Human Resources: Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Learning Trends for Leadership Development
Participants will leave this session with an opportunity to consider several approaches to leadership development which can significantly reduce the time and expense associated with traditional classroom training, while enhancing learning transfer at the same time.

Feedback Power: Five Steps to Employee Engagement
This webinar introduces five steps to collecting, analyzing and acting upon employee feedback to effectively increase employee engagement and drive successful Human Resource Strategies.

Looking Ahead: Preparing for FMLA Changes and Challenges
Peter Susser of Littler Mendelson, author of the Family and Medical Leave Handbook, will discuss his views and interpretations of FMLA changes. Recent changes to FMLA and the fact that the DOL is heading into a formal rulemaking process means that companies must closely monitor regulatory changes and adapt their internal policies and practices to comply with evolving requirements. It is critical that employers review their current practices and take actions to be prepared when the new regulations are issued.

HR’s Role in Protecting the Organization from Identity Theft
Identity theft affects 15 million* American residents each year – and averages 81 hours** to resolve. For an organization with 1,000 employees, this could mean over 4,000 hours of lost work, and probably much more. HR has a great opportunity and responsibility to help employees manage and respond to identity theft without it taking over their lives. This webcast will provide the latest information on the various types of crimes involved with identity fraud, provide step by step tips for how to help employees if they become a victim, suggest ways to prevent identity theft in the workplace, and offer strategies to reduce the absenteeism and productivity loss resulting from this crime.

Long-Term Care: Issues and Programs for Executives and Board Members
Long-term care is fast being recognized as an essential part of retirement planning. The average cost of a private nursing home room is already over $76,000 a year.

Building a Recognition Culture for the Fast Lane
Often in the workplace, recognition is overlooked as schedules become increasingly busier. But working in a culture that does not support recognition can lead to burnout, decreased performance, demotivation and even reduced profitability. In this seminar you'll learn strategies for aligning your employee recognition initiative with corporate objectives and you'll get a step-by-step guide for implementing a strategic employee recognition program.

How to Diagnose and Optimize Your Team's Performance
Are you ready to assess—and optimize—the teams in your organization? Teaming and collaboration have become imperative as organizations develop new strategies to compete in today’s global, market-driven environment. In fact, almost all employees work at least part of their day in a team. Understanding the behaviors and attitudes that drive or impede performance is essential to today’s organization. Darlene Davis and Wayne Davis authors of Team Performance Inventory will discuss how to diagnose and optimize your team’s performance.

Thinking Out of the Recruiting Box – The New Job Candidate
Fluctuating economic conditions coupled with what appears to be a dearth of available talent makes for significant recruiting challenges. Join this webcast to explore new ways of finding qualified job candidates by engaging them in non-traditional ways. That college intern, recent retiree or new parent seeking a flexible work schedule might be the short-term investment to a long-term full time employee!

International Talent Wars: Making your job offer stick in 13 different countries
How do you recruit managers in India, administrative assistants in China, and engineers in Germany? Data from around the globe reveals the secrets of winning the war for talent, answering the question ‘why join?’ in 13 different countries.

The Basics of Market-Based Pay
For those who are new to compensation plan design or those who wear multiple hats within an organization, the terminology associated with market-based pay alone can be overwhelming. This webcast will introduce the learner to basic concepts of market-based pay plan design. The hands-on approach used by the presenter will allow learners to immediately apply the concepts presented to their own compensation plan design.

Leveraging Contact Management in Recruiting
Our industry has long recognized that your best new hires, your next star employees, are those that are not actively looking for a new opportunity. The trouble is that these folks are not actively seeking you – they are waiting to be sought out. This presentation will focus on the value of using a Contact Management solution as a recruiting sourcing tool used to proactively identify and build relationships with prospective new candidates.

Web 2.0 as the Ultimate Expression of Employer Brand
Web 2.0— the interactive, collaborative Internet characterized by social media (e.g., blogs, Facebook, etc.)— is changing the way we recruit, employ and work with people. Employer branding— communicating the relationship an organization has with its workers— has already had significant impact on employment. Combine the two and you have a potent, dynamic mixture that will challenge employers in ways we are only beginning to understand. This webcast will explore the facets of Web 2.0 and how you can harness them to ensure you attract and retain the best talent.

Using the Right Benefits to Recruit Healthcare Professionals
With healthcare professionals in short supply it is important to know the age, generation and needs of the individuals who can fill your openings—and benefits which will attract and retain them. Learn who the allied health professionals really are; what the RNs need and how to convince Senior Management providing some unusual benefits will drive dollars to the bottom line.

A New Way to Rethink Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent
Rethink HR by applying consumer branding strategies to leverage your true cultural identity and drive internal and external recruiting and retention success for your company

Who’s Lying? How to Identify & Document Untruthfulness in Internal Investigative Interviews
In this interactive presentation, attendees play the role of an investigator, or someone who oversees investigations, and they confront a variety of complex hypothetical scenarios, many of which are based on actual cases. Mr. Johnson will focus on advanced techniques for deciding who's telling the truth and who's lying and properly documenting your findings.

