National Return to Work Week - Where do we go from here?

Collaboration apps like Cisco Webex Teams, Google Hangouts Chat, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral Glip, and Slack are rapidly taking over the workplace, enabling groups to communicate in context and weave together workflows and data.
• But how to do organizations successfully adopt team collaboration?
• How do they integrate it into their existing application and collaboration environment while meeting governance, security, and compliance requirements?
• And how do they drive user awareness and adoption?
In this webinar we’ll look at the trends around team collaboration and the characteristics of successful deployments and provide a roadmap that IT leaders should follow to measurable business benefits.

Megatrends are the global, social and economic issues that are touching all of our businesses. CEO's are focused on how these trends in the world will impact long term success of the organization - and your employee population is at the top of the list. But how do we know what will impact our organization in 10 years?

Business futurists are consulted to predict where trends are going and what savvy organizations need to do to complete. HR departments have to get ahead of the megatrends that are facing their businesses and anticipate trends that will impact employees. Explore the top megatrends CEO's are watching for the next 10 years, and determine how you can implement these to focus your human resources initiatives.

Don't miss this opportunity to get ahead of the curve and bring the latest thought leadership back to your organization.

Speaker Biography:
Lori Kleiman is an accomplished businessperson, entrepreneur, and leader. In her most recent corporate role, Ms. Kleiman orchestrated a group of 18 HR consultants nationally. She brought cutting edge HR techniques to the group and fostered a practical sense of HR to small businesses. She built an HR consulting practice that included six consultants supporting business of all sizes. She then sold that business to Arthur J Gallagher. Lori has conducted seminars to business people and HR professionals sharing best practices and new initiatives to bring to small businesses throughout the United States. With a Master of Human Resources and the highest level of certification available in HR, a SPHR and SHRM-SCP designations, and as a member of the National Speakers Association, Lori has the depth of knowledge needed to provide her clients with the foundation of traditional study and real-world solutions to drive immediate action.

In this webinar you will learn what the key secrets of employee engagement are and how to develop a growth mindset culture with highly engaged employees.

An introduction into how to leverage behavioral science and AI technologies, such as Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing, to attract and engage top talent. The discussion focuses on the scientific methodology underscoring the Net Culture Score℠ and Employee Net Culture Score℠ assessments. Use cases demonstrate the advantages of using evidence-based applications to measure, re-engineer, and monitor your corporate culture, providing a look at the future of HR analytics.

Participants will learn how engineering corporate culture can benefit:
· HR Executives: Increasing stakeholder accountability, workgroup productivity and corporate profitability by establishing and auditing a cultural baseline
· Recruiting Managers: Maximizing the pool of diverse candidates and using AI-based social impact values matching to close open positions faster
·Applicants & Employees: Providing personal insights into your social impact values to better discern cultural alignment & find opportunities for advancement

Speaker Bio:
Erin Michelson is Founder & CEO of Summery (www.summery.ai) a data analytics company that harnesses AI technologies to help companies better recruit, retain, and engage high performing talent. Erin has been profiled in @BBCTech, @Entrepreneur, @NPR, @NatGeoTraveler, @FoxNews, and @HuffPost. Follow her @ErinMichelson

Employee engagement matters. A lot! It's the key to improved retention, higher productivity and customer satisfaction, stronger revenue performance, AND increased profits. So how do you boost employee engagement and unleash all these benefits for your business?

In this presentation, we'll review 10 proven strategies for boosting engagement. You'll leave this 45-minute webinar with specific action items you can implement immediately. People practices that pay off and an opportunity for HR to shine!

Join this panel discussion to learn:

- How culture changes as a company scales and how the culture shift impacts recruitment

- How to set realistic hiring expectations in order to hire quality candidates

- Hiring strategies for technical roles

It’s impossible to retain top talent if they never make it onboard!

Over one third of employers report losing candidates because of a bad background screening process. In a competitive labor market, even the slightest hitch in the hiring process can lead to a poor candidate experience and lost hires. In contrast, well implemented background screens can improve the candidate experience, reduce risky hires, and lead to reduced turnover.

You will learn:
-Why background screening is critical to the candidate experience
-What to look for when selecting and implementing a background screening provider
-How background screening can impact your overall employer brand and improve retention rates

In this tight labor market, it's more important than ever to have a strategy for an employee to jump to another company. Companies need to be proactive and have a proper succession plan in place before it's too late.

