Human Resources: Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Applied Critical Thinking: A 3-Phase Approach to Developing Problem Solvers & Efficient Thinkers
If you’re not developing your employees’ ability to apply critical thinking skills, then you’re missing a huge opportunity. Improved critical thinking skills lead to more effective problem-solving, well-reasoned decisions, improved strategic thinking, and better planning and implementation in your organization. We’ll show that critical thinking is definitely a skill to be developed - one that reaps huge benefits when applied to specific organizational challenges.

E-Verify and Immigration Compliance: What Every Employer Must Know
Please join us for a conversation about corporate best practices for immigration and I-9 compliance. Immigration attorneys from Seyfarth Shaw LLP will discuss the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to use E-Verify, the government’s online employment eligibility database. Panelists will also discuss the latest trends in government enforcement of immigration laws and regulations, including I-9 inspections and immigration fraud investigations.

Maximizing the Business Value of Recruitment Technology
Recruitment technology isn’t just for automation and storage anymore. As recruitment technology has matured, organizations around the globe have learned there are two kinds of ROI when it comes to these systems. First, it is still critical to understand how to get the greatest Return On their Investment, but now, more importantly, organizations are focusing on how to get the greatest Return On the Information gathered during the recruiting process. Learn how organizations are leveraging information gathered in the hiring process to shrink time to productivity, increase manager effectiveness, drive high performance and aid in the retention of new hires.

20 Questions: Teaching Emerging Leaders and HiPOs to Think Beyond Today
Got leaders who are stuck in daily functional problems? Are your HiPO’s fixated on their current team and a singular agenda? Is your organization held back by leadership that is unable to think, be or act strategically? If this describes your organization, you’re not alone. Join us to learn how executives and leadership development professionals can raise the level of engagement, increase strategic thinking and improve the overall decision making of your company’s future leadership.

Legal Perils of Social Media & Social Networking: What Every Employer Needs to Know
As employees become increasingly tech-savvy and the venues for broadcasting over the Internet become more accessible, employees’ use of social media – including blogging, microblogging (e.g., Twitter), Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and YouTube – presents major challenges for employers. Human resources professionals, privacy and compliance officers and legal counsel must work together to ensure that lawful practices are followed when regulating and responding to employees’ social media activities, and that their organization’s business interests and electronic resources are protected.

Recruiting Millennial Workers into Health Care Careers
Attracting and retaining the Millennial generational group into health care careers will require organizations to rethink their traditional recruitment and retention strategies. Join us for a discussion of what makes the Millennial generation unique.

Is Your Company Prepared to Respond to a Wide-spread H1N1 Infection?
A widespread infection of your employees means performing “business as usual” will be a challenge. In this webcast, you will learn how to prepare your organization to effectively respond to a wide-spread H1N1 infection effectively.

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Demonstrates Value of Onboarding Best Practices
Your goal: Streamline onboarding processes and costs while engaging new hires for retention and rapid productivity. Why attend this webinar: Learn how to leverage technology and Best Practices to simplify the onboarding process, expedite workflow and track progress – just as Hershey Entertainment & Resorts did – while improving the new hire experience and lowering costs.

Insight from the Experts: Best Practices for Integrated Talent Management
You should attend this webinar if:

You want to take a more strategic approach to managing talent
You want to identify, develop, and retain your best and brightest
You need to make rapid, well-informed decisions about your workforce

As an HR leader, you want to define success profiles for each position within your company. You want to know what good looks like. But knowing what makes a successful candidate or employee is only the beginning. You want to use your competency profile to inform all HR disciplines -- including recruiting, performance management, and learning and development -- so you and your company truly begin to realize a competitive advantage from your integrated talent management strategies.

The Shifting Workforce: Maximize Temps, Contractors and Flex-Workers Instead of Full-time Employees
Learn about trends which will shape hiring for businesses of all type in the future. Experts forecast that the most efficient businesses in the future will shape their workforce to include a higher percentage of contingent workers, which may include temps, independent contractors, and others on third party payrolls. Employing greater numbers of contingent workers may help keep companies as lean as possible allowing for the most cost effective structure with flexibility in staffing. So how do you make this work in your organization and what can you do to prepare for tax, benefit, and employment law issues that can arise with contingent workers? We will share with you steps to take now to avoid liability and minimize risk, especially surrounding Independent contractors. We will also bring you up to speed on pending legislation affecting the employment of 1099 workers. Lastly, we will review what to require from your third party employment vendors to maximize their value.

How Employers Are Handling E-Verify & I-9s:Going Paperless, Preparing for Audits & Tackling E-Verify
Join a panel of I-9 experts, including one of the country's Top 10 Immigration Attorneys (per HR Executive Magazine survey), as they discuss the new worksite enforcement regime and provide practical advice and guidance on how to prepare for and survive a Form I-9 audit. The speakers will also discuss steps for moving to an electronic I-9 system and explore the current state of mandatory E-Verify rules at the federal and state level.

