Implementing Best Practices in Human Resources Management will help you to realize the full potential of your department's role in your organization and maximize the positive impact on your business. It ensures that employees and managers understand your organization's expectations, policies, and practices. It helps you become the internal organizational expert, drawing senior management to your proactive approach to HR strategies and confirming how HR is instrumental in helping the organization flourish. It also develops methods for implementing successful HR strategies that will impact the organization's culture, business objectives, and overall success.

Features include:

• Concise discussions of major HR terms and concepts
• Current trends and benefits
• Discussion on definitions
• Procedures for implementation
• Role of HR practitioners and any barriers or pitfalls they might face
• Sample policies
• "Best practice" information
• Over 400 pages of value

Topics covered:

• Alcohol and drug addiction
• Attendance management
• Auditing the HR function
• Benchmarking
• Ethics
• Career management
• Change management
• Coaching
• Competency
• Conflict management
• Employee involvement
• Employee opinion surveys
• Employee testing
• Employee turnover
• Employment contracts
• Employment cycle
• Flexible work practices
• HR Metrics
• Intellectual capital
• Learning organization
• Management development
• Mission statements
• Organizational design
• Performance management process
• Recruitment and selection
• Redundancy/downsizing
• Reward Management/compensation policies
• Stress management
• Terminations
• Virtual organization

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This all-electronic HR combo combines two of our most popular publications to give you the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information available on these topics.

HR Assist – Employment Standards covers all relevant legislation concerning employment standards, human rights, pay and employment equity, and employment insurance in Canada. Also includes commentary, case annotations, and practice tips.

HR Assist – Labour Relations provides current regulations and legislation covering labour relations for all jurisdictions in Canada. Also includes expert commentary that clarifies the laws affecting your organization, case annotations, and practice tips.

Topics covered:

• Minimum age
• Personnel records
• Minimum wage/overtime
• Hours of work
• Payment of wages
• Statutory holidays
• Vacations
• Leaves of absence
• Termination
• Human rights
• Equal pay/employment equity
• Employment insurance
• Privacy in the workplace
• Workers' compensation
• Immigration
• Labour jurisdictions
• Unfair labour practices
• Certification
• Decertification
• Collective bargaining
• Collective agreements
• Strikes and lockouts
• Successorship
• Arbitration
• Labour relations boards
• Apprenticeship legislation
• Consumer price index
• Labour statistics

Includes bi-weekly newsletter, Labour Notes.

DVD updated monthly.

Related Products

• HR Assist – Employment Standards and Labour Law Cases
• HR Assist – Labour Relations and Labour Law Cases
• Canadian Labour Law Reporter

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Another HR combo, giving you excellent value and the ultimate in comprehensive information on employment standards and labour law cases in Canada.

HR Assist – Employment Standards covers all relevant legislation concerning employment standards, human rights, pay and employment equity, and employment insurance in Canada. Also includes commentary, case annotations, and practice tips.

HR Assist – Labour Law Cases is an all-electronic service giving you the key decisions of labour relations boards, human rights tribunals and courts from across Canada from 1944 to the present, including full-text, headnotes, and digests. Topics covered include employment standards, labour relations, employment insurance, human rights, and pay equity.

Topics covered:

• Minimum age
• Personnel records
• Minimum wage/overtime
• Hours of work
• Payment of wages
• Statutory holidays
• Vacations
• Leaves of absence
• Termination
• Human rights
• Equal pay/employment equity
• Employment insurance
• Privacy in the workplace
• Workers' compensation
• Immigration
• Labour jurisdictions
• Consumer price index
• Labour statistics
• Court cases

Includes bi-weekly newsletter, Labour Notes.

DVD updated monthly.

Related Products

• HR Assist – Labour Relations and Labour Law Cases
• HR Assist – Employment Standards and Labour Relations
• Canadian Labour Law Reporter

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Staying up-to-date on the most recent cases, laws, and other current issues in the areas of employment, equality, and human rights is essential to keep you or your company from becoming entangled in costly employment-related disputes. Focus on Canadian Employment and Equality Rights newsletter helps employers and HR practitioners stay compliant and avoid such conflicts. It provides reviews and analysis from various experts on the most topical issues in the areas of employment, equality, and human rights. Practical features such as case notes, legislative updates, Question and Answer, and Did You Know? offer valuable insights on a wide range of topics, such as workplace diversity and accommodation, employment agreements, absenteeism, sexual harassment, termination, constructive dismissal, drug and alcohol testing, privacy rights, and pay equity, to name a few.

