Webinar

Silas Warner, of One Digital, a longtime contributor to our chapter returns as our May presenter to go over fringe benefits trends and best practices for insurance renewals.

SHRM & HRCI credits pending.

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COVID has caused disruptions, heightened stress, and lessened empathy in the workplace.  These disruptions negatively impact individual and team performance.  Human Resources has a tremendous capacity to be intentional leaders, influencing every aspect of an organizations culture.  In order to be effective in promoting positive and productive workplaces for employees, HR needs to assess problems, and understand how to intervene - by facilitating conflict resolution, by coaching employees on a course of action, by serving as role models, and by supporting management and l

A recent article in Forbes Magazine described the annual performance review as ‘a unique workplace evil that must be destroyed like a blood sucking vampire’… WOW. It’s not that bad. Or is it?? Performance reviews have long been a key battleground between HR and managers in many organizations. As part of the annual compensation review process, measuring an employee’s performance is an essential component of the overall picture as we promote, cross train, reskill and sometimes exit staff from our companies.

In this heavily participatory workshop, we will explore our natural pre-dispositions and preferences, and how they impact the entire employment process. Even if we are consciously committed to fairness and equality and deliberately work to behave without prejudice, we may still possess preferences of which we are unaware.  Join us on a journey of self-discovery and gain insights to bring back to your management team. Why are we attracted to some people and not to others? How can we work around our natural pre-dispositions and become more committed to being aware of their impact?

Due to the social justice movement in 2020, there has been a heightened focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The audience will hear from a diverse slate of panelists as they reflect on last year, and the key trends in corporate DEI to pay attention to in 2021. General Framework:

-Assessing the focus on DEI of 2020 (How we got here)
-How did the events in 2020 highlight DEI?
-Demand for companies to act
-Gap between work and personal life narrowed
-Difficult conversations
-Systemic Racism, COVID, Wealth Gap