Creating a World Class HR Shared Services/Call Center Organization
Join us for this informative webinar to learn more about creating an effective, world-class HR Shared Services/Call Center using innovative knowledge, decision support and case management solutions from Enwisen, the leader in innovative workforce communications technologies.

A Proven System for Investing in People: The Toyota Culture
Identifying and hiring quality people is important to all organizations – but it’s imperative for Toyota. Michael Hoseus, co-author of the book, “Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way,” and Kevin Klinvex, EVP and Co-founder of Select International, share their knowledge on the Toyota culture and the process Toyota uses to find and keep top talent.

How HR Can Educate the Healthcare Consumer
Healthcare consumerism is here to stay, as medical plan designs keep evolving to place more responsibility on members to consume health services wisely. Whether you have introduced high deductible plans with HSAs, raised deductibles or shifted premium costs to employees, your workforce needs considerable support through the transition. How can HR guide them up the seven steps to becoming smart healthcare consumers? We’ll explore this question and share some ideas on how to fine-tune your portal strategy.

More Time for your Business: RPO as a Recruitment Strategy
Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc. (RWDI) is the leading wind engineering consulting services firm in the world. With limited HR resources and ongoing recruitment needs as diverse as project engineers, scientists, support staff, and even a CFO, RWDI required a recruitment strategy that would enable them to maintain their core business focus while attracting – and retaining – the very best talent. In this presentation, Sheila Smith, Senior HR Consultant at RWDI, shares her recruiting wish-list and her experiences on the journey to realizing the goals of most HR execs: a shorter recruitment cycle; cost-per-hire containment; easier access to hard-to-find niche skills; and enough time left over for HR to focus on strategic initiatives. If you’ve never considered Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) as a strategy, find out first-hand how RPO is performing for this market leader, and the benefits it can deliver to your company.

The Benefits of Balance: Combating Stress in the Workplace
The stress that employees face in their personal lives is only just a part of their struggle to maintain a healthy work/life balance. When everyday workplace stress is added to the equation, this balance can seem unattainable, and productivity suffers. As an employer, there IS something you can do to help your employees take control of their daily stress management while protecting your organization from the high costs related to lost productivity, absenteeism and turnover, and even increased health care costs.

This webcast will run from 11:00am ET to 12:00 noon ET.

Creating the Ultimate Candidate Experience: Best Practices from Industry Experts & FedEx Recruitment
The War for Talent, employment branding, and candidate relationship management aren’t just buzzwords; they are vital components in a corporation’s successful talent management strategy. How well does your organization stack up? Learn how to create the ultimate candidate experience and how that experience translates to better quality hires, a stronger employment brand, and a tangible ROI for your organization.

Compensation Surveys Made Simple
This educational webcast will examine the role of compensation surveys in determining “job value” or “job worth”. It will examine the fundamentals of survey selection and data management within the broader context of market pricing.

Becoming a Due Diligence Company: Background Screening and Employment Eligibility Verification
Stop playing the guessing game when it comes to background screening and employment eligibility compliance. Find out March 20th best practice methods for screening and legislation for employment eligibility.

Competencies that Matter—Building a Foundation for Talent Management
How would you rate your organization’s competency model? If you have one, does it ‘stick’ with your employees? Do they understand what competencies are and how they are relevant to their role? To their growth and development? Are your managers assessing and measuring your employees with the ‘right’ competencies? Learn answers to these critical questions and create lasting competency deployment across your organization.

The ROI of RPO: Everything You Need to Know in 60 Minutes
Realizing that good employees are their most valuable resource, more companies are turning to recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) to find and hire a quality workforce. By delegating part or all of the recruiting and hiring function to a qualified outsourcing partner, employers experience a streamlined procedure that improves quality, cost and time to hire, as well as many other benefits. Not an all-or-nothing solution, the broad variety of RPO options provides flexibility but can also make selecting the right solution to meet your organization’s specific hiring needs very challenging. It's important to plan, implement and measure the ROI of your RPO effort very carefully. This webcast will explore how you can do that effectively and ensure you get a true return on investment.

Strategic Workforce Planning in 2008: Career Progression Analysis
Workforce planning consists of aligning an organization’s financial and strategic planning processes with human capital, ensuring the right people are in the right place at the right time. However, with increasing competition for talent, organizations face continued challenges in sourcing new supplies of labor to replace departing employees or fulfill growth expectations. As such, more effective management of the internal workforce can decrease the reliance on scarce external talent and improve the flow of internal labor into key roles or job families. One such management tool is Career Progression Analysis, a technique quickly proving to be a successful weapon in analyzing internal marketplaces for inefficiencies or potential gaps, tracking the movement of workforce segments through the organization, and identifying hot spots within current career paths. During this webinar, Jeff Higgins and Paige Menge will discuss why career progression analysis is so important to an organization, showing techniques and real world examples of how the tool is foundational for successful workforce planning.

