Assessment techniques that work! Use an effective, comprehensive framework to evaluate executive skill capacities in children and adolescents; know when to intervene and help clients overcome executive function challenges.

Full Description:
Research is now clearer than ever: a child who can listen, pay attention, follow instructions, and persist on a task will achieve greater success in school and in life. Children and adolescents who are self-regulated have mastered executive skills such as goal setting and self-monitoring. Direct formal methods of individually administered, standardized, norm-referenced measures dominate assessment practices in clinics and schools. Traditional measures of executive skills are limited and don’t address application to all arenas of life causing an overgeneralization of results.
This webinar will introduce a comprehensive framework to clarify the nature of a child’s executive skill capacity and how it or is not used in everyday functioning. Concepts from the importance of a child’s executive skill capacities to intervention planning will be discussed.

Course Includes:
Live Q&A
Presentation Handout
Post session recording access
CE Credit

What You Will Learn:
Establish a multidimensional and multi-method approach to assessing executive skills
Examine what executive skills children use effectively
Determine what executive skills present challenges or difficulty for children
Evaluate how to help a child overcome his/hertheir executive function difficulties

Your Presenter:
Krista M. Marchman, MS, EdS, PhD, is the founder and director of Educational Consulting Associates, Inc., an independent school psychology practice specializing in diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic consultation.

Dr. Marchman is also the co-founder of the Cognitive Academy of Central Florida, a program that offers a variety of evidenced-based cognitive training and remediation programs helping children, adolescents, and adults improve attention and working memory. She has 20 years of experience working with neuro-developmental disorders, such as ADHD, learning disabilities, ASD, and differential diagnosis of co-occurring childhood conditions.

Disclaimer:
This event qualifies for one CE credit. Only registered attendees will have access to CE. A Cross Country Education web account is required to attend. There is no charge for a CCE web account. It is recommended that you join the meeting 15 to 20 minutes early. Speaker phone sound quality is poor and it is recommended that they not be used to listen to the event.

Technical requirements:
To view this webinar you will need to download the WebEx Application. You will be prompted to download it when you first enter the site. To save time, you can setup prior to the meeting by following this link:
https://apidemoeu.webex.com/apidemoeu/meetingcenter/mcsetup.php

Who Should Attend:
Psychologists, School Psychologists, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, School Guidance Counselors, Social Workers, Educators, Marriage and Family Therapists, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, School Nurses, Mental Health Nurses, Psychiatrists, Case Managers, School Principals and Administrators, Clergy

Assessment techniques that work! Use an effective, comprehensive framework to evaluate executive skill capacities in children and adolescents; know when to intervene and help clients overcome executive function challenges.

Full Description:
Research is now clearer than ever: a child who can listen, pay attention, follow instructions, and persist on a task will achieve greater success in school and in life. Children and adolescents who are self-regulated have mastered executive skills such as goal setting and self-monitoring. Direct formal methods of individually administered, standardized, norm-referenced measures dominate assessment practices in clinics and schools. Traditional measures of executive skills are limited and don’t address application to all arenas of life causing an overgeneralization of results.
This webinar will introduce a comprehensive framework to clarify the nature of a child’s executive skill capacity and how it or is not used in everyday functioning. Concepts from the importance of a child’s executive skill capacities to intervention planning will be discussed.

Course Includes:
Live Q&A
Presentation Handout
Post session recording access
CE Credit

What You Will Learn:
Establish a multidimensional and multi-method approach to assessing executive skills
Examine what executive skills children use effectively
Determine what executive skills present challenges or difficulty for children
Evaluate how to help a child overcome his/hertheir executive function difficulties

Your Presenter:
Krista M. Marchman, MS, EdS, PhD, is the founder and director of Educational Consulting Associates, Inc., an independent school psychology practice specializing in diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic consultation.

Dr. Marchman is also the co-founder of the Cognitive Academy of Central Florida, a program that offers a variety of evidenced-based cognitive training and remediation programs helping children, adolescents, and adults improve attention and working memory. She has 20 years of experience working with neuro-developmental disorders, such as ADHD, learning disabilities, ASD, and differential diagnosis of co-occurring childhood conditions.