Features include:

• Lead Article – Expert analysis and valuable commentary on topical issues 
• Question & Answer – Relevant compliance facts that employers need to know 
• Case Notes – Expert summary and analysis of actual workplace situations from recent court, board, and tribunal decisions, with insightful practical application information
• Quotable – A thought-provoking excerpt from a case featured in the issue
• Legislative Alert – Comprehensive updates on recent changes to relevant laws
• Initiatives & Events– Significant government initiatives, upcoming seminars and conferences on employment and human rights issues, and helpful government publications
• Did You Know? – Useful tips, information, and pointers to online tools available to help employers

Benefits include: 

• Encourages you, the employer, to be proactive rather than reactive in the workplace and helps to keep you out of potentially costly litigation. For example, you're provided with professional practical information from employment experts to help avoid and prevent discrimination in the workplace, inadequate accommodation, wrongful dismissal, and other employment-related problems.

Updated monthly.

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Staying right up-to-date couldn't be easier. The new Internet platform means that updates are automatically delivered right from the editor's desktop to yours. And with full electronic functionality and a cross-jurisdictional approach, you'll save hours and hours of look-up time. HR Assist – Employment Standards covers all relevant legislation concerning employment standards, human rights, pay and employment equity, and employment insurance in Canada. Includes commentary, case annotations, and practice tips.

Topics covered:

• Minimum age
• Personnel records
• Minimum wage/overtime
• Hours of work
• Payment of wages
• Statutory holidays
• Vacations
• Leaves of absence
• Termination
• Human rights
• Equal pay/employment equity
• Employment insurance
• Privacy in the workplace
• Workers' compensation
• Immigration
• Consumer price index
• Labour statistics

Includes bi-weekly newsletter, Labour Notes.

DVD updated monthly.

Related Products

• HR Assist – Labour Relations
• HR Assist – Labour Law Cases

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How prepared are you for unforeseen emergencies in your organization? The best way to prepare for unknown contingencies is to be ready for them. Proactive planning for such events makes you aware of any of the dangers associated with them. As unlikely as some events might seem to be in Canada, are you willing to take the chance of not being prepared?

Emergency Disaster Guidelines & Procedures For Employees is designed to prepare you, the employer, for any eventuality relating to any man-made or natural disaster or emergency. Most importantly, this publication discusses the elements necessary in developing an emergency response plan or business continuity plan. It also presents Canadian legislative references that are important considerations in the realization of a complete emergency plan.

Topics covered:

• Man-made contingencies like terrorism
• Fire safety
• Hazardous materials
• Bomb threats
• Crowd management
• Natural contingencies: blizzards, earthquakes, hurricanes, lightning, floods, and tornadoes

Features include:

• Tips on responding to numerous man-made and natural contingencies
• Inclusion of Canadian legislative references that will be of interest to all provinces
• Elements to consider in developing an emergency plan
• List of industry and other relevant e-mail addresses is included for further consideration

About the Authors
William Avery has an extensive background in the sport, leisure and entertainment industry. He has acted as Safety Manager for Busch Gardens, and as Corporate Safety Advisor for the Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. (including all locations of Busch Gardens, Adventure Island, Sesame Place and Grant's Farm). In 1986, he joined SeaWorld Parks Ltd. as Director of Risk Management. In 1990, he began safety consulting and loss prevention work with various organizations.

Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) is a not-for-profit, member-driven organization operating since 1917. Representing approximately 45,000 member firms and more than 1.5 million workers, IAPA is Canada's leading health and safety association, providing educational, consulting and information programs, products and services for the prevention of workplace injury and illness.

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Get the Handbook that most answers your needs. Federal and provincial (Ontario/Alberta/British Columbia/Quebec) government assistance programs are available.

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This is the first of several combos we've created for HR professionals. By combining Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics and HR Assist – Labour Relations, you get all the resources you need plus you get great value. With these two tools at your fingertips, you'll have both a comprehensive source of legal information and a powerful strategic resource to help you deal more effectively in a unionized environment.

