Human Resources: Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Are your Sourcing Strategies Really Working - HR Metrics for Success
‘Metrics’ remains an extremely hot topic for HR professionals and encompasses an overwhelmingly broad range of data, reporting possibilities and business impacts. Some of the most often overlooked and/or underutilized metrics relate to external advertising and sourcing strategies – not only what media brings the greatest ROI, but also what individual tactic or creative message within that media resonated with the audience and produced referrals, applications and hires.

Heads, Hands and Hearts: Effective Reward and Recognition to Achieve Corporate Goals
Dr. Bob Nelson, "The Guru of Thank You," will speak about how and why to create a partnership with your managers to deliver effective, meaningful and strategic recognition to your employees. Learn how to teach recognition to drive sustained success in any recognition initiative: through the involvement and motivation of the organization's managers in making recognition a daily priority.

The Keys to Productivity: Happy at Home, Focused at Work
Join Connie Orzech, Manager of Benefits Programs at Office Depot and Marianne Stook, LifeCare’s Managing Director of Employer-Sponsored Work/Life Programs as they share the latest strategies and best practices for helping you control costs and avoid unnecessary absenteeism, turnover and lost productivity.

The Why’s and How’s of Performance Management
Join Aileen MacMillan, Research Analyst of i4cp, Inc. and Robert Mattson, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Workscape for a discussion about current research related to performance management and real life examples to explore the steps that lead to a successful performance management technology implementation.

Advanced Workforce Planning: The New Core Process for Making Strategy a Reality
Workforce planning is much more than determining the right headcount for future initiatives. It is a strategic process that gives organizational leaders the empirical data they need to make the right decisions about their workforce strategies. This thought-provoking webcast will provide key insights into advanced workforce planning concepts and methodologies and will offer participants real-world examples of how they can employ advanced workforce planning in their own organizations.

Cheap Background Screens Are a Waste of $$
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.

Increasing Employee Awareness and Understanding of 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 appreciate – the true value of their total rewards. Promoting a comprehensive understanding of total rewards is key in a company’s ability to attract and retain talent. In this webcast learn how companies such as Yahoo! and Hannaford Bros. Co. are using on-demand Total Rewards Statements to execute on key business initiatives such as talent retention, employer branding and increased participation in employer programs such as EAP and 401(k).

Recruiting Metrics-For Our Eyes Only
Despite all we hear about using metrics to justify our roles and expense to the organizations we support, it’s easy to forget that one of the greatest gains can be made by using metrics to internally assess the service we deliver, and strive to continuously improve it.

How to Plan and Manage a Successful Integrated Talent Management Deployment
Now that you’ve decided on the value of an integrated talent management solution, what should your next steps be? Specifically, what are the critical steps in planning for a successful deployment? Join us for this webcast to learn specific, actionable best practices for planning, selecting, and implementing the right talent management solution. Featuring Knowledge Infusion, the consulting authority on talent management technology, this webcast will deliver valuable “lessons learned” – proven strategies as well as mistakes to avoid – from real-life examples. Also, Finish Line, Inc., a leading athletic retailer with over 650 stores in 48 states, will describe their success implementing an integrated talent management solution and the business results they’ve been able to achieve.

5 Key Workforce Metrics to Impact Business Results
Today, many of America's most successful HR organizations have taken steps towards analyzing their workforce and adding value to their company. The journey of HR measurement starts with linking critical workforce metrics that make a difference to your organization. While many companies act proactively, more than a few are forced to develop metrics in response to high turnover rates, low levels of engagement, or an overall low level of productivity. But before you can use workforce data to make a change within your organization, you first need to know where to look.

The CAR (Competency/Achievment/Recognition) Methodology for Employee Retention
This presentation will review successful employee retention strategies focusing on the combination of individual competency development, achievement and contributions to the organization (ROI), and the corresponding recognition and rewards. Current thinking regarding the importance of all these strategies will be explored. A review of "best practices" will be provided along with strategies for proposing and selling the program internally to senior leadership.

Emerging Best Practices in Succession Planning
Succession planning is a critical business process that is consistently identified as one of the company’s most important initiatives by senior executives. Given the unique needs of organizations, we have learned that “one size does not fit all” and that every company will approach this challenge differently. In this Webcast, real world examples will highlight the unique ways in which organizations can use technology to tailor this critical process to fit within their culture. You will learn how to quickly and effectively implement succession planning, even if your internal systems are missing critical data. Through the use of new talent assessment technology and the integration of organizational performance data, viaPeople can quickly develop a succession planning database for your company. You can use this database to identify and track talent, surface accurate career paths for leaders, determine replacements for key positions and define individualized development planning. Join us for this Webcast to explore how you can apply emerging trends and best practices in succession planning in your organization.

