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Engaging and Retaining Top Talents with Stay Interviews: Strategize Employee Engagement Before It’s Too Late

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OVERVIEW Job markets go up and down but one thing remains clear: companies want and need to retain their best performing employees. Unfortunately, most companies use the exit interview to collect reasons why their employees leave – an action that can be described by the old adage,  “too little, too late.”  A better strategy is to implement and leverage  “stay interviews,”  which help managers to proactively take action ahead of the employee’s decision to leave. A stay interview is a powerful retention tool that gives organizations a jumping-off point to build upon the positive aspects of the job. It helps to identify the key factors that engage and excite employees and help in formulating better employee engagement strategies. As well, it helps to pinpoint aspects that drive dissatisfaction and frustration for high-performing employees, so that those aspects can be minimized or eliminated. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND If you’ve ever found yourself dumbfounded by high performin

Businesses in the VUCA World

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Businesses in the VUCA World

The Totally Organized Professional Is All About ‘Outcomes’ - How to Fast Track Careers by a Focus on Results, with and Through the People You Work With

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OVERVIEW What matters most to a rewarding career is a great end result to your actions, called Outcomes. The key to success for anyone is to actually to implement the proven action steps that generate the results you need,which also help in your career management and development , along with a system for keeping on top of it – measuring your momentum. The second important step to success is that you must feel good about what you do and who you are doing it for. In other words, it is engagement with the company, your product and people. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND A key driver to achieve these extraordinary results is based on an attribute called trust which becomes your behavior and your reputation. Here is how to achieve that with confidence, initiative and commitment. This presentation outlines the eight key areas of focus and provides a link to the self-test tools and e-books to keep the momentum going. If you want to be more successful, enjoy work and life more, get to y

How to Turn Disengaged and Disruptive Employees (DDEs) into Star Performers and Eventually into Brand Ambassadors

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OVERVIEW It has been said that people are your greatest resource – and it’s true. Great organizations are made up of great people. It is also true, however, that: One non-performer can lower the standards of performance for everyone One bad actor can affect the morale of those around him/her One disruptive character can make life miserable for those who work with him/her and especially for you In this program, you’ll learn techniques to deal effectively with these problem children so they either become productive members of your team, or they go away. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND If you have one or more disruptive or disengaged employee on your team that you would like to see turned around, this webinar is for you. AREAS COVERED Determining Your Strategy Creating a culture of positive accountability Employee recognition ideas and developing a fresh approach to rewarding the behaviors you want Asking one question that will tell you how to proceed

Webinar on Payroll Administration Made Simple: Employee Classification, Record-Keeping, New 2020 Overtime Rules and More

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Payroll is the most important aspect of any business and it must be perfect and compliant with all the payroll rules and regulations . Our upcoming webinar discusses payroll rules and administration, including worker classification, latest updates, newly proposed overtime rules and more to help you make the payroll processing error-free and efficient. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          Proper classification of employees as exempt or nonexempt under the new payroll overtime rules 2020 ·          Achieving perfection and prevention consistent with the implementation of FLSA rules ·          Consideration of record-keeping, accounting & reporting policies & procedures LEARNING OBJECTIVES Simple understanding of rules and administration of Payroll including determining employees vs. contractors, guidelines & payment of contractors, definition of employees as exempt or non-exempt, proper payment of exempts & non-exempts, proper payment o

3 Hours Microsoft Office Boot Camp - Tips and Tricks of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

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Microsoft Office, also known as Office 365, is the software that most computers use and knowing the advanced tips and techniques is essential to perform tasks effectively. Our upcoming boot camp discusses pro skills and techniques for Word, Excel,PowerPoint, and Outlook. The boot camp covers the following key areas: ·          Word - Selecting Text, Page Setup, Bullet Lists and more ·          Excel - Relative Formulas, Absolute Formulas, AutoSum and more ·          PowerPoint - Adding Slides, Adding Text, PowerPoint Views and more ·          Outlook - Sorting and Filtering Emails, Flagging Emails for follow up and more LEARNING OBJECTIVES Improve your knowledge about the various tools of Microsoft Office. Learn important tips and tricks to work with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. WHO WILL BENEFIT •           Business owners •           CEO's / CFO's / CTO's •           Managers of all levels •           Anybody with large amounts of dat

Lookup Functions in Excel: Creating Error Free Workbooks

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OVERVIEW "How do I compare the items in these two lists and see which are missing" "How do I look up a value in list ONE and pick up a related value from list TWO" "How do I avoid my lookup formula displaying an ugly error when it can't find a match?" "What's the difference between VLOOKUP function in Excel and INDEX-MATCH?" "I've heard of VLOOKUP but what's HLOOKUP formula in Excel?" These are just a few of the questions I get asked on a regular basis. You can get the answers to these questions (and more) by attending this training session dedicated to mastering the various lookup functions that are built into Excel. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND By attending this intermediate-to-advanced training you can take your Excel knowledge to the next level. It is aimed at users who want to learn about the Lookup functions in Excel. Although the training will be delivered using the latest ver