HR Empowerment: Recent Episodes
Aurora Training Advantage
Welcome to the HR Empowerment Podcast. Join our team of industry experts today as they share strategies, insights and regulatory updates that are designed to keep you ahead of the curve.
What resources can companies provide to their employees (including managers) to help them cope with burnout including policies that can help their employees cope with burnout?
What can managers do to create a healthy work environment, support their employees' mental health, and help their employees manage stress?
Introduction to the legal and regulatory landscape surrounding TCC. Key laws and regulations affecting TCC in the USA.
Introduction to performance-based pay and its role in TCC. Benefits and challenges of performance-based pay.
Introduction to job evaluation and market pricing. How job evaluation and market pricing contribute to fair and competive TCC.
Introduction and brief overview of Total Cash Compensation (TCC). Importance of a well-structured TCC program.
Research shows that peer support can enhance recovery and reduce hospitalization rates.
Final words of advice from Tina Moser, to HR Professionals & Leaders who want to offer the best resources to their employees.
Business advisors can help your people achieve their performance goals, which helps your people succeed and meet company goals.
Business advisors can help your team grow by attracting new talent, which helps your people succeed.
How employers can and should create inclusive hiring practices to increase diversity and both practical and legal considerations when implementing DEI initiatives.
How recent trends in mental health awareness have impacted workers, laws and employee mental health support.
Legal considerations when transitioning to remote work or flexible schedules: The attorney's take on setting policies around work hours, overtime, and breaks for remote employees.
An overview of recent trends and laws in wage equality, pay transparency, and compensation, including recommendations for employers to ensure fair compensation and prevent wage and hour lawsuits.
We discuss the big question: Are anti-discrimination policies and training even necessary anymore?
We will discuss common challenges organizations face in improving employee engagement and connection.
We will discuss best practices for designing and implementing employee engagement initiatives.
We will share strategies for improving team communication and collaboration; Discuss the role of leadership in fostering a culture of open communication and trust.
We will highlight the consequences of low engagement on employee retention and productivity.
We will discuss how fostering a positive work environment where people are connected and engaged has huge benefits for employees and organizations.
Just Putting Finance and HR in a room together will not be success. Here we discuss success studies and not!
Integrated Finance / HR systems and why they save time and a lot of money for business owners.
We will talk about our guest speakers experience and how she helps difficult conversations get easier.
Topics Covered:
- Role of payroll professionals in managing garnishments.
- Challenges for employers: compliance, calculation, communication
- Best practices for handling garnishments
Topics Covered:
- Unique types of garnishments: creditor garnishments, state-specific garnishments
- Real-life scenarios: Unique garnishments
- Overview of the process to dispute a garnishment
Topics Covered:
- Introduction to student loan garnishments and to tax levies and bankruptcy orders: legal aspects and process
- Student loan garnishments: challenges and statistics
- Real-life challenging scenario: tax levies garnishment
Topics Covered:
- Child support garnishments: legal aspects, process, challenges, statistics...
- Real-life challenging scenario: Child support
Topics Covered:
- Meet expert guest Vicki Lambert.
- Overview of payroll garnishments.
- Legal basis for garnishments in the USA.
- Types of common garnishments: child support, student loans, tax levies, bankruptcy...
- General statistics about payroll garnishments in the USA.
Politicians often look to divide in order to gain power, yet businesses can still take the DEI ball and run towards great goals.
Leadership is hard, get a coach to help you so you can continue to help others succeed.
HR should be focusing on items and projects that make a difference to the employee and the bottom line.
How employers can avoid lawsuits and overall bad decisions around disabilities at work.
Ensure the hiring team knows that they cannot make assumptions about someone's ability and that accommodations are legally mandatory.
Let’s talk about training managers and about Jeff’s book on his disability and how this can help you.
Be prepared with job interview questions (some are illegal) as well as interviewer training.
Be prepared with realistic compensation and improve the candidate experience before you post a job ad.
Communication - Communication is very often confused with words, but it is so much more than just words.
Accountability - Effective leadership requires managers to assist their employees with managing competing deadlines and holding everyone accountable.
Feedback - Managers must start providing useful feedback regularly. Regular means as often as possible and it must be a two-way constructive conversation
Values - Core values should be used in every stage of the employee lifecycle, from hiring through exit.
How do I get my executives to listen and take action, because this is going to cost us.
Overall people are fed up with low pay, no advancement, and being treated like a cog that is abused.
Discover practical strategies for keeping your cool and making better choices during conflict.
Learn how a few simple changes in how you approach and manage conflict can make all the difference.
Discover the common roots of conflict, the escalation cycle, and what can be done to change the cycle.
Learn what conflict is and what it is not along with the important role it plays in every relationship.
It may seem impossible, but Pamela will share her secrets for staying calm in even the most difficult situations.
In order to understand how to deal with difficult people we first have to understand why they are difficult.
Gain a better understanding of the changing face of the workplace in a changing face of COVID-19.
HR THIS - Create a candidate and new hire experience rather than expect candidates to wow the company to get the job, NOT THAT. In a candidate market, it forces small businesses to look inward at what changes need to be made to attract and retain employees. As a small business, keep in that if you are having trouble with finding candidates and retaining talent, it’s probably not that talent pool that is the issue.
HR THIS – Re-visit policies and make them applicable to the current culture and workforce rather than keep things as they have always been, just because, NOT THAT. Ask “Why” when it comes to workplace policies and if you can’t come up with a practical reason why they are in place, either ditch them or revise them.
HR THIS – Open and transparent communication rather than one-way, top down communication, NOT THAT. Communication has been an issue in the workplace for decades. It seems that it always ends up number 1, if not in the top 3 complaints of employees in the workplace. Now that more workforces are remote or hybrid, overcommunication should be a goal.
Get to know the team and pay attention to what they say and don’t say rather than assume that no news is good news, NOT THAT. We need to move away from the stagnation of a workday and incorporate more experiences for employees. Shifting from process to supporting passion and igniting creativity is a great way to create employee engagement.
HR THIS – Ask employees what would like to see from a benefit package rather than assume or follow a trend, NOT THAT. Benefits within an organization need to meet people where they are so it’s important to look outside of traditional benefits and look at more non-traditional benefits.
We have all dealt with Passive-Aggressive people. Gain insight into how to deal with that effectively.
Learn to identify crucial patterns that will help you level up your communication skills.
Understanding personality styles and traits in order to build better work relationships, reduce turnover and improve communication and productivity
Employees just don't care. Would you care about someone (or a company) that did not care about you? The days of “just do what I say or you won’t have a job” are long hone (and good riddens)! People at all levels of the org chart expect more from their employers. We will discuss effective employee engagement in order to get stuff done.
Employees have an entitlement mentality. A safe workplace, decent wages and mutual respect is not entitlement. In this session, we will openly discuss both manager expectations as well as employee expectations.
Employees have no common sense. Expecting miracles and the acquisition of skill via osmosis is ridiculous. Today, we will discuss using skills assessments to properly align individual candidates and employees into the right job.
Employees make so many mistakes. Again, osmosis and mind reading is not a thing with human beings. We will dive into training and development methods in order to remove as many mistakes from the workplace as possible.
Employees don't listen. We are human beings, not robots - so there is not “one solution” to the question: how do we get our people to listen? We kick off this series discussing communication strategies for managers. Half the battle of getting people to listen to us is learning how to communicate with them (not at them).