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Ways to Boost Engagement Across Your Hybrid and Remote Teams

Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 | Choose your preferred time

Ways to Boost Engagement Across Your Hybrid and Remote Teams

It’s almost painful to watch. An eager manager, after just presenting a plan, asks, “Any questions!?” And…crickets.

Or worse still? Crickets and a sea of blank, black squares, with red lines through both the microphone and camera icons.

But this is the unfortunate reality of virtual meetings two years into remote work. Even if the benefits of remote work are great for employees, managers are still struggling to find ways to keep their teams engaged.

Enter this free webinar, Ways to Boost Engagement Across Your Hybrid and Remote Teams. 

Join us for any one of our three live sessions and discover:

  • Tips for increasing team cohesion with remote & hybrid teams,
  • Steps you can take to pump up the energy in large virtual meetings,
  • Ways to build a stronger company culture with distributed teams,
  • How to facilitate meaningful connections with your employees,
  • And much more!

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Turn Good People into Great Employees: Performance Reviews That Work

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Turn Good People into Great Employees: Performance Reviews That Work

Start using performance reviews to your advantage, instead of dreaded annual obligations.  

Performance reviews can fine-tune employee performance, establish goals and set individuals and departments up for success. 

Properly done, performance reviews are one of the best tools a manager has.  

Turn Good People into Great Employees: Performance Reviews That Work offers a no-nonsense approach anyone can use to successfully prepare and execute performance reviews that develop and motivate employees. 

Make Performance Reviews a Success 

  • 4 sample evaluations to assist in creating a written review 
  • Manage employee expectations 
  • Positive language vs. sugarcoating criticism 
  • What to do when you and an employee don’t see eye to eye 
  • Establishing accountability and responsibility 

Avoid Common Pitfalls 

  • Separating the review from the raise 
  • How to handle dissatisfaction with the review 
  • Performance reviews vs. performance improvement plans 
  • Language for constructive feedback 
  • Performance reviews that fall short: Why they fail 

Develop Employees, Benefit Organizations 

  • From preparation to final draft: Step-by-step guidance 
  • Aligning personal goals with organizational goals 
  • Feedback that provides help and insight 
  • Strategies to increase effectiveness of the written review 
  • Keys to develop a motivating final draft 

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9 Mistakes New Managers Make Most Often

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9 Mistakes

New Managers Make Most Often

They deserved to be new managers, so you promoted them. Now what? Will they be too tough? Too lenient? Will they rise to the position or still see themselves as one of the crowd?

Most new managers make the same mistakes that hurt morale, anger their teams or stifle productivity. Why? Because they don’t have the proper training.  

9 Mistakes New Managers Make Most Often gives you the tools you need to prepare for the challenges and situations that come with a new leadership position and help ensure a successful transition. 

Identify and Eliminate the 9 Biggest Mistakes New Managers Make 

  • 7 delegation tactics to prevent overload and burn out 
  • Negative effects of poor communication and 6 can’t miss ways to keep an open dialogue 
  • Open and honest management tactics that lead to effective decision-making 
  • Impact of managing former peers and best practices for a smooth transition 
  • Keep favoritism from killing morale: Keys to managing all team players 
  • You don’t have to know it all: When to reach out for help 

Effective Management Training Any Organization Can Use 

  • Maximize team members to their full potential: Tools to succeed 
  • Find your style: Solid management tactics to make your own 
  • Decision-making skills that get more accomplished 
  • 5 strategies for handling know-it-alls that won’t hurt productivity 

Supervisory Lessons You Need to Know Now 

  • Avoid indecision to gain the respect of your team and superiors 
  • 21 must-have tips and ideas to help new managers improve results  
  • Squash insecurities and use smart staffers to your advantage 
  • Lead by example: How employees want you to act

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Unity by Design: Creating an Inclusive Workplace

Tuesday, June 21st, 2022 | Choose your preferred time

Unity by Design: Creating an Inclusive Workplace

Creating an inclusive workplace that makes people feel connected and valued is fundamental to attracting, engaging, and retaining talented employees.

Training programs that offer ongoing development and self-service communication tools that connect employees with company representatives can help foster a more diverse and inclusive workplace to drive better business performance.

In this webinar, Sharlyn Lauby, SHRM-SCP, HR Bartender founder, and ITM Group, Inc. president, joins us to talk about how to create a culture of belonging and the benefits of implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives.  

