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Succession Planning
Succession planning is a critical process for organizations to ensure continuity and preparedness for leadership transitions. This session will provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of succession planning, its importance, and key strategies for implementation.A successful succession plan helps to not only pave the way for new, and upcoming leaders, but also ensures that the resident expert..
The Key To Effective Pips
An Employee Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a formal document that outlines specific concerns or gaps in an employee’s performance. It serves as a strategy to help the employee improve on the specific areas of their job where they are not meeting the requirements of the position they were hired for. There are certain items that must be included when presenting an employee with a Performance Improvemen..
Crafting Competitive Advantage: Essential Readiness for Success
To understand the fundamentals of crafting competitive advantage and to develop essential readiness for success in a competitive market landscape.Key Concepts:1. Understanding Competitive Advantage:Definition: Competitive advantage refers to the unique strengths and capabilities that enable a business to outperform its competitors.Types of competitive advantage: Cost leadership, differentia..
Lags, Leads, Constraints, and Calendars in CPM Networks
We start with an introduction to types of lags and leads in CPM (Critical Path Method) schedules and the impact of each type on activities and project dates. We go through tips to simplify and minimize the number of lags.Later we discuss types of constraints and calendars and their impact on activities dates and on the entire project.We conclude with general tips and recommendations.Areas Covered Introducti..
Managing Millennials/Generations at Work
Generational diversity” is no longer just a buzzword. We’re seeing younger and younger individuals in positions of power and influence in the workforce, and these days it’s not uncommon for the power hierarchy to be reversed, with older individuals reporting to younger bosses. You cannot manage an experienced worker based on authority from your position title alone. Managing someone older than you doesn’t h..
Secure 2.0 Update 2024
This session highlights the tax and non-tax provisions of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 that are effective for tax year 2024 and others tax provisions that are delayed until after December 31, 2024. Thus, businesses and clients are going to hear about the new legislation from the media and are going to expect you, as a tax professional, to be up on the issues. Thus, this webinar will present the changes to the..
Working Parents, Burnout and the Great Resignation
It describes the increased stress and burnout that working parents experience as they attempt to balance their professional obligations with their family responsibilities. The Great Resignation, a term coined to describe the mass exodus of employees from the workforce, often for reasons related to seeking better work-life balance, plays a significant role in this discussion. The topic aims to shed light on ..
Data Modeling with DAX and Power Pivot
The upcoming webinar on Data Modeling with DAX and Power Pivot offers a deep dive into the transformative techniques of advanced data analysis within the Microsoft ecosystem. This session aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to leverage Power Pivot and DAX—two pivotal tools that, when combined, provide unparalleled insights from complex data sets.Power Pivot enhances Excel's capabilities..
Human Resource Audits: How to Conduct a Practical Audit Without Overwhelm
Any HR professional knows that a major part of their responsibility is keeping the company’s employment files organized – for many legal reasons – but also because it helps to keep your operations going smoothly. An externally-driven audit by a government agency could result in dire consequences including fines, citations, and shutdowns. Without a system or organizing files followed up by regular internal a..
Construction Fraud – Ripped from the Headlines
Construction fraud refers to any deceptive or dishonest activities that occur within the construction industry with the intention of gaining an unfair advantage, financial gain, or causing financial loss to others. It can involve various parties including contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, employees, or even project owners. Construction fraud can take many forms, including: Billing Schemes: This involv..
Garnishments, Subpoena’s, Levies, Summonses and other Legal Orders
New hire reporting laws applicable to all US businesses have one goal in mind to quickly identify where parents who owe child support are employed. In some states, it applies to independent contractors as well. Businesses can expect wage garnishments on some of these individuals shortly after these reports are filed. Of course, garnishments are also filed against workers who owe taxing agencies or other cre..
Board Dynamics – A Key to Effective Oversight
The session will identify where things can go wrong (looking at the role of the board in several corporate scandals), and what we can do to put it right. The solutions will be in the form of board composition and processes, and a study of behaviors and how crucial they are to success or failure as a board. We look at this relative to the critical strategic function of the Board Chair, board composition and ..
What is Section 301 De Minimis? – Controversies and Possibilities
This webinar will provide a comprehensive discussion of the history and policy behind the de minimis provision; the opportunities and challenges associated with the de minimis provision; and various proposals to improve or restrict the provision.Areas Covered The webinar will cover: (1) Background, history, and policy behind the de minimis provision under Sec. 321 of the Tariff Act of 1930; (2) Details of t..
Lookup functions and 3-D Excel file
Lookup tables are a good way to search for information and to return specific data relating to the information you introduce or look for. The Lookup function is a quick way to find the information one needs, and is particularly efficient when dealing with large databases that would be extremely time-consuming to search manually. So far, most spreadsheets people deal with use models with rows and columns onl..
Psychological Safety in the Boardroom
The purpose of this session is to provide an appreciation of why psychological safety is such an important element in the modern boardroom. We will see why it can truly make a difference by understanding why it truly matters and what the benefits are. We define psychological safety and dispel some notions about what it is and what it is not, and assess its relationship to the boardroom and how a culture of ..