Sarbanes-Oxley: Implications for Human Capital Management
Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002 has ushered in sweeping changes to corporate governance, putting compliance issues at the forefront for U.S. public companies. Organizations have had to develop new strategies to meet the new rules and regulations related to the act. These strategies range from management of internal controls to new guidelines for the Board of Directors. What are less well understood are the implications for strategies related to managing the company’s human capital. This webcast presents a brief overview of the Act and reviews best practices.

Preventing Workplace Violence
Preventing Violence in the Workplace focuses on developing a comprehensive plan to minimize the risks and show due diligence in creating a safe work environment by learning how to identify early warning signals, create a communication strategy to empower employees to recognize and share concerning behavior, implement pre-employment screening results into your hiring risk model, and finally develop a crisis management plan.

Vendor Screening, How important is it? Pitfalls, Quality, and Security of Vendors and Contractors.
Partnering with different vendors is a strong trend in market place today. How you manage those relationships can help or harm your company both in the market place and financially. GIS understands the key to developing, screening, and ongoing security of vendor relations in order to supplement your overall productivity and growth.

Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Electronic Form I-9 but Were Afraid to Ask
Explore the benefits and advantages of using electronic Form I-9 for employment eligibility verification. Learn about the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) E-Verify program requirements, best practices, policies, FAQs and current legislation. Focus on time saving and reduced administration approaches for compliance with government regulations.

It’s the ROI, Stupid: Making the Argument for Career and Succession Planning
As a well-informed HR professional, you get it: career and succession planning are indispensable weapons in the battle for talent. An organization can’t just “make it up as we go along” anymore; a carefully thought-out strategy is necessary. So why is it sometimes so difficult to articulate this to upper management? How can you make the execs “get it” too?

Automating Code of Conduct Certification for Efficiency and Risk Management
Organizations continually struggle with effective and efficient methodologies to annually distribute, validate receipt and certify understanding of their Codes of Conduct as well as collect exceptions to their Codes. In this webinar, we’ll examine Southern California Edison’s “paperless” Code of Conduct certification process, along with realized effectiveness and efficiencies. We’ll further look at how Southern California Edison is linking Code of Conduct certification and hotline/web reporting to identify and process exception reports.

The Evolution of Reference Checking: No Longer Just “Name, Rank, and Serial Number”
Recent innovations and enhancements in technology have caused reference checking to emerge as an essential tool for the selection of the "best" candidates for your positions. It is now an automated tool that has proven to be both time and cost efficient. And it is clearly endorsed by all parties involved – by recruiters and hiring managers, as well as by job candidates and their business references. This webcast will explore the evolution of reference checking into a cutting-edge tool now being used by companies to improve quality of hire.

Measuring The Value And Impact Of Leadership
Discover the high performance leadership practices that build employee confidence, strengthen customer loyalty and positively impact the bottom line.

Ethics and Compliance Education and Training
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines and recently enacted regulations for government contractors require that employers provide ethics and compliance training tailored to the specific needs of their employees. In this interactive webinar, we will explore how to create a curriculum that is tailored to the practical needs of your employees. Among other things, we will discuss: • How do you conduct a learning gap analysis and map a curriculum for each employee? • How do you best deliver each type of training? • How do you avoid creating legal risk as a result of the training? • How do you ensure the training is accurate, practical, and engaging? • How do you administer the training and track completion? • How do you evaluate the effectiveness of the training?

Help Your Employees Fully Understand – and Leverage – Their Total Rewards
Today’s companies make major investments in their workforce’s total compensation packages – health benefits, employee assistance programs, stock programs, 401(k) and much more. Yet, very few employees understand – or leverage – the true value of their total rewards. In this webcast learn how companies such as Yahoo! and Hannaford Bros. Co. are using on-demand Total Rewards Statements to...

12 Steps to Talent Management Success
Content of this webcast will be based upon the Knowledge Infusion white paper: “How to Buy a Talent Management Suite.” This white paper covers the 12 steps for making the right “business” decision when considering a talent management suite. It spans the planning, selection, and deployment considerations.

VOC + EBA = ROI
Discover the importance of capturing the many voices within your organization that are impacted by your employer brand. Learn how other companies translate the “voices” into robust HR metrics in order to benchmark and trend data over time. Ultimately, results driven by strategic recommendations will improve a company’s Employer Brand and Retention efforts.

Capturing the Passive Job Seeker
Are your recruitment strategies excluding one very important target audience? While only 15 percent of employed workers say they’re actively seeking another job, 50 percent say that although they are not actively looking they would be open to a new job if they came across one, according to a new CareerBuilder.com survey.

