Webinars

Keep Negativity From Infecting Your Workplace  • Signs that your office may be infected with negativity.
• The hidden costs of a chronic negativity problem.
• Diagnosing what makes some people so negative.
• Employees from the dark side: Whiners, complainers, critics and pessimists.
• Active troublemakers: Tattletales, gossips, bullies and rabble-rousers.
• Effective weapons in the war against negativity.
• How you may actually be rewarding your employees’ negative behavior.
• A 5-step behavioral coaching process that really makes an impact.
• How to re-engage resentful employees by flipping their “motivational switch.”
• Using the Team Turnaround process to “disinfect” an entire group.
• Termination: When removing the cause is the only cure.
• Recognizing systemic problems: Signs of a toxic workplace.
• Strategies for saving your sanity in a toxic organization.  ...Read More

HR Investigations Workshop: A Guide to Legal & Effective Inquiries  • Key elements of an effective investigation. Understand the core components of a thorough investigation and when it’s necessary to launch one.
• Triggering events. Learn which types of employee complaints and situations require immediate investigation and which can be resolved through other means.
• Legal obligations. Discover which employment laws mandate investigations and how to stay compliant.
• Interviewing techniques. Plan and strategize each interview, implement a checklist and document findings accurately to build a solid investigation report.  ...Read More

Leadership Defense: Verbal & Documented Disciplinary Interventions  • The core elements of workplace due process and the importance of the written record in the discipline and termination processes.
• Tough conversations to have with employees that invite them to involve themselves in their own performance improvement.
• Structuring disciplinary documentation that is constructive and insulates the organization from legal liability.
• Alternatives to formal progressive discipline that re-engage employees without the formal trappings of “being written up.”
• Leadership landmines to avoid under all circumstances, especially regarding tricky situations that may miss awareness from good-natured yet unsuspecting managers.  ...Read More

W-4s: How to Get Withholding Right  • W-4 updates and compliance. Stay current on the latest W-4 process, including electronic forms, and quickly bring your company into compliance.
• Guidance for side gigs and worksheets. Learn how employees with multiple jobs should complete the W-4 form, and understand the critical role of W-4 worksheets in accurate withholding.
• Effective employee communication. Develop a plan to guide employees—especially new hires—through the W-4 form to prevent costly mistakes.
• Managing outdated W-4s. Discover strategies for handling employees who don’t update their W-4s, including IRS solutions for different forms and methods.
• Rejecting invalid W-4s. Identify when to reject a W-4 and how to manage IRS letters that void an employee’s form.
• Ensuring withholding accuracy. Follow best practices for verifying your withholding processes, with step-by-step IRS guidance.
• Supplemental pay withholding. Master the rules for withholding on various types of supplemental pay.  ...Read More

Essential Pregnancy Accommodations: How to Comply with the PWFA  • Leave as an accommodation. Understand when leave may not qualify as a reasonable accommodation (rarely), and when it may be required for cases of infertility, miscarriage, abortion and more.
• Guaranteed accommodations. The four accommodations the EEOC says you can’t question—no doc notes, no forms, no delay.
• Top practical accommodations. Easy-to-implement, practical accommodations that won’t unduly disrupt the workplace while complying with the law.
• Lessons from the courtroom. Insights from recent EEOC lawsuits under the PWFA and notable settlements.
• Compliant break rooms. Steps to create a PUMP Act-compliant milk-expression space tailored to your industry.
• Prohibition against schedule cuts. Workers who need expression breaks can’t have their schedules cut instead.
• Accommodation best practices. How to accommodate pregnancy-related issues like morning sickness, lifting restrictions and bed-rest orders.  ...Read More