The ROI of Predicting Sales & Service Performance: A Case Study from British Telecom
As one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, British Telecom realizes that in order to continue to grow as an organization, it is critical for them to continue to leverage the best talent available. Towards this end, BT has partnered with Select International on several projects using comprehensive assessment programs to investigate sales and service performance. The results of these projects have provided BT with tremendous return on investment. During this informative webcast, the presenters will discuss three case studies from the work between BT and Select, which highlight the impact of using assessment for sales and service positions on the organization’s bottom line.

The Road to Compliance: What can you do to get your organization to a state of compliance
In this webinar Mike deVries, of The Hackett Group will examine the current state of workforce compliance, such as wage and hour, FMLA, meals and breaks, exempt versus non-exempt, and more. He will also discuss how organizations can use technology as a tool to help ensure that they get to, and remain in a state of compliance.

HR Management Software as a Service – A Compelling Value Proposition
Human Resources Management Systems (HRMS) delivered as ‘Software as a Service (SaaS) should be an important consideration for many organizations. Organizations in all sectors are looking today more than ever before for cost effective ways to track Human Resources (HR) transactions/data and drive HR strategic decisions. Learn about what is being offered in the marketplace, and what challenges and successes other organizations that have adopted SaaS for their HR platforms have experienced.

Mastering Peer-to-Peer Recognition
Learn how to develop a sustainable culture of peer recognition in your business. This webcast will discuss the latest trends and tools to help you establish a consistent culture of peer recognition in your workplace.

Measuring the Financial Impact of Workforce Planning
The success of workforce planning often comes down to three factors: -Organizational support for key stakeholders -Clear opportunities for improved talent recruitment and retention -Gap-closing initiatives that have a measurable financial impact Over the last several years, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, a community hospital located in Towson, Maryland, has implemented a workforce planning process to address short- and long-term shortages in Registered Nurses. Through a rigorous workforce planning methodology, the organization identified critical workforce risks, designed launched several new recruitment and retention initiatives, and obtained impressive financial and workforce results. This webcast will look at how one organization has instituted a business-driven workforce planning process that has achieved dramatic results.

Driving Success Through Performance Excellence and Employee Engagement
Dr. Jack Wiley will present Kenexa’s new High Performance-Engagement Model (HPEM). This model is used as a method for improving organizational performance and employee engagement in tough times, as well as in times of higher demand and economic growth. The HPEM gives clear guidance for leaders on which organizational levers to pull in order to get the most from their workforce. Utilizing the WorkTrends™ database, he will share where employees report strengths and opportunities for improvement in both performance and engagement.

The Advantages of a Fully Integrated Talent Management Suite
What is your current Talent Management technology strategy- Best of breed multi-vendor solutions or a totally integrated single-vendor Talent Management Suite? What are the pros and cons of each and what makes business sense for your organization? In this webcast, HRsmart’s Chief Executive Officer, Mark Hamdan, will discuss the advantages and benefits of a fully integrated Talent Management technology suite, and highlight current and future talent management technology trends, drivers and challenges.

Navigating the Legal Landscape: How to Conduct Lawful Investigations Overview
Often these lawsuits are won or lost based on the jury’s answer to questions such as “Was the investigator properly trained?” or “Did the investigator go too far and violate an employee’s privacy rights?” With the economy in a downward spiral and lawsuits on the rise litigation arising out of incidents of harassment, discrimination and other types of workplace misconduct costs organizations billions of dollars each year. Employee lawsuits increasingly focus on the quality of the organization’s investigations and investigators.

Becoming a Great Place to Work: Proven Methods for Building A Vibrant Company Culture
Are you taking the right steps to make your company a Great Place to Work? It’s not all about free cappuccino (though that helps). Greg Moyer, Chief People Officer at SnagAJob.com, shares proven, low-cost methods for building a vibrant company culture with measurable bottom-line results.

WOW! Service Awards
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.

How To Make the Most of Your Training Resources
During challenging economic times, training and professional development is often one of the first places to be impacted by budget cuts. However, there are ways to provide learning opportunities that are valuable to the learners while also being cost effective. The traditional classroom still exists. And fortunately, there are many new variations on that theme. Besides the classroom, technology itself provides a host of additional options for both the learner and the training provider or training department. These are exciting times for students and training departments thanks to the variety of options available.

