Health Care Reform – What does it mean for your business?

You rely on your top employees to fill valuable roles in your business. But if your best employees leave or new critical roles emerge, you need to be prepared to fill the gap.

That’s why it’s so important to build an effective talent pipeline, and our upcoming webinar can help. We’ll give you the tools you need to overcome turnover, eliminate your skills gap and grow your business now and in the future.

Some of the topics we’ll cover include:
• Strategies for crafting a customized talent pipeline approach
• Managing the current skills gap in the American workforce
• Where to look for top candidates and how to get them looking for you
• How ineffective applicant screening can cause you to miss out on the best professionals

Leading UK bloggers John Ingham (Strategic HCM), Peter Gold (Hire Strategies), Matt Alder (Recruiting Futurology), Mike Morrison (Rapid BI) and Johnnie Moore (The Johnnie Moore Weblog) come together with IBM Social Business experts Jon Mell and Stuart McRae to discuss the potential of social tools within the enterprise to benefit HR and drive employee engagement.

Leading UK bloggers came together with IBM Social Business leaders and Business Partners to examine the use of social networks and collaborative social software within the organisation to fuel innovation.
How do you encourage idea sharing?
Questions answered:

Is there value in a top down approach?
Innovation - is it about quantity or quality?
How do traditional hierarchies need to evolve so that we may surface ideas?

Leading UK bloggers share their views on social business, what it means to them, what it means to the industry and what it means to your customers.

The video features:
- Chris Turner, Springwise
- David Terrar, Biz Two Zero
- Matt Alder, Recruiting Futurology
- David Cushman, Fast Future
- Johnnie Moore, The Johnnie Moore Weblog

Talent acquisition is no longer just-in-time. The hiring cycle is shifting from filling jobs to developing relationships and expanding networks. Therefore, talent solution experts are challenged to find scalable solutions for maintaining relationships with colleagues, candidates and clients through marketing channels.

Join talent solution experts as they discuss:
- Effective marketing channels for connecting with and engaging colleagues, candidates and clients
- How working platforms such as the human cloud are changing the way recruiters are marketing to talent
- The roll of video as a talent marketing and management tool
- How recruiters and their marketing teams use content to nurture relationships

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Eric Gregg, Founder and CEO of Inavero.
As CEO of Inavero, Eric brings his expertise in marketing and quantitative analysis to some of the nation’s top professional service organizations. The Inavero research team has experience in a variety of professional service industries, including the insurance, accounting, and staffing fields.

Ted Elliott, CEO of Jobscience
Regarded as a pioneer in the adoption of CRM for recruitment, Ted has broad experience SaaS and Human Capital Management managed via the internet and direct experience building applications for the Salesforce AppExchange and launching new products.

Rich Pearson, CMO, Elance
Rich leads Elance's global marketing team, including customer acquisition, product marketing, public relations, brand development and inside sales. Prior to Elance, Rich led marketing and business development at Posterous through its acquisition by Twitter.


Charlie Peterson, Independent Sales, Marketing & Talent Consultant
Former Professional Ballroom Dancer and All-American soccer player, Charlie knows how to spot work-ethic and discipline. In the Marketing arena, he leverages un-conventional and technology-driven methods to attract top talent and find the right candidate, for the right position.

Social and mobile intranets are a must have for Millennials, but their reach and benefits extend to all employees, partners and even customers. With innovation and productivity required for growth and profit, how can employees get access to the right tools, processes, content, applications and people required to do their jobs? How can employees consume and communicate a consistent corporate message, regardless of their location or job role?

This webinar will look at emerging intranet trends and then focus on a case study of how IBM's own intranet has evolved in the past 30 years - to today's class-leading social, collaborative, mobile-ready, application-rich workplace.

Easily deploy Adobe Acrobat products—including the free Reader X using the Adobe Customization Wizard X. Software upgrades can be a mixed blessing: your clients want great new features, but you could do without the headache of deployment. That’s why you are invited to join Adobe experts to learn about the new Adobe® Customization Wizard X and new ways to deploy Adobe Acrobat and Reader X using SCCM/SCCP.

In this webinar, you will:
- You’ll learn how you can deploy a silent installation that pre-configures serial numbers for large numbers of users, without having to reboot afterwards.
- See how to remove previous versions of Adobe Acrobat® and Adobe Reader® software. And to make life simpler for you and your clients, you can even suppress End-User License Agreements (EULA) and registration prompts

With over 4 million users worldwide, Adobe EchoSign is the leading electronic signature provider, delivering efficiency and security to your the signing process for any document, contract or form. For operations such as finance, HR or legal, EchoSign enables streamlined operations, and for sales EchoSign offers accelerated revenue acquisition and improved customer satisfaction. See how EchoSign has transformed brand name companies from all industries - Aetna, Cigna, Facebook, Google, Time Warner Cable -- as well as thousands of small and medium businesses.

Control your work and help secure sensitive information. Attend this webinar to hear about best practices for implementing security policies and how Acrobat X and Reader X implement security standards.

In this presentation, you will learn how to:
- Protect information - use Adobe Acrobat Pro X to set permissions, limit access and control user interaction
- Save time and accelerate document workflows with electronic document signatures
- Permanently remove content and metadata from a document to expedite sharing

Social Strategies for Talent Acquisition

View this on-demand panel discussion for valuable information about current trends and technology in human resources.

