HR Compliance
Strategic Interviewing and Selection: Getting the Right Talent on Your Team in This Tight Labor Market
The effectiveness of the Recruiting, Interviewing and Selection process can be no greater than the quality of the interviews themselves. Interviewers need to know how to follow a proven methodology for obtaining relevant information from applicants and properly assessing it. Interviewers need to know what to look for and how to gain that information. The objective of an interview is to identify candidates w..
Keeping the Human in Human Resources: How to Use Artificial Intelligence Intelligently
It would take weeks to gather and analyze the same quantity of data manually that AI processes can accomplish in seconds. In today’s fast-moving business environment, speed is critical for the following reasons:Empowering faster decisions at the right times to generate business opportunitiesGetting accurate information quicklyFacilitating pattern recognition to spot trendsAccelerating all company processesL..
Stay Interviews: Kicking Your Employee Retention Efforts into Overdrive in 2023
Employee turnover is always a hot topic. How can it be reduced? How can you keep your top employees from leaving? What makes a good employee want to leave? How can you know if someone is considering quitting?Some employers have decided the best way to answer those questions is to ask employees directly. Instead of making assumptions about what employees need and whether they may consider leaving, employers ..
Handling Sensitive Dress Code Issues without Getting Sued
Employers realize that their employees typically are the "face" of the company, and employers are finding it increasingly advisable to control that image. HR, which is frequently responsible for policy development, must work with other parts of the organization to ensure that dress codes are managed consistently and fairly. Dress and appearance policies now require organizations to develop strategies that a..
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Beyond the Basics: What Managers Need to Know About Equal Employment Opportunity Regulations
If you are a supervisor, manager, HR professional, or business owner, you and the interests of your organization and its employees will be well-served by developing a solid knowledge base with regard to key Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) compliance considerations. You’re off to a great start if you know – and follow – your company’s EEO and harassment prevention policies (assuming they are sound and cur..
How to Praise and Reprimand Staff
As a manager, you are responsible for getting work done through your staff. This involves teaching and training them, giving them objectives, delegating authority to them, and, of course, guiding and correcting them. Guiding and correcting embody the topic of this course – praise and reprimand.What happens when managers fail to praise and reprimand their staff? You may know the answer to this very well as y..
The New I9 – Mandated Requirements for Worker Verification and Authorization
In February 2020, the USCIS released its long-announced revision of the I9. Federal law requires that every employer who recruits, refers for a fee, or hires an individual for employment in the U.S. must complete Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. The Form I-9 process, managed by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, will help you verify your employee's identity and employment authoriza..
HR Metrics and Analytics 2023 - Update on Strategic Planning, Application Activities, and Operational Impact
HR metrics and analytics play a vital role in business management. Top management uses HR metrics and analytics as a crucial part of its strategic planning activities and, increasingly, uses HR metrics to make essential business decisions.Operational management relies on HR metrics to ascertain and handle vital operational and transactional issues. HR metrics give management the power to understand, anticip..
New Overtime Regulations
This webinar will explain how the balance the federal overtime rules with the state overtime rules. The most up-to-date Overtime requirements and review legislative attempts to make sure employers have the correct overtime calculation.Areas Covered Federal and State Minimum wage review to include the most up to date changesDiscussion on how companies should handle minimum wage for s..
Time To Update Your Employment Policies: Tips and Traps
Employment policies are important documents in any organization. Procedures that are effectively designed and written help both managers and employees increase efficiency and productivity, reduce mistakes and frustration, and save time and money by providing clear guidelines that are easy to find and follow. The policy manual should be reviewed and modified constantly as the workplace and its laws and pract..
Accounting Principles for HR Professionals
Human Resources is at the center of organizational strategy. To do this effectively, Senior level HR Executives must know how financial data impacts their organization's bottom line. This includes how to track and forecast the cost of Human Resource functions such as benefits, wages, recruiting, and training. HR cannot afford to fall short of understanding financial business challenges and the cost of human..
The Great Opportunity in Great HR!
How clear are you about your why for becoming a strategic HR partner? Are you on the right path? How motivated are you? What could be blocking the way? While it’s great to brand to your clients and customers, how well are you doing so with your employees? How well are you branding HR? Do you know how others view you?How do you show your value? What data are you tracking? What do your monthly reports look li..
100 Ways to Retain Talent
The term "employee retention" describes the methods a firm uses to keep its best workers and reduce the likelihood that they will leave. Many companies and HR departments struggle with employee retention and turnover, which has a negative impact on operating costs, company growth, and profitability.According to the BLS, the average turnover rate varies significantly by sector, from under 20% in the public s..
California Meal and Rest Breaks: What You Don’t Know Can Cost You
California statutes pertaining to meal and rest periods for non-exempt employees are one of the more confusing topics in today’s business environment. This course is designed to provide you with a practical foundation for understanding the law. It includes guidelines for how to properly create and administer your own meal and rest period policy. Or, if your company already has its own policy, then this info..
Managing the Remote Workforce During Covid-19 and Beyond: Policies, Procedures, and Practices
Employers and employees are experiencing one of the biggest challenges in history in how people work. Some have never worked from home - some with spouses, kids, and pets at their desks – assuming they even have a desk at home. Many managers have never managed employees who work from home. The new situation is stressful and may be all-consuming. The new virtual work environment offers exciting opportunities..