Creating Greater Organizational Wealth Through Mobilizing Minds
Succeeding in the 21st century requires organizational re-design, according to Claudia Joyce, co-author of the new book entitled Mobilizing Minds. Come hear from a McKinsey consultant what is needed to truly maximize the potential value of “thinking-intensive workers.”

Outplacement: A Time for Change
Reality check: * 86% of the people you layoff continue to reside in your community * Most outplaced individuals’ programs expire before they land new opportunities * Preparedness to launch a successful job search campaign increases 2.5 times after receiving outplacement * According to the Corporate Leadership Council, on average, 50% of newly hired executives quit or are fired in the first three years of service Never before has there such a demand for quality outplacement services. Never before has there been such a variance in the quality of outplacement available. Changing needs of organizations 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.

Employee Ambassadorship
An Actionable New Research Framework for Understanding the Performance and Bottom-Line Impact of Employee Commitment to the Brand Promise, Organization and Customers Employee Ambassadorship represents new, contemporary thinking for organizations seeking to understand, leverage and improve, how what employees think and do – regarding their jobs, feelings about the organization and its products and services, and the company’s customers – to influence and drive highly desirable (and profitable) loyal customer behavior. Employee Ambassadorship arms HR, as well as an organization’s business and customer loyalty leaders, with advanced “inside-out” research that demonstrates and diagnoses key areas of linkage whereby employee attitudes and actions, on behalf of the company, directly affect customer behavior – increasing loyalty, advocacy and ultimately top- and bottom-line business performance.

Strategic Employer Brand Positioning
According to the Conference Board, 25% of employees are “just showing up to collect a paycheck;” 40% feel “disconnected” from their employers, and—most alarmingly—66% “do not identify with or feel motivated to drive their employers’ business goals or objectives.” Employer brand development is an increasingly vital strategic imperative for large employers and employers of highly-specialized and scarce talent, an essential counterpart to any best place to work initiative, and a unique opportunity for HR to add strategic value to the business.

Selecting an On-Demand LMS: A Litmus Test for Separating Hype from Reality in the World of SaaS
The adoption rate for on-demand Learning Management Systems is skyrocketing. Compared to traditional installed LMS software, the Software as a Service delivery model is appealing to HR and training professionals for several reasons, including its lower start-up costs, reduced total cost of ownership and rapid deployment. Many traditional LMS software vendors are jumping on the bandwagon and claim to have a SaaS offering. But what exactly is SaaS and how is it changing corporate learning? Is all SaaS the same? This session will help you separate the hype from reality, and provide an objective Litmus Test you can apply as you search for, compare and evaluate on-demand Learning Management Systems.

X-Teams
The Harvard Business School Press continues to set the pace for the best books on management and a forthcoming work is Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman’s book “X-TEAMS: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate, and Succeed” (Harvard Business School Press; June 26). You can get a preview of these ideas before the release of the book by attending this webinar.

Flexibility—Closing the “How to” Gap Between Strategic Importance and Operational Reality
Flexibility is a key growth strategy for managing talent, and increasing productivity in today’s 24/7, high-tech, global work reality. However, many companies have difficulty bridging the gap between recognizing the importance of flexibility and integrating it into the day-to-day operation of their business. Join internationally-recognized corporate flexibility strategy expert, Cali Williams Yost and learn how to bridge this flexibility “how to” gap by creating and implementing a comprehensive, process-based flexibility strategy on three levels: organizationally, managerially and individually.

Hiring for Performance with High-Definition Selection Science
The ability to predict performance during the hiring process is evolving. Just as high definition has transformed television, leading edge psychometric research now enables companies to view talent with high definition clarity and vivid detail. With a stunningly sharp picture of talent potential, High Definition Selection Science maximizes the impact of both selection systems and performance management systems.

Successful Assessment Process Implementation
Successful assessment process implementation requires extensive planning, excellent communication and a true partnership between the vendor and the client. This webcast will focus on the keys to implementing a successful assessment process.

Bringing Automated Performance Management to Growing Businesses
Organizations of all sizes struggle with the challenge of aligning daily activities and employee performance with broad organizational goals and long-range strategy. This is especially true in smaller, growing companies where the impact of employee performance can be felt acutely. Cornerstone Office™ allows organizations with 50-500 employees to redefine and streamline the performance review and goal setting process – from a cumbersome, paper-based chore disliked by both managers and employees to an automated, highly efficient, and cost saving web-based approach that encourages managerial feedback and employee participation in career development.

