Michelle Smith

Organizational growth – and the growth and development of HR professionals – more often than not now involves an international component. HR professionals need to lead the way in championing cultural sensitivity within their workforce and guiding their organizations through complex global reward programs. If you have a multi-cultural workforce and/or an international recognition program (or are thinking of developing one) you need to attend this session. International programs are exceptionally challenging and fraught with subtleties that can dramatically derail your best laid plans if you’re not extremely careful. Michelle will review detailed global cultural and recognition insights from 50+ focus groups and a 3-year formal study of Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, UAE, UK and the US. Both aggregate and individual country information will be shared. This is a deep dive into the essential tactics and cultural subtleties you need to know to insure recognition success if you offer programs in, or have employees from these countries. Michelle will also suggest where to focus resources to maximize engagement – especially with limited resources. The focus will be on proven tools and how-to's, easy, quick, and even low-cost or no cost solutions that can be implemented immediately. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:07:37

Lauraine Bifulco

Length - 1:15:34

Candice Gottlieb-Clark

How is a company’s culture defined? And how can it be changed? Organizational culture is the backbone of your organization. It impacts how your company moves, determines the talent you retain or lose, and it has an intrinsic influence on your organizations success. In this thought-provoking session we will discuss the evolution of a company’s culture, explore steps toward creating change and identify strategies for building the culture your organization needs to move powerfully forward. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:14:17

Sunil Bagai

As the U.S. Labor Department’s monthly jobs reports have shown, the blended workforce is here to stay. Employers are now hiring record numbers of contingent workers and relying increasingly on a mix of full-time and temporary employees to achieve their goals. But building and managing this blended workforce presents challenges on almost every front—particularly when it comes to effectively sourcing and hiring contingent workers. In this presentation, CEO of Zenith Talent, Sunil Bagai, explores how business leaders, HR professionals and other talent stakeholders must change the ways they build and manage their evolving workforces. Their shared goal: to make their organizations more nimble, productive and responsive to the changing demands of the marketplace. Attendees will hear Bagai discuss: • The need to think about—and hire—talent differently. • The importance of scaling talent quickly to meet marketplace demands. • The truth about sourcing and hiring the best contingent workers. • Today’s most powerful staffing models and the options employers face (outsourcing, offshoring, managed service providers, crowdstaffing, and more). • 10 tips for hiring talent for maximum results. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:12:12

Joshua Fredenburg

Studies have revealed that bad leadership not only affects the culture of an organization, but it causes others within the organization to become frustrated, irritated, and disengaged with their responsibilities.  In addition to these unique findings, ineffective leadership also affects the productivity, collaboration, retention, and synergy amongst the different members of a team as well.  Moreover, studies have also revealed that many people have left organizations because of bad leadership, not the actual organizations or workplace responsibilities. In this powerful, engaging, and insightful leadership program, Joshua not only helps people learn how to effectively respond to bad leadership, but he provides emerging and seasoned leaders with a set of practical and applicable strategies that they can use to combat the challenges of an awful leader.  Participants of this leadership program will also learn about the qualities of effective leadership and how they can use these qualities to experience more positive results with ineffective leadership. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:09:35

David Fisher

This will be a program focused on compliance issues specific to the United Kingdom.  It will provide a broad overview of various compliance obligations in the UK, including: unfair dismissal claims and the Employment Tribunal process generally, the UK Equality Act and employment discrimination claims, the effects of TUPE on business mergers and acquisitions, and discussions on the reduction in force process.   Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:17:41

Tim Beery & Tom Wagner

This presentation will give you a better understanding of California’s workers’ comp system, including classification, experience rating, ownership and the final premium audit. In this presentation, you will learn about the WCIRB's role in the California workers' comp system, how businesses are classified for workers' comp, what is an experience modification and how does it affect premium, how claims impact the experience modification, what to expect at the final audit, resources available to employers, and changes expected for 2016 and 2017. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:12:42