Performance Reviews – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Performance management often calls to mind the annual, administrative hassles associated with employee reviews. Commonly a manual, paper-driven process, many managers tend to rush the review period in an effort to “stay focused on the business”, ultimately resulting in marginal organizational value achieved from the reviews. But here’s the reality: within successful, growth-oriented companies, Performance Management is a daily focus, not a once-a-year administrative task. Business results are achieved through people – focusing on improving them and their performance is the purest way to “stay focused on the business”. Employees want to understand the overarching goals of the company and how those goals cascade down to them; they especially want to know how their individual objectives contribute to achieving these company goals. Moreover, employees want to improve, succeed and feel like they are valued for their contribution. There are creative tactics and affordable tools on the market today for small and mid-sized companies to improve how they manage performance – are you up to speed?

Integrating HR Solutions to Deliver Business Success
It is clear that people solutions have a tremendous impact on individual performance, business results and shareholder value. However, despite the overwhelming evidence, it has tended to be challenging to make this case consistently, credibly and with impact. This Webcast introduces a powerful, new approach to unifying HR processes to deliver remarkable, high profile business results - not merely by bringing existing solutions together, but by creating wholly new techniques that can be applied globally.

How Talent Management Tools Help Your Managers Coach with Confidence
Let’s face it, most managers, both new and experienced, aren't good coaches. Why? They don’t take the time and effort to have those important – positive and not so positive – performance conversations with their employees on an ongoing basis. Some by nature avoid confrontation; others get bogged down with their day to day workload and lose this focus. But ask yourself - which employee is more engaged and strives to be your highest performer? The one whose manager only sits down to have an uncomfortable performance conversation during review season? Or the one whose manager gives them regular recognition, positive affirmation, and timely corrective feedback, and who’s focused on developing their team? In this webinar, leadership expert Steve Roesler will explain the importance of coaching and its impact on engagement. Joining him, Melanie Rydalch, Regional Human Resources Manager from Basic American Foods, will share how an automated talent management system has helped their managers improve their coaching.

The Survival Guide for Leaders: Tactics for the Tough Times
We live in a time of danger and opportunity. Individuals, organizations, communities, and countries must continuously adapt to new realities just to survive. Wanting to thrive even under constantly shifting and often perilous conditions, people in all sectors are called on to lead with the courage and skill to challenge the status quo. Ron Heifetz, “adaptive leadership” expert and author of Leadership Without Easy Answers, Leadership on the Line, and, new book, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, will show how leading in times of great change is both an improvisational and experimental art, and, crucially, a skill—a practice—that can be developed and improved.

Implementing Behavioral Interviewing at Diversified Clinical Services: A Case Study in Best Practice
In today’s challenging economy, conducting structured, behavioral interviews is more important than ever. High unemployment rates mean that companies are inundated with applicants for job openings – many of whom are not qualified for the position. Employers that allow their hiring managers to rely on their “gut feeling” to make hiring decisions are opening themselves up for potential legal issues that can damage an organization’s reputation and cost the company millions of dollars. Join Scott Snyder, Director of Recruiting at Diversified Clinical Services and Carolyn Lees-Hotton, Ph.D., Senior Consultant at Select International, as they discuss best practices in implementing a behavioral interviewing program. They will discuss lessons learned and what has worked for DCS in their implementation of a behavioral interviewing program, and also how DCS used these practices to hire quality employees.

Challenging Economic Times and the Employee Experience: Understanding the Influence of Uncertainty
Organizations have faced many changes over the past 18-24 months that have compromised the employee experience. This presentation will cover the recent trends in employee engagement, employee confidence, leadership perceptions and talent management initiatives. Furthermore, Dr. Herman will present suggestions on how to leverage these trends to positively impact the employee experience.

Navigating the Legal and Technology Landscape in Human Resources
Knowing applicable laws, proper documentation methods and other regulatory best practices are vital to the success of an HR department, particularly as employment-related lawsuits remain the largest category of cases filed in federal courts. This educational webcast has been submitted by HR.com to qualify for HR Certification Institute recertification credits (PHR, SPHR, GPHR ) and will address pertinent legal and technology topics, in addition to making specific recommendations that will help avoid claims and effectively defend your organization if issues arise.

Disney’s Approach to Leadership Excellence
Explore some strategies and methods for improving team results through exceptional and storytelling leadership, because without strong leadership, organizations will not grow or succeed. Learn how proven leadership philosophies used to exhibit the values and behaviors generate results – period.

Knowing Your Talent Ecosystem. New Innovations Helping To Streamline Your Strategic HR Functions
Zapoint and ArchPoint have teamed up helping customers manage and transform their human capital into a true competitive advantage. During this webcast you will hear from executives from both companies on how their joint approach is helping companies like yourself – quickly identify skill and competency gaps, build targeted employee development programs, guide more effective recruiting efforts, implement effective performance management, and establish a blueprint for an ongoing succession planning framework.