Customized Behavioral Assessments: Leverage for Recruiting, Retention and Development
Have you ever wondered why your CEO is more creative, somewhat sensitive to criticism, but less organized? Or why some industries attract people who are more sociable and expressive than others? Or why those in the middle management ranks are the most resilient in the workforce? Attend this webcast and learn how to identify key behaviors that will enable you to hire for fit and also retain and develop employees for greater performance and contribution. Learn practical and useful information from a hands-on leader in this field. Dr. Wayne Nemeroff, founder of PsyMax Solutions will discuss how behavioral assessments can help you to evaluate candidates and develop employees based on a “balance sheet” of the work styles needed to succeed in your organization.

Training is Dead, Long live Results Based Skill Development
Why training programs fall short and how a renewed focus on end-state goals brings meaningful impact to an organization.

How To Pick A Winner
Explore how America’s best employers have learned that people are not their greatest asset, but that the RIGHT people are. In this session, the presenters will explore how Best of Class Companies like Honeywell Consumer Products, Toyota, Red Robin, Qdoba, Talx, Universal Computer Systems and many other leading employers make sure that they select the right people the first time.

Workplace Violence: A Step-by-Step Prevention and Response Program
In this interactive webinar, you will learn how to prevent and defuse workplace threats, aggression, and violence.

Customizing The 8 Conversations About Benefits
A valued and balanced benefits package is becoming more and more important in the corporate landscape as a means of retaining and attracting top talent. Scott Beck, the MetLife Vice President of Distribution and Account Management, with 23 years experience in employee benefits, will moderate a panel discussing how employers can help their associates fully recognize the value of their employee benefits plan, now and in the future.

Supercharged Recruiting
One of the most exciting changes in recruiting is how a few companies facing tight talent markets are shifting their focus from a “let’s fill the req” focus to “let’s build a talent pipeline of the very best people.” Sean Rehder takes us from the conceptual down to the nitty gritty of just what sort of software application you need to replace a traditional ATS and how to use that application.

What’s the secret to engagement? Managers who get it!
Dr. Beverly Kaye and Scott Burton reveal how managers make the engagement difference

Dr. Beverly Kaye, CEO, Career Systems International joins Scott Burton, CEO and President, ClearPicture Corporation, to discuss the impact of engagement on the bottom line. With a focus on empowering managers, Dr. Kaye and Mr. Burton walk through the best practices of gathering feedback, building action-plans and delivering communications. They will also highlight the importance of strong leadership for effective programs that can help increase engagement and retention. The result: improved organizational performance.

Talent Management Approaches & Requirements
With the changing demographics of the workforce, Talent Management has become one of the most important Human Resources issues facing organizations today. Those companies who can attract and retain the right talent will gain a significant competitive advantage. Leading HR Outsourcing (HRO) providers have identified Talent Management as a business imperative and are focusing their efforts on this important growth area. Come learn the key approaches and requirements to be successful both in today’s marketplace.

The End of Law: Building a Values-Based Workplace
Using thought-provoking real-life examples, Stephen M. Paskoff, Esq., president of ELI®, will provide insight into the risks of inappropriate workplace behaviors, the reasons organizations fail to integrate values into the culture, and what steps HR can take to ensure workplace conduct meets professional as well as legal standards. He’ll demonstrate communication and training approaches that will help organizations not only meet compliance requirements, but also build skills that promote values-based behavior throughout the enterprise.

Best Practices in Workforce Analytics: Analysis Techniques and Visualization Methods
Workforce analysis comes in many forms, but many organizations limit themselves by providing only simple reports and scorecards that track generic metrics. The real insights about your workforce are gained when you begin to segment the workforce population and look at the discrete issues in a way that captures the attention of business leaders. An effective approach to HR analysis requires both the correct analytic techniques and the understanding of how to present workforce data in a compelling manner. This session will provide participants with a greater understanding of the benefits of workforce segmentation for analysis purposes, outline various modeling techniques to be used to gain analytic insights, as well as provide several options for visually presenting such analysis.

Spotlight on the Top 10 FMLA Compliance Challenges
Many organizations struggle with the key requirements of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Learn how to reduce your organizations’ FMLA compliance burdens and risks, by joining Kronos Incorporated and Littler Mendelson, P.C. for a one hour informative webcast titled: “Spotlight on the Top 10 FMLA Compliance Challenges” — in which legal and technology experts will discuss critical FMLA issues, including the major challenges, key requirements, implications of non-compliance, as well as the best methods and tools to reduce your compliance liabilities.

Competencies: The Gateway to Talent Management
Learn how a major chemical company used automation to take the work out of training, and significantly improve its ability to meet safety standards and maximize its training investment. Presented by Keith Bowery, Project Manager and Theresa Renfro, Corporate LMS Administrator at Eastman Chemical Company.

Your Recruitment Metrics Are Broken!
Co-author of the HR metrics book Ultimate Performance (Wiley, 2007), Jeremy Shapiro examines some of the most common problems with talent-focused metrics and maps a path for corporate talent management to creating highly actionable, talent-focused metrics.