Recruiting Gen Y – It’s all about Online!
With 80 million Gen Ys – those born between 1979 and 1999 – entering the workforce, every single organization needs to get up to speed quickly on the best way to source and recruited these talented individuals. The most computer savvy generation to-date, Gen Ys have lived in the Web 2.0 world long before the rest of us knew it existed. Recent surveys revealed that the vast majority of Gen Y candidates visit company Web sites, social networking sites and online job boards to look at prospective employers. Join this webcast to learn what you need to be doing to attract qualified Gen Y candidates to your company

Employee Engagement Drives Customer Satisfaction: How to Power Results
When SumTotal’s customer satisfaction showed early warning signs of trouble, their Talent Management team stepped in to deliver two new employee development programs focused on the competencies that drive employee engagement and customer satisfaction. The result was an almost immediate 14% improvement in customer satisfaction and a 60% reduction in customer issue escalation. Along the way, SumTotal reduced onboarding time by 75% and improved employee retention by 73%. Now those programs have been recognized in the talent management industry, winning both the Bersin & Associates Learning Leaders for Initiative Excellence Award and the ASTD Excellence in Practice Award. We’ll show you how SumTotal’s talent management team assessed needs and successfully delivered these award-winning initiatives for sustained business results. Please note: This presentation focuses on principles and concepts for Talent Management practitioners and business leaders. It is system agnostic and does not include SumTotal product demonstrations.

Coaching for Commitment: It Will Revolutionize the Way You Think about Coaching!
The ALL NEW Coaching for Commitment program does something that no other program has done before; it provides precise definitions of coaching and other roles by introducing the Role Model and the WHAT and HOW method. Coaching for Commitment makes it easy to differentiate when you are managing, mentoring, instructing and coaching. It will revolutionize the way you think about coaching!

5 Things You Should Know Before Spring Open Enrollment
Organizations across the country are facing new challenges in developing competitive benefit plans. In response, Compdata Surveys has compiled a list of five things you should know when planning and communicating the value of your benefit package. Learn how common misconceptions are affecting attraction and retention. You’ll also discover new methods for effectively handling the challenges facing your organization today.

Changing your culture… One leader at a time
The culture of your organization is created by the behavior your leaders exhibit and tolerate. Learn how to create sustainable leader behavior change using 360 Feedback, including the key decisions in design and implementation that lead to successful (i.e., valid) processes.

Workplace Violence Prevention – Educating Your Employees
In this interactive webinar, you will learn how to prevent and defuse workplace threats, aggression, and violence in a proactive manner.

Executive Compensation 2008: Where Do We Stand?
The turmoil in executive compensation over the past few years has left many wondering what really is – and isn’t – going on. This webcast provides data on the current structure and operation of executive compensation programs in preparation for what promises to be another controversial and change-laden year.

Legally Reducing Absenteeism
Unscheduled absences cost U.S. employers an estimated $760,000 in direct payroll costs. Many traditional measures to reduce absenteeism are ineffective – and even illegal. This webcast will explore the key reasons for absenteeism and how you can design and implement policies that controls absences, reduce administrative hassles, improve morale and keep your company out of legal hot water.

Strategic Employee Onboarding: First Impressions are Everything
Leading organizations realize that onboarding is a business process that increases employee engagement and retention, and accelerates time-to-productivity. It’s not just about filling out forms for HR on the first week of work. Learn how to improve and streamline onboarding processes, reduce inefficiencies and forge lasting relationships with new hires. During this Webinar, we will address: What is the “right” onboarding experience? How does good onboarding impact employee retention and satisfaction? What are some examples of successful onboarding techniques and processes? How does one measure onboarding ROI?

Productivity Chain
There is a chain of events that occur in productivity. Three links in a series of eight links, are pivotal for maximum productivity and quality levels. There are five distinct cultures found in workplaces throughout the world. Understanding the links in different cultures is key to both the employer and the employee achieving specific goals. For the employer, it is key to its success, growth and profit in a global marketplace. For the employee it is key to community stability, cooperative effort, quality, job satisfaction, wealth and personal development.

Workforce Planning: 90 Day Action Plan
In 90 days you can take action in five areas to strengthen your workforce planning program. If you don’t have a workforce plan now is a good time to start. This webcast will focus on five key areas; Talent Acquisition, Competency Models, Current Research in Selection, Selection Simulation Models, and Key Recruiter Competencies. We will share with you how workforce planning can reduce your cost per hire, lower dependence on postings and by building a candidate pipeline your company can increase the quality of hire.

Benefits of Talent Management: Potential and Opportunity
Companies that create and employ talent management practices often make a significant investment in the organization and its employees. We know that talent management practices have a positive impact on employee performance and motivation, but until recently, did not realize the potential influence to employees’ feelings toward their organizations. This webcast will present data from multiple countries that demonstrate the relationship of talent management and employee attitudes.

