HR Executive Answers: Building a Great Workplace
For Human Resources Management and Supervisors

More than 70% of American workers are less than satisfied with their jobs, according to a recent Gallup survey. This "disengagement" is costing employers as much as $350 billion per year in lost productivity and turnover.

How can you keep your top performers and boost productivity? Creating a positive work environment is key to meeting organizational goals. It requires exceptional incentives and innovative policies to win commitment from your workforce.

Learn how to make your organization the best place to work with the new training solution for HR professionals and supervisors: HR Executive Answers: Building a Great Workplace.

With 7 hours of expert instruction from top employment law attorneys and HR experts, this module training system provides real-world scenarios to help you build a great place to work. Use each module on your own schedule, at your own pace!

• Module 1 - Cost-Effective Programs to Keep Top Performers
• Module 2 - Keep Your Dream Team: What’s Working in Frontline Talent Retention
• Module 3 - 30 Ways to Engage Employees So They’ll Act Like They Own the Place
• Module 4 - Keep Employees Engaged and Slash Turnover: Secrets of the Great Workplaces
• Module 5 - HR’s Role as Catalyst to Jump-Start Innovation in the Workplace

Module 1 - Cost-Effective Programs to Keep Top Performers
|Learn how to keep your stars from taking flight with innovative low-cost rewards and incentives ideas from former NBC Universal vice president Valerie Grubb. She explains:

• The most popular rewards programs that won’t cost you a dime
• How to create a recognition and reward strategy that leverages key motivators
• Why a rewards program may be the best way to increase revenue and profits
• Common mistakes when designing and implementing recognition programs
• How simple steps, such as opening up senior management meetings, inspire younger workers
• Recognizing individual performance vs. team performance
• Tracking the success of your programs

Module 2 - Keep Your Dream Team: What’s Working in Frontline Talent Retention
Help your supervisors reduce turnover of hourly workers and acquire the tools and techniques to develop a frontline workforce that's committed for the long haul. They’ll learn new leadership skill sets to improve employee performance and morale, including:

• How smart managers meet the expectations of frontline employees
• Trust and respect as frontline employees motivators
• How rewards and recognition retain hourly workers
• Bringing the fun factor to work while still taking care of business
• Tough but essential hiring interview questions
• Motivating a frontline employee’s during her first hour, day, week, paycheck, and anniversary
• Leveraging the hourly employee’s attitudes toward work

Module 3 - 30 Ways to Engage Employees So They'll Act Like They Own the Place
Learn how to transform fatigued, disengaged, and downtrodden workers into a top-notch team of committed employees:

• Making the business case to your organization’s leaders for engagement
• Why fun on the job is the key to getting employees to act like owners
• Countering employee anxiety about the economy
• Using your “Barriers to Productivity” inventory can make a difference
• Mentoring programs that improve employee attitudes
• Creating a culture of dialogue throughout your organization
• How investing in training can win the war for engagement
• Using “leave no employee behind” to motivate the whole workforce
• Delegating as a tactic for winning commitment
• Feed-forward evaluations that boost performance

Module 4 - Keep Employees Engaged and Slash Turnover: Secrets of the Great Workplaces
Learn the ingredients to becoming an employer of choice from Hal Adler, president of the Great Place to Work Institute, including strategies for building trust, especially between managers and employees.

• Real-life examples of employee engagement from the 100 Best Companies to Work For, including Google (#1), Wegmans, Container Store, Medtronic, and A.G. Edwards
• Retention secrets from Badger Mining (#1 on 50 Best) and Holder Construction (#1 on 25 Best)
• Common traits that ALL top employers share
• 5 characteristics of a great3 workplace
• What the best workplaces use to jumpstart employee productivity and on-the-job innovation
• Fostering genuine camaraderie among employees
• The roles that CEOs, senior leaders, and line managers play in developing a meaningful and memorable work experience for their employees
• Starting down the path to greatness by analyzing
  your work culture

Module 5 - HR’s Role as Catalyst to Jump-Start Innovation in the Workplace
Does upper management view HR as a drag on revenue? Show the C-Suite your department's role as a key profit driver when you use innovation to inspire employees to create new products and services, expand into new markets and uncover competitive advantages.

• Using innovation management to overcome perceptions as a cost center
• Applying innovation to human capital management practices:
• 9 key factors that drive innovation in today’s workplace
• 3 stages of innovation management
• How managers can elicit real and meaningful ideas from employees
• Characteristics common to innovators
• Where to find opportunities for innovation in your organization
• 10 behaviors that keep leaders and employees from reaching their potential
• 8 causes for innovation process failure