You have Actionable ROI Intelligence and Don’t Even Know It!
Would you like to know the answers to these questions?

Is training delivering the value to your expected outcomes?
Does training improve some key performance indicators and not others?
Is training wasted on some, but incredibly valuable to others?

You probably have valuable training and HR data at your fingertips that can be used to answer these questions. On this webcast, Drs. Stacey Boyle and Boyce Byerly will discuss and illustrate key performance indicators and how you can use existing data to yield business optimization results that key stakeholders are clamoring for!

Getting the best survey data: Peer group selection and other determinants of compensation
This webcast will address the many concerns and variables that need to be considered when defining compensation survey needs and establishing the right tools and data comparables to conduct a quality survey.

Developing Leadership Presence
What does it mean to have presence? Why is it so important? Join us for a discussion of these topics and more, as Belle Linda Halpern, Cofounder of The Ariel Group talks with host, Karen Elmhirst, about the tools and skills for authentic expression and how they can be cultivated in leaders.

SelfCareKits: Self-Management Programs That Boost Your Bottom Line
Join Shirley Grey, RN, Executive Vice President of Careguide Systems and Marianne Stook, LifeCare’s Managing Director of Employer-Sponsored Work/Life Programs as they share the latest tools to support self-managed care. Our evidence-based kits can help reduce your company’s health care costs, shorten the return-to-work time, and improve employee morale.

How the Best Companies Survive the 9 Traps of Winning
Robert (Bob) Herbold, the former COO of Microsoft and a 26 year veteran of Procter & Gamble, says that companies that succeed are in danger of becoming victims of their own success. In his new book, he lays out how good companies can avoid the nine most common pitfalls. Join Bob and host, Karen Elmhirst, for this stimulating and important conversation.

Taking the Content Development Plunge: 10 Things to Consider Before You Dive In
Jump-start the process of creating custom online learning content for your organization Creating e-learning can be as easy as putting a PowerPoint online, but creating successful e-learning is more than that. This e-seminar will address the entire process of content development, including having the right people design your courses, selecting the right tool for the job, knowing your technical requirements, choosing the right e-learning approach for your audience and content, developing training that leads to organizational success and is tied to strategic business goals, and making sure boring isn’t the first word used when describing your course

Kick Start! your Competency Initiative
While most organizations are receptive to competency-based approach to talent management, they struggle with translating the ‘theoretical’ into a strategic and actionable plan. HRSG’s Competency Kick-Start! webinar has been designed specifically to provide you with the knowledge you need to move forward on designing and implementing competencies for your organization.

Tips To Improve Your Interviewing Techniques
When searching for good talent in today’s tightening job market, hiring managers discover very quickly that they cannot afford to spend their effort, money, or time on people who do not have the ability or willingness to do the job. What is important, as Jim Collins says in the book Good to Great, is not just getting the right people on the bus but getting them in the right seats on the bus.

The Seven Best Practices of Highly Effective Talent Management Solutions
As companies today attempt to select and implement the right talent management solution, they are often surprised to discover that most of them do not offer a seamless job seeker experience. As the war for talent heats up, job seekers are becoming more selective. As a result, talent management systems need to offer functionality for seekers as well as employers. Join us for this webcast as Monster and HRsmart deliver seven best practices of highly effective talent management systems.

10 Key Practices for Effective Performance Management
This webcast will offer practical guidance on effective performance management through the use of 10 key practices and supporting checklists.

Why Smart Executives Fail
Webcast Description: (Short Paragraph) There's a scenario that keeps repeating itself in today's business climate. A company is voted one of the most admired in the world. Then three or four years later, it's in dire financial trouble. A CEO is celebrated on the covers of Business Week, Forbes, and Fortune. Soon after, the company is in the midst of a disastrous merger or some other fiasco. What goes wrong in these cases? Usually it seems that top management made some incredibly stupid mistake. But the people responsible are almost always remarkably intelligent and usually have terrific track records. Just as puzzling as the fact that brilliant managers can make bad mistakes is the way they so often magnify the damage. Once a company has made a serious misstep, it often seems as though it can't do anything right. How does this happen? Instead of rectifying their mistakes, why do business leaders regularly make them worse?

Improve Productivity and Profitability with Absence Management
To ensure future success and viability, HR management must focus on showing demonstrated business impact. This change presents tremendous opportunity for HR management to do surgery on legacy benefit plans and create metrics that focus on productivity and ROI. Join Kronos and Watson Wyatt for a webinar titled Improve Productivity and Profitability with Absence Management and learn how you can create and articulate a compelling case for change.

