Webinar

**Please note that this event will not be recorded, therefore registration requires live participation at the designated program time in order to view and receive re-certification credits**

WEBINAR:  The Five Keys to Genuine Employee Engagement

Special thanks to our sponsor - Paycor

Human Resources professionals play a critical role in increasing an organization’s bottom line while simultaneously impacting productivity, retention, profitability, and innovation.

While everyone in the organization needs to contribute towards making the workplace diverse and inclusive, HR plays a particularly key role. This 1-hour session is geared towards providing HRLA members & HR Leaders with fundamental tools to use when prioritizing Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, (BEDI) in workplace practices, hiring, outreach, & policy.

With a solutions-oriented approach, Jamal will focus on the following key elements:

This will be an interactive webinar presented by Jeff Nally – an executive coach, author and nationally recognized speaker, who applies neuroscience and coaching to help people interact with the brain in mind to create better leaders, teams and organizations. Jeff is a frequent speaker at business, coaching, and human resource conferences across the US and has 23 years of professional experience in HR, executive coaching, and leadership development. 

On June 22, Connecticut became the 19th state to legalize recreational marijuana.  Possession of small quantities of marijuana immediately became legal.   Although most of the employer provisions don’t go into effect until July 2022, there are some more immediate concerns:

• Are there current policies in your handbook that need to be changed now? 

• Will your employer be exempted from the new legislation – and what does that mean?  

• Should employers remove marijuana screening from their pre-em

Do you know the difference between CT Paid Leave and CT FMLA? Join us for an overview of the CT Paid Leave Act vs. CT FMLA, the employer’s responsibilities, job-protected leave, CT Paid Leave Authority, and income replacement benefits to learn how all of these fit together. 

As a result of this session, participants will be able to understand:

• Differences between CT Paid Leave and CT FMLA
• Various job-protected leave scenarios

As HR professionals we usually don’t see our role as sales.  In actuality, we are selling ourselves and our initiatives every day as part of our strategic involvement in our organization’s success.  Understanding the buying process mindset, we can position ourselves as influencers to create buy-in from decision-makers.  During our time together, we will explore strategies and tactics to accelerate our HR initiatives, and how to maximize the organizational value they create. 

Get Your Initiatives Approved by:

Do you want to......

-Be more productive?
-Get your to-do list in order?
-Feel like you are controlling your email instead of it controlling you?

Our presenters, Toni Locklear, and Nikki Carusone, of Darien, Connecticut- based HR consulting firm, APTMetrics, will address HR’s role in meeting the challenge of fair pay in the workplace.

They will share the current state of the pay gap in 2021, and discuss the evolving legal landscape surrounding pay equity. They will cover key features of new fair-pay laws implemented across the country, and dive deeper into the details of the tri-state area’s laws. They will also review

Join us for our Annual Legal update as we hear from Jackson Lewis on how changing legal issues affect our organizations and what we need to do to stay out of court. 

This year's legal update will cover new legislation and legal issues HR professionals should be aware of, including the new CT Crown Act, COVID-19 legislation, disability issues, and vaccine updates.

The Connecticut SHRM HR Council is pleased to provide this complimentary webinar:

HR and business leaders today are looking for exceptional candidates that may not be readily available in the domestic labor pool. As a result, many are turning to global talent to fill pipelines. 

Employment-based immigration is becoming crucial for employers to find the talented workers they need in order for their organizations can thrive.