Name: Building a Company for the Future: 5 Strategic Levers for Success
Start: 2022-03-09T21:00:00Z
End: 2022-03-09T21:00:59.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.5

Current and informative HR-centric webinars for small and medium-size businesses. From understanding HR outsourcing options to recruiting and on-boarding in a virtual world, these webinars are designed to help your business get the HR knowledge it needs to succeed in this every-changing business landscape.

In the fast-paced and competitive landscape of today’s small business environment, the key to sustained success lies in a company’s ability to attract and retain the right talent. The process of finding and hiring the right employees has evolved significantly beyond checking the boxes on a resume. For a small business to succeed in this area, they must take a more strategic approach and adopt evolved best practices that enhance their ability to identify, engage and hire the right candidates.

This comprehensive and insightful webinar presented by the TriNet Talent Team helps equip HR professionals, hiring managers, and small business owners with the best practices and strategies to help their business build high performing teams. Whether you’re an established small business or a startup, the Talent experts at TriNet share actionable insights and hiring process strategies that can align with your company’s organizational goals. 

Topics to be addressed will include:
*How hiring has evolved over the last few years
*Insights into effective job descriptions
*The importance of an engaged hiring manager
*Interviewing strategies & how to assess attributes
*DE&I considerations in recruitment activities

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain a competitive edge in the battle for top-tier talent.  Register now to secure your spot and transform your hiring process into a strategic advantage.

Modernize Your Hiring Strategy to Elevate Your Business

Sidharth Saxena covers the impact of AI on accounting allowing for speed to now join accuracy and affordability. He covers the possibility of how generative AI like ChatGPT can assist with real-time accounting; where AI can perform 80% of accounting tasks and that 20% still requires humans.

Balancing the Books with AI: Innovations in Accounting Practices

Concerned about AI? This discussion could change your mind. Hear why disruption can be a good thing, how AI could free up humans to do more innovative and creative work, and why there’s an upside to the Bubonic Plague (surprise: it’s your job).

Change Is Inevitable and So Is AI. Are You Ready?

With the general shift to virtual or hybrid work environments, employees are spreading out across the country, forcing employers to tackle an increasingly wide range of compliance-related issues when it comes to managing their employees.

Some of the most significant challenges today include:

- Understanding the complex web of federal, state, and local employment laws that apply to their employees
- Developing HR policies and procedures that comply with labor laws and protect the company from liability
- Navigating complicated payroll and benefits requirements, including mandatory time off, and complying with federal and state wage and hour laws

In this webinar, you will hear from HR experts as they discuss best practices for staying compliant with today’s employment laws and regulations, as well as potential pitfalls to watch out for.

Some of the areas to be discussed include:

- The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- HR considerations for Artificial Intelligence in the workplace
- Wage Transparency
- Remote Work

Mastering HR Compliance: Navigating the Regulatory Landscape for SMBs

The past few years have thrown a few curveballs at small and medium-sized business leaders. Navigating the ever-changing economy, inflation, and a unique workforce can be challenging, but you’re not alone.  

Join us for a fireside chat to hear from and engage with a panel of experienced business owners moderated by TriNet’s very own Samantha Wellington, Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and Chief Legal Officer. You’ll enjoy an insightful discussion with a panel of leaders as they discuss their experiences as entrepreneurs, the resources they depend on, the most significant challenges they have faced as business leaders, and much more.

Female Entrepreneurship in a Changing Economy: A Fireside Chat

As a business leader, you’re focused on finding customers, growing revenue, and pushing your company forward. During times of economic uncertainty, however, things like crisis management and liquidity become front-burner issues. One area that absolutely needs to be top-of-mind for leaders is HR. How you enable and manage your people is crucial—especially when trying to spur growth in a difficult economic climate.

But where do you begin? We’ll take a deep dive into what it takes to manage your team through the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.

Leading the discussion will be Alex Warren, CRO of TriNet, a leading provider of full-service HR solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Warren has more than two decades of experience in the professional employer organization (PEO) industry and possesses deep insight, respect, and knowledge of the needs of SMBs. Warren will be joined by a TriNet SMB client who will discuss the real-world balancing act between the need for reducing costs with maintaining employee morale, engagement, and productivity.