Ethics & Code of Conduct Training: Your Critical Role in Compliance
In the post Sarbanes-Oxley workplace, the critical need for comprehensive ethics and "Code of Conduct" training is placing HR, legal and training professionals at the heart of an organization’s compliance efforts. It is essential for these business leaders to understand the importance of training, and how to provide it to their organizations. Recent amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines require all employers – public, private, non profit, government etc. – to adopt formal and “effective” ethics and compliance programs. Training on these programs must be provided to all workers, from the top to the bottom of an organization

What is on the horizon for Performance Management in 2007?
During this webcast, we will review some of the interesting achievements made in 2006 related to performance management and report on some of the opinions of HR practitioners and vendors about changes or advances they expect to see in 2007.

Getting Started with Workforce Analytics & Planning – A guide to avoid common mistakes and mis-steps
The day you have been waiting for has finally arrived – the senior executive team has fully funded your request to implement a robust workforce analytics and planning initiative within your firm. What do you do now? Too many times initiatives become derailed due to internal politics, lack of commitment from key players, mis-steps by the project team, trying to accomplish too much in too short of a time period, lack of clarity of vision, etc. All of these are avoidable mistakes – but happen all too frequently. Learn from the real-life experience of Health Net and the experts at Infohrm on how to avoid common pitfalls and traps and get off to a fast start in your workforce analytics and planning initiatives.

Corporate Social Responsibility – Finding Meaning Through Adopting a “We” Philosophy
Is your organization interested in doing more to be a good corporate citizen? Come hear from award-winning human rights activist and leadership specialist what’s possible in moving your organization toward a greater community focus that pays dividends on multiple levels.

Learning Content Management Systems: What’s Right for Your Organization?
During this Webinar, experts in LCMS technology will explain the business benefits for a LCMS investment, discuss the fundamental differences between the two types of LCMS approaches and highlight each approaches’ strengths and weaknesses in meeting different business drivers.

Casting Your Net Wider To Increase Quality Applicant Flow
Employers need to gain knowledge and better insight into how to utilize more economical resources available to them to increase quality applicant flow and to utilize technology to screen qualified applicants from job seekers who aren’t qualified.

Going Global: Visualizing and Supporting a Borderless Enterprise
Building a world-class borderless enterprise falls squarely in the realm of functional and sourcing transformations of the workforce. The complexities of acculturation as well as the barriers of language, business practices, and international regulations contribute to a lack of organizational clarity when transcending boundaries. Learn how to tackle these challenges head-on and address human capital requirements and functional deployment needs that vary from country to country.

Making a Case for a Learning Management System (LMS) at your Organization
Learn how to align your learning initiatives with key strategic objectives, how to find budget in non-traditional places, and gain the enterprise-wide buy in for a Learning Management System (LMS). You will also learn how recent advances in technology have made it possible to implement a best-in-class LMS solution at an affordable cost for organizations of any size.

Your 7 Year Benefit Plan…The Last Plan You’ll Ever Need
There IS something you can do to prevent your benefits costs from rising at a rate of 50% over the next 6-8 years. Attend this webcast to learn actionable steps you can take immediately to proactively control your benefits costs, increase your bottom line, and have a voice at the executive table.

Helping Employees and Pre-Retirees: Managing Productivity and Finances
Absenteeism, attrition and reduced productivity often result from employees' elder caregiving responsibilities, financial difficulties, and health declines. Helping Employees and Retirees Address Their Futures will provide information on how employers can help their personnel prepare for "senior" risks, including catastrophic health and support care expenses, unnecessary worrying, poor quality providers and wasted effort. All employers can provide such assistance at little if any financial or administrative cost. Panelists will discuss some simple ways to help employees and retirees prepare for these kinds of situations, as well as the advantages to employers for doing so.

Breaking Free From the Constraints that Derail Your Success
Flip Flippen suggests that playing to your strengths will only take you so far. “Ignoring your constraints is a blueprint for failure.” Come hear from Flip how to identify what is getting in your way and then some powerful actions you can take to eliminate them.

Emera Increases Engagement Scores by 10 Points: how actions speak louder than words
When Emera, a large energy and services company with more than 2,000 employees, took action on employee survey feedback, they experienced an increase in engagement scores and a rise in customer satisfaction. Join Janice Sutton, HR Program Coordinator at Emera, and John Wickett, Senior Consultant at ClearPicture Corporation, to learn how actions build trust, showing employees how they contribute to their organization’s growth. This webinar will provide some best practices around engagement survey design, action plan development, implementation, and good communication for improved bottom lines and increased shareholder value.

The Future of Workforce Planning
Workforce planning aims to have the right people in the right place at the right time - all the time. Where HR management and strategic planning were once thought mutually exclusive, it is now clear that the "knowledge economy" requires a more disciplined focus on the people factor. An effective HR planning system requires HR managers who are in every sense business managers with an understanding of the overall operations of their organization. Paige Menge will provide an overview of an integrated framework for workforce planning to help participants understand the links between business planning, strategic HR management, and workforce planning.

