Overview : Whether you are designing a new dress code policy, updating your current one or looking for suggestions how to implement your dress policy, this webinar should give you clear guidelines.

Designing and implementing a dress code and dress policies for the workplace has become more complex today and should be addressed from many different angles: from creating a professional image to promoting a safe environment. Both the reasons and benefits for having a policy will be addressed as well as how to meet the needs of a diverse workforce. Before deciding on a formal dress code or updating your current one, many different approaches should be explored so that your decisions will promote a professional, safe and comfortable environment that reflects your culture in a positive manner.

Why you should attend: It will cover your reasons and rights as an employer to establish and enforce a dress code and how to develop and adopt one that complements your business. Considerations range from what is considered professional attire to cultural and generational preferences. We will discuss how to establish clear guidelines for employees, the reasons behind decisions for dress and how to effectively and legally implement an effective and fair policy.

Areas Covered In the Session:

Reasons to have a Dress Code
Your rights as an employer to establish a dress code as a condition of employment
What to include in your dress code
Defining business, business casual and casual
Professionalism: customer contact positions
Morale and respect among coworkers
Safety: office and manufacturing positions
Uniforms and logo wear
Piercings, tattoos and hair
Perfume and cologne
Hygiene
Cultural and religious considerations and other exceptions
Younger generations’ preference for informality
When companies have been taken to court about "dress": discrimination related to gender, religion, or race
When does dress make a positive or negative impact on performance
Designing a policy which corresponds to your business

Who will benefit:

Chief Human Resource Officers
HR Managers, Directors, and Employee Relations Specialists
Employment Managers and Recruiters
Supervisors
Learning and Training Professionals
Affirmative Action Officers
Consultants and Business Owners

Overview : This webinar should give you the tools and guidelines to obtain reliable references and determine what types of background checks should be performed for different positions in different industries before hiring.

Being sure that what you see is what you get is very important in bringing new employees into your workplace. Candidates may interview very well and look perfect on paper, but it is essential to verify their credentials and perform due diligence after you have made your choice of a final candidate. By performing reference and background checks effectively you can avoid the pitfalls of finding out too late that you have made the wrong hire and avoid both costly mistakes and, even in some cases, liability.

Why you should attend: We will cover how to verify a candidate’s qualifications in experience, education, character and work ethics as well as meeting any other requirements you have for the position. "Name, rank, and serial number" is not sufficient in verifying whether someone can do the job or will be an asset to your organization. We will also cover methods and policies on drug and alcohol testing. Permission, disclosure and compliance with applicable employment laws will allow you to complete this process with confidence and ease.

Areas Covered In the Session:

Applications and obtaining permission to check references
Complying with legal requirements of references and background checks
Selecting appropriate references
Verbal and written references: tailoring your questions to fit the job
How to proceed if the company refuses to give information requested
Verifying position, dates of hire and salary when a company is no longer in business
Selecting kinds of background screening
Mandatory background checks
What background checks are illegal or ill-advised: controversies over credit and criminal checks
Verifying education and college transcripts
Drug and Alcohol policies and drug and alcohol tests
Access to references

Who will benefit:

Chief Human Resource Officers
HR Managers, Directors, and Employment Managers
Hiring Supervisors
Security Officers or Auditors

Overview : In this dynamic course we will look at the best practices surrounding conducting internal investigations.

Why you should attend: Do you deliberately go out and hire poor performers? If not, then why are there so many of them in our organizations today. Misleading resumes, poor management interviewing skills, professional trained interviewers, poor cultural match, and poor job requirements all lead to this problem of getting the "wrong people on the bus."This workshop looks at assessments as a cure to many if not most of these problems. We take a hard and realistic look at the assessment industry in general and the most common assessment tools being used in the market today. We will learn why you might want to use assessments, assessment tools and their uses in hiring, developing and retaining star performers and the DOL's principles of using assessments. We will talk about the advantages and potential problems of using assessments in your organizations. If you are looking to changing the odds or hiring a superstar or even a good performer, don't miss this program. It will change the way you look at the hiring process.