We’ll discuss:

  • How authenticity enables people to utilize their strengths
  • Reducing conscious and unconscious biases
  • Integrating diversity and inclusion strategies into the hiring process
  • The effects of employees’ emotional well-being on business performance

Speakers

Sharlyn Lauby, President ITM Group, Inc

Sharlyn Lauby is the president of ITM Group Inc., a Florida-based training and human resources consulting firm focused on helping companies retain and engage talent. Prior to starting ITM Group, Lauby was vice president of human resources for Right Management Consultants, one of the world’s largest organizational consulting firms. She has designed and implemented highly successful programs for employee retention, internal and external customer satisfaction, and leadership development. She is also well-known for being the author of the HR Bartender blog, which has been recognized as one of the Top 5 Blogs read by HR professionals. She is the author of Manager Onboarding: 5 Steps for Setting New Leaders Up for Success. Her latest book is The Recruiter’s Handbook: A Complete Guide for Sourcing, Selecting and Engaging the Best Talent.

Jasmine Sievert – Workforce Marketing Partner

As a workforce marketing partner at Paycom, Jasmine Sievert creates content covering a wide array of topics related to the HR and human capital management industries. A former journalist and public relations professional, she has crafted a variety of materials for businesses and nonprofits. Sievert earned a bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Journalism from Oklahoma State University and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Central Oklahoma.




Duration: 1 hour

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Adapt To Work Everywhere: What The Great Resignation Can Teach Us About Employee Priorities

Wednesday, June 15th, 2022 | Choose your preferred time

Adapt To Work Everywhere: What The Great Resignation Can Teach Us About Employee Priorities

We sent out a survey to over one thousand office workers to explore the attitudes towards remote work and the results were shocking.

96% said that flexibility in working arrangements is important when seeking a new job.

48% of employees believe their company’s remote work policy exists to make it easy for their company to say “no”

The global pandemic has transformed employee attitudes about the nature of work, and companies must adapt to retain and attract the best talent.

Join Topia for a free webinar to learn the ins and outs of new employee expectations in order to retain and attract top talent.

In it, you’ll also learn:

  • What it will take for you to stay competitive in today’s fast-changing environment
  • Do you have the right data to implement remote/hybrid work policies?
  • Is flexibility the key to attracting and retaining top talent?
  • New risks that come with a flexible workforce
  • Technology to support the management of a scalable remote-hybrid policy



Your Speakers:  

Steve Black, Co-Founder & Chief People OfficerSince co-founding Topia in 2011, Steve has been there to see the company grow from a small London-based startup to an award-winning global talent mobility management platform supporting organizations around the world. At Topia, Steve leads strategic and product initiatives leveraging deep industry, technology, and customer insight. An expatriate himself, originally from the US Steve understands the challenges of moving abroad, and is dedicated to making it easier for companies and individualsto Work Everywhere. 

Jacky Cohen, Chief People OfficerJacky Cohen is a global people leader with a passion for driving business objectives by enhancing and developing talent. As VP of People and Culture at Topia, Jacky leads people operations and oversees the employee experience from the moment a candidate applies for a position and throughout their journey as a Topia employee. Jacky brings a wealth of experience leading teams and scaling people functions from past leadership roles at Lyft and Pandora, and she is committed to embedding the people function into the organization as a strategic partner to the leadership team.




Duration: 1 hour

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Turning Good Employees Into Great Managers: A Guide for New Managers and Soon-to-Be Managers

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Turning Good Employees Into Great Managers

A Guide for New Managers and Soon-to-Be Managers

Getting promoted from worker to manager requires a different mindset, as well as a new skillset.

It’s no longer enough to be good at your job, you now have to help other people be good at their job, too. If you’re learning on the fly and need some expert advice to guide you, we can help.  

Turning Good Employees Into Great Managers: A Guide for New Managers and Soon-to-Be Managers lays out your path to success and helps you develop the skills you need to navigate the transition from worker to boss.

Learn Keys Aspects of Mastering a New Mindset and New Skills   

  • How to exert authority without alienating subordinates 
  • Managing your boss’ expectations  
  • Traits of successful managers  
  • Pitfalls to avoid  
  • Keys to delegating effectively  
  • Dealing with different personalities  

Find All the Help You Need to Prepare to Meet the Difficult Challenges of Being a Manager   

  • Understand the different types of managers and what makes them unique  
  • 2 huge pitfalls of being a new manager – and how to avoid them 
  • 4 keys to deciding what to delegate and what to keep 
  • 6 surefire strategies for becoming more “hands-on”  
  • The 3 biggest transitions you’ll need to make 

Get Time-tested Techniques for Handling Even the Most Difficult Situations 

  • 7 common tough calls new managers must make 
  • How to protect your top commodity – your time   
  • 3 ways to lighten the mood when the workload gets heavy 
  • How to toe the company line 

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The 7 Most Disruptive Workplace Issues – And How to Handle Them

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The 7 Most Disruptive Workplace Issues

And How to Handle Them

It’s hard enough for good managers to get results without having to deal with prima donnas, know-it-alls, gossips and employees with acidic attitudes.

Fortunately, supervisors don’t have to go it alone. 

The 7 Most Disruptive Workplace Issues – and How to Handle Them offers proven techniques and advice you can put into action – right now – to strengthen managerial skills, tackle tough conversations, and improve the work environment for everyone.