Attendees of this webinar will learn:
- The true value of people during uncertain economic times
- The best ways to navigate layoffs, if necessary
- How to retain talent to help your business grow
- Strategies for maintaining employee morale
- The benefits of outsourcing your HR
And more!

Thriving in Uncertainty: Unlocking the Power of HR

Employee engagement and retention are top concerns for leadership, yet in recent Gallup polling, only 19% of employees strongly agree that their performance is managed in a way that motivates them to do outstanding work.

Join talent and organizational thought leaders from TriNet and Lattice as they discuss an employee-centered approach to people success designed to meet the challenges of the modern workforce: remote/hybrid, multi-generational, and shifting employee preferences. 

In this webinar you will learn about:

  - Designing an impactful performance mgmt strategy
  - Activating a new approach
  - Enabling front-line managers
  - Selecting tools and systems

Getting Performance Management Right - Transforming Your People Success Strategy

While smart compensation planning for small and medium-sized businesses is a vital component of most companies’ success in a normal labor market, it’s never been more important than now, as companies deal with rising inflation, interest rate hikes, a looming recession, and continued changes in workforce trends. Clearly, the challenges SMBs face in 2023 look a lot different than a year ago, so with a rapidly changing economy and an accelerated shift to a hybrid workforce, it's important for SMBs to understand how they can engage workers and stay competitive. 

In this webinar hosted by TriNet, you’ll hear from compensation experts at TriNet and Carta, Inc. about the impact of today’s economy and a shifting workforce on pay trends and what you should consider as you evaluate compensation strategies for your business in 2023.

Learn about: 
- How inflation, rising interest rates, and a possible recession are driving a reassessment of compensation strategies in 2023
- Equity compensation trends: how volatile valuations and macro-economic conditions are impacting equity compensation
- How compensation can support DE&I in a sustainable way
- How to go beyond pay to keep employees engaged and motivated to contribute their best
- How to develop a compensation philosophy that aligns with your business strategy and culture

Speakers:

Kristine Gunn
Executive Director, Talent & Org Management
TriNet

Josh Steinfeld
Principal Product Strategist
Carta

2023 Compensation Trends for SMBs

The pandemic has challenged small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in numerous ways, including the need to ensure employee safety, facilitate remote work, and deal with shifting demands and expectations from customers and employees. Other obstacles—employee burnout, labor shortages, and economic uncertainties—have also emerged, leaving SMB leadership and employees somewhat dazed and confused.

The pandemic has prompted these businesses to rethink how they operate and what they prioritize. SMBs recognize that to thrive, they must become more resilient and agile, and that they must devise longer-term strategies and align their priorities with their investment. Among 300 SMB executives surveyed by Harvard Business Review-Analytic Services (HBR-AS), 71% have already made changes as a result of the pandemic to ensure they can better respond to future business disruptions.

In this HBR-AS webinar, Alex Clemente will share insights from this HBR-AS survey about the challenges SMBs face and the actions SMBs are taking. He will then discuss with Michael Mendenhall, SVP and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at TriNet, what SMBs must do to become more resilient, including:

• What allowed some SMBs to adapt to the pandemic’s challenges better than others
• How expectations are shifting for customers and employees
• What it means to cultivate a strategy of resilience and how to do it
• How SMBs are building their workforce for the future
• The need to focus on efficiency enablers and streamline day-to-day operations

Featured Speakers:

Alex Clemente
Managing Director, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services

Michael Mendenhall
SVP and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, TriNet

Todd Pruzan
Senior Editor of Research and Special Projects, Harvard Business Review

How to Make Your Business More Resilient

More people can mean needing more space for people to gather. But with the recent changes in the way we experience work, how can your small or medium-size business (SMB) plan for scale? Is your team aligned with how that should look?

Hear a discussion with Doug Smith, Global Head of Product Development & Operations for WeWork, global provider of flexible workspace and one of TriNet's key relationship partners.

• Do you have a purpose for your workspace?
• Are you prepared to give employees the flexibility they need and want now? Will you lose top talent if you aren’t?
• What key factors make a space attractive and flexible?

The ability to flex and shift when and where needed can allow your SMB to grow at optimal capacity while saving costs. Find out how to plan and what you need to consider in this riveting discussion.