In this session you will learn:

- How to attract and retain top talent, including using social media: keeping up with profound chances in the business world, recognizable qualities in good candidates and methods to retain
- How to contain HR costs: Evolutions of HR technology to help reduce costs and lift administrative burden on HR, The realities of integrated talent management strategy and the impact on the bottom line, The power of social media and social collaboration for greater engagement and reduced costs
- Ways to mitigate employment risks: social media in the workplace, liability for employers/employees, social media policies, hot topics and latest trends

The buzz around social media as a recruiting tool has exploded over the past few years. In today’s uncertain economy, organizations are revamping their existing talent acquisition strategies and technology options - and social media is taking center stage. Every organization is looking for integration from their existing technology with social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
In this webinar, Madeline will discuss how social networking sites can help organizations improve talent acquisition efforts in the following areas: strengthen employer branding; create transparency within the organization; target a geographically diverse pool of qualified candidates; drastically reduce time and costs; and onboard new hires.

Social media is impacting every arena of our lives, from how we get directions to how we connect with friends to how we do business. For the HR leader, social media, mobile tools, web video and interactive technology have forever changed how we attract, retain, develop and engage talent. With all these new channels for communication with employees and candidates however, adapting the processes for hiring, learning, coaching and managing employee communications presents a huge challenge. Ignoring social media in our dealings with employees is not the answer, but where can HR leaders start? Based on several recent studies from Aberdeen Group, Mollie Lombardi will share best practices, practical advice, and emerging trends for making the most of social media to deliver business results and enhance the employee experience.

Everyone knows that retail stores, hotels, and banks have to be accessible to the disabled. Thousands of lawsuits are filed every year, and millions are paid in attorneys' fees and settlements, where disabled patrons allege they cannot enter an establishment, or once they get in, cannot shop or use the restroom, because of barriers to access. Plaintiffs and the Department of Justice are now looking beyond brick and mortar buildings and are seeking accessibility to company websites, particularly those websites where business is transacted. Cases are being filed, and money is being paid in damages, settlements and attorney’s fees, where websites cannot be used by those who are blind, deaf, or have other disabilities. The DOJ is pursuing actions in this area, and has already published two consent decrees involving the gas/retail the hotel industries, which, in part, involve website accessibility. The DOJ has also recently issued proposed rules concerning website accessibility.

This intersection of emerging technologies and emerging law presents interesting issues. Some courts have recognized the possibility that ADA Title III may apply to company websites, and is not merely limited to physical locations. The DOJ recently joined the debate by requesting public comment on questions related to the application of ADA Title III to company websites, including what the standards should be when measuring whether a website is accessible to the disabled.

The webinar will cover the following:

* ADA Title III background and current lawsuits

* Website accessibility as the next wave of lawsuits

* DOJ's recent consent decrees involving website accessibility, and recent rulemaking

* Complaints being made regarding the accessibility of websites

* The standards being developed to measure accessibility of websites

* Tips for reducing your company's risk of being sued

U.S. immigration law allows foreigners with needed skills and talents to work in the United States on a permanent or temporary basis. The procedure to follow to get those needed foreign workers here, though, is complex. To avoid having their work delayed because of denied visas, employers should educate themselves on how to get those foreign workers to the U.S. as efficiently and effectively as possible in advance of their efforts. The webinar would provide them with the education they need to understand the process and procedures.

Given the hard economic times, businesses have considered many methods by which to lower their costs and overhead. One method used by employers is to attempt to avoid hiring employees by hiring independent contractors to do the same work. What these employers fail to realize, however, is that just by calling an individual an independent contractor does not mean that individual truly meets the criteria for that classification. Instead, many employers are paying expensive penalties for their misclassification of independent contractors. This educational Webinar will provide employers with the information they need to accurately and appropriately determine whether the individual they hire is actually an employee or an independent contractor and to avoid those unnecessary and costly penalities that are assessed for misclassification.

You will learn:

• What is an independent contractor?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of independent contractors?
• How do you determine whether an individual is an employee or an independent contractor?
• How do you protect yourself from the dangers of misclassification?

Landmark health care reform was enacted in March 2010. The new law has left many employers wondering with worry about how it will affect their organizations, particularly in these unpredictable economic times. While the exact extent of the impact of the new law remains uncertain, the fact that the law will affect how all businesses provide and administer health care benefits to their employees is undeniable. This informative, educational Webinar will help you: understand the law, know what to do to comply with its provisions and know how to avoid those daunting penalties for noncompliance!
You will learn:
• What the law provides
• How the law affects different employers of different sizes
• What employers will have to do to comply with the new law
• What the penalties are for noncompliance

With immigration reform right around the corner, 2010 and 2011 promise to be a trying time for employers. This webinar promises to take some of the questions out of the process and educate employers as to:
1. How to avoid the most common mistakes employers continue to make on the I-9 form
2. I-9 procedures beyond the form itself
3.The latest on E-Verify, including how to handle “tentative non-confirmations”
4. Practices to avoid the most common bias claims related to immigration issues
5. What to do when faced with federal and state immigration record requests, audits and on-site inspections.
6. Beyond the obvious: where immigration law is going – and how can employers get ready

Maureen Sullivan, Director of Senior Appointments
Paula Duncan, Chartered Psychologist
Alison Daley, Interim HR Consultant & Executive Coach