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New Pregnancy Protections Regulations in the Workplace for 2024! How Should Employers Comply?
The U.S. Senate passed two acts that help working moms who are pregnant or breastfeeding. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (known as the PUMP Act) were added to the 2023 omnibus spending bill, which now passed the Senate and is headed for a House vote.The PUMP ActThe PUMP Act for nursing mothers requires organizations to provide time and..
Resource Management in Construction Schedules
This seminar will go over the concepts and steps to manage resources in a typical construction project. It goes briefly into some scheduling and cost management topics as they relate to the seminar topic. It covers how a schedule is cost or resource-loaded, and then how can we draw the resource usage profile and cash flow diagram throughout the project. The seminar goes over the concept of resource allocati..
Excel Named Ranges
A Named Range is a feature that allows you to assign a meaningful name to a specific cell, range of cells, formula, or constant value in a worksheet. Instead of referring to cells by their standard cell references (like A1, B2, etc.), you can use a custom name that makes it easier to understand and manage your data and formulas.Areas Covered Readability and Clarity: Named Ranges provide descriptive names fo..
Healthy Conflicts - How to Respectfully and Successfully Handle Disagreements
Conflict isn’t something that is bad, signals weakness or will inevitably end badly. On the contrary – conflict is an opportunity to clear the air, express our differences, address our disagreements and find a path forward. If ignored or handled badly, conflict can devastate a colleague or client relationship or a team. If handled early and effectively, relationships and workplace culture will be enriched. ..
Moving From An Operational Manager to A Strategic Leader
Gain the insights and skills to know where your business stands today and where it’s heading tomorrow.In today’s unpredictable business environment, strategic leadership is not just for top management alone. It’s for:Managers who want to increase their competitive advantage by anticipating their customers’ priorities, needs and expectationsManagers who want to distinguish operational data from strategic dat..
Applying Risk-based Approaches to Processes Under the Quality Management System
Just about every process in the QMS can be driven through risk-based thinking. Creating a simple and effective plan is key to a successful application. This discussion will outline specific proven approaches to specific processes, ensuring both a rigorous approach and one that is acceptable to auditors/inspectors.Areas Covered The “big” ones: purchasing, training, computer system validationOthers: Aud..
Legal And Ethical Challenges for Employers: An Increase In Burnout, Stress, And Mental Illness
With the increase in mental health workplace claims came an EEOC 2023 newly released Guidance on Mental Health Discrimination which is addressed to employees informing them of their employment rights under the ADA. Workplaces can and should play a significant role in minimizing their employees’ mental health risks. Employee stress levels continue to rise as more and more employees spend more and more hours ..
Time to Review and Update Your Employment Policies: Getting Ready for 2025
Your employment policy manual is essential for smooth operations. It should be the go-to authority for policies. Secondly, it’s critical for new hire training. As such, it should be the first place to look for legal clarification. Thirdly, you can use it to showcase your company culture.An employment policy manual is a document in an organization that contains policies and procedures with which employees ar..
Learn How To Conduct An I-9 Internal Audit With All The Changes Made To The New I9 Form!, Learn What The Errors Are With The New I-9 Form
Now the new I-9 Form has been in place in 2024, it is time to learn how the new changes have made the I-9 form correction process have impacted Employers and professionals on how they make corrections.As a former external auditor hired by DHS, to review over 7,000 I-9 forms and make corrections, it is critical to review your I-9 forms now as the new I-9 forms have been effective since mid-2023.As E-Verify c..
Violence at Work: From Disgruntled Employees and Domestic Violence to Mass Murder
According to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 5% of U. S. businesses experience workplace violence yearly. The percentage of workplace violence increases to 50% for organizations with 1,000 employees. The FBI stated that in 2014 an active shooting incident occurred, on average, once every three weeks. However, given the size of the U. S., the chances of being a victim of a workplace shooting is statist..
The Dos and DON’Ts of Documenting Employee Performance: What Employers Need to Know
You’ve heard the statement, “If it’s not written down, it didn’t happen.” The human resources mantra to managers and supervisors is to "document, document, document," because disciplinary actions can often give rise to claims of discrimination, leading to high costs of litigation. But do your managers and supervisor know how, when, and what to document? Badly worded documentation and suspiciously timed admi..
Delay Claims: Prevention and Management
Delay claims are part of project management, however, the way we deal with them can make a big difference. Delay claims cost money and time, as well as strain the relationship between the contracting parties. So it is better to take all precautions to prevent them from arising, and then learn a few hints to manage those that do happen, in the most effective way. This seminar will go over the definition of c..
Stress, Change and Team Resilience through Humor: An Interactive Playshop
In a 24/7 always-on, TNT – Time-Numbers-Technology – Driven-Distracted World, filled with change and uncertainty, developing stress and change resilience skills and strategies is critical. Also vital is understanding the individual and organizational characteristics that facilitate burnout, as well as the burnout battlefront stages. Learn how a task and human touch team can be a vital buffer against burnout..
ChatGPT for HR in 2024 and 2025: What Can ChatGPT Do For You?
This highly interactive Webinar offers you and your HR team an array of practical tools and templates you can use to effectively manage your HR responsibilities.As ChatGPT evolves and we start to gradually understand it better, HR managers can now perform some of their work duties more effectively using ChatGPT. ChatGPT can help you handle the various processes involved in managing all of your workforce, in..
Bullet-Proof Yourself from Workplace Bullies
Do you think there is workplace bullying in your team or organization? If so, this is the webinar for you. Sadly, workplace bullying is more common than we understand and sometimes, it’s even accepted as a leadership style. Not only will we help you improve your ability to identify bullying behaviors, we will ensure that you have tools and strategies for effectively deal with a bully. Bullying at work comes..