Featured Speakers:

Doug Smith
Global Head of Product Development & Operations, WeWork

Samantha Wellington
Executive Vice President, Business Affairs, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, TriNet

Scale It Right: How to Handle the Complexities of Growth

TriNet and Salary.com do a deep dive on the latest issues around inflation, market pay trends like higher wages and wage compression, new pay equity and wage transparency legislation.

You’ll get insights on current “macro trends” impacting small and medium-size businesses (SMBs):

Flexible work environment: How do you compensate when employees work remotely from states where cost of living is lower than the one your business is in? Learn the value of giving employees choices and why over-communicating is key.

The Great Resignation: In 2021 alone, 68 million people left their jobs. Find out the powerful ways to compensate and retain great employees by investing it them—and why much of what makes them happy may not be tied to financial rewards.

Inflation: Inflation is the highest it's been since 1981, putting extraordinary pressure on organizations. How should SMBs adapt? Find out how to plan for short-term compensation in trying times.

Discover the value—and necessity—of transparent compensation, honest employee-employer conversation and why a shift in work-life prioritization can turn a philosophy into a workable policy. This webinar is a can’t-miss for any SMB leader who is facing current challenges around today’s pay trends.

Market Dynamics Impacting Compensation in 2022

With an intense focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), many businesses have good intentions to get it right, but the strategy to make it happen isn't always there. DEI doesn’t end with recruiting diverse talent or a one-time training. And how do you know if your DEI initiatives are making an impact or moving the needle in the right direction to sustain long term success in a rapidly changing workforce?

Join Kanarys co-founder and COO, Star Carter, in conversation with TriNet experts for a panel discussion on effective DEI strategies to create a workplace where everyone can thrive, including how to:

- Leverage data to identify DEI challenges and show the success of implementing initiatives.
- Measure inclusion that goes beyond gender and race.
- Cultivate a culture that inspires psychological safety and belonging.
- Create a DEI vision and strategy that attracts and engages talent in addition to driving lasting business impact.

Cultivating a Culture of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in a Complex World

If you’re like many entrepreneurs, you know what human resources is and you probably know that it’s a responsibility you must take on before hiring your first employee. However, you might not know about the various options there are to help you manage your HR. 

Watch this on-demand webinar, Understanding Your HR Options, to learn:
• What HR solution options are available
• What you need to know before you decide
• Picking the right HR option for you

Understanding Your HR Options

SMBs must reimagine how they attract and onboard talent, if they hope to attract and retain the best and the brightest in their industry as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020’s racial turmoil. In this on-demand webinar, hear directly from talent and organization management experts about a variety of best practices for recruiting and onboarding an empowered and diverse workforce in a virtual world.

Recruiting & Onboarding in a Virtual or Hybrid Environment

We all know that it is unlawful—and bad business—to consider an applicant’s or employee’s gender, race, color, religion, etc. in making a hiring or promotion decision. But sometimes we do so implicitly—that is, without conscious awareness. This may raise legal issues and it most certainly raises business/HR issues. This program focuses on types of implicit bias that may infect hiring and promotional processes. Tests to uncover implicit bias also are explored, as well as the sometimes unconsidered risks of those tests. The program includes a discussion of training options to help bring unconscious bias to conscious awareness without creating discoverable data that can be used against the organization. Because promotions are often tied to evaluations, particular attention will be paid to implicit bias in appraisals. Finally, the webinar concludes with systemic safeguards to mitigate the potential for unconscious bias to rear its ugly head from screening to decision making.

Our objectives will be to recognize the sources that inform our implicit bias and learn how to mitigate against them. We will move beyond just awareness of the existence of bias and obtain techniques and processes to minimize their impact on decision-making. Additionally, we will uncover how micro-aggressions have a deleterious effect on our workplace and the morale of our employees and enhance our tools to combat such attitudes. Lastly, we will discover the business case for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and how implicit bias massively prevents DEIB from taking hold in a meaningful way.

Implicit Bias: Awareness is Not Enough – Let’s Take Action!

The focus on cultivating a work environment that is built around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has never been more prevalent – with 79% of businesses planning to allocate more budget and resources to DEI in 2022 (WBR Insights, 2021).
But true cultural change doesn’t happen overnight – so how do businesses ensure that they are putting sustainable programmes in place that will stand the test of time and become fully embedded within an organisation’s values?

Join us on 9th March to hear Julia Steinecker, Director of Talent Management at Precisely, as she reveals five achievable steps for any business seeking to build long-term success for their DEI initiatives – regardless of company size or budgets.

