Human Resources Management Workshops

Note: Workshops and seminars are offered based on expressed demand, and may not be available to you immediately. If you are interested in a specific workshop or seminar, please contact us directly.

360-Degree Feedback

Often the best developmental and performance feedback comes not only from an employee's manager but from colleagues inside and outside an organization. That's why 360-degree feedback reviews are increasingly recognized as vital tools in any high-quality, balanced, professional development program. In this workshop, participants will learn how to plan and implement a successful 360-degree feedback process within their organization.

By attending this workshop you will:

• Understand the role of performance appraisal in the organization
• Understand and apply eight common appraisal techniques
• Identify key implementation areas of 360-degree feedback
• Apply at ten step 360-degree feedback process
• Determine when to implement 360-degree feedback
• Understand why 360-degree feedback programs often fail
• Develop an action plan for implementing a 360-feedback process in your organization

Human Resources Management

The role of HR is critical in any organization. It's even more important in these competitive, economically challenging times when businesses and their employees can be impacted in profound and significant ways. In this workshop, you will learn the essentials of HR management functions and gain the confidence and know-how you need to succeed.

By attending this workshop you will be able to:

• Discover the importance of human resource management to an organization
• Understand the key functions associated with an effective human resources management strategy
• See how to implement a human resources management planning process
• Understand the importance of effective recruitment and selection
• Detail the main types of compensation and benefits systems
• Implement an effective performance appraisal process
• Understand the function and importance of training and development

 

Identifying Job Competencies

Many people have heard the term ‘job competency’ but may not understand the critical value well defined competencies play in organizational success.  Identifying job competencies is an important step in ensuring the proper selection of employees, providing appropriate training and development, managing employee performance and creating succession plans. 

By attending this workshop you will:

• Understand the importance well defined job competencies play as business drivers
• Identify the key components of a job competency
• Understand the nature of various learning styles and job competencies
• Learn how to identify and remove obstacles to developing job competencies
• Develop a competency based approach to improving organization success
• Develop and action plan for improving your own personal developmental activities

 

Job Analysis

Job Analysis is an important function for any manager and a vital role for all human resources professionals. In this workshop, you will learn how to document the requirements of a job and the work performed and help ensure that jobs are accurately described, performance appraisals are appropriately conducted, the right people are selected for and promoted within jobs, and employees are accurately compensated.

By attending this workshop you will be able to:

• Understand the role of job analysis in an organization
• Describe four methods of conducting a job analysis
• Describe the advantages and disadvantages of job analysis interviews
• Explain three types of job analysis observations
• Implement a Critical Incident Technique
• Understand how to implement a Position Analysis Questionnaire
• Critically evaluate job analysis techniques
• Develop an action plan for conducting a job analysis in your organization

Job Design

A key element of job satisfaction is that employees feel that their work not only meets the needs of the organization, but is a good fit with their own personal skills and interests. In this workshop, you will learn how to create greater opportunities for individual achievement and recognition by designing jobs to increase variety of work tasks completed, responsibility, accountability, greater worker autonomy, and increased task identity.

By attending this workshop you will be able to:

• Understand the role of job design and the organization
• Describe the major approaches to job design
• Outline the main advantages and disadvantages of each approach
• Understand and be able to implement alternative work schedules
• Develop an action plan for conducting a job design initiative in your workplace

Navigating Your Career: Strategies for Enhancing Personal and Professional Success

This 2-part workshop will help you identify your career direction and develop an effective career plan, based on your motivators, skills, values and interests.  Part 2 of the workshop focuses on selling yourself for the job you want.

By attending this workshop you will:

• Define skills, motivators, interests and values
• Discover your strengths
• Create powerful core message that sells your knowledge and experience
• Learn how to access the secret, unpublished job market
• Display your qualifications in an interview

Participate in an optional resume review with Certified Professional Resume Writer and nationally syndicated columnist Samantha Nolan.

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Recruitment & Selection

Employee selection is the most important issue in business. When you make the wrong hiring decision, the result is a substantial waste of time and money on recruitment, training, and benefits. This workshop will take you step-by-step through the employee selection process, from recruitment through hiring, with actionable advice for improving your interviewing skills and more.

By attending this workshop you will be able to:

• Understand the importance of recruitment to the organization
• Identify the desired selection decision outcomes
• Learn the main biases that can occur during the selection process
• Implement an effective recruitment process
• Understand the function of the job interview and types of interview questions
• See how psychometric testing can be used in the recruitment process
• Discover how to measure the success of your recruitment process
• Develop an action plan for implementing an effective recruitment and selection process at your organization

 

Training Needs Analysis

Almost all employees will have the experience of needing to take some form of training and development at some point in their professional career.   A training needs analysis is an important step in determining what training is needed, who needs to be trained and to what level of competence does the training need to be offered.  The ability to plan and conduct an effective training needs analysis is a key skill for all human resource professionals and those who aspire to management and supervisory roles.

By attending this workshop you will:

• Understand the relationship between training and the organization
• Appreciate the three main training and development perspectives
• Understand what are true training needs
• Understand the benefits and challenges with conducting a training needs analysis
• Understand how to conduct a training needs analysis

 

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