KRM-Partnered Webinar Archives
The following Webinars are developed and conducted by KRM, an independent Webinar provider. Click on the Webinar title for more information and to purchase.
21 Tips for Successfully Managing Telecommuters
Whether you’re just now establishing ground rules for your first group of offsite employees, or you’ve been managing telecommuters for years, you need to take part in Kiplinger’s latest 90-minute interactive audio conference – presented by KRM. Join this program to avoid the five major potential liabilities associated with telecommuting, ensure remote workers remain available and responsive to in-office workers' needs, establish and enforce adequate security measures to prevent loss of sensitive or valuable data, intellectual property or office equipment, and more.
5 Critical Communication Skills for Resolving Conflict and Tension in the Workplace
Workplace violence affects more than two million workers each year. In these difficult economic times people are more stressed than ever. Minimize the impact of today's poor economy and protect your best employees, customer relationships, and your bottom line.
7 Hidden Productivity Traps and How to Avoid Them
Chances are you're plagued by a host of productivity drains that waste precious time, energy and resources. Individually, they can be so subtle you probably encounter these productivity traps every day without thinking much about them. Together, they represent a huge roadblock to running your operation at peak efficiency. Before you can banish them from your workplace, however, you have to know where to find them. Find out how; join this KRM audio conference.
7 Tips to Build a Strong Work Team
To build a high-achieving work team, first you need to clearly identify and communicate your organization's objectives, then align team members' strengths, egos, and personal interests with those objectives. Take part in Kiplinger's interactive audio conference to discover proven effective strategies to sharpen your team-building skills and maximize team productivity.
Are You Ready for Violence in Your Workplace?
This important program will take you out of your comfort zone and immerse you in one of the most powerful and growing workplace phenomena--the growing incidence of violence in the workplace. This 90-minute Webinar will give you steps to prevent, detect, de-escalate, and deter workplace violence--to be ready when it happens and to mitigate the impacts.
Bias-Free Leadership: Making Diversity Work for Your Organization's Competitive Advantage
Using real workplace examples, the speaker will take you through the key steps for identifying, defeating, and managing bias. She will focus on the role of the leader in creating a bias-free environment. You'll gain immediately applicable tools, and the skills necessary to minimize the impact of bias on your leadership and workplace.
Challenges That Keep HR and Diversity Professionals Up at Night
Discover how professionals must build stronger links between the business cases for diversity. Learn some innovative strategies that enable organizational success, and the accountability measures that demonstrate value and impact. Find out how to engage senior leadership, build a strategic business case for diversity and inclusion and establish a pipeline of leadership capability.
COBRA Compliance Alert: Retroactive Changes, Immediate Compliance Required
The recent economic stimulus package signed into law includes significant changes to COBRA administration -- and provides a short deadline for employers, insurers and third-party administrators to comply. The changes will be numerous, complicated and vexing.
Conducting Hassle-Free Performance Evaluations
Do you cringe at the thought of conducting a formal performance evaluation? Are you expected to complete a written and oral review of each of your employees at least annually - and feel that's way too often? Do you have no problem evaluating top performers, yet dread giving feedback to employees whose behavior or performance is less than stellar? Get some answers; join this KRM audio conference.
Corporate Preparedness for H1N1: How pressure-tested planners are bracing now for fall
Human resources and other professionals with responsibility for pandemic planning, business continuity planning, communication, risk assessment and mitigation, strategic and crisis planning, corporate governance, operations, supply chains, legal issues, security, communications, employee safety and travel management, and public-private sector partnerships are encouraged to attend and share the information.
Developing the Kept-On Workforce
During difficult economic times, companies that fail to engage an anxious workforce see productivity, quality, customer service and employee commitment fall away fast. Engagement is a long-term process, not an isolated program that sees people through a period of struggle.
Diversity Training: Does it Work?
Learn current best practices in diversity training that will positively impact the bottom line. Learn how globalization, changing demographics, and technological advances make it imperative for companies to embrace diversity and inclusion.
Diversity: Where Do We Go From Here?
In this 90-minute Webinar, Dr. Roosevelt Thomas will lead us in a vigorous and interesting discussion about the challenges of diversity management. By enabling you to understand the paradigm your organization currently operates under, you will be able to better grasp and implement the right approach for advancing your diversity objectives.