Julia will also be discussing Precisely’s own DEI journey so far, including how the company recently raised the bar for women in tech with a programme that resulted in 62% of new women hires, as well as a look forwards to Precisely’s commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in 2022 and beyond.

Slow and Steady Wins the Race: 5 Practical Steps to Long-Term DEI Success

This conversation conducted by Michelle Beauchamp, CEO of The Champ Group, with Dr. Anita Wilson, Anita Wilson Enterprises, will  review critical leadership principles and practices to remind  leaders that the success of a company is determined by the greatness of its people. 

Participants will learn:

• General leadership traits and practices that positively influence teams
• How to engage employees and spark collaboration
• The meaning of allyship; what allyship looks and sounds like within an organization and the impact on team members
• The value of understanding cultural competence and generational differences 

Who should attend?
• New managers
• Leaders of all levels
• Business Owners

Recommit to Your People First, and Create an Inclusive Culture

Over half of UK senior business leaders surveyed said their diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy only pays lip service to supporting talent from underrepresented groups. Not only that, they also believe that their strategies don’t provide any helpful support in practice (Source KellyOCG). So even though we have seen companies rapidly creating various types of diversity strategies and programmes, there is a lack of follow through to ensure their effectiveness.

The last couple of years have seen a large number of leaders and companies openly state their commitment to Diversity and Inclusion initiatives. These strategies, on the surface at least, seem to understand the benefits of increasing diversity and promote inclusion across their businesses, as well as their duty to do so. However, research seems to show us that despite large swathes of enthusiasm, progress in this area is slow. Why are we not seeing the progress that we would expect?

Join this webcast to explore:

- Common reasons why DEI programmes fizzle out over time
- How to set DEI strategies up for success 
- What factors need to be addressed in order to maintain the momentum needed to create real change

Lipservice Leadership: Why Inclusion is more than just a tickbox exercise

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Workplace 2022

In short, an inclusive organisation is one that will flourish.
Something I find deeply disappointing is how many SLTs brush D&I aside saying “we haven’t got the time; we must focus on operations and commercial areas to achieve our strategic goals”. Not being able to see the strategic leverage of D&I is strategic myopia. D&I are organisation-wide experiences, organisations are emersed in them, whether actively engaging in them or not. Ignore them and people will notice. Why? Because stakeholders expect contemporary organizations to reflect people diversity and respond to the potential of a diverse workforce community. D&I are not optional and the legal framework that underpins Diversity and Equality essentially provides a floor upon which beyond practice can be nurtured and enhanced.

Key to the D&I relationship is that a diverse workforce does not mean an inclusive workforce. Equally, an inclusive workforce does not mean a diverse workforce. For organizations to benefit we need mutual inclusivity, a strong overlap between the two. Nor can we ignore equity which is much more likely to be experienced if inclusion is practiced and felt. Here is the crux of inclusion within the workplace – or anywhere else. You cannot tell someone that they are included, you cannot simply tell people what you have done to enable people to be included, inclusion is a feeling, it is linked to emotional responses that experience triggers. Inclusion and being inclusive have to be supported and underpinned by behaviours that encourage people to feel valued and recognised. Telling people that you are inclusive will simply raise expectations and needs. Violating those expectations will frustrate needs and lead to negative feelings and loss of engagement.

I will explore the emersion of DREAM into organisations. 
- Data analytics
- Raising awareness and acceptance
- Encouraging and engaging others
- Aspiring to improve and challenge
- Merging, monitoring and embedding positive techniques

It’s not what you do it’s the way people feel!

I will provide the timeline which will throw some light on the inception of the ideology ED&I  affirmative actions. I  EDI work undertaken in NHS and engage the participants to delve deeper to understand the essence of equality and inclusion.

• Understanding of Diversity and then design affirmative actions
• Why does unconscious bias exist despite so much of work around ED&I
• A sample model to assess the dimensions of diversity at workplace

Sustain equity of practices or perspectives at workplace?

In this webinar, we’ll debunk the top excuses used to keep women, people of color, and other minority groups out of leadership, and discuss how an organization can set itself apart from the crowd by taking action to address under-representation. 
 
