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Evaluating Your Board
The membership, structures, and functions of most boards of directors come about by happenstance and continue through inertia. Members are named through ownership, networking, and personal or family connections. Board operations likewise are structured to meet basic legal requirements, but too often ignore structural, support and meeting practices that could nurture the most value from membership. Only with..
Performance Management with Bottom-Line Results
Performance management approaches have evolved over time. Originally, they were very top-down, control-based approaches. Today’s approaches have changed dramatically. Control is dead, and in its place is what I call engaged collaboration. That requires clarity of purpose, moving to performance agreements, and wise use of today’s technologies. In this fast-moving program, Don will share strategies and tools ..
Navigating the Tricky Business of Payroll, Supervisors, and FSLA Violations
The training begins with an introduction to payroll management, outlining its key components such as wages, taxes, deductions, and benefits. Participants will then delve into the intricacies of FLSA compliance, including the distinction between exempt and non-exempt employees, as well as minimum wage and overtime requirements.Supervisors play a crucial role in payroll compliance, and this training emphasize..
The Magic of Engagement – Putting the WOW Factor into Creating Exceptional Customer Service
Accountability, with engagement, equals profitability. When everyone gets that they are the customer/client/patient experience, no matter what their function or degree of contact with the client is, they will connect at an accelerated level that will differentiate you from your competition. What do great managers know that average managers do not when it comes to employee training, retention, and motivation..
New Form 1099 Reporting Requirements: 2024 Compliance Update
1099s report payments made to non-employee service providers, as well as payments to suppliers and other entities you do business with. Think of your own organization: Can you name all the types of service providers you use? Do you know which payments are reportable on 1099s, and the minimum amounts you must pay before they are reportable? There is a new 1099-k threshold for tax year 2023 that was slated fo..
Unemployment Insurance – 2022 - 2023 Critical Issues
Unlike other human resource management issues, unemployment insurance (UI) management issues have a direct impact on an organization’s tax liability, and since taxes reduce profitability, on its bottom line. Unlike other payroll taxes, however, UI taxes are experience-rated and represent a controllable expense. Thus, an organization’s UI experience, influenced by its success in managing turnover, separation..
New Overtime Regulations
Overtime and minimum wage have been a hot topic for the last several years, legislation almost went into in effect in 2017 but was stopped by several states coming forward with legal action. But new legislation was put into effect as of 1/1/2020, are you aware of the changes and are you in compliance with the new exempt requirements? In Aug of 2023, there was new proposed legislation that has not ..
Self Auditing Your Cyber Security Program To Ensure To Mitigate Risks
To manage information security in a company you need a Self Auditing Your Cyber Security Program To Ensure To Mitigate Risks.We will cover how to audit your program in relation to establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving an information security management system." In addition, we will discuss which standards to reference to effectively ensure your organi..
Tales from the Darkside: IRS Enforcement of Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have created a new generation of millionaires, with the benefit of anonymity. Whether the cryptocurrency is being used for criminal activity or held as a legitimate investment, the IRS is spending substantial resources in finding those who possess, purchase, and sell cryptocurrencies to ensure that the tax, banking, and money laundering laws are being followed.Are you or y..
Common Law and Its Impact on Employment
The law - both in the U.S. and around the globe, continues to change as technology advances, the social and political climate evolves and industries grow and decline. It’s more important than ever for human resources to understand relevant legal issues so they can make better, more informed business decisions.We all benefit from knowledge of legal best practices, the current state of regulations, important ..
How to Navigate Political Speech in the Workplace
Political speech at work is creating more of a problem now than it did during the 2016 Presidential election!!! With the impeachment, divisive country, and upcoming 2022 midterm elections, it has escalated even more. A new survey has found that a significantly increased percentage of employees are feeling stressed and strained because of the political speech since the 2016 campaign! Employees are feeling mo..
Supply Chain Costing and Performance Management
Logistics and supply chain managers have increasingly realized that the greatest potential to create financial value lies not within a single firm but across all the trading partner enterprises comprising a supply chain, particularly at the interface between trading partners. At the boundaries of their firm – with their suppliers and customers – is where companies can identify mutually beneficial cost..
Treating Employees Like Adults: Discipline v Empowerment
This webinar describes Realizing empowerment is a more useful/productive tool instead of traditional discipline (which all too often makes a situation worse, resulting in a damaged relationship)Understanding the concept and relationship between employee empowerment and performanceHow to raise an employee’s performance awareness and accountabilityThe use of techniques/strategies for communicating non-discipl..
2024 Independent Contract Rule by DOL Has Become a Deadline for March 11, 2024! Audits by Department of Labor (DOL) and the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) are Creating Havoc for Employers!
Learn How Misclassifications Can be a Legal Nightmare for Employers!The new independent contractor rule from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) could spark an increase in misclassification lawsuits and make businesses less likely to hire gig workers, according to some legal experts.The final rule restores an earlier standard that required companies to weigh a variety of economic factors together to determin..
A Guide to Limit and Reduce U.S. Customs Duties
This webinar will provide a range of strategies for effective management and reduction of customs-duty costs.Areas Covered How U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) assesses duties on imports, looking at tariff classification, valuation, and special duty regimesWays to minimize duty payments through customs protests, litigation before the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT), free-trade agreements, pr..