Down But Not Out: How to Motivate Your Employees in this Recession
Employees are being asked to do more with less in the face of work hour reductions, pay cuts, or layoffs. How do you help your employees remain productive and your managers focused on growing your business? Learn how to respond quickly to declining motivation and plummeting morale with tips from Lee Innocenti, founder and Principal of Performance Strategies, Ltd.
Enhance Your Professionalism, Advance Your Career
Noted professional development expert, Marjorie Brody, will show you step-by-step how to enhance your professional presentation to achieve greater recognition, respect (and, hopefully, financial compensation) in your workplace -- and how to avoid some common mistakes that could sabotage your efforts.
Hire Smart: How to Find Good People in a Bad Economy
Purchase this informative Webinar and learn proven effective techniques that will sharpen your evaluation skills and help you identify the true standouts among job applicants the first time around.
How the New Health Care Law Will Affect Your Business
The health-care reform bill has made history. But how will this landmark bill affect you and your business? Get the facts and find out exactly how your business will be affected; what you need to do today; the timeline for compliance in the future and what challenges your company may face down the road.
How to Effectively Change an Employee's Bad Attitude
Join this 90-minute audio conference to learn dozens of practical strategies you can put to work immediately to make the attitude cases on your staff straighten up and fly right. Learn how to deliver corrective feedback that will get your employee's attention without turning them off to what you have to say.
How to Make a Good Hire in a Bad Economy
From asking the right questions during an interview . . . to listening between the lines to root out the truth in candidates' answers . . . to knowing who's all talk and who can actually walk the walk . . . this audio conference reveals reliable strategies to help you hire the best person for the job in any economic climate.
How to Present Your Ideas Persuasively to Better Influence Others at Work
Successfully selling your ideas and winning others over to your point of view is a task most business professionals struggle with at some point in their careers. The fact is, how you present your thoughts is equally important as the thoughts you present. Sometimes even the most intelligent ideas and astute proposals die on the vine because the presenter is unable to effectively communicate with their audience.
How to Successfully Manage Sensitive, Frustrating or Hostile Conversations
Join this program for information to help you and your co-workers gain fresh insight into an age-old problem and come away with a step-by-step road map to help you conduct challenging conversations successfully. Best of all, you'll learn proven, effective techniques to produce the results you seek while at the same time minimizing negative reactions from co-workers.
Implement a Top-Notch Training Program Without Breaking the Bank
As a manager, you probably see numerous opportunities to improve service or quality - or solve other problems - in your organization. Moreover, you suspect most of your issues could be easily resolved if you could just get your staff properly trained.
Lessons Learned from H1N1: Preparing for What Comes Next
Have we seen the last of H1N1? Is H5N1 still a concern? Smart organizations are finding ways to embed what they've learned into their organizations right now. Yours can, too. Hear from and interact with experts who've forged ways through the H1N1 pandemic, and leverage what they've learned to help you be better prepared for what comes next.
Money-Saving Ways to Boost Employee Productivity and Health
Look around you. Are some workers often out sick, or dragging themselves in despite illness or chronic conditions? In this webinar you’ll hear real-world success stories of small businesses just like yours that significantly improved profits and productivity while reducing absenteeism just by helping employees make better lifestyle and fitness choices.
Motivating Employees to Change Bad Habits
This informative presentation will reveal proven-effective strategies to help you eliminate 13 bad habits common in the workplace.
Paradigm Shift: New Approaches To Employee Communications for Changing Times
Changing societal values, tough economic conditions, a new generation entering the workforce, the emergence of social media--these revolutionary trends have implications for how we communicate with today's employees. In this webinar, author, consultant and Master Communicator Ron Shewchuk, ABC, will share his thoughtful analysis on what these changing times mean for communicators.
Persuasive Communication: How to Win Anyone Over to Your Point of View
Every time you try to persuade - whether it's one person or a large group - you may assume your success is based on what you say and how you say it. But there's more to it.
Polish Your Professionalism to Get the Respect You Deserve
Do you have a professional image that earns people's respect? Are you dressing, speaking and working to your best advantage? Find out by attending Kiplinger's 90-minute interactive audio conference on enhancing your professionalism.