The Power of the Right Message
Learn what effective messaging, unique creative and targeted media placement can do for your recruitment efforts, retention goals and business success. The right messaging is crucial to attracting the right candidates to your organization and ensuring your hiring potential top performers.

10 Steps Guaranteed to Streamline your Immigration Process and Increase ROI
This webcast takes you through 10 Best Practices that break with some traditions and myths surrounding immigration law and immigration legal services to enable HR to meet increasing ROI pressures. You will learn how to streamline your corporate immigration process and achieve significant increases in employee satisfaction while reducing the required time and cost investments.

No Such Thing as Neutral: Leveraging Every Interaction to Maximize Motivation, Influence and Trust
In life and business “neutral” doesn’t exist. No matter what we do or say, we impact a person, a system or an outcome. This presentation will explore the ways you can move past assumptions of being neutral and unbiased to leverage your natural abilities to exponentially increase influence, motivation and the foundation for every relationship, trust.

Employee Confidence: Q209 Update
Employee Confidence is an action-focused, performance oriented construct that can be used to forecast and enhance the success of the organization by measuring key components of the workplace environment and the individual employee within that environment. This webcast will provide the latest information on the levels of Employee Confidence across USA, UK, China, Russia, India, Brazil, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Canada, and Germany, the 12 largest economies in the world.

Onboarding Process & Practice
Presentation will provide information about the value of a comprehensive onboarding program and the correlation to recruitment and retention. Will include a case study from Cedars-Sinai Health System.

Maximizing the Business Impact of Workforce Reporting
Workforce reporting—the process of delivering workforce data to a range of end-user populations—often results in labor-intensive, operational reports that fail to generate the insights and analysis required to drive business decisions. Judging by Infohrm’s forthcoming global survey on how Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are utilizing workforce data, HR will be expected to meet an increasing demand for more strategic analysis of human capital trends, risks, and costs. In this webinar, Infohrm’s workforce reporting experts will illustrate how progressive organizations are generating automated and analytical workforce reports to more effectively link workforce data to short- and long-term business decisions.

Selecting Frontline Leaders: Identifying and predicting leadership potential in frontline managers
In good times and bad, frontline leaders – those who supervise entry-level employees – have a major impact on your business. Given the scope of their duties and the stakes associated with frontline leader effectiveness, it is tough to exaggerate the importance of being able to reliably, accurately identify frontline leadership potential. If managers (and HR professionals for that matter) could be equipped to assess characteristics important for leadership success on the front lines, what would those qualities be? This informative webinar will provide you with tips for identifying entry level employees with frontline leadership potential, and characteristics to look for when assessing current frontline leaders.

Are You Up-To-Date with the Latest Veteran Changes?
If your organization has contracts or subcontracts with the federal government, to maintain those contracts, your organization is required to keep up-to-date with the regulatory requirements for veterans. Annual reports are required to be filed to the Veterans Employment and Training Services (VETS) and you are required to proactively recruit qualified veterans for employment at your facilities.

Global RPO results and how KellyOCG is responding to meet clients needs
Building on the success of the inaugural 2008 report, this year’s survey analyzes the key global trends in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO). The survey sample includes more than 600 respondents from across the globe. Listen as we share highlights form this years global RPO report, discuss key differentiators within a successful RPO and talk more about the success of a global RPO program.

Increasing Critical Thinking in the Workplace: The Raw Material of 21st Century Success
How to Identify and Develop Employees Who Think Effectively and Efficiently
This session outlines how to systematically build critical thinking skills in an organization through selection, leadership development, high potential, and succession programs. Emphasis is placed on how to effectively measure critical thinking skills and increase capabilities.

New Legislation & Its Impact on Your Selection Process - New Rules Under the Obama Administration
How is the HR hiring landscape changing under the Obama administration? Join us for this one-hour educational webcast outlining recent and proposed legislation and how it could impact hiring and selection processes. Josh Ulman, founder of Ulman Public Policy & Federal Relations, and Kevin Klinvex, bestselling author and Co-Founder of Select International will discuss the top labor/employment issues on the horizon in 2009 and what employers can do to ensure they are compliant.

Predicting Future Wellness: Improve Employee Health and Cost Savings
Companies today realize that a healthy workforce increases productivity, decreases absenteeism and medical expenses, and ultimately costs less to insure. Assessing employee health is the first step in any wellness program, but what type of assessment is best at identifying at-risk employees?

Preparing for the Recovery: Having the Right Players on Board
Are you ready for the economic recovery? Workforces have been decimated as a result of the downturn. Think about your current organization: what is the size of your workforce today as compared to two years ago? As the recovery progresses, businesses will return to expansion mode. Companies who acquire and possess superior talent will outpace their competition. It is imperative to have the best players on your team in order to stimulate your business. Please join us, along with your industry expert peers, as we discuss how to identify gaps in your workforce and introduce plans to fill those gaps with an optimally productive and impactful team.