Beyond California: Harassment, Ethics, and Compliance Training in Other States
California is not the only state to require harassment prevention training for supervisors. Learn which other states require training, and why, even if yours does not, you still may be legally obligated to conduct harassment prevention training.

Help Your Employees Become More Informed Benefits Consumers
Did you know that every year, more than 80% of employers re-vamp their benefits plans to contain healthcare costs and better meet the needs of the workforce. And yet, only 20% of employees make new elections – due largely to ineffective communications and decision support. Attend this informative webinar to learn how organizations like yours are using web-based benefits communication and decision support tools – for open enrollment and year-round for new hires – to help employees become more informed benefits consumers.

Lead New Supervisors on the Road to Success
Are your front-line supervisors prepared for their roles? Are you prepared to train them? Front-line supervisors have a huge impact on organizational culture—if effective, they’ll lead happy, productive teams that work together to exceed company goals and expectations. If underprepared, they can cause riffs in the very fiber of the organization, negatively affecting corporate culture, HR retention, and the bottom line. In this one-hour webcast, Miki Lane—founder of MVM Communications and the author of Stepping Up: A Road Map for New Supervisors— will share some solid, practical advice to orient a new or aspiring supervisor to the role and introduce the groundwork for future success.

How to Set up Automated Performance Management for Teams and Growing Businesses
It’s the time of year for annual Performance Reviews and Goal Setting for your team. Looking for an intuitive, streamlined tool that that encourages managerial feedback and employee engagement? Join Alexis Belanger as he discusses key challenges around performance reviews, goal alignment, and general team management. Automating some of these processes will help you get the best from your teams and people.

Sourcing and Recruiting Hourly Workers
While it sounds like it should be easy to hire hourly workers, it’s not. The recruiting tactics and techniques that work for exempt professional positions don’t necessarily translate into the hourly worker’s candidate experience. However, going back to manual recruiting processes isn’t the solution either, especially since your hourly workers might also constitute your frontline employees, which means you have to source, assess and hire the best!

How To Implement High ROI Competency-Based Workforce Initiatives
This educational webcast is designed to share Key Elements Required for the success in any competency based workforce initiative. Participants will learn the critical processes, framework, content, technologies and internal resources required for a strong ROI and effective results when competencies are required in their Human Capital Initiative.

A New Way to Rethink Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent
Rethink HR by applying consumer branding strategies to leverage your true cultural identity and drive internal and external recruiting and retention success for your company

Automating the OnBoarding Process - The first BIG step toward Retention
The effectiveness of your company’s onboarding process is the first key to engaging new hires and has impact on overall retention of your workforce. Onboarding is an intricate process that involves in-part, ever-changing compliance and legal documentation. Providing the tools and knowledge your new employees need to begin making a valuable contribution tends to get lost in the shuffle. This webcast will focus onboarding automation which will streamline the onboarding process and allow you to focus on sharing the critical information that your new employee needs to know as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Workplace Practices that Impact Engagement
Learn how participating in corporate social responsibility activities, maintaining an ethical work environment and providing flexible work policies influence your employment brand. Implications for engagement and retaining staff will also be presented.

Electronic I-9 and the history of “E-Verify”
GIS presents its own human resource director as an industry expert on the history and compliance of employment eligibility verifications and I-9 processes. Learn the history and updates while also becoming an expert on how to store forms and fight the ongoing challenges of government compliance.

Why Analyzing Turnover is Not Enough
Across the HR landscape, employee turnover is the metric commonly used to describe the stability and health of a workforce. Reducing turnover is the most consistently cited goal when implementing hiring management systems. Kelly Northrop, Kronos Analytic Consultant, draws from her experience in working directly with many of the world’s leading companies to present a new conceptual and analytical framework for better understanding turnover and its impact on corporate performance. This webcast investigates how turnover impacts organizations operationally, introduces complementary metrics to expand our understanding of these operational effects, and describes how we partition and value the hard and soft costs associated with turnover.

Technology That Will Lower HR Operating Costs - 8th of the 8 Part Series How To Pick A Winner
Many employers view the HR function simply as a cost of doing business and alocate to it the fewest resources possible. With this reality in mind, HR should harness technology to maximize efficiency while improving its effectiveness. In this webinar, the presenter will discuss tools available to help HR improve the efficiency of the applicant screening and selection process while maintaining compliance with federal requirements.

Maintaining Employee Engagement during Periods of Transformational Change
When organizations undergo significant change (mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, new product launch, reorganizations etc.) employee concerns can be quite high. What is this all about, how will this impact me, will I survive this upheaval, are commonly asked questions. This session will examine a framework that can be used to help organizations manage through change and can ease the transition to a new end-state while maintaining employee engagement.