Bell’s Leadership Pathways: Taking a Different Approach
Recognizing a rapidly evolving competitive landscape and advances in technology, Bell determined a need to fundamentally change the way it develops a critical component of its business: the company’s leaders. Nancy Nazer will discuss a new approach to developing Bell leaders.

Bringing Automated Performance Management to Growing Businesses
Organizations of all sizes struggle with the challenge of aligning daily activities and employee performance with broad organizational goals and long-range strategy. This is especially true in smaller, growing companies where the impact of employee performance can be felt acutely. Cornerstone Office™ allows organizations with 50-500 employees to redefine and streamline the performance review and goal setting process – from a cumbersome, paper-based chore disliked by both managers and employees to an automated, highly efficient, and cost saving web-based approach that encourages managerial feedback and employee participation in career development.

Spinning Gold from Straw: Low-Cost Employee Retention and Motivation Tools
Human Resource professionals in cost-conscious organizations are asked to accomplish more, typically with fewer resources than less fiscally sensitive counterparts. Retaining and motivating employees is no exception. When the dollars aren't there to give salary increases, what's an HR professional to do? During our webcast, we'll explore creative ways to recognize, motivate, and reward employees with little or no cost impact. You will take away practical ideas you can implement right away in your organization. Our program ideas will be both simple and complex, gained from interventions at a number of organizations.

2007’s Fastest Growing Work/Life Initiative in Fortune 500 Companies
Join LifeCare’s Marianne Stook, Managing Director of employer-sponsored work/life programs, as she shares the latest strategies and best practices for helping you control costs and avoid unnecessary absenteeism, turnover, and lost productivity resulting from breakdowns in child and elder care arrangements.

Ya Gotta Have Style!
This is the lst of a series of 8 web casts that will explore techniques utilized by many “Best of Class employers” (Including Toyota, Honeywell, Texas Instruments, Talx, Universal Computer Systems and scores of other leading companies) to capitalize on Human Resources as a critical element of their success. These Best of Class Employers have “STYLE”:

Workforce Analytics – Best Practices from some of America’s Leading Companies
Utilization of workforce analytics is one of the most important challenges that the HR function faces in moving from service provider to business enabler. For too long many organizations have struggled with trying to successfully implement meaningful workforce analytics programs that actually impact business results. Using real case studies and over twenty years of experience, Jonathan Terrell will explain how some of America’s leading companies are addressing these challenges and driving business results through workforce analytics.

Developing Knowledge Workers
This session shares compelling research on the development stages of knowledge workers, as well as practical ways this research has been applied by leading companies to increase their return on investment (ROI) in human capital.

Best Practices in Executive Selection and Development
Over the past decade, companies have gotten the message that investing in their current and future leaders is critical for long-term viability and success. Organizations are spending more money on assessment and development and senior executives are taking ownership of the professional growth of their successors.

Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader
Dealing effectively with conflict is difficult for any leader. Some try to avoid it, while others lash out at others in ways they later regret. Poorly managed conflict creates enormous costs to organizations. How can leaders assess how they currently handle conflict and ways to be more skillful when it inevitably occurs?

Diverse Organizations Reap the Benefits
Diversity is often thought of as a goal to attain – organizations need so many diverse candidates, so many offers to diverse individuals and so many diverse hires. But companies are often missing the substantial impact a diverse employee group can have on the company’s bottom line and its productivity. It’s all about making a connection – that of the diverse employees with their diverse employer and the diverse buyer with the diverse organization.

Using Assessments to Reduce Unwanted Turnover
Pre-employment assessments are designed to be not only a screening tool, but also a workforce development solution for employees post-hire. Learn practical and useful information from a hands-on leader in this field. Dr. Nemeroff will discuss hiring challenges in a tight labor market, how to use assessments to identify the right candidates, and strategies to minimize the financial impact of bad hires on profits.

Developing Better Leaders Faster – Recent Research Findings
Do you need to increase the quality and/or quantity of leaders in your organization? This interview with expert Rick Lash of the HayGroup will offer you some findings based on recent research that can help you improve your strategy for developing leadership talent at your company.

7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave
Branham’s presentation will also cover 7 fundamental reasons employees disengage and leave, the steps and phases involved in employee decisions to leave, and will include ways to recognize the signs that key employees are disengaging. He will introduce a wide range of proven tools and innovative best practices for re-engaging, re-recruiting, and retaining valued talent.

