Creating Champagne Training Programs on a Beer Budget

It is becoming more and more important for HR to have effective training programs for maintaining compliance, maintaining employee morale, controlling costs, onboarding, getting new employees up to speed, and enhancing the skills of current employees to keep that competitive edge.

Automated systems can be very efficient and cost-effective but not all people learn the same way. Sage is offering a free educational webcast that will provide a blueprint to HR professionals on how to develop successful training programs using a mix of different training ingredients to meet the needs of your business.

Participants will learn:

• The different learning methods of employees

• How to incorporate those learning methods into cost effective programs for the majority of employees

• Sources for meeting those specialized training needs

Who Should Attend:
Anyone involved in employee training who wants to learn cost-effective training methods that meet the learning needs of a cross-section of employees.

HR Recertification Credits:
This webcast has been approved for 1.00 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (www.hrci.org).

Certificates of completion will be provided upon request only to individually registered attendees. Attendance for the full webcast hour is required to receive recertification credits (partial credits cannot be provided). Groups of people participating in the webcast together must be registered and attend the webcast individually to receive certificates. Certificates will be sent via email to registered attendees in PDF form within 30 days of validated attendance. If you have additional questions, please email us at es_training@sage.com.

Presenter's Biography:

Mary Anne Osborne, SPHR

With over 30 years of experience in the HR field, Mary Anne is well prepared to help businesses find solutions to their most troubling HR-related dilemmas. Her HR experiences have elevated her from HR Representative to the VP level in a multi-state healthcare industry leader before beginning her own consulting business. Along the way she spent time honing her skills in Employee Relations, Staffing, EEOC, Organizational Development, Compensation, and Training in the telecommunications, financial, automotive, higher education, and healthcare industries.

 This free, 1 hour webinar is at 2 PM (EST) on May 29th. Click here to sign up.

 

Sage is hosting another free educational webinar, this time on the topic of email marketing for not-for-profit organizations. The hour-long webinar will be on March 28th from 2pm-3pm EST (11am-12pm PST), and, as always, is completely free.

Join us for an upcoming webcast: Email Marketing for Nonprofits. Using findings from Sage's recent email marketing survey as a framework, we'll show you the best ways to create, send, and track high-impact emails that stand out in a crowded inbox. Whether your goals are fundraising, volunteer recruitment, advocacy, or to keep your supporters informed, you'll walk away with valuable tips to improve how you plan, execute, optimize, and measure your email program.
Get actionable advice on your toughest challenges including how to:

• Grow and retain email contacts
• Integrate email with other tactics
• Improve email deliverability
• Test and optimize key campaign elements
• Segment contacts to improve response

Over 70% of nonprofit survey respondents cited a lack of expertise as their toughest challenge. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned pro, there's room for improvement in your email communications. Even implementing just a few best practices can turn your email marketing into a more effective, more powerful tool.

March 28, 2pm EST

Click here to sign up for the webinar

It's up to HR to ensure that hiring, discipline, and termination practices are compliant with the law. Otherwise, you could put your company at risk of incurring costly fines, penalties, and employee lawsuits. Sage is offering a live one hour webcast on the court rulings in 2011 and how they can affect you and your company. The webinar will be presented by Mary Anne Osborne and is free to attend.


This webcast will review the 2011 dockets for HR related court cases. A brief background of each case will be presented along with the outcome and discussion of the specific implications on the administration within the Human Resources function. Focus will be on federal court findings, although specific state findings that are relevant to HR, setting precedence for future findings, will be covered.

Participants will learn:

• Which U.S. Supreme court rulings affect human resources and what you should be doing to protect your company.
• Which state case rulings are setting precedence for future rulings that might affect your business.
• Which cases will be ruled upon in early 2012, so employers and HR departments can be vigilant in following cases specific to their business practices.

Who Should Attend:

Attendees should include Human Resource Managers and business professionals in the U.S. who desire to become more knowledgeable in how business will be affected by legal decisions passed on during 2011.

HR Recertification Credits:
This webcast has been approved for 1.00 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (www.hrci.org).

Presenter's Biography:

Mary Anne Osborne, SPHR

With over 30 years' experience in the HR field, Mary Anne is well prepared to help businesses find solutions to their most troubling HR-related dilemmas. Her HR experiences have elevated her from HR Representative to the VP level in a multi-state healthcare industry leader before beginning her own consulting business. Along the way she spent time honing her skills in Employee Relations, Staffing, EEOC, Organizational Development, Compensation and Training in the telecommunications, financial, automotive, higher education and healthcare industries.