Topics covered:

• Unfair labour practices
• Certification
• Decertification
• Collective bargaining
• Collective agreements
• Strikes and lockouts
• Successor Rights
• Arbitration
• Labour Relations Boards
• Collective Bargaining Calendar
• Productivity indexes
• Consumer Price Indexes
• Wage and salary rates
• Weekend and shift premiums
• Fringe benefits
• Insurance and benefit plans
• Sick leave
• Paid holidays and vacations
• Unemployment and earnings rates
• And more

Includes bi-weekly newsletters, Labour Notes and Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics.

DVD updated monthly.

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The content of Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics newsletter ranges from topical, emerging issues to labour relations data. It gives you the information you need for strategic and effective HR management, in both union and non-union environments.

Contributors include senior human resources practitioners, mediators/arbitrators, consultants, academics, and employment and labour lawyers. You'll benefit from the trend-spotting articles covering all the fields of the HR function.

One monthly feature includes articles from U.S. experts providing an American perspective to the labour/HR scene. Practice tips, wage/benefits administration data, collective agreement summaries, quarterly wage settlement data, and following the progress of important labour legislation will help busy practitioners remain informed and current.

Included free with the purchase of Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics.

Updated monthly. Available to be e-mailed in PDF format only.

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• Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics with HR Assist – Labour Relations – COMBO

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Whether you're unionized or not, Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics is an excellent tool for increasing your knowledge of labour relations planning and practice in activities like contract negotiations, handling grievances, and dealing with other daily workplace problems and issues. Each month, you'll receive topical, practical information on developments in labour relations and human resources management. Includes graphs and tables of key economic and labour statistics, including consumer price index figures for Canada, regional cities, and the provinces, as well as monthly unemployment rates and weekly earnings figures.

Employers and unions can plan for negotiations or policy changes with Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics in-depth feature articles, regular newsletter columns, including one or more collective agreement summaries with each report, overviews of trends in benefits, bargaining and the economy, statistical data on major collective agreement provisions, and collective bargaining calendar. Arbitration abstracts provide summaries of recent significant arbitral decisions from across the country.

With the launch of the Internet platform, the updates to your research library are delivered immediately from the editor's desktop to you.

Topics covered:

• Arbitration
• Negotiations
• Collective agreement provisions
• Paid holidays and vacations
• Collective bargaining calendar
• Sick leave
• Consumer price indexes
• Unemployment and earnings rates
• Feature article
• Wage settlements
• Fringe benefits
• Weekend and shift premiums
• Insurance and benefit plans

Includes monthly newsletter, Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics.

Loose leaf and DVD updated monthly.

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• Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics with HR Assist – Labour Relations – COMBO

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One Stop Shopping for Employment and Labour Law Information

Legislation
Canadian Labour Law Reporter provides coverage of federal, provincial, and territorial laws on employment standards, human rights, pay and employment equity, employment insurance, and collective bargaining. This comprehensive research tool gives you all the relevant labour legislation across Canada.

Commentary
In addition to commentary on key employment cases and practice tips, the Canadian Labour Law Reporter also has case annotations at the end of each commentary section so you have more case law summary information at your fingertips.

Case Law
The Canadian Labour Law Reporter has full-text court case law and decisions from boards, tribunals, commissions, etc. all across Canada, going back to the 1940's. Our cases follow the same, clear style and are always easy to follow. All cases in the employment and labour areas are analysed by our experts and the most significant are published.

Labour Notes Newsletter
If it's important for you to be aware of current events and issues in Canadian employment and labour law, you'll rely on this newsletter. Published bi-weekly, it will keep you abreast of legislative developments in employment, human rights, labour, pay equity and employment insurance law across Canada. It provides you with digests of ground-breaking cases that affect how you deal with employees, and includes vital economic statistics, and more. Feature articles give you practical insights into trends and emerging issues in these dynamic fields to help you keep yourself current and protect your company's interests and its employees.

News Trackers
There are TWO NewsTrackers with this product, Employment Standards (includes employment standards, employment insurance, and human rights and equity news) and Canadian Labour Law Cases. New bills, cases, and related press releases are posted overnight and our searchable database is updated daily. Upon your request, the NewsTracker feature will notify you by email of breaking news stories as they happen throughout the day. NewsTracker provides a 10-day summary and a 60-day archive of past news items.

