastructure Together at Last, Wednesday, June 30th at 3:15 pm EST / 12:15 pm PST

Ceridian's Comprehensive Customer Listening Efforts Produce Dramatic Results
Customer advisory boards, enhanced net promoter scores, executive listening efforts and customer service support improvements are all having a measurable impact on Ceridian's business and customers

How The Best-Performing Businesses Differ From The Rest
A new research study from Six Disciplines compares the best practices of the top and bottom-performing companies to determine what they do right, where they go wrong, what correlation their practices have to financial performance, and what you should learn from their experiences

Carlos Slim To Be Featured In Closing Session Of The New York Forum
Carlos Slim To Be Featured In Closing Session Of The New York Forum - To Be Interviewed by Maria Bartiromo Annual Gathering For Developing New Business Models And Creating Jobs, Created By Richard Attias

Mercer’s US outsourcing business wins Bell Ringer awards
Mercer’s US outsourcing business wins Bell Ringer awards for impactful electronic/online employee communications

Teambuilding with Emotional Intelligence Competencies
What makes a group of people a team and want to do their best work together? In decision-making, humans first have an emotion and then seek a rationale. Emotions motivate team behavior and productivity. Teams that understand and maximize their emotional intelligence competencies have the least conflict and produce the highest quality results. They and their organization gain sustainable productivity. Learn how to identify EI competencies for your team through a powerful model and follow through to measure results.

Talent Tsunami: The Seven Waves of Change
The events of the past year have dramatically shifted HR like never before. Both destructive in nature and rich in opportunity, change is afoot. Hear about how the post-recession talent world has changed dramatically… in seven very challenging ways. As an HR professional, you must understand these seven seismic shifts if your company is to survive both the coming talent shortage and the macro changes which are shaping HR on a daily basis. Ranging from changes that are global in scope to changes hitting even the smallest company, you’ll learn how to prepare for and survive the chaos.

Integreon Announces Bill McClements as Global Chief Human Resources Officer
Highly Experienced HR Executive Reinforces Integreon’s Commitment to Finding, Motivating and Developing Outstanding Employees

Military Veterans’ High Unemployment Rate Draws HR Concern
June 26-27, 2010, San Diego Convention Center

OSHA ADMINISTRATOR RESPONDS TO SAFETY ENGINEERS’ QUESTIONS ON GULF OIL SPILL CLEAN-UP
OSHA ADMINISTRATOR RESPONDS TO SAFETY ENGINEERS’ QUESTIONS ON GULF OIL SPILL CLEAN-UP, WORKPLACE FATALITY PENALTIES, TOP PRIORITIES

PERI Software Solutions Inc. Spotlighted in Upcoming 20th Anniversary Issue of Business Life
PERI Software Solutions Inc. Spotlighted in Upcoming 20th Anniversary Issue of Business Life Magazine

Health & Welfare and the Economy
What's happening with benefits? Join this webcast to hear the results from Workscape's 3rd Annual Benefit's Survey. As healthcare plan costs continue to increase, this year’s survey examined four areas: costs savings; communications; economic pressures; and political issues. A total of 868 responses were collected from individuals with benefits program knowledge; titles included benefits manager; vice president, HR; and CEO. This large survey covers trends in practices to reduce health care costs, improve the health of employees, and handle administration issues like open enrollment. The survey also looks at how employees are reacting to stress and what organizations have done in light of the pending changes in health care legislation. Tune in as David Creelman, CEO of Creelman Research, walks you through Workscape's findings.

Move Beyond Efficient to Effective Recruiting: Focus on Quality-of-Hire and the Influence of Talent
Measuring and demonstrating the value of Talent/HR initiatives should be considered standard practice; however, this is not often the case. As more leadership teams are evaluating the cost of these practices, HR needs to examine not only the efficiency, but the effectiveness of their recruiting processes. Common practices focus on time-to-fill and cost-per-hire and less on the effectiveness of recruiting and selection processes. Dr. Herman will provide a definition of the quality of hire, as well as a suggested methodology for evaluating it. In addition, a model for leveraging the most strategic insight which will be found when examining employee, customer, and business performance data together will be presented.

HRMC's “Voice Audition” Technology Integrates Assessments from Profiles International
HRMC's “Voice Audition” Technology Integrates Assessments from Profiles International for Offshore Call Center Hiring HRMC’s Acclaim(SM) uses workflow automation and 360-degree assessments to evaluate candidates; the most qualified are moved to a “Voice Audition" to evaluate language competency, critical in predicting success for offshore customer service staff.

ReviewSNAP To Launch Version 2.0 At Society Of Human Resources Management Annual Conference
ReviewSNAP To Launch Version 2.0 At Society Of Human Resources Management Annual Conference and Exposition - ReviewSNAP Takes Performance Management to the Next Level ReviewSNAP(TM), a leading supplier of a Web-based performance management system, has announced plans to launch Version 2.0 of the system at the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) Annual Conference and Exposition in San Diego June 27-30, 2010. Version 2.0 will introduce an array of new enhancements adding to the already streamlined and robust system used by more than 450 businesses and nonprofit organizations worldwide. The new and updated features will help employers assure that reviews will be completed on time and accurately, maximize the potential of their employees, create the most effective performance reviews and 360 degree surveys, and customize the system to meet their performance management needs.

Go Beyond Networking: Facilitating Entrepreneurism through Partnership and Collaboration
ibovo LLC announces launch of Internet service

REED GROUP RELEASES VERSION 6.1 OF MDGUIDELINES
Updated Content Offers Most Accurate Return-to-Work Guidelines

Thomas International Introduces General Intelligence Employee Assessment
New mental aptitude assessment can help North American organizations compete in increasingly complex business world

Reduce Stress, Metabolic Syndrome and Health Costs: A New e-Learning Intervention
Annual health care costs in the US now exceed $2.3 trillion, or $7681 per person. Preventing disease has become a critical business issue as employers struggle with health costs. One critical cost-savings target is stress—which is widely known to increase the risk of disease and lost productivity. As workers strain against job insecurity and increased workload in the downsized economy, employers are seeing stress rise to the number one concern on employee surveys. Learn more about a cost-effective and innovative system for increasing your employee’s health and productivity while lowering health care costs.

From Paper to Paperless, an HR Story
With more than 100 offices nationwide, engineering firm Terracon set out to find an effective way to electronically manage the onslaught of human resources paperwork and best serve its growing staff of employees, engineers and scientists. In this complimentary webinar, learn how Terracon selected ImageNow document management, imaging and workflow from Perceptive Software and turned cumbersome filing, retrieval and routing processes into single-click efficiency. Time spent on tedious paper-based activities is cut by 50 percent, letting HR staff get back to more mission-critical projects.

Preventing Whistleblower Claims: Don’t win the battle and lose the war
Every major law effecting employers protects whistleblowers. It is no surprise that retaliation claims are now the second most frequently filed claim under federal anti-discrimination laws – filed 3 times as often as sexual harassment. Whistleblower claims are also the hardest and most costly to defend. Thus, it’s not surprising that multi-million dollar settlements are common. This program helps employers meet that challenge. Taught by Gregory Keating, the attorney who literally wrote the book on defending whistleblower claims, this program will examine the major legal requirements and the best practices to meet those requirements.

Turning Your Frontline Managers into Hiring Managers
Your strongest managers are great at leading teams and watching budgets. But do they struggle with hiring star-quality hourly employees? In this one-hour webinar, we’ll tell you what managers really wish corporate knew about hourly hiring, and we’ll share tactics for improving and standardizing hiring at the store level.

Strategic Project Management Made Simple
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