Biodata Myth-Busting: Why It Works, Why It’s Fair
A widely recognized expert in employee selection and testing will discuss the effectiveness of biodata as an employee selection tool based on real-world examples as well as scientific data. The event will dispel common myths about biodata, demonstrating that it is fair to protected groups and highly cost effective

Are You Leading Change, Or Is It Leading You?
Today’s organizations are faced with the complicated issues of unprecedented technology advancement, an increasingly diverse workforce, cutthroat competition and commoditization, off shoring, outsourcing, and talent management. If organizations are to survive (let alone thrive) during this period of business transformation, they must find ways of systematically encouraging workers to embrace transformative change as the key to success. In this one-hour webcast, Bill Poole—consultant, coach and the author of Journey to Newland— will introduce to you a practical process that you can use to lead positive, transformational change in your organization.

Perfecting the Interview Process – Behavioral Interviewing at Giant Eagle
Interviewing is the most widely used instrument in applicant screening and assessment, yet many organizations don’t have a sound interviewing process. Join Lynn Lambrecht, Senior Director of Talent Management for Giant Eagle, as she discusses how implementing a sound, structured behavioral interviewing program can eliminate the time-consuming and unproductive elements of traditional interviews and increase your hiring accuracy.

Outplacement: A Time for Change
Reality check: 86% of the people you make redundant remain in your community Most outplaced individual’s programmes expire before they secure new opportunities The preparation and confidence to launch a successful job search campaign increases 2.5 times after receiving outplacement On average, 50% of newly hired executives leave or are sacked in the first three years in the post* * According to the Corporate Leadership Council Never before has there been such a demand for quality outplacement services. Never before has there been such a variance in the quality of outplacement available. Changing needs of organisations and individuals in transition are driving a new level of innovation, flexibility and accountability. Learn about the next evolution of outplacement and the new standards of partnership you should demand from your service provider.

Bell Revolutionizes Their Survey Process
Join Siegie Kinitz, Senior Consultant, BCE Corporate Services, for a discussion on how to design a smart survey program that yields results. Mr. Kinitz will share best practices for choosing a survey administrator, and will emphasize the key areas for all survey programs – creating the right questions and committing to taking action on results. Mr. Kinitz will also explain the value of partnership, both internally and with a survey administrator, even if you administer your own surveys in house.

Best Practices in Workforce Analytics with ING Financial Services and How it Drives Performance
As the topic of workforce analytics and planning continues to gain traction in C-level suites, many organizations are struggling to understand how workforce analytics can drive business performance. Too many organizations maintain human capital measurement teams that are too reactive in nature and do not provide the strategic insight that line managers are demanding. Some organizations, however, have evolved their workforce analysis and planning functions to truly get to measures that impact the financial performance of their respective organizations. One such organization is ING Financial Services, a leading global financial services organization that has recognized the value of solving business problems through the creative use of workforce data.

Cheap Background Screens Are a Waste of $$ - 7th of the 8 Part Series How To Pick A Winner
It’s no secret that background verification has become an integral part of the pre-employment process over the last few years. There are overwhelming reasons to do searches on new hires, such as the real threat of liability employers now face under the legal doctrine of "negligent hiring,” and that falsification or exaggeration of credentials on resumes and employment applications is at an all-time high.

You acquire talent but can you keep it? Using surveys to effectively measure employee engagement
Employee surveys are the most common method to measure employee satisfaction and engagement. Yet despite ongoing efforts to capture employee feedback, organizations are not capturing the right data to reliably measure employee perceptions. Why this disconnect? In this webinar attendees will learn how to use surveys to effectively measure employee satisfaction and engagement, avoid common employee survey pitfalls and capture meaningful data to drive organizational change.

How to Budget for Your Talent Acquisition Solution
Are you planning to purchase a talent acquisition solution in 2008? Now is the time to understand all the costs and create a budget for your project. We’ll help you plan for the things you haven’t even thought about yet and help you create a framework for the total cost of ownership.

Fat Results from Lean Implementation: A Rational Approach to Lean Success
Fat Results from Lean Implementation: A Rational Approach to Lean Success The principles of Lean manufacturing have existed for over half of a decade, yet still remain a mystery to many. This session introduces the basic principles of Lean, provides a brief historical perspective, and discusses how focusing on the elimination of non-value-added activities supports continuous improvement and customer satisfaction. Presented by Ryan Thornton of Kepner-Tregoe, Inc.

Getting What You Really Crave – Addressing ATS Implementation Challenges!
Let’s face it. The promise of a bright, shiny ATS is an exciting development for any company. But, the reality is, while most vendors promise productivity within 90 days the actual time to productivity often turns out to be seven months or more. How long can your business really afford to wait? Join Ed Newman, president of The Newman Group, a leading provider of talent acquisition and management consulting services, as he reveals insider ATS implementation secrets that we bet you’ve never event thought of!