Areas Covered in the Session: Specifically we will cover the following topics:

Your greatest HR challenges
Why people fail in organizations
The validity of selections methods
The use of assessment tools
Explain the value of human capital and how to measure and report it
The Pro's and Con's of assessment use
The pro's and Con's of the most widely used assessment tolls in the industry today
Recommend a best practice

Who Will Benefit:

Business Owner
President
VP Operations
VP Administrative Services
VP Human Resources
HR consultants/specialists
Executive Secretaries
Managers

Price List:
Live : $145.00
Corporate live : $595.00
Recorded : $195.00

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Overview : This webinar has been carefully designed to ensure an optimum learning experience. We have drawn upon the expertise of many of the best minds in the industry in creating a program that will not only inform, but teach practical skills, as well.

Why you should attend: Dips in profitability, angry customers, shrinkage, and poor quality can find their roots in dissatisfied and mislead employees. Performance Management is a tool that if used properly can motivate high performers to work harder and poor performers to improve or get out of the organization. How your organization chooses to manage this process is critical to the success of your organization and its employees. This powerful workshop looks at the components of a strategic Performance Management System including: Performance Management System, Performance Appraisal Process, Reward Systems, and Training/Development & Career Plans. This is a workshop you cannot miss if you plan on working with and trough people to get your organizational objectives met.

Areas Covered in the Session: By participating in this workshops you will be able to:

Discover several tough, effective strategies for giving a wake-up call to employees who think they're entitled to raises and promotions just because they show up at your company every day
Learn tactics for lowering the anxiety levels of employees who are too paralyzed by fear to contribute to your company
Identify the four stages in the performance management cycle
Learn how to prepare for, conduct and document a performance evaluation that meets company objectives, as well as, legal and ethical standards
Differentiate between individuals on the basis of performance
Identify and avoid common judgment errors. o Become aware of the meaning and value of performance dimensions, objectives and standards and the differences between them.
Learn to write performance objectives and standards for your people.
Learn how to develop a performance management plan for each of your people.
Learn coaching skills which include:
Gathering information
Troubleshooting Problems
Providing support to employees
Learn to how to provide corrective feedback
Learn to interviewing fairly
Learn how to commit yourself to a time line for managing the performance of your employees.

Who Will Benefit:

Business Owner
President
VP Operations
VP Administrative Services
VP Human Resources
HR consultants/specialists
Executive Secretaries
Managers

Price List:
Live : $145.00
Corporate live : $595.00
Recorded : $195.00

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Overview : The information provided in this presentation covers proper procedures for calculating overtime and common pitfalls involved in the process.

The importance of being thorough and correct when calculating regular rate of pay to avoid massive Department of Labor penalties is also highlighted as well as its importance in avoidance of suffering damages from civil law suits.

Why you should attend: Calculating overtime is simple, right? It’s just time and a half! What is so tough about that?

Not so fast. Overtime is based on the regular rate of pay, and calculating the regular rate of pay is more complex than it appears. What’s included in the calculation? The reasonable cost of meals, lodging, nondiscretionary bonuses, on-call pay, shift differentials, cash benefit payments from Section 125 Cafeteria Plans, the list goes on…

And that's just computing the regular rate - we haven’t even touched overtime yet!

Well, what happens if it’s not correct? Nobody pays attention do they?

According to the Department of Labor, 300 new wage and hour investigators were hired in 2009 to respond to complaints and violations. By the end of 2010 the DOL announced they had collected more than $300 million in back wages for more than 385,000 workers.

Penalties for overtime violations can be severe with the possibility of fines, imprisonment or both! Add civil suits to the mix and the results can be devastating to any business no matter how large or small! Learn how to protect yourself and your company by joining renowned payroll expert Vicki M. Lambert in this information packed event!

Areas Covered in the Session:

How to calculate the regular rate of pay
The eight narrowly construed exceptions to inclusion of payments in the regular rate
When you must include a bonus in calculating your employee’s overtime pay
How to handle overtime calculations once you've determined that a bonus qualifies as includable wages
How to calculate the overtime premium
When and how to use the "fluctuating workweek" method

Who Will Benefit:

Payroll Professionals
Human Resources
Accounting Personnel
Business Owners
Lawmakers
Attorneys, or any individual or entity that must deal with the complexities and technicalities overtime calculation within the payroll process.