Analytics Matter: Recruiting the Frontline Workforce
Analytics is becoming an important topic for HR. This webcast looks at how companies use analytics to hire a better front line workforce. Even in a recession industries such as retail, long-term care, hospitality and dining hire thousands of people -- analytics that lead to better hiring can have a big impact on workforce performance and hence profitability. If you have a large frontline workforce this webinar will provide insights on how to use analytics to reduce turnover and improve performance. HR professionals will learn how analytics can add more value to the recruiting function and to the organization as a whole.

Be a Hero in your company! Show how Talent Management, Happiness and the bottom line go together!
Studies have proven that happy employees are more productive and will positively affect the bottom line. What can you do as far as Learning and Talent Management to fully engage your employees?

By the Numbers: 2nd Annual Benefits Trends Report Summary
To say that 2009 is something of a roller-coaster year for business is a bit of an understatement. As an HR professional, you’re playing a more strategic role than ever in helping the organization to reduce costs, improve processes and drive employee engagement… especially in the area of employee benefits. Workscape has once again teamed-up with Workforce Magazine to conduct its 2nd Annual Employee Benefits Trends report and we would like you to join us for an exclusive webcast. During this hour-long interactive discussion, you’ll have an opportunity to review the results and learn how over 700 of your peers are responding to today’s most challenging benefits-related issues.

How State of Montana Improved Services, Reduced Costs by Creating an Effective Employee Portal
In this webcast we’ll discuss the latest trends in on-demand HR communications and portal technology and how the State of Montana created a technology platform attaining the efficiencies of a call center but within a self-service model.

Social Media & Web 2.0: Where do we go from here? Part II
Web 2.0 and social media have experienced explosive growth in the past eighteen months. As newspapers are succumbing to the economy, companies are seeking knowledge and direction on how to initiate an interactive strategy incorporating Web 2.0 technologies and creating a platform of candidate and employee engagement.

Six Steps to Communicating Workforce Analytics
The importance of effectively communicating workforce data (metrics, analytics, etc) is driven by three assumptions:
1. Business leaders possess finite blocks of time for reviewing workforce data
2. The workforce analytics process must include consideration of how the results are to be communicated
3. Data alone is not sufficient; HR must present a compelling story connects the audience to the issues, metrics, and next steps
As such, this webcast will outline tips, lessons learned, and case studies in delivering high-quality workforce analytics presentations.

Keeping Up in a Down Economy: What the Best Companies do to get Results in Tough Times
Most employees today feel overworked and underappreciated. During tough and challenging times when we are asking them to do even more with less, they report feeling even more stressed and fearful than ever before. To keep them from becoming myopic and instead consistently focused on the guests and opportunities at hand, management needs to especially be proactive and positive in difficult times. Dr. Bob Nelson will discuss his research and experience as to how recognition can make a practical difference during tight and recessionary times—even with little time, resources or budget. This session will use current and practical examples of what today’s organizations are doing to keep employees focused and positive in ways that can help the organization to emerge stronger from difficult economic times.

Real World Contractor Screening Strategies: Learn from Applied Materials Implementation Experience
Similar to your employees, contract workers and your contingent labor pool often have access to your customers and company assets but are they held to the same screening standards? Can you easily and accurately audit your vendors and partners? Just as performing background checks on your employees helps reduce risk to your company, screening contractors and contingent employees is equally important. This webinar explores the benefits of establishing a contractor screening program and ways in which this type of program can be administered effectively and cost-efficiently. Generate ideas for how this type of program would work in your organization when you hear from Applied Materials, Inc. how they successfully screen their extended workforce.

Re-think, Re-invent, and Re-ignite Your Workforce
In today’s buyers market for hiring what are the prevailing workforce trends in the restaurant industry. We will cover best practices to re-ignite your workforce, how to strengthen your existing team and the hiring practices that you should be implementing right now.

Understanding the Talent LifeCycle: Why employees join and stay in organizations
Learn why employees join and stay in organizations and what you can do to attract the very best and increase retention rates.

How to Make Your Employment Brand Resonate Across Borders
For employers who recruit outside of their country of origin, cultural differences, customs and the significance and logistics of candidate relocation can get in the way of effective recruiting. This webcast will examine how a Canadian employer developed a brand to work in the U.K. and Australia while staying true to its roots.

