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Overview : It is often called the “most dreaded management task”. It’s the performance management conversation. How do you turn poor performance around without soft peddling the difficult stuff or being hypercritical and risking a defensive reaction? In this program, Judi Clements prepares your managers & supervisors for this difficult, yet very important, job. Without …

Overview : This session will discuss uncommon strategies that can have a greater impact on performance and morale than traditional pay for performance systems. Key strategies for non-profit organizations will also be discussed as there are compensation techniques that can be employed in any environment. A good compensation system is designed with clear goals, communicated …

Overview : This presentation will provide attendees with an introduction to some of the many new regulations relating to employee benefits, with a focus on regulations that have been issued in the past year or so. Most of the new regulations relate to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, also known as health …

Overview : Workplace violence is the number one cause of workplace fatalities for women. Eighteen thousand weekly workplace assaults cause 500,000 employees to lose 1,751,000 days of work annually, with a loss of $55 million in wages (3.5 days per incident); in fact, 18% of all crimes occur in the workplace. Although workplace violence might …

Overview : This webinar exposes employers to the most important state and federal (ergonomics and related) regulations existing today and workers' compensation legislations that impact how work injuries are managed. The program will explore the science of ergonomics including the primary and secondary risk factors that are important in preventing cumulative trauma, repetitive motion injuries …

Overview : Every manager encounters employees who cross the line into unacceptable behavior. Maybe they tell off-color jokes. Spread gossip. Act like slobs. Practice poor personal hygiene. Ridicule core organizational values. Or violate company rules and policies. Lots of managers don't have the toolkit to confront dysfunctional employees so they practice avoidance, which erodes morale …

Overview : The role, power and potential of networking while establishing and maintaining a distinctive personal brand is paramount in the current social and professional climate. Arnold Sanow, author of "Nobody to Somebody in 63 Days or Less … The Ultimate Guide to Business Networking and Word of Mouth Advertising" will share with you tips …

Overview : Making poor hiring decisions (and keeping bad hires) based on deficient interviewing skills costs companies millions of dollars every year. This 90 minute webinar provides participants with the working knowledge to conduct legal and effective employment interviews, screen out potential problem employees, and evaluate candidates. Areas Covered In the Seminar: Learn what questions …

  An Oxfordshire training company has come up with a way to help businesses continue their investment in staff training at a time when budgets are tight. Pearcemayfield, which specialises in project and change management courses has developed a ‘Season Ticket’ concept which gives companies access to an agreed amount of training days spread over …

Overview : In this webinar we will discuss measurements and ratios that will be meaningful to the Human Resources Department and the Executive Team in determining successful use of human capital. Human Resources uses both left and right brain thinking to achieve its objectives and key metrics for both will be covered. We will also …

Overview : This webinar will provide you with a basic understanding of the theory of ergonomics and what the five most common workplace risk factors is that impact all jobs. Awareness of early signs and symptoms, and how to encourage early reporting is essential in an effective ergonomics process that works to prevent the onset …

Overview : This webinar will concentrate on the definition of diversity today and the many different aspects of a diverse workforce. We will cover areas of sensitivity and inclusion as well as legal considerations for protected classes and the business case for diversity. We will explore assumptions, beliefs, generalities, discrimination, prejudice, perception, and stereotypes. We …

Learning and development company, pearcemayfield, is taking action against poor management training by launching a ‘Leading Change Summer School’. John Edmonds, Director of Strategy and Marketing at pearcemayfield explains: “It’s lamentable that there is so much negativity and so many myths about training which is all too often labelled ‘unprofessional’ or ‘boring’. In fact sometimes …

Change Management will be up for discussion at the Best Practice Showcase taking place on Friday 17th June at the new Grange St Paul’s Hotel in London, organised by APMG-International. The Best Practice Showcase, now in its ninth year, is a great annual event for anyone involved with project, programme, portfolio and change management. The …

LONDON — 22 February, 2010 — Hitachi Consulting UK today announced that in conjunction with AMTEC Management Consulting, it has been shortlisted for the ‘Change Management in Public Sector’ Award organised by the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) for the innovative work carried out on the Future Brize Programme, a £340m programme to establish Brize Norton …

Last chance to join USC’s Center for Effective Organizations Data Coaching Workshop, “Data and Dialogue Skills to Drive Results,” http://bit.ly/datacoaching SALINE, Mich. – February 16, 2010 – The final deadline to join the University of Southern California, Center for Effective Organizations’ (CEO) data coaching workshop, “Data and Dialogue Skills to Drive Results,” at http://bit.ly/datacoaching is …