Price List:
Live : $145.00
Corporate live : $595.00
Recorded : $195.00

Overview : Workplace violence is the number one cause of workplace fatalities for women. Eighteen thousand weekly workplace assaults cause 500,000 employees to lose 1,751,000 days of work annually, with a loss of $55 million in wages (3.5 days per incident); in fact, 18% of all crimes occur in the workplace.

Although workplace violence might seem to happen at random, there are often patterns and warning signs that indicate when violent reactions are imminent. Have your managers and supervisors been trained to recognizing those patterns and their associated warning signs? Do they know how to take preventive measures to keep violence from occurring in your workplace? In this program, you will learn about the causes and warning signs of violence in the workplace, the employer's legal duty to provide a safe workplace, responses to violent or threatening behavior at work, and more.

Areas Covered In the Seminar:

Define workplace violence and explain the four categories of workplace violence
Present key facts about workplace violence
Discuss do’s and don’ts when dealing with potentially violent individuals
List risk factors for potential violence at the workplace
Describe specific ways to respond to escalating behavior
Prioritize post-incident reporting and response procedures
Describe the key elements in a workplace violence prevention program

Who will benefit:

Chief Human Resource Officers
Senior Management Team
HR Managers, Directors, and Administrators
Supervisors
Employment Managers
Training Director

Price List:
Live : $145.00
Corporate live : $595.00
Recorded : $195.00

Overview : This webinar exposes employers to the most important state and federal (ergonomics and related) regulations existing today and workers' compensation legislations that impact how work injuries are managed.

The program will explore the science of ergonomics including the primary and secondary risk factors that are important in preventing cumulative trauma, repetitive motion injuries and other musculoskeletal claims.

Why should you attend: Steven Covey, author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" said that in order to gain control over problems, you must first seek to understand the problem. Then it will be understood what is needed to manage it better. Work injuries are no different. Many employers disregard the importance of actively managing their workers' compensation because they don't seek to understand the root cause of the problem. Many assume that workers’ compensation is a cost of doing business; that their worker' compensation insurer or third party payer will do the job they were hired to do and that the physician managing the employee's injury will do their part to manage the medical care properly. Unfortunately, that is not the case. When it comes to work injuries, the Employer should be the main one in the driver's seat managing the care of the claim, directing the other players on how to best manage it to incur the least impact. This is best done by understanding the root cause of musculoskeletal disorders.

Areas Covered in the Session: The discussion will introduce employers to the importance of establishing an Ergonomics Process for integrated disability management which includes the prevention of injuries, management of workers' compensation claims and chronic impairments that result in long term disability. Successful outcomes of ergonomics process case studies will be discussed addressing an individual case in which ergonomics was used successfully and from a process oriented approach resulting in employers' saving millions of dollars in claim prevention and management. If you want to get a handle on how your company manages its work injuries, this webinar will give you the insight you need to change the way you and your employees' work.

Who Will Benefit:

Human Resource Managers
Safety Directors
Risk Managers
Benefits Professionals
Insurance Claims Representatives and Adjusters
Business Owners and Managers
Controllers
CFOs
Attorneys
Occupational Health Care Professionals

Price List:
Live : $145.00
Corporate live : $595.00
Recorded : $195.00

Overview : Every manager encounters employees who cross the line into unacceptable behavior. Maybe they tell off-color jokes. Spread gossip. Act like slobs. Practice poor personal hygiene. Ridicule core organizational values. Or violate company rules and policies.

Lots of managers don't have the toolkit to confront dysfunctional employees so they practice avoidance, which erodes morale and - worst of all - destroys their own credibility. Great managers recognize that putting a stop to unacceptable behavior requires a complex mix of communication skills, persuasion, intuition, toughness and credibility. They know how to probe for the reasons behind the behavior, anticipate reactions, manage expectations, seek alignment, set boundaries and hold people accountable. When bosses learn how to confront employees effectively, they create a culture where lines are clearly drawn, and bad behavior is instantly recognized by all as unacceptable. In this 90-minute webinar.