Are Your Hiring Practices Identifying Service Stars?
Two Best Practice Case Studies for Evaluating Service Talent. Competitors may try to duplicate your offerings…but they can’t duplicate your people. What can ultimately set you apart is the quality of your people and their interactions with your customers. In an environment where customer loyalty is critical to business survival, the emphasis that your organization places on hiring the right service-focused people is as critical as it has ever been. However, identifying the right candidates who possess the “service gene” can be a challenge – especially when the quantity (and not necessarily quality) of your applicant pool is rapidly growing. In this presentation we will highlight two case studies from the hospitality industry, and discuss how they have been able to identify the hospitality/service gene in potential applicants. We will use these case studies as a foundation to discuss best practices of selection processes for selecting hourly level as well as management level employees. We will discuss how to use your hiring practices as a competitive advantage by using a comprehensive hiring process and targeted assessments to help hiring managers determine which candidates have the natural talent and learned skills to provide excellence in service and hospitality.

The Holy Grail: HR & Learning Executives Driving Sustainable Growth in the Future
The “Holy Grail” of business is profitable growth. More specifically businesses are striving for sustainable, profitable growth. Our experiences have taught us there are three primary drivers that have the greatest impact on sustainable growth: 1) Customers,2) Culture and 3) Leadership. This model puts HR in a key position, as strategist, business partner and thought leader.

Hourly Recruiting Best Practices
In this webcast, the experts from SnagAJob.com focus on a subject near and dear to us – hourly hiring. We will focus on some of the methods we have seen, both traditional and non-traditional, to attract and retain top talent. Some of the things that we’ll cover include an overview of the hourly job workforce, keys to effective job descriptions and building your pipeline. We’ll show you how right now is the perfect time to upgrade your staff and build a stronger team. The speakers will help audience members who are new to hourly recruiting gain a fundamental understanding of best practices and suggest improvements for those with an existing strategy.

The ROI of Selection: Identifying Key Performance Factors that Drive Bottom Line Results
The ability to accurately predict future job performance has long been the “Holy Grail” in hiring. While traditional recruitment efforts have focused on work history and previously acquired skills, advances in selection science have identified personality factors that influence future job performance. This webinar will examine how pre-employment assessments can be designed to be job relevant and discuss the best practices that human resource managers can adopt to align selection tools with key performance metrics that matter most within their organization.

Assessing Sales Capability in a Competitive Economy
Increasing sales and building revenue in a competitive economy is one of the most difficult challenges currently facing organizations. A competitive market can bring out the true colors of your sales staff. Those employees who have the appropriate skills find ways to be successful no matter what the economic climate. This poses a unique challenge to HR practitioners who are seeking to determine exactly what makes certain sales people successful while others are struggling.

Performance Management Practices that Boost Employee Engagement
There’s a wide body of research that shows that companies whose workers are fully engaged have better corporate performance. It’s unmistakable. In these organizations the team delivers great work, innovation, and they understand that their efforts are linked to the goals of the organization, and linked to how they will be rewarded. This webcast will discuss the significant impact that effective employee performance management can have on increasing employee engagement, and driving higher performance. You’ll hear from Steve Roesler a leading expert in the field of leadership and engagement. Steve will discuss how managers are the mediators of employee engagement because employees see managers as their personal source for direction, feedback, and development, and are expected to have--and share--accurate data that can enhance daily performance. HR Leader Kathy Anthony, of O’Sullivan Creel, will also share her experience of how she transformed her organization to one where performance management is ingrained in their culture, and where employee satisfaction and engagement has vastly increased.

Employee Confidence
Employee Confidence is an action-focused, performance oriented construct that can be used to forecast and enhance the success of the organization by measuring key components of the workplace environment and the individual employee within that environment. This webcast will provide the latest information on the levels of Employee Confidence across USA, UK, China, Russia, India, Brazil, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Canada, and Germany, the 12 largest economies in the world.

Building a WOW! Recognition Culture
Today’s businesses place increasing demands on their employees in order to meet the challenges of today’s economy. Give employees what they need to engage and excel. Learn how to positively impact morale and your bottom line by developing a WOW! Recognition Culture in your business. This webinar provides practical tips and budget-conscious strategies.

Making Compliance Training Matter: Mandatory Harassment Training in California, Connecticut, & Maine
Most employers have become familiar with the mandatory harassment training mandates that require training for managers in California, Connecticut, and Maine. Unfortunately, those in the business world often refer to such mandatory training as “check the box” training, relegating it to that which must be done but which will probably be ineffective at preventing and correcting sexually harassing behavior. Employers who want the sexual harassment training to be effective must look beyond fulfilling a requirement – simply checking a box – and insist on training that makes a difference in their workplace culture.

Innovations in Succession Management Methods and Applications
The purpose of succession management is to ensure a steady supply of talent for pivotal positions within an organization. The best way to do this is to create ongoing processes and cultural norms within an organization that ensure it is constantly attracting, developing, retaining, and promoting high potential employees. Yet many companies approach succession as a once-a-year event where employees are “racked and stacked” into broad, often illdefined categories. This session explores innovations in talent management methods and technology allowing organizations to shift away from the traditional succession mindset to less disruptive and more effective approaches which are integral to ongoing TM activities. Participants will complete a series of hands-on exercises examining how these innovations can be applied within their own companies.