Identify and Eliminate the 7 Most Problematic Workplace Situations:    

  • 5 proven ways to keep chronic tardiness and absenteeism from eating away at your bottom line 
  • Maximize the knowledge of know-it-alls without stifling creativity 
  • How to keep acidic attitudes from eroding morale and decreasing productivity 
  • Keys to handling workplace romance with tact and avoid future legal trouble 

Turn Difficult Employees into Productive Performers: 

  • 2 key points when confronting know-it-alls about the effects of their behavior 
  • 4 types of prima donnas and what drives them to produce 
  • 2 of the most uncomfortable workplace situations – and how to handle them 

Keep Your Workplace Morale Up: 

  • 7 organizational issues that lead to high absenteeism rates 
  • 3 ways to decrease the toxic effect of gossip and rumors  
  • Quick reference guide for having tough conversations with employees 

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The Right Answers to the 33 Toughest FMLA Questions You’ll Ever Face

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The Right Answers to the 33 Toughest FMLA Questions You’ll Ever Face

FMLA continues to confound, frustrate and stump even the most experienced HR and Benefits professionals.

Why? Because the second you think you have all the rules and regs figured out, the government changes something or makes an addition that results in a new learning curve and requires updates to your policies and procedures. 

The Right Answers to the 33 Toughest FMLA Questions You’ll Ever Face provides the answers you need – straight from two top labor lawyers. It clears up the gray areas of the law and offers advice on how to maintain your company’s compliance while ensuring employees aren’t abusing the system. 

Get Answers to the 33 Toughest FMLA Questions  

  • Health conditions that do, and don’t, qualify for FMLA 
  • Medical certification forms: 5 things you can always insist on getting 
  • Best practices for verifying FMLA is needed – without going too far 
  • Handling intermittent leave so it’s not a pain for you or employees 
  • New poster and paperwork the DOL’s enforcing now 
  • What you can’t ask employees to do with their FMLA 

Stop Employees from Abusing the System  

  • Special considerations you need to take with exempt employees 
  • Surprising information that doesn’t need to be included in requests 
  • Moonlighting while on FMLA: Punishable or not? 
  • GINA disclaimer you should include in every medical certification form 
  • Ensuring compliance when both FMLA and ADA come into play 

Learn Clear, Concise, Accurate Ways to Deal with Tricky Situations 

  • The 8 specific reasons that qualify for military FMLA leave  
  • Is it ever a good idea to hire a private investigator? 
  • Conditions when same-sex partners are eligible for caregiver FMLA 
  • How not to get tangled in the Pregnancy Discrimination Act 
  • Parameters for when you are, and aren’t responsible for temps’ FMLA 

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50 Fun Activities to Boost Engagement with Remote and

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50 Fun Activities to Boost Engagement with Remote and
Hybrid Teams

Build company culture and increase team cohesion in virtual meetings

Remote and hybrid work models present a variety of challenges to employers and their managers. 

Let’s face it, it’s hard to build company culture and increase team cohesion when you’re constantly meeting with a group of silent black boxes.

If you’re struggling to increase engagement during large virtual meetings, like all hands or team meetings, you’re not alone. 

But here’s the great news: it CAN be done (and it might be a lot easier than you think).

Download this guide from our friends at Preciate and discover 50 fun activities you can start using to boost engagement with your hybrid and remote teams. 

Try one at your next virtual meeting and start growing closer and working better together!

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Parenthood and healthcare support for the LGBTQ+ community

Thursday, June 16th, 2022 | Choose your preferred time

Parenthood and Healthcare Support for the LGBTQ+ Community

Today’s workforce expects their workplace — and its benefits — to be inclusive. 

High costs, limited options, and complexity can create stressful barriers and difficult challenges for your employees in the LGBTQ+ community who wish to become parents. 

Your LGBTQ+ workers also face hidden barriers to basic healthcare for themselves, which can lead to long-term health issues.  

What can you as an employer do to help your LGBTQ+ employees reach their goals of parenthood and ensure they have the healthcare they need?    

Join us for a free webinar where we’ll walk you through the best way to help support members of the LGBTQ+ community with their healthcare needs and parenthood. 

You’ll also learn: 

  • What issues LGBTQ+ people face on their path to parenthood and how support has evolved 
  • Why family-forming benefits and support must be inclusive and equitable for all employees 
  • How supporting this community with pregnancy and fertility helps them live their healthiest lives 
  • What members of the LGBTQ+ community are struggling with and how you can help them 

Speakers: 

Raquel Hammonds, NMD, MPH 

Director of Integrative and Preventive Medicine, Carrot 

Robert (Bobby) Byerly, MD, MBA 

Medical Director, Clinical Strategy and Population Health, Accolade 


Duration: 1 hour

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