Corporate Governance
Risk Management – “Best Practices” / Management Roles and Responsibilities
The key to effective risk management in a corporation or other operating entities is knowing and understanding the types of risk present in its business activities, the ability to identify operating weaknesses that may generate a risk condition, and having formal mechanisms for addressing an identified weakness with the objective to eliminate or modify the associated potential of a risk event. The first lin..
Seven Pillars of Corporate Etiquette
This session is designed to help you and your team generate a cordial and productive office environment where employees interact assertively and professionally. The session concentrates on the introduction and thorough explanation of the seven pillars of good corporate etiquette as follows: (1) workplace basics, (2) electronic communications, (3) courteous considerations, (4) effective meetings, (5) profess..
Stressed Out: How to Deal with Conflict, Difficult Co-workers, Peers and Even Bosses
Conflict is an inevitable part of life. No matter how hard you try, it can seem that there will always be something that causes you or someone around you to be frustrated, angry, and impatient – or a whole host of other not-so-pleasant emotions.Conflict arises when the people we work with have different ideas, perspectives, backgrounds, values, goals or expectations. Yes, conflict can be destructive! It div..
Surveying & Benchmarking
No matter what business you are in, you must be able to understand customers’ expectations, even when they cannot articulate them easily. You must measure yourself against industry leaders to assure you are able to provide great value to your internal and external customers. Although there are times when you want a third party to conduct these studies, you can learn simple tools and approaches and dig out w..
The 20 Essential Characteristics of Successful Worksite Wellness Programs
This talk will address the many factors to be considered in the design and implementation of a successful worksite wellness program.As research on the effectiveness of worksite wellness programs is showing the positive effects for both the employee and organization, it is important to ensure that your program is the best in class. A Harvard study found that companies who provide worksite wellness programs h..
The Danger of Not Aligning Strategy, Business Objectives and Your Culture With an Embedded Governance Framework
Why is it that corporate culture differs so much from organisation to organisation? Look at your market sector and your closest competitors, do they have a similar strategy and corporate culture? What sets you apart from your competitors and how quickly can your organisation make changes to its business objectives, overall strategy, and aspects of culture? During this webinar we will consider some of the ri..
The Development and Implementation of a Hands on Day to Day Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Operating Manual
Most environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) guidance is provided by program management. This includes guidance on matters such as compliance, audit, and management systems, for example, ISO 14,001. There is little guidance provided for day-to-day EHS activities. Learning is usually by trial and error. There is general uncertainty if things are being done correctly or perhaps not. If you are trying to antic..
The Do's and Don'ts of Poster Compliance. Is Your Company in Compliance with the 2017 Poster Requirements?
Many Employers nationwide are aware they are required to have labor posters in places where their employees congregate. There are many states that have poster requiring them to include minimum wage rates, the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) notices, the Department of Labor (DOL) regulations, and other Federal laws. But, did you know that not all states have the same requirements? Additionally, more states h..
The EHS Business Plan, Its Creation, Implementation and Management
The webinar will focus on taking your EHS organization from reactive to proactive. While a plan is unnecessary for a reactive organization; it is critically necessary for a proactive organization. As a proactive group, you will have internal and external clients. Senior management, division, and plant management are internal clients. Company individual facilities are also your internal clients. Trade associ..
The Millennial Workforce: How Smart Companies Engage and Tap their Entrepreneurial Energy
“The future belongs to individuals and companies who embrace the entrepreneurial spirit, whether that is inside or outside a company. The fundamental question is what is going to have people get motivated and inspired to make their highest contribution? What is going to get them fired up to do what they came here to do?” From “The Rise of the Intrapreneur”, Fast Company. As a company grows it naturally beco..
The Proper Way to Correct I-9 Documents and Not Pay Penalties! Use New Tools Accepted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Free for All Attendees: I-9 Correction and Storage Toolkit Accepted by DHS!I was one of 3 compliance auditors who reviewed over 7,000 I9 documents from an agricultural farm in Florida in 2012. We were hired when the company was audited for I9 document violations and the possible violation for hiring illegal immigrants. It was the start of when regulatory agencies were cracking down on immigration hiring and..
Verbal Self-Defense For Workplace Violence
De-escalation, diffusion, Verbal Judo, or “talking someone down", are all names for keeping the potentially violent person from becoming an actual violent person. This program will provide strategies, tactics, and techniques for keeping situations from devolving into dangerous confrontations. We’ll take a quick look into the problem of workplace violence, how often it happens and what is the effect on indiv..
Weeding Out The Bad Candidates: Best Practices for Sourcing, Resume Review, and Pre-Screening
Save time and money with these effective prescreening tips and tricks from an active recruiter.Many human resource professionals are under intense pressure to perform their jobs without adequate training, especially in the sales arena called recruiting or talent acquisition. This topic will supply human resource professionals with the training required to create a solid foundation for their talent acquisiti..
What We Don’t Know May Hurt Us: Recognizing and Addressing Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
Implicit, or unconscious bias, exists in classrooms and on college campuses. What does it look like? How can faculty create an unbiased learning environment? How can faculty get in touch with their own unconscious biases to combat unintentional bias with students? Research suggests that unconscious bias regarding race and gender impacts relationships with professors. One study showed that certain academic f..
Your Organization's Culture: If You Don't Get It Right, Nothing Else Matters
Get on a Southwest flight to anywhere, buy shoes from Zappos.com, pants from Nordstrom, groceries from Whole Foods, anything from Costco, a Starbucks espresso, or a Double-Double from In N' Out, and you'll get a taste of these brands’ vibrant cultures. Unfortunately, culture is often misunderstood and discounted as a touchy-feely, rather than a bottom line, the component of a business. That’s not the case. ..