Solutions you can’t delay: Proactive shields against overtime suits & the Employee Free Choice Act
Possibly the two greatest concerns for employers at this time --overtime class actions and The Employee Free Choice Act ("EFCA") -- have one thing in common: Employers who are unprepared for these challenges will face significant and costly legal issues. An employer who has proactively audited his wage/hour practices and who is sued for overtime violations is often at the mercy of plaintiffs' lawyers. Similarly, upon passage of the EFCA, unsuspecting employers, who have not taken effective preventative measures, will have few successful options at their disposal. Fortunately, there are creative and effective strategies which can minimize and/or prevent wage hour class actions (with little to no change in operations), even for employers with a substantial history of non-compliance. Similarly, employers that institute prevention strategies before being faced with an organizing campaign under the EFCA are in a position to implement policies and strategies that render their workforce much less vulnerable to union advances. This webcast will provide employers the tools they need to institute preventative measures that can literally save millions of dollars.

Emotional Intelligence: What’s New, What’s True
Improving EQ Through Behavioral Style
Intellect and functional skills are important, but research shows that emotional intelligence is the most important factor in effective leadership. There is a proven link between emotional intelligence and measurable business results. This webinar looks at the latest research on the subject of emotional intelligence including:

Laying off foreign workers? What employers & employees need to know about related immigration issues
Laying off foreign employees can be confusing for everyone concerned. Get guidance on how to handle the situation and immigration related issues in this free webinar! All attendees will receive the complimentary two-part guide: 1) What Employers Need to Know about Immigration Issues Related to Layoffs of Foreign Employees, and 2) Answers to FAQs from Foreign Employees Affected by Layoffs.

Corporate Responsibility and Telework
Research demonstrates, and good sense dictates, that organizations benefit from a focus on corporate social and environmental responsibility or sustainability. One obvious mechanism to reduce an organization’s environmental footprint is by instituting telework options. Competition is fierce in this current economic climate and CR and telework can both enhance competitive advantage.

Helping Health Care Organizations Navigate the Employee Free Choice Act
How will the Employee Free Choice Act and similar legislation affect health care organizations like yours? This timely and important Webinar offers comprehensive information on the risk assessment resources available for identifying organization vulnerabilities and examines a variety of management, training, and employee communication solutions that help strengthen the position of your organization. Presented by law partners from the national labor law firm Ford & Harrison and the employee communication experts from Bernard Hodes Group, this event will give you a broad understanding of the costs and impact of unionization, the ability to identify if your organization is “at risk,” and most importantly, share with you the tactical and strategic steps you can initiate to best articulate your position.

Competency Models for Organizational Change – Three Case Studies
Competency models are widely used by businesses as the foundation for important human resources functions such as recruitment and hiring, training and development, compensation planning, and performance management. Models are often built with a future state in mind. They describe the collection of knowledge, skills and abilities that subject matter experts project will be necessary to be successful in a job at some point in the near-term future (3-5 years). Through 3 case studies, we will describe how building the competency model for a future state provided the initial impetus and sustained momentum for significant organizational changes such as changing role expectations, facilitating acquisitions, and changing leadership.

Evidence-Based Leadership: Seven Enduring Truths About Leadership During Crisis
In these uncertain times when the foundations of our global economic system are being challenged, we need to look beyond the pessimistic predictions, the fads, and the simplistic solutions to what's proven and what's real. It's critically important to remind ourselves of what the evidence tells about how leaders get extraordinary things done. In this webinar Jim will discuss seven of the most enduring and sustainable leadership lessons he and Barry Posner have learned from their recent analyses of global data from 950,000 respondents to their Leadership Practices Inventory—the world's bestselling leadership assessment instrument—and from their work on the 4th edition of The Leadership Challenge.

FMLA Expansion: What the new rules mean to you
The final Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) rules took effect on January 16, 2009. Are you in compliance with the newer provisions involving military family members? Learn more about these provisions and their underlying regulations by attending this highly informative webcast.

The Way to Cut Costs in Lean Times by Optimizing ‘Anytime, Anywhere Work’
It is a new day. It’s time to rethink, re-tool, revamp. What yesterday seemed like a proven way of trimming costs, getting the best performance and pushing the people equation no longer applies. The trend toward ‘anytime, anywhere work’ is all the rage. Simply an unstoppable force, this new way of working and managing reduces overhead, eliminates distractions that compromise performance, and feeds employee engagement that boosts profitability. But how do you make such a transformation work? How do you manage it? How can HR be the hero instead of the villain in this systemic change?