What's New
Each section includes a "What's New" feature. It is updated whenever anything is added by one of our experts to our commentary, legislation, or cases, or when a new issue of the news

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Canadian Employment Safety and Health Guide newsletter covers health, safety, and related legal issues affecting all workplaces in Canada, including offices, offsite locations, and mobile workstations. It monitors recent trends and discoveries in the health field and explains their legal implications from both an employer's and employee's perspective. It includes articles and discussions on emerging health and safety developments and summaries of recent court judgements.

Canadian Employment Safety and Health Guide newsletter also includes information on legislative changes throughout Canada. It informs readers of new case law and reminds of them impending compliance deadlines, new penalties, and fines for contravening the law.

Included free with the purchase of Canadian Employment Safety & Health Guide.

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If you work in the employment and safety area, this should be the only reference resource you'll need. It covers federal, provincial, and territorial laws and regulations and gives you analysis of a broad range of topics (see below). You'll also have commentary on new developments and emerging trends in every Canadian jurisdiction plus summaries of decisions from the courts, Workers' Compensation Tribunals and Labour Relations Boards. In addition, it monitors trends in occupational health and looks at their legal implications.

Includes monthly newsletter, Canadian Employment Safety and Health Guide.

With the launch of the new Internet platform, the updates to your research library are delivered immediately from the editors' desktop to you. The CD and looseleaf subscriptions are updated monthly.

Topics covered:

• Employers' duties and rights
• Workers' duties and rights
• Occupational health and safety
• Workers' compensation
• Toxic substances/physical agents
• Administration/inspection/enforcement
• Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)
• Health and Safety Committees

Benefits:

• Helps you to comply with the law and assists you in developing plans and strategies for a healthier and safer workplace
• Covers all aspects of occupational health, safety, wellness, and related legal issues affecting all workplaces
• Indispensable resource helps you to avoid expensive fines
• Monitors recent trends and discoveries in the occupational health and safety field and reveals their legal implications and how they affect your business
• Explains your duties and responsibilities under federal and provincial legislation
• Includes extensive commentary on every Canadian jurisdiction
• Provides you with examples of new or potential health and safety hazards
• Covers your employees' rights to refuse unsafe work
• Cites relevant case law
• Reminds you of impending compliance deadlines, as well as new penalties and fines for contravening the law

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Canadian Employment Law Guide newsletter is the fastest and easiest way to stay up-to-date on the ever-changing legislation covering employment standards and the human rights legal landscape in Canada. Expert commentary will also grant you valuable insight on the latest developments and issues in employment law.

Included free with the purchase of Canadian Employment Law Guide.

Updated bi-monthly. Available to be e-mailed in PDF format only.

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Employment standards are constantly changing and it's vital that you keep up. Canadian Employment Law Guide is the ideal way to stay up-to-date. It will keep you informed of significant changes occurring in all the key areas of employment law. It also includes Q&A sections covering some of the most common employment standards issues, such as maternity and parental leave, vacations with pay, harassment in the workplace, and terminations. Although there is no legislation included in the product, you'll find expert commentary and many useful and relevant case summaries throughout.

Topics covered:

• Employment Insurance
• Minimum wage/overtime
• Equal pay/employment equity
• Payment of wages
• Hours of work
• Personnel records
• Human rights
• Privacy in the workplace
• Labour jurisdictions
• Statutory holidays
• Leaves of absence
• Termination
• Minimum age
• Vacations

Features include:

• Case Table
• Newsletter
• Cumulative Index
• Topical Index

Includes bi-monthly newsletter, Canadian Employment Law Guide.

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The complex field of benefits and pensions becomes a lot clearer with the help of Canadian Employment Benefits and Pension Guide newsletter. It will make it easy to stay on top of legislative developments and policy initiatives across Canada. You'll stay abreast of legislation, tax issues, news from the U.S., and vital statistics such as CIA minimum transfer value rates. And each issue has feature articles providing insight and advice on major issues and emerging trends.

Included free with the purchase of Canadian Employment Benefits and Pension Guide.

Updated monthly. Available in PDF format.