Disclaimer:
This event qualifies for one CE credit. Only registered attendees will have access to CE. A Cross Country Education web account is required to attend. There is no charge for a CCE web account. It is recommended that you join the meeting 15 to 20 minutes early. Speaker phone sound quality is poor and it is recommended that they not be used to listen to the event.

Technical requirements:
To view this webinar you will need to download the WebEx Application. You will be prompted to download it when you first enter the site. To save time, you can setup prior to the meeting by following this link:
https://apidemoeu.webex.com/apidemoeu/meetingcenter/mcsetup.php

Who Should Attend:
Psychologists, School Psychologists, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, School Guidance Counselors, Social Workers, Educators, Marriage and Family Therapists, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, School Nurses, Mental Health Nurses, Psychiatrists, Case Managers, School Principals and Administrators, Clergy

You probably know that Oracle’s Siebel Clinical application is the most configurable clinical trial management system (CTMS) on the market. But did you know that you, as an individual user, can modify Siebel Clinical in myriad ways to support your specific job?

Features that can be personalized include:

• Home Screen: Modify the layout to only include data types that are relevant to you
• List Applets: Choose to display only the columns you need in the exact order you need them – across the application
• Queries: Create queries and save them to run at any time
• User Preferences: Choose your printing settings, screen tab order, and even manage positions and passwords

Join BioPharm Systems' Param Singh, vice president of clinical trial management solutions, for this complimentary one-hour session that will:

• Explain many personalization features available in Siebel Clinical
• Include a live demonstration of each feature discussed

Thursday, April 26, 2012 @:

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16:00 Central European Time

You are considering implementing a new clinical trial management system (CTMS), or maybe you have already made the decision. But you are wondering: What should we do with the data in our legacy system? Is it worth migrating? Should we migrate all of the data or just some of it? When should we migrate? What methods should we use?

Join BioPharm Systems' Param Singh, vice president of clinical trial management solutions, for this complimentary one-hour session that will:

• Explore all facets of data migration
• Offer guidance applicable to any organization
• Include a live demonstration of ASCEND-Migrate, a data migration tool designed to streamline the migration from any investigator database to Oracle’s Siebel Clinical application

Thursday, February 16, 2012 @:

7:00 a.m. Pacific Time
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As your organization implements or upgrades to a newer version of Oracle Clinical (OC) and Remote Data Capture (RDC), there are many considerations to take into account. Educating yourself on best practices and learning from past mistakes are all are critical components for a successful installation of your clinical data management and EDC systems, and the establishment of good standards.

Join BioPharm Systems' Lori Venable, principal consultant, clinical data management, for this one-hour session that will examine various OC and RDC implementation and usage best practices that all sponsors and CROs should consider to greatly increase the usability of the applications, as well as boost user productivity.

This webinar will cover best practices in the following areas:

• Training
• User roles and functions
• SOPs and Work Instructions
• Implementation, upgrade and usage standards
• … and much more!

Thursday, February 2, 2012 @:

7:00 a.m. Pacific Time
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With the advancement of technology and the high cost of maintaining legacy safety and pharmacovigilance systems, organizations are forced to migrate to the latest technologies such as Argus Safety, that offer the most beneficial and relevant features.

Compliance and business risks associated with safety data and the real potential for migration error (mapping errors, different dictionary maintenance practices, and MedDRA/WHO coding inconsistencies) introduces significant challenges, or an opportunity to excel.

BioPharm Systems and Valiance Partners, together, offer a comprehensive solution that can tackle even the most complex migrations and implementations. With a cost-effective overall strategy that incorporates proven technology and business processes, your organization can ensure a successful migration and implementation while identifying and mitigating risk.

Please join BioPharm Systems’ Dr. Rodney Lemery and Valiance Partners’ Richard Higger for a free one-hour webinar that will explore:

• The types of risks and challenges associated with safety data system migrations
• How to successfully approach a safety and pharmacovigilance system migration and implementation project
• The benefits of pre-configured migration software and automated migration testing (100% testing)
• Examples of past migration and implementation projects
• Your own migration questions and challenges

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 @:

7:00 a.m. US Pacific time
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15:00 UK time
16:00 Central European time

Overview : You cannot manage productivity with an appraisal form. Learn to define performance as a three legged stool that ensures everything that matters is managed. Some employees perform well but poison the environment around them.