"Safe" Social Media
As a professional communicator, you realize that your organization needs to start using social media tools such as blogs, message boards, social networking sites, Twitter, interactive video and podcasts.
Simple Steps to Better Workplace Communication
Learn the simple steps to more effective and productive workplace communication joining career coach, Marjorie Brody, for this new 90-minute interactive audio conference.
Straight Talk About Running Your Business in This Recession
If your business has been hit hard by the recession, this no-holds-barred audio conference, by turnaround management expert George Cloutier, may be just the jumpstart you need. But don't expect the usual touchy-feely, warm-and-fuzzy management theory. Cloutier is a contrarian with a well-deserved reputation for delivering blunt, no-nonsense advice on how to get your business back on track and stay profitable in any economic environment.
Straight Talk for Underperformers in Your Workplace
Where underperformance is concerned, workplace managers often tend to avoid the issue rather than face it head on. The result can be a major decline in key areas such as customer service, employee motivation, productivity, quality control, and staff turnover. Listen as management expert Amy Henderson reveals a practical step-by-step approach to dealing directly, and effectively, with the problem to get the results you need.
Strategies to End Workplace Conflict
Learn how to address workplace conflict quickly, confidently and appropriately, before it escalates out of control. During this audio conference, you'll discover practical strategies and proven-effective solutions for effectively managing day-to-day conflict on the job.
Take the Pain out of Performance Reviews
For many managers, performance reviews are an annual ordeal. Why? For a host of reasons: It's difficult to recall an entire year's worth of performance, the process is time-consuming, and some degree of confrontation is often necessary. But performance reviews don't need to be a source of dread. With the help of speaker Morey Stettner, find out what you need to know.
Talent Management: Why Traditional Job Satisfaction Is No Longer Effective
This webinar explains the futility of employer attempts to attract, motivate and retain high talent employees with mere job satisfaction, and provides valuable insight on how to appeal instead to an employee's deeper sense of career contentment -- which for decades has been overlooked as the key to an employee's resilience to have and enjoy their career with or without job satisfaction.
The Balancing Act: Finding the Right Mix of Traditional and Social Media
Join this KRM Webinar to learn how to determine where your firm's marketing will be most successful in the media mix, offer insight into current trends in social media, explore ways to save time by reaching out across media platforms and present real-world case studies and examples of campaigns that target the right mix.
The Big 7 Pandemic-Planning Mistakes: How Set-to-Survive Companies Sidestep These Missteps
Is your company set to survive? Join us as two internationally respected authorities in preparedness and risk communication, presenters Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH and Peter M. Sandman, PhD, equip you with the definitive "need to know" information.
The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work
Participants will learn how a woman's focus on the quality of day-to-day experience rather than abstract measures of achievement can restore balance to a 24/7 workplace. Gain insights into how a woman's penchant for viewing work in a larger social context can reinvigorate employee engagement at a profound and authentic level
The Right Moves: How to Build Success in a New Leadership Role
Managers face major professional challenges when they move into a new leadership role -- whether it's through a promotion, moving to a new team, or joining a new organization. Is there a way to ensure success during this make it or break it period? According to leadership expert Michael Watkins, there is a way to build a personal plan for success with fundamental principles that apply to everyone.
Think Twice! How to Recognize and Avoid Risk in Decision-making
Why is it so hard to make sound decisions? We fall victim to simplified mental routines that prevent us from coping with the complex realities inherent in important judgment calls. Yet these cognitive errors are preventable.
Understanding Twitter: For Newbies Only
Twitter is changing the face of business communication, but many communication professionals are still on the sidelines and unsure about how to get started. This beginner-level Webinar will take you from Twitter-newbie to a 140-character pro in no time!
Using LinkedIn to Enhance Your Network and Brand
Marketing your business is all about creating and building relationships and LinkedIn is the place to get to know people professionally. Learn how LinkedIn and other social networking tools can help your business grow and thrive, even in a down economy, by attending this 90-minute interactive webinar.
Warren Bennis Presents Move from Managing to Leading
As a manager, you don't just manage: You also have to lead. And that means winning your people's respect and accountability-not simply using your formal authority to force their obedience. Lead effectively, and you get top performance from your people, which burnishes your department's or division's bottom line.
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