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"Excellent information. Time well spend. Organizational readiness assessment information will be very helpful in determining start time for a mentorship program in our organization. When the time is right, this training has provided an excellent platform from which to set up a successful mentorship process."

"This session was valuable and had a useful structure with great tips for coordinating and supporting a mentorship program."

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Webinar information current as of November 6, 2008

Do you know how to create, implement and monitor sustainable mentorship programs in your workplace? If you want to assess your organization’s readiness for a new mentorship program, or if you’re trying to revive a struggling or dormant mentoring program, you’ll want to purchase this archived webinar.

Learn how to:  

• Dispel the myths of mentoring
• Determine drivers for mentoring, establish goals and roles, and develop a communication plan
• Recruit, select and match mentors and mentees
• Adopt best practices to achieve your mentoring program’s goals
• Develop strategies to address common mentoring challenges
• Assess your organization’s readiness to implement a mentoring program

Speaker

Jenny Lewis is the owner of LEWCO Consulting Inc., a company that focuses on building great businesses by building great people! She collaborates with organizations to create sustainable coaching and mentoring processes. Her innovative approach to designing, implementing and monitoring mentoring programs always start and are aligned with the client’s strategic goals. She has over 27 years business experience including 17 years experience in leadership training and development and performance consulting. Jenny also co-founded, designed and currently instructs the ‘Leadership Certificate program specializing in Leadership Coaching’ at Vancouver Community College.

Elaine Scollan is a senior associate with LEWCO and brings an extensive background in communications and mentoring. She has spent 27 years in Radio Broadcasting business focused primarily in news and information. Elaine has been the voice of hundreds of commercials and promos for a number of clients including non profit. Not only does Elaine have the ability to voice and deliver a variety of products bu

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Webinar information current as of October 9, 2008

 

When is the last time you really took stock of your HR strategy? Have you linked that strategy to your overall business plan? Do you have metrics in place to monitor its effectiveness? If your answers are shaky to any of these questions, your organization would benefit from some solid professional advice.

Learn how to:

• Audit your current HR strategy or plan
• Successfully link your HR strategy to the overall business strategy
• Analyze and prioritize areas for strategic improvement
• Develop a step by step plan for improvement of your HR strategy
• Present the case for strategic changes to your superiors
• Communicate the strategic changes to your organization
• Measure strategic improvement
• Make the connection between HR Strategy and return on investment

Speaker 

Tim McConnell, B.A, M.P.A., SPHR is a Senior HR Strategist with McConnell HR Consulting Inc. in Ottawa. He has over 25 years experience in Human Resources management, both as a Director of HR and as a senior HR consultant. Tim provides strategic HR guidance to senior executives and clients in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

He is a winner of the Ross A. Hennigar Memorial Award from HRPAO. He is the published author of several articles on HR management, Compensation and Organization Design. Tim is a past-President of the Ottawa Human Resources Professionals Association (OHRPA) and a past-President of HRPAO.

McConnell HRC provides services to clients in three key areas: Human Resources Strategy, Compensation and Organization Design.

Format

The following is required to access the archived webinar:

• Flash Player installed in your computer
• an Internet connection
• a sound card

This archived webinar will include:

• PowerPoint presentation with slides
• Speaker and facilitator voice-over presenting the slides and answering pre-recorded questions.

There is no time limitation in usage, you can play, pause and stop the presentation at your convenience.

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"The content and models for this session on "How to Implement Performance Management Programs" were extremely relevant and will be immediately applicable in our municipal government environment. Thank you for providing useful tools we can incorporate to enhance our organization's performance management process."

"This session was very well presented with relevant material for professionals whose goal is to development a performance management program with a strategic impact on their organization."

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Webinar information current as of December 4, 2008 

Performance management is one of the most complex and demanding issues facing HR practitioners today. An organization’s need for effectiveness or competitive advantage and an individual’s need for recognition, development and job satisfaction can often create a dynamic paradox in the design and management of an effective program. Contemporary models of performance management are now overturning long-held assumptions and methodologies. Competence, creativity and technical understanding are fundamental to designing and implementing a model that is right for your organization. This archived webinar offers a unique opportunity to tap into a wealth of practical experience from two seasoned consultants and practitioners who have extensive international expertise in the subject.