Essential Engagement Strategies for Succession Planning
What is your organization’s engagement strategy for succession planning? Strategic HR consultant Bill Kline takes a unique approach, driving succession planning deep into the organization and focusing on employee dialogue. Join us to learn from Kline’s own experiences as HR executive at GE and Delta Air Lines, and find out how the most successful organizations engage employees to transform succession planning into a strategic engine for talent management. Whether you’re just beginning your succession planning initiative, or you’re looking to maximize results from existing initiatives, this web seminar will provide best practice information that you can apply right away.

The No ***hole Rule
There is simply no better way to put it, some managers are ***holes . The question is, why do organizations tolerate this behavior? The good news is that not everyone thinks having mean managers is ok. Many organizations are adopting a ‘no ***hole rule’. Dr. Robert (Bob) Sutton describes how they do it.

TARGET PAY: A Practical Alternative to Dysfunctional Merit Programs
Traditional merit programs are an ineffective means of driving and rewarding performance, have to be circumvented to pay what it takes to retain top performers, and are considered an “entitlement” by the vast majority of all employees. Target Pay is a practical alternative that focuses on what an employee should be paid, not just how much of an increase he or she should receive.

Onboarding: How Web-Based Onboarding Engages New Hires and Speeds Time-to-Productivity
Ineffective onboarding of new employees 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 can orchestrate the three key components of effective on-boarding: forms management, task management and socialization.

How to Create High Performance Pay
We have looked at ‘fair pay’ and ‘competitive pay’ but surely organizations can go one step better than that. In this webinar the well-liked reward gurus Jay Schuster and Pat Zingheim look at how to create pay that drives high performance.

Customized Skill Assessments: How Job-tailored Tests Make Hiring More Effective and Defensible
This webcast describes the value that skills-based assessment can add to the hiring process. The presenter will provide practical information about using skills-based assessment with a focus on creating customized assessments that are both effective and legally defensible. Strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of skills based assessments will also be discussed.

Four Generations in the Workforce
Organizations are now faced with how to best recruit, manage and retain a diverse workforce, in terms of age, culture and of course, race and gender. More managers understand the challenges they will face as baby boomers begin to retire and initiate one of the largest losses of knowledge to ever occur in the American workplace. This webcast will cover best practice strategies and tactics needed to retain the four generations in the workforce. And will help understanding the impact cultural differences can have in recruitment, communications and outreach.

Increasing Your Influence: How to Make Your Ideas Stick
When you speak to people in your organization about important ideas, does it ever come across as just a bunch of “blah, blah, blah…”? Don’t fall into that trap anymore! Join Karen Elmhirst as she speaks with Chip Heath on the essential elements for making your ideas memorable, and how to move people to take action in support of them.

IBM's Exit Survey: a vital piece of an end-to-end engagement program
Regardless of the industry, numerous studies have shown that low engagement impacts productivity, customer service, retention, and, ultimately, an organization’s bottom line. Identifying and resolving engagement issues is an essential part of growing a business and increasing shareholder value. ClearPicture helped IBM employ their Exit Survey as a powerful tool for gathering intelligence on engagement. The information was fed back into other components of IBM’s various engagement initiatives in order to align HR’s front-end programs to ongoing employee needs.

Succession Planning: Leading the Talent Management Charge
Learn the importance of Succession Planning in integrated Talent Management. Understand how to strategically map and model your succession plan, how movements will affect other departments, and ensure that you are not missing your top performers and making the best decisions.

Managing Conflict: New Role for HR
Howard Guttman provides HR professionals with practical tips for helping leaders step up to the emerging demands for managing conflict and building high-performance teams. This requires reframing the role of HR practitioners, as they learn to model appropriate behavior, “mirror” the behavior of others, and provide coaching, facilitation, and real-time skill transfer to change individual and team behavior. He brings the discussion to life with examples form his work with senior HR professionals in a variety of companies, such as Chico’s, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal USA, and Mars, Inc.

Strategic HR: Think Inside the Boardroom
New recruiting technology and the upcoming labor shortage have resulted in significant HR trends that are here to stay. Baby Boomers are retiring while our economy is expanding and the need for more qualified hires is increasing. Organization leadership is demanding that HR become fully strategic while “Strategic HR” is demanding a seat in the Boardroom. Technology is giving HR extraordinary capabilities compared to just 10 years ago. The next decade can be bright for HR but is HR up to the task? In this webcast we will discuss trends such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Retention, Removal and Bench-strength, a systems approach to HR, and the new HR competencies.

Drive Strategy to Every Desktop:How to Integrate Balanced Scorecards with Employee Performance Mgmnt
The Balanced Scorecard is the tool of choice for managing strategy, and Employee Performance Management tops most organizations’ lists of urgent strategic initiatives. Learn how these complementary approaches can work together to help execute strategy.

