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HR Essentials – May
HR Essentials Overview
Registration for this course is now closed. Contact Kelly McInnis if you have any questions KMcInnis@AIMHRSolutions.com.
For a schedule of upcoming courses, please visit our Learning & Development Catalog.
Human resource professionals are tasked with attaining, supporting, rewarding, and retaining a company’s most important asset – its people! Whether new to HR or looking for a refresher, this course provides insight into recruitment, managing leaves, employee benefits, compensation, employment law compliance, policies, and building a company culture. HR Essentials will provide participants with foundational knowledge and skills to navigate the increasingly complex world of HR. In addition, you will be introduced to available HR resources and start to develop an HR network.
Who Should Attend?
- Those in a position that includes human resource responsibilities
- New HR professionals seeking to broaden their knowledge
- Generalists who need a refresher
- Anyone seeking specific training in a particular HR discipline
Classes & Dates
HR Essentials
Registration for this course is now closed
This course is on Thursday mornings over nine weeks.
Class
1Human Resources for Anyone New To HR
Learn the ins and outs of your new career!
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 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 organization.
This knowledge-building session gives you the chance to:
- Explain what Human Resources encompasses
- Describe the delicate balancing act that is the role of Human Resources
- Define how decisions are made in your organization and HR’s role in decision-making
Class
2Health and Welfare Benefits Made Simple
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:
- Identify common concepts and definitions in the health and welfare community
- Describe regulatory and compliance matters affecting benefit plan programs
- Apply the essentials of benefit plan management within a benefit strategy
Class
3Job Analysis, Descriptions, and Evaluation Made Simple
Best practices for hiring, managing, and developing employees
How can you attract, retain, and manage employees without understanding the position’s responsibilities? Job analysis, job descriptions, and job evaluations form the foundation of many HR practices, including compensation decisions, training and development, performance management, and creating reasonable accommodation controls. In addition, they are used as a tool for recruiting and providing a solid foundation for legal compliance.
This skill-building session gives you the chance to:
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Understand the components of a job analysis
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Discuss the do’s and don’ts of job descriptions
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Write clearly defined job responsibilities
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Utilize job descriptions to evaluate positions for internal and external equity
Class
4Getting Creative to Attract and Retain Talent
Creative strategies for building a strong and diverse workforce
A pandemic, worker shortages, wage wars and a host of other factors have complicated process of attracting and retaining talent. This course provides an 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:
- Engage in workforce planning to move talent acquisition from an event to a strategic process
- Describe the latest sourcing vehicles and trends in acquisition and retention
- Identify changes to your interviewing process and content to maximize effectiveness
Class
5Getting Started with Behavioral Based Interviewing
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, 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:
- Describe the proper way to format questions and the importance of listening rather than talking
- Discover how to manage the interview process to learn the most about a candidate, even those who are reluctant to talk
- Use “what” is being said and “how” it is being said to make decisions
Class
6An Introduction to Employee Handbooks
Learn the steps to establishing policies and procedures
This class explores “Why should I have an employee handbook” and “What does it do for my organization?”. You’ll learn how your handbook is your calling card, a contract between your organization and your employees, and a critical defense component in a legal action. A properly constructed employee handbook is a work of art in communicating mutual expectations, company policies, and your code of conduct.
In this knowledge-building session, you’ll get the chance to:
- Describe the key components of a practical employee handbook
- Identify the benefits of a properly constructed employee handbook
- Review how policies are incorporated into the handbook
- Evaluate your current employee handbook against the standards discussed
Class
7Personnel Records: an Overview
Establish best practices for maintaining accurate and compliant employee files
While there are many options for how personnel records are established and maintained, they are essential on a wide number of fronts. In this program, participants will explore the kinds of records required, electronic options, maintenance, proper documentation, and the regulatory environment affecting personnel records.
This knowledge-building session gives you the chance to:
- List the essential elements of personnel records
- Summarize the regulatory environment impacting the establishment and maintenance of employee records
- Apply best practices of when and how personnel events require documentation
- Evaluate options for how records are established and maintained for your organization
Class
8Performance Appraisals
Simplifying the process of setting goals, providing feedback, and evaluating employee performance
Managers despise them, employees dread them, and HR is left to make it happen! If that describes your organization’s performance appraisal system, this course is for you! We’ll look at how you can overcome the reluctance of all involved, how a systematic approach to appraisals can work for your organization, and how HR can ensure consistency and quality in appraisals. We’ll explore how the formal appraisal is simply a culmination of a communications process that keeps employees informed of their status, expectations and consequences.
- Recall the common types of performance appraisals
- Describe the four parts of a traditional performance appraisal
- Analyze the common pitfalls associated with an organization’s approach to appraisals that cause stress
Class
9From Discipline to Termination: When Coaching Isn’t Working
Guidance on handling employee performance issues
Telling an employee that they are failing on the job is something most leaders dread. Telling them they’ve lost their job is worse. This session focuses on what happens when improvement doesn’t materialize after coaching. You’ll learn why these conversations are so difficult and how our own values and the organization’s culture and discipline policy influence our decision-making. We’ll review conflict and communications basics and provide ground rules for these difficult discussions. You’ll practice in real-world situations to build your skills.
This skill-building session gives you the chance to:
- State communication and conflict basics to prepare for difficult discussions
- Recognize why these discussions are so difficult for both the leader and the employee
- Illustrate risk management by applying applicable laws to scenarios
- Prepare for those worst-case-scenario conversations
Registration for this course is now closed
If you wish to register for only a few sessions, contact Kallee McGraw at KMcGraw@AIMHRSolutions.com.
Pricing
HR Essentials
Price for Course
Course Name
HR Essentials – May
Registration for this course is now closed
If you need help registering or applying for a grant, please contact Kallee McGraw or schedule a call.
FAQs
HR Essentials
“Training Just for You” is a training program that any individual from any company can sign up to attend. You’ll join a group of peers from other companies for weekly training sessions. AIM HR Solutions holds these sessions virtually; you can view our calendar of upcoming “Training Just for You” events here. “Training for Your Company” means that we will work with you to deliver training to your company, virtually or onsite. Contact Kelly McInnis if you want to learn more about holding training for your company.
All of our “Training Just For You” programs are currently virtual only. If you are interested in AIM HR Solutions offering this program virtually or onsite for your company, contact Kelly McInnis.
This course is eligible for the Express Program or the General Grant through the Workforce Training Fund Program. To learn more about this grant and how we can help, you can download our Learning & Development Catalog. If you still have more questions, you can contact Kelly McInnis.
All of our “Training Just for You” programs are held virtually and therefore can be attended by individuals anywhere in the world! Training for your company can also be offered in a virtual format to employees located anywhere. We currently do not offer in-person training outside of Massachusetts. To talk about how we may be able to support you, please contact Kelly McInnis.
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