Viet Hoang & Darren Held

A 2012 IBM survey of 1,700 global CEOs reveals that the four most critical traits for employees' future success are collaboration, communication, creativity and flexibility. Improv training isn't just for actors, it's for professionals who want to strengthen all four of these critical traits. It's simple – improv is a team-based performance, where performers work together to create scenes based on audience suggestions. Listening carefully, contributing freely, and remaining adaptable are all skills critical to good improv and to successful organizations. In this interactive session, participants will experience the power of improv training, and learn how to implement improv training to drive key business results in their organizations. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:09:31

Nicole Minkow

Managing your workforce when employees are absent for work-related injuries can be a challenge. The myriad of potential landmines can be complicated. The cross-over between a disabled employee’s workers’ compensation rights and the obligations imposed by the Fair Employment and Housing Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and other leave of absence, discrimination and retaliation laws can confuse the most seasoned Human Resource professional. This seminar will assist you in effectively implementing the Interactive Process and recognizing potential issues and concerns before they become litigation nightmares. Attendees will learn the following key points: • Best practices in conducting the Interactive Process; • How to determine whether a requested accommodation is "unreasonable; • How to avoid retaliation claims brought by injured workers and disabled employees; • What to do when termination of a disabled worker is in the best interests of the company; • Common pitfalls created by an injured worker and how to avoid them. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:12:41

Rhoberta Shaler Phd

Life would be so much easier without those other people, right? We live in a fast-paced, demanding world. Knowing how reduce the friction and frenzy is imperative. Be wise. Learn the skills and strategies that allow you to feel confident in your communication, boundary-setting, and, conflict and anger management. It is empowering–and it works everywhere, at home, work, family and community. Difficult people–annoying, irrational, picky, sneaky, back-biting, politically-motivated, credit- grabbing, small-minded people–are not difficult to identify. Learning to deal with and manage them takes insight, skills, and new approaches. Two things are essential: learn how to respond to them positively, and lean how NOT to be one of them! Conflicts and confrontations are healthy, necessary parts of life, love and relationships. Don’t sidestep them. Get these valuable skills working for you, and become part of the solution! Learn to commit pre-meditated peace! Make life easier for everyone, while getting the job done! Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:13:35

Eldonna Fernandez

Thinking like a negotiator starts with understanding everything is negotiable. Negotiation is basically discussions to agree on a deal. Whether it's a multi-million dollar deal, feedback for an employee, interviewing candidates for the job or where to meet for lunch; it's all negotiation and something we do on a daily basis. Finding more confidence in negotiation and knowing the strategies to apply to any given situation will improve your outcomes and communication. Learn what the term win-win really means, and how to achieve it in your day to day negotiations. In this interactive session, you will learn strategies and techniques for engaging with employees to achieve the best results. Learn techniques to build rapport and establish trust quickly and easily. Discover how to engage in a direct manner that will produce desired results and leaves both parties satisfied with the outcome.  Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:07:25

J. Miller

Many Human Resources professionals see compensation as a great confusing mystery. Are we spending too much on salaries? Is our incentive plan really helping to drive performance? Who should be eligible for our equity programs? As such, it’s an area of compensation that many of the best and brightest HR professionals sadly steer clear. Joe Miller will shed light on this great mystery and reveal how to tame your compensation programs to make them clear in their purpose, aligned with the direction of the company, and easier to communicate and administer. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:10:16

Kelly O. Scott

Change is good… unless you are an employer in the State of California. Over the last eight months the California Legislature has been busy changing the landscape in which California employers do business and, contrary to what your mother may have told you, what you don’t know CAN hurt you! We will review the most important developments that may have an immediate impact on the way you do business. Don’t miss this opportunity to stay on top of the issues… before the issues come after you! Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:13:30

Lynn Knight

The key to sustaining corporate culture ultimately lies in identifying, recruiting and selecting top performing talent; talent that already fits – and thus will sustain – your culture. But how do you do that? Most organizations tend to follow the “bull’s-eye” strategy – highly focused on hitting the center of the dartboard: the skillset. However, organizations can benefit from refocusing from only the “bull’s-eye” to the entire target in identifying top performing talent. Attendees will learn how to connect the dots between attraction/selection, evaluation and development, all the while using competencies and success attributes required to not only be a top performer, but to fit culturally. They will learn how to consistently apply these criteria when selecting and hiring talent, managing and assessing performance, and training and development throughout the lifecycle of the employee. Attendees will gain insight and understanding into how implementing predictive success attributes, structured behavioral interviews and weighted evaluations can help identify top performing talent – talent that fits and sustains your culture. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:15:14