Areas Covered In the Seminar:

How to spot and stop problematic behavior early – before it takes firm root in your workplace
The most common behavior-, conduct-, and appearance-related issues managers should be able to identify and prepared to address
The key areas to focus your time and attention to prevent bad behavior from permeating your workplace in the first place
Strategies for getting to the bottom of the negative attitude or conduct – and why this is so important
How to communicate effectively - and constructively - with the offender, including how to provide candid feedback without fueling his or her contempt
How to use positive reinforcement to get naysayers on board with the rest of the team
The difference between counseling and disciplining, and how to tell which is appropriate for the circumstances presented
How to engage in difficult conversations, whether the employee is a rampant gossiper, a chronic complainer, an inappropriate dresser, or another type of behavior/conduct offender
The importance of progressive discipline, and why it's important to explain the consequences the employee may face if he or she fails to make an attitude adjustment
How to know when it's time to fire a "bad apple" employee – and how to go about it to reduce your risks of a lawsuit

Who will benefit:

Chief Human Resource Officers
Senior Management Team
HR Managers, Directors, and Administrators
Supervisors
Employment Managers
Training Director

Price List:
Live : $145.00
Corporate live : $595.00
Recorded : $195.00

Overview : The role, power and potential of networking while establishing and maintaining a distinctive personal brand is paramount in the current social and professional climate.

Arnold Sanow, author of "Nobody to Somebody in 63 Days or Less … The Ultimate Guide to Business Networking and Word of Mouth Advertising" will share with you tips tools and solutions you can use NOW build your networking prowess. You learn how to improve your personal brand and learn the do's and don'ts of effective networkers, where to go and what to say to build win-win relationships with everyone you meet.

Areas Covered In the Seminar:

3 ways to start and maintain a conversation
Networking techniques for people who hate networking
Proven strategies to boost your image and credibility
What is your personal brand and how to use it to enhance your networking success
How to remember names
4 key places to go to network
Creating your "16" second commercial
17 strategies to make yourself standout and become more memorable
10 power questions you must ask to uncover needs
Quick tips for overcoming shyness
How to get referrals and why it’s important to give them out
How to turn a networking opportunity into a meeting and then into $$$
6 key ingredients to get everyone singing your praises
Strategies to employ prior, during and after a networking event to make every meeting count.

Who will benefit:

Any company or organization where presentations have to be delivered for conferences, in-house meetings or to customers
Executives
Managers
Technical Staff
Sales Staff

Price List:
Live : $145.00
Corporate live : $595.00
Recorded : $195.00

Overview : Everything is changing faster than ever before. Everyone is doing more with less. And in this fast pace world team relationships suffer. Miscommunication, misunderstandings, misperceptions, conflicts, internal and external strife and stress can play havoc with teams.

As the Vice President of Southwest Airlines stated, "It doesn’t matter whether its two full-time jobs; four or twelve that one person has to do. Our productivity is the result of the trust we have with each other. If you have the right trust, working relationships, teamwork, environment and positive communication, the work gets done."

Arnold Sanow will work with the participants to show them how to build stronger teams by enhancing workplace relationships and improving the workflow process. The communication strategies the participants will learn are the key for a more positive, productive and profitable organization.

Areas Covered In the Seminar:

Guidelines and Ground Rules top teams follow
Benchmarks: Top company team building philosophies
3 key factors that build trust within a team
6 keys to get everyone singing your praises
12 steps to make team meetings more effective
7 step process for reducing and resolving conflicts
Characteristics and traits of the best working teams
Dealing with and resolving conflicts on the team
And More

Who will benefit:

Any company or organization where presentations have to be delivered for conferences, in-house meetings or to customers
Executives
Managers
Technical Staff
Sales Staff

Price List:
Live : $145.00
Corporate live : $595.00
Recorded : $195.00