Sage has just released the 9.1 version upgrade for Abra Suite HR & Payroll. This upgrade for the Fox Pro version of Sage Abra Suite is included in your yearly support plan. If you are currently running Sage Abra Suite v9.0 or any of the 7.X versions, now is a great opportunity to move to the latest version of Abra.

Sage Abra version 9.1 offers customer-requested quality and usability enhancements in the HRMS, Payroll, and Sage Employee Self Service (Sage ESS) solutions. More key capabilities, including time-off management, advanced customization, and easy import and export capabilities, are now included with all Sage Abra HR installations. Customers who have Abra Workforce Connections (now Sage ESS) will appreciate powerful new features that make it easier than ever for HR professionals, managers, and employees to access information and make routine HR transactions.

The 9.1 upgrade includes a number of new features, including

• Support for Active Directory eliminates the need for multiple logons.
• Usability enhancements include the ability to to track documents, track documents used to complete an I-9 Form and hide inactive codes.
• The employee self-service module, formerly Abra Workforce Connections (AWC) has been given a new, fresh interface, and now goes by the intuitive name Sage Employee Self Service
• Manager’s Time Off Calendar in Sage ESS provides managers with a monthly view of their employees’ time off.
• Sage ESS Mobility lets employees and managers complete common tasks anytime, anywhere.
• Sage Crystal Dashboard Design—an optional, easy-to-use data visualization tool—enables you to create your own dashboards in Sage Employee Analytics.

Sage will be running a free, hour-long webinar to demonstrate the new features of Sage Abra Suite v9.1. For your convenience, this webinar will take place on four dates at 2:00pm EST (11:00am PST). The dates for the webinar are:

• Tuesday, August 30th
• Tuesday, September 13th
• Tuesday, September 20th
• Tuesday, October 4th

If you are still running a 7.X version, here are some videos of just a few of the features you're missing from Abra Suite v9.0.

A new sharper user-interface

An enhanced search function

Everybody is talking about social media today. Facebook has over 750 million active users, YouTube is the #2 search engine on the web, and Google just launched their own social networking site, Google+. But while it's obvious that social networking is a big deal, it's not nearly so clear how or if businesses and non-profit organizations should be engaging in it. The simple answer is "Yes, you should be," but the complicated answer takes a bit longer to explain. Thankfully, the great people at Sage Non-Profit have put together this free webinar that covers ten tips for getting your foot in social networking door, and what you should be doing once you get established.

Although the webinar was created with non-profit organizations in mind, these are actually general tips apply equally to any organization or business. The first four tips are:

• Claim Your Name
• Complete Your Profiles, Completely
• Listen
• Old Etiquette Rules Still Apply

Want to learn the other six tips? Click here to sign up for the free webinar! This is a pre-recorded webinar, so you can view it at your leisure and as many times as you wish.

Over the next three days, Sage will be running a webinar called Trust But Verify: The Pluses and Minuses of Background Screenings. The hour-long webinar will be at 2:00 PM EST (11:00 AM PST) on Tuesday, June 28th, and 1:00 PM EST (10:00 AM PST) on Wednesday & Thursday, June 29th & 30th.

Here are the details of the webinar from the Sage website. If you want to sign up for any of the three free sessions, please click here.

Legal challenges, theft, endangerment, and negligent hiring claims are all on the rise. Employers are being penalized by juries for failing to make effective inquiries into candidates' backgrounds while the EEOC is scrutinizing employers for being extreme in conducting background investigations. During this live webcast, HR professionals will learn how to walk the balance beam between the courts and the EEOC, while protecting their business, employees, customers, and the public at large. Participants will learn: - Who should perform background checks and why - What should be included in a background check and under what circumstances - How to choose a background screening partner - The impact of the EEOC on background checks Who Should Attend: HR Generalists, Recruiting and Staffing Specialists, and Managers responsible for making hiring decisions. HR Recertification Credits: This webcast has been approved for 1.00 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (www.hrci.org). Certificates of completion will be provided upon request only to individually registered attendees. Attendance for the full webcast hour is required to receive recertification credits (partial credits cannot be provided). Groups of people participating in the webcast together must be registered and attend the webcast individually to receive certificates. Certificates will be sent via email to registered attendees in PDF form within 30 days of validated attendance. Presenter's Biography: Mary Anne Osborne, SPHR With over 30 years' experience in the HR field, Mary Anne is well prepared to help businesses find solutions to their most troubling HR-related dilemmas. Her HR experiences have elevated her from HR Representative to the VP level in a multi-state healthcare industry leader before beginning her own consulting business. Along the way she spent time honing her skills in Employee Relations, Staffing, EEOC, Organizational Development, Compensation, and Training in the telecommunications, financial, automotive, higher education, and healthcare industries.