Reporting and Metrics: The Foundation to Build and Support your Recruitment Strategies
Shareholder buy-in is a critical component to realizing success from recruitment strategies. As a recruiter you must be able to pull the data you want and have the reports contain real-time figures to support your desires and plans. To extract the right reports you must identify what type of data best supports your organization’s individual goals. Having the right reporting can make you more of a strategic business partner to your company and allow them to see the value of your staffing operations.

Improve Overall Labor Effectiveness with Kronos and Microsoft
Pressure to find and allocate the right people to the right place and at the right time continues to rise, and workforce analytics may provide an answer. In this webcast, you will learn how the advent of new technologies has made it easier for manufacturers to place strategic focus on the use of operational and workforce data. Find out what Best-in-Class organizations are doing and how you can start measuring and analyzing your own data to make better decisions faster, resulting in a strategic advantage.

Best Practices for Sourcing & Capturing Candidates
This Webinar is designed specifically for mid and senior managers in corporations, recruitment and staffing firms, and will identify innovative methods that you can implement today to improve sourcing and capturing candidates.

The Power of the Individual: Understanding Reward and Recognition for Today’s Diverse Workforce
With today’s increasingly diverse workforce, it’s hard to know the best way to motivate everyone. Learn how a national study identified six distinct profiles that show dramatic differences in recognition preferences that have little to do with simple demographics. Then, hear about emerging trends that are influencing reward selections used by successful global businesses and how you can make sure you are offering the right mix.

Is Project Management a Catch Phrase in Your Company?
Are your executives looking to you for guidance but you don't know where to start? Dr. Tom Johns, Senior Partner of BMC, the world's leading project management solution provider, will conduct a 1 hour webinar for HR people on " how to create a project management way of working" in your company. In this seminar, Dr. Johns will describe the system of management best suited to deal with the rapid paced, complex business environment of today's market, and how HR must respond to executive management need of competency solutions.

Using The Performance Management Template Effectively- 6th of the 8 Part Series How To Pick a Winner
Many organizations use Performance Management systems, but few use them effectively. Rather than being a duty that few look forward to performing, the Performance Management appraisal should be viewed as a tool to help identify future star employees. The key is developing the right Appraisal template and utilizing it effectively.

Creating A Talent Management Technology Strategy
Every organization seems to be talking about talent management these days, and many are beginning to develop a comprehensive talent management strategy. However, most firms neglect to build a talent management technology strategy that defines the steps and timeline to meet the objectives and goals of their talent management strategy. Without this in place, many organizations deploy applications in an ad hoc manner, which results in incompatible systems, increased total cost of ownership, and dissatisfied stakeholders at all levels.

Communicate or Evaporate No. 2 - Prejudgment dominates communication
Employers, in general, have a common problem…especially in diversified cultures. How to create and sustain a committed, loyal, engaged workforce. This webcast explains and demonstrates the Primary Judgment Model, the filing system of the human brain.

Extending Reach and Ensuring Effectiveness of Leadership Development
In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the value that can be derived from technology-based learning as an element of leadership development. This discussion will examine how technology-based learning resources can be used to broaden the reach of leadership development, increase return on investment and extend the positive effects of training over time.

New Thinking in Talent Management: Emerging Trends that are Driving Value
Most organizations are seeking to develop or refine their Talent Management strategies and processes with a keen eye on addressing the new War for Talent and more closely linking Talent Management to business results. This presentation will focus on emerging trends that have begun to show promise in areas such as recruiting, career development, performance management, retention and others.

Moving From Performance Management to Development Management
Turner Construction is the largest commercial construction companies in the nation. The company prides itself with the construction of highly visible projects such as the New Yankee Stadium, San Diego Convention Center Expansion and the new University of Notre Dame Performing Arts Center. With the increasing demand for employees, the need to move beyond the routine appraisal process is critical. At Turner construction, Patrick Aulson, Sr. Vice President of Human Resources, has introduced best practices for employee performance management that have been integral to keeping up with the demand for talent. Through the use of the talent management technology, Turner has been able to move beyond Performance Management into Development Management with an integrated approach to staffing, internal mobility, career development, succession and progression planning and performance management.

Laying the Foundation for Human Capital Measurement and Analytics
Demonstrated success in human capital measurement and analytics enables more precise understanding of how the workforce contributes to business success. However, several challenges must be overcome if HR is to lay a proper foundation for a data-driven decision-making. Firstly, HR staff will be expected to develop workforce analytics and understanding business fundamentals. Secondly, new analysts need to get the “reps” required for developing an analytics competency. And thirdly, organizations must decide which human capital issues possess the greatest opportunity for analysis and impact. During this webinar, Mick will discuss how a specific mix of skills, structures, and analytics processes are critical for success in laying a strong foundation for human capital measurement and analysis.