Participants will learn:
- How unconscious bias and outdated stereotypes permeate the workplace
- Why prioritizing diversity will give your organization a competitive edge
- What you can achieve by developing inclusive hiring practices
- How leaders can strengthen their inclusion and allyship skills for change

No more excuses: Debunk the Top 10 Excuses for Not Doing DEI

The pace of change is accelerating. Most leaders say business is becoming increasingly unpredictable. How do you operate your company differently in this new environment? How do you innovate and stay relevant to what customers need and want? How do you innovate new products, services and experiences, while creating a culture and talent brand that inspires the best and brightest to join your organization?

Join us and learn how forward-looking companies are adapting their strategies, attracting and retaining talent, designing great cultures, and finding innovative solutions to build a strong and enduring company.

Some of the topics we’ll address include:
- How to create a competitive advantage by rethinking and reprioritizing initiatives
- How to build agile leaders capable of leading in a disruptive world
- How to develop a people first, talent brand
- How to build a purposeful and inclusive culture
- How to measure what matters most to drive business outcomes

Building a Company for the Future: 5 Strategic Levers for Success

Human Resources

Small Business

Leadership

Competitive Advantage

Hiring

On Boarding

Company Culture

HR Metrics

Remote Office

Happy employees make productive employees. HR managers are now finding that compensation and benefits alone cannot keep employees happy; they also need nurturing through proper training and development. Join the BrightTALK talent management community to learn how to engage and retain your best talent by providing them with the tools and rewards they need to enhance their performance and reach their potential.

Talent Management

With laws governing employment practices becoming ever more tangled with globalization and the advent of social media, it’s important to have access to resources that keep you up-to-date. These regulations, known as labour law, labor law or employment law, dictate legal obligations between employers and employees. The thousands of professionals in the BrightTALK employment law community are exchanging information about employment contract law and employment law advice with webinars and videos. Join them for free employment law webinars and attend live presentations to have your questions answered by industry experts.

Employment

Small businesses and enterprises alike are competing for not only market share, but also for the best employees to move their businesses forward. Competitive salary and benefits packages are the foundation of high employee satisfaction. Join this community to keep up with changing regulations and learn how to optimize workforce costs with competitive yet cost-effective employee benefits and compensation plans.

Benefits and Compensation

Modern human resources professionals are charged with not only the recruitment of talent, but also retention, satisfaction and management. They also support the training, assessment and compensation aspects of employee management. Join this community to connect with thought leaders and learn about trends in benefits, compensation and talent management. Stay ahead of the curve to attract and retain top talent and strengthen organizational leadership and culture.

HR Strategy

Get powerful human resource management insights for your business. Connect with experts and colleagues to get the most up-to-date knowledge on which HR practices and strategies have been shown to be effective in retaining and growing talent.

Human resources is intrinsically linked to business success and requires a thoughtful balance of a variety of complex issues. The human resources community on BrightTALK is made up of thousands of professionals in human resources exchanging human resources best practices and advice. Watch hundreds of on-demand webinars for immediate information or participate in upcoming live webinars and have your questions answered by respected HR thought leaders.

Internal audit and compliance professionals are facing increasingly stringent regulatory requirements when it comes to compliance reporting and internal control procedures. Join the audit and compliance community to learn best practices from thought leaders on topics such as regulatory compliance, internal audit checklists and audit program strategies.

Audit and Compliance

The accounting and finance community on BrightTALK features presentations from leading accountants and finance professionals. The accounting community includes tax planning strategies, QuickBooks webinars and other accounting webinars, while the finance community features presentations on financial capital regulations and forensic data analytics. Join the conversation by attending live financial and accounting presentations and connecting with industry thought leaders.

Finance

In today’s economic climate, successful small businesses need to overcome an array of challenges. Client dependence, legal issues, small business financing… as an entrepreneur, where can you find the information you need to help inform your decisions? In the small business management community, discover how you can create a successful small business from the business plan up!

Leadership styles are continually evolving to incorporate new ways of thinking about employee satisfaction, motivation and performance. Find webinars and videos on the strategies, techniques and qualities that make an effective leader. By participating in this community you will gain insight into current leadership theories and how to optimize employee performance.

In the business management community, commercial experts will be sharing webinars and videos on an array of subjects. From sales and marketing, to finance, productivity and growth, this content will help you stay up-to-date with the current economic environment and provide timely management insight to drive business growth.

Building a Company for the Future: 5 Strategic Levers for Success

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