Learn how to:

• Build the foundation for performance management
• Overcome implementation challenges
• Benchmark against emerging best practices

Speakers

Sue Traynor is the Head of Leadership Development at Transport for London in the UK. She is responsible for the alignment of the strategy underpinning performance management, leadership development and the active management of talent in order to support the vision and strategic goals of the organization. Sue works to develop capability at the senior level by raising standards of leadership and creating targeted interventions designed to support the performance goals of both current and future leaders in the organization.

Bill Bradford is a Senior Consultant with Performance Management Consultants. He has extensive experience in all aspects of hum

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This webcast was recorded on May 15, 2007

Do you manage one or more employees? Do you require the skills to actually resolve performance issues and effectively manage difficult situations? Are you looking for practical, hands-on tools and techniques to help you implement a performance management system that works? If you've answered yes to any of these questions, you need to purchase Resolve Employee Performance Issues: How to Implement a Management Process That Works!

Agenda

• Accurately identify sources of performance issues
• Implement an effective performance management process
• Develop performance objectives and goals for individual employees
• Conduct successful performance reviews
• Create personal development plans
• Respond effectively to difficult situations

Format  
Participate right from your desk or office. All you need is an Internet connection and a sound card.

This archived webinar will include:

• PowerPoint presentation with slides
• Speaker and facilitator voice-over presenting the slides and answering pre-recorded questions

 

The Speaker  
Michelle Chambers, MEd, CHRP, CTDP, has over 18 years of proven and successful management, leadership and consulting experience, including work with three of Canada's top 50 employers. Prior to establishing her organizational learning and development practice, she was responsible nationally for leadership and management development for Telus Mobility/Clearnet Communications. She has also held senior consulting and management roles with Royal Bank of Canada, Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals and General Motors of Canada.

Michelle works collaboratively with her clients to create sustainable change and to inspire and ultimately increase individual and an organization's effectiveness. Her work with clients has resulted in increased sales revenue; increased employee retention; decreased turnover of staff; increased work satisfaction and performance; decreased operating-costs; and enhanced capabilities for individuals, teams, and organizations. Furthermore, communication skills have been enhanced, leadership has become more focused, and employees have become more engaged.

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This webcast was recorded on March 25, 2008

Employee engagement is a real challenge in today's multi-generational organization, including yours. As an HR professional you must take employee engagement to the next level. A multi-generational engagement program that fits your organizational needs is critical. Achieve higher productivity, motivation, and retention by understanding, developing and maintaining employee engagement in the new workforce. Purchase this archived webinar and gain the essential tools and practical strategies required to understand your organization's generational mix, develop a multi-generational engagement program, and implement your program effectively.

Agenda 

• Understand and define the different generations in your organization
• Engage each of the four generations
• Identify the influencers of engagement of your organization's generational mix
• Evaluate existing HR practices for engagement across the generations in your organization
• Jump-start engagement across different generations by tailoring your HR strategies to your company's generational mix
• Present the case for a multi-generational employee engagement program

 

Format
Participate right from your desk or office. All you need is an Internet connection and a sound card.

This archived webinar will include:

• PowerPoint presentation with slides
• Speaker and facilitator voice-over presenting the slides and answering pre-recorded questions

The Speaker
Barbara Adams, CHRP, BA, is a senior business executive with over 20 years' experience within the human resources field. As Managing Director of HR architects, she provides business consulting mainly in the creative implementation of human resources strategies, objectives, and processes; the facilitation of strategic planning, workshops, and management retreats; and the design of people-oriented workplace practices. She also provides ongoing human resources consulting on a contract basis.

Previously the Vice-President of Human Resources for one of the 50 best employers in Canada, Barbara is a Certified Human Resources Professional, a Certified Chief Executive, a Certified Compensation Professional and holds a BA in Business Administration (Entrepreneurial Leadership). She is past Chair of the Fraser Valley Advisory Council for the BC Human Resources Management Association, instructor of Human Resources Management for Langara College in the Business Administration Certificate Program, and instructor of Operating the Small Business in the Small Business Management Certificate Program.