The Importance of On-Boarding in an Overall Talent Management Strategy
Developing a comprehensive on-boarding process for new employees is often not a high priority within an organization. Research suggests that if you develop an on-boarding plan based on the strategic objectives for your organization, you will increase workforce productivity and long-term retention of your employees. Please join us to learn about how you can ensure on-boarding best practices with leading solutions such as Cornerstone OnDemand’s integrated talent management suite.

Solving Attendance and Attitude Problems
Dick Grote presents practical yet deeply thought through approaches to the core management issue of getting the best out of people. Managers forever struggle with employees who do not seem interested in putting in their best effort. Dick shows how managers can handle these critical issues and how the performance management system can be turned into a tool that supports these managers.

Pre-employment Testing: Three Critical Questions
Learn about how to chose and administer the most effective test for screening applicants, how to determine the correct “passing” score through validation studies, and how to insure your testing procedures are legally defensible.

Driving Business Results with Integrated On-Demand Talent Management
If your organization is like most, then you probably have several separate systems to support the various talent management needs of your employees. Talent Management solutions should address, from one on-demand and integrated application, all areas of an employee’s career lifecycle – on-boarding, classroom and on-line learning, certifications, compliance, performance, succession planning and compensation. Learn how Cornerstone OnDemand’s integrated talent management suite can help you drive down costs, increase productivity and improve employee satisfaction, all while supporting your business growth.

Best Practices for Preparing For An HR Technology Purchase
As more and more organizations turn to outside vendors to help streamline HR processes and determine best practices to increase efficiency and productivity, there are several steps to keep in mind before venturing out on the search. In this one hour presentation, attendees will learn the five steps to take before seeking a vendor.

Coaching Ourselves
Phil LeNir had a problem. The three rounds of layoffs and offshore outsourcing of work to the Ukraine had pushed his managers into uncharted territory. They didn’t know how to deal with these new challenges. Phil would have liked to send his managers to a top end development program like the IMPM but he had no budget or time. Sound familiar? With McGill’s Henry Mintzberg he hit upon a solution — Using relevant managerial topics and their own experiences, managers coach each other!

Strategic Onboarding
While today’s onboarding technology simply automates the necessary processes to get new employees to the position’s baseline performance, strategic onboarding focuses on long-term performance and growth across an entire career. Failure to properly assimilate a productive employee during the crucial first 30 days has proven to be one of hardest hits to a company’s bottom line.

Developing an E-Learning Strategy
Researching, comparing and selecting from among the many different e-learning delivery platforms and online content options can be an overwhelming assignment—unless you have a proven, objective methodology for coming to a decision. In this session you’ll learn how to build a business case, identify technology and business requirements, work with and evaluate technology vendors, and measure the success of your e-learning program.

Payroll Tax Compliance: Outsourcing as a tool for strategic risk reduction
In fiscal 2005, the IRS issued over $22 Billion in penalties for payroll tax non-compliance. With penalties increasing and the regulatory landscape ever-changing, payroll tax compliance has become a major concern for executives. To help them keep complaint and manage the risks of non-compliance, many executives are outsourcing their payroll tax filing processes. We’ll examine the risks of payroll non-compliance, evaluate the three most common methods of filing payroll taxes, and discuss how you can use outsourcing as a strategic tool to dramatically reduce your payroll tax filing compliance risk.

A Leader’s Legacy – A Conversation with Jim Kouzes on What Really Matters
As the co-author of the #1 best-selling leadership system, The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes has some ideas about what it takes to be a great leader. Join us for an informative hour in which we discuss a variety of today’s most critical and difficult leadership issues.

Employee Performance Management: 10 Steps to Building a Business Case
We recently surveyed a global sample of more than 20,000 HR professionals, and found a common problem — tremendous need for online performance management, thwarted by a lack of resources. Are you facing a similar situation? Join us to learn how to build a business case for an online Employee Performance Management solution that will take minimal effort from your organization while delivering maximum.

Purpose: What Every Organization Needs for Enduring Success
According to Nikos Mourkogiannis, “Before strategy, and more important than leadership is one attribute every company needs to start with to achieve enduring success. Purpose.” Come hear why Purpose is so critical and what you can do to find yours.

How to Protect Your Organization from USERRA Lawsuits
How to Protect Your Organization from USERRA Lawsuits The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) covers employer obligations to employees returning to civilian work after military service. The act also prohibits discrimination against veterans, present members, and applicants of the uniformed services. USERRA’s reach is broad—with more than 25 million people covered under USERRA and two court decisions even holding management and supervisors personally liable for violations.

Lou Adler presents: Are You Playing the Hiring Game to Win?
Hiring the best is getting harder. And it won't get easier if you just change tactics. In this webinar, Lou Adler will go over the new rules for hiring top talent.