Team members might resent or even undermine group efforts when one individual's bad behavior is tolerated. Others try hard but fail. Only through a holistic approach to performance can maximum productivity be achieved. Therefore, managing what individuals do everyday, tracking the results that come from their contributions, and including how they work with others are all necessary to ensure performance success. Make sure that employees are the first step in the quality assurance process.

Learn how to train employees to indentify the key variables that identify success. Build a support system that does not allow employees to fail, languish, or to waste time on unproductive tasks. Instead of asking employees to show up for 8 hours a day, design a work environment that challenges them to do their very best work each day. Unleash employee excitement and potential by getting them involved, supporting them, and directing them in a new and novel way that respects that talents and abilities of today's knowledge workers.

Why you should attend: When does a focus on results undermine productivity? Can employees complete the right way and on time but unintentionally sabotage the organization? Do managers sometimes ignore ticking time bombs that poison the area around them by not dealing with behavioral issues? The only way to be an effective manager is to manage performance holistically by balancing the focus on efforts, outcomes, and behaviors. Learn how to ensure that each assignment, your supervisor techniques, your performance management system, and your compensation system are all aligned and support the kind of performance that you produce lasting results. Don't pay employees to get results and allow them to cannibalize future sales. Hold employees accountable for what they do, what they fail to do, and how they do it. Ensure that the work smart, safe, efficiently and effectively. Do not allow employees to cut corners, undermine coworkers, or fail to follow policies and procedures. Build a performance management system and performance management system that complement one another and ensure that each employee is held to high standards.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Define what excellent performance "looks like" from the employee's perspective
Diagnose performance problems effectively
Select the proper management intervention to correct poor performance
Use the right management tools to keep employees on track
Train managers to help employees be more productive
Review or revamp your performance management system
Ensuring Incentive Plans are designed to support the "actual" results you seek

Who Will Benefit:

Managers
Supervisors
HR Managers
Directors
Coordinators
Vice Presidents

Overview : It is often called the "most dreaded management task". It's the performance management conversation. How do you turn poor performance around without soft peddling the difficult stuff or being hypercritical and risking a defensive reaction?

In this program, Judi Clements prepares your managers & supervisors for this difficult, yet very important, job. Without a successful performance management process, organizations can fall into the trap of "carrying" poor performers & tacitly endorsing substandard work. Judi shows your leaders how to utilize your organization's performance management system and use behavioral, not attitudinal language to ensure legal compliance and optimal employee development. Judi turns the "most dreaded management task" into a positive experience for all.

Why you should attend: To develop the skills to prepare, deliver, and follow-up performance management interventions with low performing employees.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Develop Rapport with Employees
Set a Self-motivating Workplace Climate
Monitor Employee Performance
Provide Effective Feedback
Coach Employees to Perform at Higher Levels
Prepare for Performance Management Meetings
Encourage Employees to Self-appraise
Encourage Employees to Identify Areas for Improvement and Set Appropriate Goals
Anticipate & Manage Employee Defensiveness, Anger, or Other Emotions
Follow-up Performance Management Interventions

Who Will Benefit:

Managers
Supervisors
Leaders
Human Resource Professionals
Shift Leaders

Overview : This presentation will provide attendees with an introduction to some of the many new regulations relating to employee benefits, with a focus on regulations that have been issued in the past year or so.

Most of the new regulations relate to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, also known as health care reform). Other regulations that will be summarized include the ADA (Americans with Disabilities) Amendments Act (ADAAA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Regulations to be addressed include:

On November 17, 2010, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (OCIIO) jointly issued an amendment to the interim final rules published on June 17, 2010 regarding permissible changes health plans can make in order to maintain their status as a "grandfathered plan".
On November 22, 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued interim final regulations implementing the “medical loss ratio” (MLR) provisions of PPACA.
On February 9, 2011, HHS announced a proposed rule extending some of the patient protections of PPACA to student health insurance plans.
On March 25, 2011, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published final regulations implementing the ADAAA. The ADAAA greatly expands the number of people protected by the ADA.
On May 19, 2011, HHS issued a final regulation intended to ensure that large health insurance premium increases will be thoroughly reviewed and consumers will have access to clear information about those increases.
On May 31, 2011, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within HHS published proposed changes to the Privacy Rule under HIPAA pursuant to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
On June 24, 2011, the IRS, EBSA and HHS issued interim final rules and model notices on internal claims and appeals and external review processes. These rules interpret PPACA’s requirement that plans provide notices about appeal rights in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.
On June 30, 2011, HHS published interim final rules regarding electronic data interchange (EDI). The rules require compliance by health plans, health care clearinghouses and certain health care providers by January 1, 2013.
On July 11, 2011, HHS proposed regulations to assist states in building Affordable Insurance Exchanges, state-based competitive marketplaces where individuals and small businesses will be able to purchase private health insurance.
On August 12, 2011, HHS along with the Department of the Treasury released three more proposed rules related to developing Affordable Insurance Exchanges (Exchanges).
On August 17, 2011, the Departments of Labor, HHS and Treasury proposed new rules under PPACA that are intended to enable consumers to understand their health coverage more easily and determine the best health insurance options for themselves and their families. PPACA requires all health insurers and group health plans to provide enrollees an accurate Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC).
On October 20, 2011, HHS announced final rules regarding Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). These regulations launch the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Advance Payment model.

Why you should attend: The employee benefits field is constantly changing. Employee benefits professionals need to keep up with the latest developments, including regulatory changes. Compliance is not optional and what you don't know can hurt you!

Some of the new regulations apply to or will affect all or virtually all employers. Do you know the latest rules governing grandfathered plans? What about the new requirements regarding claims and appeals? Do you know what an SBC is? It is a Summary of Benefits and Coverage-you will have to provide one if you sponsor a health plan. ACOs may revolutionize health care-do you know what they are? They are Accountable Care Organizations. Similarly, health insurance exchanges will impact all plans, even those that do not participate.

In addition to regulations under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, also known as health care reform) there are new regulations under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Amendments Act and new privacy regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that will have broad applicability.

Some of the regulations issued in the past year or so are very specialized and only apply to certain types of plans, like student health plans. Others, like the medical loss ratio regulations or the rules on rate increases apply only to insurers, but not self-funded plans. Some regulations, like those regarding electronic data interchange, apply more generally, but typically employers rely on their insurers and administrators to comply. Of course, if you fall into one of these categories, you need to know about the rules.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Health Care Reform
Grandfathered Plans
Medical Loss Ratios
Student Health Insurance Plans
Premium Increases
Claims and Appeals
Exchanges
Summary of Benefits and Coverage
Accountable Care Organizations
HIPAA
Privacy
Electronic Data Interchange
ADA Amendments Act

Who Will Benefit:

Vice President of Human Resources
Director of Compensation and Benefits
Benefit Manager
Benefit Specialist
Insurance Agent
Insurance Broker
Employee Benefits Consultant
Group Insurance Representative

Overview : This webinar will highlight the basic areas which need to be addressed regarding the safety and security of your employees and your company. It will also cover topics for consideration in your Employee Policy Manuals, Safety Manuals, Procedural Manuals and Crisis Manual.

Although you will need to customize the Plan for your own company and industry, this webinar can serve as a check point to review your current practices as well as help you prepare an outline to formalize, consolidate and communicate your policies and procedures in a crisis manual.

Why you should attend: Often the responsibilities at the time of crisis fall on several key managers in the company. This webinar explains the role of Human Resources or whoever has the job of defining responsibilities and coordinating the major aspects of keeping the employees and company safe and functioning at times of crisis. A well-designed and coordinated Plan can prevent situations from being more harmful, save lives as well as saving much money by minimizing liability and keeping the business operating smoothly.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Selecting your crisis team; defining and assigning responsibilities
Essential policies and procedures to address emergencies
Employee training programs
Emergency call lists
Emergency medical services
Reporting accidents and incidents
Evacuation plans
Disaster recovery plans and backup systems
Interruptions in customer service and business
Communications and media coverage
Briefing and Debriefing
Violence or threats in the workplace
Natural disasters and severe weather policies
Emergency preparedness for individuals with disabilities
Payroll
Employee assistance programs
Complying with applicable laws

Who Will Benefit:

Anyone responsible for the safety and security of employees and the protection
Human Resources
Security
IT and Finance Directors
Legal Counsel