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Webinar information current as of May 29, 2008

Making the leap from manager to coach plays a critical role in every workplace. Whether the focus is on providing regular constructive feedback, monitoring relationships, ensuring to maintain harmony in teams or learning to communicate like a coach, our Webinar can guide managers to develop these and other proven coaching and leaderships skills. This interactive Webinar can help you gain essential tools and practical strategies required to make the leap from manager to coach in your workplace. This is your opportunity to gain vital coaching skills to make you more effective as a manager and get your employees more engaged ensuring a more motivated and productive employee in the workplace.  

Learn how to:  

• Differentiate between managing and coaching
• Identify critical coaching success factors
• Communicate like a Coach
• Develop a successful mentoring relationship
• Provide constant and constructive feedback
• Coach the difficult employee - how to pinpoint the problem
• Engage employees to create a productive environment
• Use tools that can develop the maximum potential of all employees
• Coach in a cross functional team
• Coach a team vs. the individual

Speaker

Sara Lee, CHRP, CGA has over 18 years of combined human resources, finance and management consulting experience. Throughout her career, Sara has worked with public and private, union and non-union organizations in a variety of business sectors including oil and gas, engineering, real estate, manufacturing, information technology, health services, and financial services.

Format

The following is required to access the archived webinar:

• Flash Player installed in your computer
• An Internet connection
• A sound card

Each archived webinar consists of a recording only of the live event. There is no time limitation in usage, you can play, pause and stop the presentation at your convenience.

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"This webinar was excellent. It provided me with some direction on how to deal with an ongoing employee issue."

"The speaker clearly communicated and emphasized the important key drivers used to engage employees."

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Webinar information current as of May 14, 2009

CCH's How to Engage Employees will provide tools and techniques to assist you in managing the distractions that face your employees on a daily basis and refocus them on company objectives. In today's volatile landscape, there is no other single variable that can produce bottom line results like your employees. Employee Engagement is the critical mandate of the HR department. Add value, contribute to the bottom line and Engage your Employees for success!

Areas to be covered:

• The key drivers behind employee engagement
• The critical impact of managers on employee engagement and the employment relationship
• The importance and methods for measuring employee engagement at the management level
• Strategies for enhancing management capabilities
• The complexities behind the employee-manager relationship
• Specific management behaviours that drive employee engagement

Speaker

Barbara Adams
Barbara Adams is a business executive with over 25 years' experience within the human resources field. As Managing Director of HR architects, Barbara specializes in bringing a business approach to an organization's people practices. Applying a coaching style, she takes a creative yet structured approach to the implementation of human resources strategies and ideas; the design of people oriented workplace practices; and the development of people within these organizations. In presentations and projects, Barbara works to translate theoretical concepts into practical and realistic applications by the organization and the individuals within those organizations.

Format

The following is required to access the archived webinar:

• Flash Player installed in your computer
• an Internet connection
• a sound card

Each archived webinar consists of a recording only of the live event. There is no time limita

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This webcast was recorded on November 16, 2006

Want to transform your employee unit into a high-performance team? It's been proven time and time again that when you use effective coaching and communication strategies, you can easily motivate your employees to reach higher levels of productivity. Improve Workplace Performance Through Effective Coaching and Communication is loaded with tips on how to motivate your employees and improve the dynamics of your team.

Agenda

• Discover key strategies to boost employee motivation
• Pinpoint the major roadblocks to successful teamwork
• Identify strategies to overcome these roadblocks
• Understand the "hows" of effective communication
• Avoid pitfalls of poor communication habits
• Encourage your team members to maximize their work performance by utilizing five key coaching skills
• Make the connection between dedicated coaching and return on investment

Format
Participate right from your desk or office. All you need is an Internet connection and a sound card.

This archived webinar will include:

• PowerPoint presentation with slides
• Speaker and facilitator voice-over presenting the slides and answering pre-recorded questions.

The Speaker
Tammy Dewar, PhD, has been a coach for organizational leaders since 1996, with over 20 years' experience designing and delivering leadership and learning solutions. She will provide you with practical knowledge and step-by-step guidance to help you successfully coach your team, boost employee morale, facilitate effective communication, and drive higher performance.

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Your Employment Standard Questions Answered - Federal and Provincial Guidance, 6th Edition

If you're looking for answers to the many employment standards questions you come across every day, you need Your Employment Standards Questions Answered – Federal and Provincial Guidance, 6th Edition at your fingertips.

