HR Essentials – April Cohort

You’re new to Human Resources, now what? Understanding the role of HR, understanding your role within HR, understanding your organization’s culture, how decisions are made, and how things really get done are daunting tasks for the newly-minted HR professional. Add to that the Herculean task of building trust with your supervisor and internal clients and building skills to influence others and you have what this program is all about! This session is about thriving, not just surviving in your new role or new organization. This knowledge building session gives you the chance to:`

Developing the knowledge and expertise to support organizational success

Navigating the legal aspects with ease

This program is designed to help participants understand how Federal employment laws work in the real world – and how they apply very directly to the day-to-day duties, decisions and interactions of managers and supervisors. Virtually all risk related to employment law violation lies with uneducated or undereducated management. A primary focus is to enlighten participants as to how employment laws are broken every day – inadvertently – by leaders who think they’re making sound business decisions, and who would never intentionally discriminate.  In this session you will:

Empower your employees to navigate employment regulations in the Commonwealth

This session is designed to help participants understand how State employment laws work in the real world – and how they apply very directly to the day-to-day duties, decisions and interactions of managers and supervisors. Virtually all risks related to employment law violations lie with uneducated or undereducated management. A primary focus is to enlighten participants as to how employment laws are broken every day – inadvertently – by leaders who think they’re making sound business decisions, and who would never intentionally discriminate.  In this session you will:

Maximizing the value of your health and welfare benefits: A Comprehensive Guide for Employees

Designed as an overview, this course provides a survey of benefits concepts and definitions, mandatory offerings, compliance issues, leaves of absence, benefit plan management and a look at current trends in health and welfare programs. The program unmasks the alphabet soup that is the benefits world and the myriad of regulatory impacts on health & welfare programs. This knowledge building session gives you the chance to:

Building and promoting belonging is the workplace

What do the following five things have in common?

1. Employee recruiting and hiring
2. Global Staffing
3. Internal communication
4. Work/life balance
5. Performance Management

They all benefit from being thoughtfully designed with inclusion as their north star!
Inclusion in the workplace has traditionally been handled by HR departments in businesses. This practical and tactical session will help your organization create a culture of inclusion in your workplace and inspire togetherness. By the end of this skill-building session, you will:

• Explore how a culture of inclusion benefits an organization
• Build a framework for inclusivity and respect in your workplace
• Discover best practices for leading an increasingly diverse workforce regarding generations, cultures, genders, backgrounds, and experiences

Best practices for hiring, managing, and developing employees

Creative strategies for building a strong and diverse workforce

A pandemic, worker shortages, wage wars and a host of other factors have complicated the process of attracting and retaining talent. This course provides a up-to-the-minute review of what your competitors are doing, national trends, innovative approaches and innovations in recruitment. We’ll look at how HR should manage the process and investigate how talent acquisition isn’t an event or just a process but a strategic approach to keeping your organization fully staffed and growing. In this knowledge building session, you’ll get the chance to:

A practical guide to hiring the right candidate every time

While Talent Acquisition doesn’t begin or end with interviewing, it is the pivot point around which the process revolves. Identifying individuals who match your culture, who have the requisite skills to perform or have the potential to succeed in your organization depends on your organization’s ability to discern the wheat from the chaff. This program is about the skills required to ask the right questions, listen (and see) the right answers and match what you see and hear to what your organization requires. You’ll leave this class with a roadmap to effective behavioral interviewing and an understanding that interviewing is not the art of asking the right questions, but the science of translating what you see and hear into a decision. In this skill building session you’ll get the chance to:

Learn the steps to establishing policies and procedures

Establish best practices for maintaining accurate and compliant employee files

• Discover the essential elements of personnel records
• Identify the regulatory environment impacting the establishment and maintenance of employee records
• Discover the importance of documentation in personnel events; the key role of HR in assisting front line leaders in documenting events and the legal importance of proper documentation
• Evaluate options for how records are established and maintained for your organization

Simplifying the process of setting goals ,providing feedback, and evaluating employee performance

Guidance on handling employee performance issues

Info coming soon