In this webcam panel, you will learn about:
- The importance of engaging employees to retain them
- An always-on approach to talent pipeline
- The impact of future trends on succession planning

Panelists:
Debra Clavert, President, People First Productivity Solutions (moderator)
Lori Kleiman, Managing Director, HR Topics
Alex Lovell, Manager, Research and Assessment, O.C. Tanner Institute

Every new employee is asked "How was your first day?" when they arrive home after starting a new job. How do your new employees answer that question?

Critical for employee success and retention, an effective on-boarding process for new hires gives them a great first impression of your company and sets the stage for their performance in the days ahead.

Register for this webinar to learn these key elements of a successful on-boarding process:
- Preparing for their first day
- How to make that great Day 1 first impression
- Setting them up for success in their first week and first month

Jennifer Leake CMC, Founder of Assessment Pros LLC has helped clients for over 20 years in their quest to avoid the costs of a wrong hire. It's vital to hire the right people because you can't train your way out of it when it happens, and the best product, processes or sales tools won't produce results if you don't have the right people in the job to begin with. Her 3-part "People System" creates high performing Employee Engagement with the right hires, on-going coaching and feedback and bosses people want to work for.

When attracting and recruiting top talent, what does your organisation focus on? Pay? Financial and health benefits such as health insurance and pension or is it something else? Advertising what else your organisation does to promote employee experience and happiness will undoubtedly make you stand out. Attracting and retaining top talents needs an approach that is round and includes more than just pay and benefits. This webinar will look at some of the latest trends around happiness and growth mindset in organisation and why these are the secrets to creating a talent pool of top people in your organisation.

Big data has become one of the guiding realities for businesses in today’s economy. As with many of its fellow departments, HR is now starting to realize the value and use Big Data to more accurately predict the health and productivity of the workforce.

In this webinar Tom McKeown, CEO and Co-Founder of TrenData will help define Big Data, in both structured and unstructured form, as well as providing methodologies to access and use Big Data to the business benefit of the organization. This will all be discussed in a framework of how to implement an overall people analytics strategy.

Tom McKeown is the CEO and Co-founder of TrenData. He is a senior executive with over twenty-five years of experience in bringing innovative software to market. Tom’s passion is to provide easy to use solutions that both visualize and guide organizations to their best possible future.

During his career, Tom has propelled growth in several early and middle stage start-up companies resulting in acquisitions that provided multi-million dollar returns for investors. In the past 10 years Tom has lead two Dallas based human resources software companies, HRsmart and Aquire Solutions, to triple digit growth and successful acquisitions by larger industry players. Prior to that Tom held senior level executive positions at Citrix Systems, Quantum Corporation, and Adobe Systems.


Tom is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science.

The interview process is not a one-way street of candidates applying - both your company and the candidate have to put its best foot forward in today's competitive job market. According to research from Ideal, 46% of candidates would sever a relationship with an organization who had a negative experience. But what factors matter most when designing an optimal candidate experience?

Join this live, webcam panel as industry experts discuss key factors to developing and executing a thoughtful candidate experience, such as:
- Listening and communicating more often and quickly with candidates
- Using workflow automation to process candidates more efficiently
- Creating a candidate feedback loop to continually improve
- Telling your story leveraging video and testimonials throughout the process

Moderator: Melanie Turek, Fellow & Vice President, Frost & Sullivan
Panelists:
Julie Coucoules, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, Glassdoor
Erin Michelson, CEO, Tech Entrepreneur & Author, Summery

“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”- Jim Collins, Good to Great

Not that long ago, talent acquisition was referred to as the recruiting department – with no more responsibility than reviewing resumes, screening candidates, and organizing candidate interviews. The phrase “talent acquisition” is now mainstream and widely accepted by companies of all sizes.

Now you and your organization, your employee brand ambassadors, have a story to tell, one that draws people to your organization now, and in the future, so what’s YOUR STORY?

This presentation will identify how individual communication impacts the brand, how brands communicate and what it all means for recruiting and employer branding. This session will demonstrate how to utilize the best search engines and sourcing tools available today to find biographical information as well as lists of names of top talent on the web. We will explore a variety of search tools as well as essential techniques for leveraging social media sites to attract and locate the candidates that you need to fill your toughest requisitions.

There is a broad end-to-end focus needed; one which stretches from building a strategic employment brand, through sourcing and recruiting, all the way to onboarding top people.

Key Takeaways:

 Planning and Strategizing

 Segmenting the Workforce

 Creating, Validating and Maintaining an Employment Brand

 Managing and Cultivating Candidate Relationships

 Defining Metrics and Conducting Analysis

 Creating an Organizational Recruiting Culture