CEO Interview with Steve Lowisz, CEO, Qualigence
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

CEO Interview with Bill Larkin, Principal, Executive Alliance
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

Building the “Next Generation” of Diversity Metrics
Organizations have long-since tracked standard measures of workforce diversity, from staffing rates to turnover data. However, many organizations struggle to calculate the business impact of diversity, from creating more powerful employment branding propositions to delivering on customer-centric business models. Challenges include measuring traditional (gender) and non-traditional (learning styles) dimensions, moving from summary scorecards to deep analytics, and communicating the results of diversity measures. As such, in this webinar, Infohrm’s Nicholas Garbis will outline how leading organizations are overcoming both strategic and operational challenges to the effective measurement of diversity and share examples of innovative metrics that any organization can begin using today.

How Sustainable Business Strategy and Practices Show Value to the Organizations Who Employ Them
This presentation will focus on data that illustrates how businesses who focus on sustainable business practices realize tangible benefits in terms of attracting talent, building engaged, confident, and loyal employees, and show better organizational performance than those who do not adhere to sustainable business practices.

CEO Interview with Jason Averbook, CEO, Knowledge Infusion
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

CEO Interview with John Holt, CEO and Director, Sonar6
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

CEO Interview with Dylan Schleppe, Co-founder and CEO, Recruit2Mobile
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what’s working and what’s not.

Emotions Are Running the Joint! Methods for Increasing Emotional Competence in Coaching &Training
Right now, more than ever, emotions are running high in organizations around the globe. People are fearful and afraid to make decisions. Leaders are tasked with moving the business forward while also motivating themselves and their employees to be productive and positive.

CEO Interview with Kim Shepherd, CEO, Decision ToolBox
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

CEO Interview with Matthew Levin, SVP, Corporate Development & Strategy, Hewitt
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

CEO Interview with Arjen 'AJ' Althuis, Vice President of Consulting Services, Guidant Group
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

CEO Interview with Kevin Klinvex, Founder, Select International
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

Recession-Proof Compliance: Keep the Downturn from Steering Your Workplace toward a Crash
Statistically it's pretty clear that when economic conditions worsen employment related litigation increases. Workers may look for something (or someone) to blame if they find themselves on the layoff list. Those who suspect that their selection for a layoff is discriminatory may be more likely to aggressively pursue a claim if they expect to be jobless for a long time. Employees worried about their jobs may be stressed and edgy, leading to performance issues. Laid off workers and their attorneys may be scrutinizing employer compliance with WARN act and COBRA requirements. We saw this trend in earlier, milder downturns. Under today's conditions the situation could easily be much worse. In this one hour webcast we'll take a look at how you can "recession-proof" your workplace.

CEO Interview with Kent Barnett, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Knowledge Advisors
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

How to Cut Costs in your Sourcing Process
Learn how to cut costs in your sourcing process during these economic times. Utilize today’s new technology to improve your candidate screening process.

A Strategic Approach to Developing Future Leaders
Senior management often turn to their Talent Management organizations to help them identify and develop leadership talent. Constrained by limited budget and resources, these organizations must be strategic in their approach to developing future leaders. To achieve the greatest results, they must develop the “right people,” in the “right leadership competencies,” with the “right methodologies,” tailored to each individual. Learn how to align your leadership development efforts with the business strategy and succession planning processes to have the greatest impact on the individual and the organization.

CEO Interview with Dayna DeVito-Fleck, Lockton Insurance Brokers, LLC
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

Is Disjointed Data Blurring Your View of Who to Retain or Fire? 5 Steps to HRM Applications Clarity
Does your organization make critical talent management decisions by patching together data across multiple HR management systems? Is your employee information out-of-sync, in conflict or just plain missing? You’re not alone. According to Forrester research, most companies do not know which employees to retain, promote or fire.

Layoffs and Their Impact on Employee Engagement: How to Manage Survivors
In the current economic crisis, many organizations are laying off employees in order to balance operating expenses against reduced revenue streams. Dr. Jack Wiley will explore the impact of these workforce reductions on layoff “survivors” and what leaders and managers need to do to retain and engage their workers.

CEO Interview with Colin Bradley from Winston Financial
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

CEO Interview with Dave Copps, Founder and CEO, Pure Discovery
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CEO Interview with Al Campa, Senior Vice President and CMO, Taleo Corporation
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.

CEO Interview with Ryan Caldwell, CEO, Entice Labs
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CEO Interview with Ed Newman, Founder, The Newman Group (FutureStep/Newman Group)
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CEO Interview with Mike Byam, Owner, Terryberry
Join us for these one-on-one interviews with the CEO and top executives from new and innovative and well-established HCM providers. Gather valuable insights as to where the market is going, what's working and what's not.