With a clear index and detailed tables of contents for each chapter to easily point you to the appropriate section, as well as a straightforward question-and-answer format, this concise reference fits neatly into your busy day.

Covering legislation from all 14 jurisdictions in Canada, this book is intended for employers, human resources professionals, employees, consultants and all those concerned with the employment relationship. While principles underlying employment and human rights law are standard across the country, the details vary a great deal. You'll find this new edition of Your Employment Standards Questions Answered – Federal and Provincial Guidance, 6th Edition more useful than ever.

Table of Contents:

• Defining and Regulating the Employment Relationship
• Minimum Age of Employment
• Minimum Wages and Call-In Pay
• Hours of Work and Overtime Pay
• Statutory Holidays
• Vacations with Pay
• Leaves of Absence
• Payment of Wages
• Personnel Records
• Termination of Employment
• Wrongful Dismissal
• Discrimination in Employment
• Harassment at Work
• Equal Pay and Pay Equity
• Employment Equity
• Enforcement of Employment Standards

Authors:

Full Article mp Mercer/CCH Guide for Employers By www.cch.ca Published On :: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:27:30 GMT Everything employers need to know about employment, compensation and benefits. If you would like more details about this product, or would like to order a copy online, please click here. Full Article mp Career Development & Succession Planning By www.cch.ca Published On :: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:54:17 GMT Succession planning is critical to any organization’s future success and as such, must be integrated with internal HR practices and clearly linked to business strategy. An effective and well planned succession planning process can assist in retaining top performers by integrating individual career development plans; ensure business continuity as predicted turnover occurs; support workforce planning such as planned reorganizations and market shifts; and can also create a sustainable leadership model. But in order to do so, it is critical to establish and maintain a systematic succession planning program. This webinar will provide participants with a step-by-step model that connects career development and succession planning processes in order to build a strong talent foundation. The webinar will introduce and explain processes and tools   most commonly applied in best practice approaches when integrating career development into succession planning models. The session will also provide insight into how to implement career development and succession planning into an organization, and how to maintain the program once it’s introduced. The webinar speaker will share her experiences with introducing succession planning models, maximizing the benefits of the program, addressing common issues, and the resulting acceptance of succession planning as a critical part of the company’s business continuity plan. Key Learning Objectives In this webinar you will: • Gain a working knowledge of career development and succession planning • Learn how to link career development and succession planning to HR practices and business strategy • Understand how to connect career development and succession planning processes using best practice approaches • Learn a step-by-step model for establishing and maintaining a succession planning program • Examine the design of succession plans and career development plans • Gain tips for avoiding mistakes and issues during the implementation process Expert Speaker: Barbara Adams is a senior business executive with 25+ years’ experience within the human resources field. As Managing Director of HR architects, Barbara specializes in bringing a business approach to an organization’s people practices and in particular, designing creative yet structured approaches to the implementation of human resources strategies and ideas; the design of people oriented workplace practices; and the development of people within these organizations. All with the objective of driving business results by increasing employee performance. In presentations and projects, Barbara works to translate theoretical concepts into practical and realistic applications by the organization and the individuals within those organizations. Previously Vice-President of Human Resources for one of the 50 Best Employers If you would like more details about this product, or would like to order a copy online, please click here. Full Article Recent Trending Companies' 'Green' Efforts Include Products’ Material Content Incomplete information can fuel misjudgment: study Floyd & Associates unveils new website Crossville’s Wood Impressions Collection Lakeview Farms to Acquire noosa from Campbell Soup Company Good Morning, News: City Council to Vote on Clean & Safe Contract, Vision Zero Gets an Audit, and Trump Taps Elon Musk to Lead DOGE (Do You Even Want to Know?) 'Apprehensive and fearful': Federal workers await a dismantling under Trump What Trump's win means for electric vehicle manufacturers Congressional leadership under a second Trump administration takes shape Blue states prepare to fight Trump administration policies Trump intends to nominate Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general Former heavywieght champ Mike Tyson to fight YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul A look at the potential impact of shutting down the Department of Education Basic Black: Voting Matters in Black & White Basic Black: Thomas Menino's Imprint on the "New Boston" Subscribe To Our Newsletter