John Lattin

Many employers allow their employees to bring their own smartphones, tablets and laptops to work and to use them for business. While “bring your own devices” might seem to present cost savings, some states are requiring that employers reimburse employees for the use of their personal devices for business. These devices also pose a challenge for employers if they are able to connect with the employer’s computer system. Employees may have access during non-working time to important business data, and they may work “off the clock” while accessing that data. When such employees leave the organization they may be taking important confidential information with them on their devices. This presentation will address how to minimize the risks of employees’ use of their own devices at work. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:12:24

Michele S. Patterson

California state law requires employers of 50 or more employees to provide sexual harassment training for supervisors, managers and executives every two years. The challenge of this frequent training of busy employees on the same subject is to make it truly engaging, entertaining and not to put anyone to sleep. In a nutshell that means changing it up every two years to make the training new and different. This presentation will explain what the law requires in the training including the new addition of abusive conduct (which is not even illegal yet), the different methods of presenting sexual harassment training, the purpose of the training, the necessity of presenting the business case to avoid sexual harassment situations, the use of case studies and what is new in sexual harassment law. This presentation presents California law for California specific credit. There will also be a discussion on whether training every 2 years has the desired effect of preventing, or minimizing, sexual harassment in California. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:12:36

Michelle Smith

The business world has changed dramatically and leaders can no longer rely on old paradigms to succeed. This creates enormous opportunity for HR professionals to bring fresh, strategic thinking to the table. Crafted from direct interviews with C-Suite executives and compelling research from renowned researchers around the world, Michelle will reveal how to create the best workplace possible. Leaders need to embrace and understand how to lead in an incredibly dynamic workplace where the models of the past won’t cultivate or sustain success today, and certainly not in the future. As workplaces continue to evolve, enterprise contributions and leadership potential will be defined by new characteristics that attendees will learn, and span of control will be forged and granted by values rather than objectives. Michelle will discuss how the increases in knowledge-based work, matrixed organizations, and global transparency are creating a new model for organizations that harnesses and inspires speed, agility, and an adaptive, resilient culture. This includes specific guidance on intriguing new trends in corporate culture and creating breakthrough performance; the provocative future of organizations; as well as explosive details about what CEOs really want from HR, and what truly keeps them from getting more involved with employee engagement. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:15:45

Tiana Sanchez

This bold presentation shatters the old way of managing and focuses intentionally on new and growing roles and responsibilities of managers and emerging leaders. Most companies operate under a management-centric model. Managers organize, coordinate, and manage the team and processes. They become a critical part of the organization ensuring smooth operation and execution of goals. Modern-day managers now play an important role as leaders. More employers are calling upon their managers to take on leadership roles. This means managers must learn what is most important to a CEO: building customer loyalty, achieving bottom line results, employees, sustaining the organization, growth, and ensuring shareholders are profiting. Tiana draws upon her 15 years of managerial experience and offers up a new outlook to teach managers how to “act like a manager” but “think like a CEO.” This presentation dispels myths about management and reveals the truth about successful management for modern-day managers and emerging leaders. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:09:27

Maxine Orona & Patrick Bosworth

Come learn the “tricks” to identifying high potentials and engaging them by establishing an ongoing growth and development plan that includes both formal and informal learning that includes a critical strategy for retaining and energizing the high-potential individual through mentoring, coaching, and ongoing feedback. We will then put this knowledge to the test by analyzing and discussing a successful example of one way Medtronic, a well-known global organization, engages and develops talent at local levels. The "Leadership Acceleration Program" approach has become a critical strategy for developing high-potentials that are shaping the future of the company. Download the slides for this session here:

Length - 1:09:27