Webinar information current as of October 9, 2008

When is the last time you really took stock of your HR strategy? Have you linked that strategy to your overall business plan? Do you have metrics in place to monitor its effectiveness? If your answers are shaky to any of these questions, your organization would benefit from some solid professional advice.

Learn how to:

• Audit your current HR strategy or plan
• Successfully link your HR strategy to the overall business strategy
• Analyze and prioritize areas for strategic improvement
• Develop a step by step plan for improvement of your HR strategy
• Present the case for strategic changes to your superiors
• Communicate the strategic changes to your organization
• Measure strategic improvement
• Make the connection between HR Strategy and return on investment

Speaker 

Tim McConnell, B.A, M.P.A., SPHR is a Senior HR Strategist with McConnell HR Consulting Inc. in Ottawa. He has over 25 years experience in Human Resources management, both as a Director of HR and as a senior HR consultant. Tim provides strategic HR guidance to senior executives and clients in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

He is a winner of the Ross A. Hennigar Memorial Award from HRPAO. He is the published author of several articles on HR management, Compensation and Organization Design. Tim is a past-President of the Ottawa Human Resources Professionals Association (OHRPA) and a past-President of HRPAO.

McConnell HRC provides services to clients in three key areas: Human Resources Strategy, Compensation and Organization Design.

Format

The following is required to access the archived webinar:

• Flash Player installed in your computer
• an Internet connection
• a sound card

This archived webinar will include:

• PowerPoint presentation with slides
• Speaker and facilitator voice-over presenting the slides and answering pre-recorded questions.

There is no time limitation in usage, you can play, pause and stop the presentation at your convenience.

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This webcast was recorded on March 25, 2008

Employee engagement is a real challenge in today's multi-generational organization, including yours. As an HR professional you must take employee engagement to the next level. A multi-generational engagement program that fits your organizational needs is critical. Achieve higher productivity, motivation, and retention by understanding, developing and maintaining employee engagement in the new workforce. Purchase this archived webinar and gain the essential tools and practical strategies required to understand your organization's generational mix, develop a multi-generational engagement program, and implement your program effectively.

Agenda 

• Understand and define the different generations in your organization
• Engage each of the four generations
• Identify the influencers of engagement of your organization's generational mix
• Evaluate existing HR practices for engagement across the generations in your organization
• Jump-start engagement across different generations by tailoring your HR strategies to your company's generational mix
• Present the case for a multi-generational employee engagement program

Format
Participate right from your desk or office. All you need is an Internet connection and a sound card.

This archived webinar will include:

• PowerPoint presentation with slides
• Speaker and facilitator voice-over presenting the slides and answering pre-recorded questions

The Speaker
Barbara Adams, CHRP, BA, is a senior business executive with over 20 years' experience within the human resources field. As Managing Director of HR architects, she provides business consulting mainly in the creative implementation of human resources strategies, objectives, and processes; the facilitation of strategic planning, workshops, and management retreats; and the design of people-oriented workplace practices. She also provides ongoing human resources consulting on a contract basis.

Previously the Vice-President of Human Resources for one of the 50 best employers in Canada, Barbara is a Certified Human Resources Professional, a Certified Chief Executive, a Certified Compensation Professional and holds a BA in Business Administration (Entrepreneurial Leadership). She is past Chair of the Fraser Valley Advisory Council for the BC Human Resources Management Association, instructor of Human Resources Management for Langara College in the Business Administration Certificate Program, and instructor of Operating the Small Business in the Small Business Management Certificate Program.

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