Enhance Your Online Presence to Attract Top Quality Talent
Give Dave Freeman 45 minutes and he’ll show you how to get more resumes and better candidates. Let’s face it, it’s getting harder and harder to find the right kind of talent when you need it. That’s why you need to pursue candidates like your sales and marketing departments pursue customers. Get real world tips TODAY to get better candidates and more resumes using technology.

Toolkit for Managing Human Capital
This webcast delves into the toolkit Human Capital Management (HCM) professionals can deliver to line managers that better enable them to manage their employees.

Confused about RPO? You’re not Alone!
Considering the fact that this statement is coming from the actual inventor of RPO, this is one webinar anyone looking to achieve superior recruiting results cannot afford to miss. Assess yourself with the same criteria that you use to select vendors. · Do you have the resources you need to win the War for the Best Talent? · Is using those resources a core competency of your staffing team? · Are you a Type C organization? There are only two kinds of organizations in a labor shortage market. Which will you be?

Using Employee Surveys to Drive High Performance
Employee surveys can serve a number of organizational purposes. These include serving as a warning indicator, for example, against breakdowns in safety and ethics; as a tool for evaluating corporate programs/initiatives; measuring employee engagement and retention; and identifying gaps in the service profit chain. Jack Wiley will discuss these uses of strategic employee surveys along with illustrations through case studies with Kenexa clients.

E-Learning Strategy Development: The First Step Toward Planning for 2008
Planning for 2008 is the perfect time to make sure your learning strategy is rock solid. If you’re not thinking and acting strategically as you develop your learning plans, you might be wasting resources and opportunities within your organization. It’s critical to have a strong strategic foundation to execute against.

HR.com's Groundbreaking Virtual Conference Information Session For HR Vendors and Partners
A new type of conference is about to hit the human capital space. With over 700 physical conferences in the US alone addressing the most pressing issues of senior HR executives, HR.com has found a way to offer all the benefits of a real world conference without shipping, airfare, drayage while offering you more opportunities to connect HR Vendors to your target audience. On October 8-10, 8,000 emarketers participated in a virtual trade show with over 400 exhibitors with ecomxpo Over 15,000 consumers have registered for an online scrap booking event. Learn how the ilaunch of HR.com VIEW ( Virtual Interactive Education World) will change the landscape of HR Events.

Best Practices for Managing Absenteeism, Presenteeism and Employee Productivity
Do you know why your employees are calling in “sick” at the last minute? With the rate of absenteeism in companies trending upward, U.S. employers are losing ground when it comes to finding the most effective programs for keeping their employees on the job. With another flu season on the way, these same employers are concerned about “presenteeism” as a workforce health problem and the threat that sick employees pose in the workplace. According to the findings of the 2007 CCH Unscheduled Absence Survey, large employers are paying as much as $764,000 per year in direct payroll costs, and even more when lower productivity, lost revenue and the effects of poor morale are considered. This webcast will help employers understand both the hard-dollar and hidden costs of absenteeism by identifying what programs can be used to keep employees on the job without running afoul of federal leave law. It also includes workable solutions to minimize presenteeism and maintain a healthier workplace, not just during flu season but throughout the year.

Building A Successful Performance Management Template-5th of the 8 Part Series How To Pick A Winner
Many organizations view the Performance Management/Appraisal process as a necessary evil rather than a tool to help the organization reach its objectives. For a Performance Management Appraisal to be truly effective, it must focus on the areas important to each organization and each job. A Performance Management Appraisal template must be specific to each organization and job, be objective, and open avenues for communication between employee and supervisor.

Integrated Learning and Performance: Elevating Employee Development for Organizational Success
Up until now, there has been a disconnect between learning and development processes, and employee and company performance initiatives. Most organizations now realize that learning and performance need to be linked, but many do not have the processes or systems in place to address this integration. In this webcast, learn about the benefits of integrating learning and performance to develop a true talent management culture. Learn how this integration can impact overall organizational success.

FMLA: Is it or isn’t?
The FMLA has been around since 1993. On the surface, the regulations appear to be straight-forward, but employers are still confounded by what they provide and what is required to comply. In this session, you’ll get the answers to your most pressing question: Is it or isn’t it FMLA leave?

Retention
Best practices to address retention risks and walk away with free White Paper – Quicksand.

Leveraging Technology for Effective Employee On-Boarding
Ineffective onboarding of new employees (or employees who come into your workforce via M&A activity) comes at a high cost. Lost productivity, incomplete provisioning, line manager time and poor retention of new hires are just a few of the ways in which employers pay the price. In this informative one-hour webcast you will learn how innovative Onboarding Technology solutions – that integrate into any HRMS environment – can orchestrate the three key components of effective on-boarding: forms management, task management and socialization.

Legal Compliance in Recruitment and Hiring Update
This Webinar is designed specifically for mid and senior level managers in corporations and will identify recent developments on legal compliance in recruiting and hiring.