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Featured Articles
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Membership
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Career Center
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Educational Opportunities
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- March 24, 2016 - Hiring Veterans Series
- March 28, 2016 - Webinar Series
- Beyond the Basics - 6 Week Series
- March 29, 2016 - Beyond the Basics Individual Session
- March 31, 2016 - Webinar Series
- March 31, 2016 - KGA Event - Resiliency Skills for HR Professionals
- April 4, 2016 - Webinar Series
- April 12, 2016 - Beyond the Basics Individual Session
- April 13, 2016 - Strategies for Phasing Out Performance Appraisals
- April 18, 2016 - Webinar Series
- April 20, 2016 - Diversity & Inclusion Community Forum
- April 21, 2016 - Hiring Veterans Series
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Featured Articles
As you think about your own development and contributions as an HR professional, how would you prefer your resume read: 'Administered the Performance Management Process', or 'Reimagined Performance Management'? Jamie Resker, Founder and President of Employee Performance Solutions, explores opportunities to do just that: reimagine performance management.
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Behavioral-based interviews can be a dream - or a nightmare - depending on how prepared a candidate is to answer these often intimidating questions. Jean Accorsini, a Senior Consultant at Boston-based ClearRock, Inc., offers tips on aking these specifically-designed interviews work successfully for both parties.
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Membership
Need a little extra help around the office? NEHRA members get FREE internship postings! Publish your intern needs now in the NEHRA Career Center to boost your office productivity, and help the next generation of HR professionals in New England get their start!
To post an internship, log into your Member Area and proceed to the Career Center. Click on 'Submit an Opening' at the top of the page and proceed through the "purchase" process - you'll see the discount applied when you select the internship posting.
Need help? Contact Pat DiSalvo at 781-235-2900 with any questions about posting in the Career Center!
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Kathy Greer Associates, Inc. and their amazing staff have teamed up with NEHRA to provide a series of programs at no charge to NEHRA members! These events typically sell out, so register now!
The next event hosted for us by KGA is titled "Resiliency Skills for HR Professionals" and is scheduled for next Thursday, March 31 - click here to register. Kristin Williams and Alison Magee of KGA, Inc. delve into techniques on how to handle and bounce back from stress to return to peak form - and build more strength and resiliency along the way.
Be sure to check out KGA's other offerings on the NEHRA Events Calendar - some are below in this eNewsletter, and the rest you can find on our Events Calendar.
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Career Center
Part of creating a hiring strategy for a more diverse staff is incorporating diversity-related questions into the interview process. For example, both employers and candidates could ask one another about their experience(s) working with others who have backgrounds that are different from their own. They could also talk about what it means to them to have a commitment to diversity, and how that could be developed and applied in the role. Candidates may also want to ask what leadership efforts are put forth to ensure a commitment to diversity and could ask about past diversity challenges at the organization and how they were addressed.
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If you're looking to recruit in higher education, send your information to Bentley University for their opening as an HR Recruiter (II).
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Educational Opportunities
Hiring Veterans to Win the War for Talent
Hosted by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Waltham, MA
Cost: Members - $49, Non-Members: $99
Talent acquisition strategies, by design, must be multi-faceted in order to meet the diverse and changing needs of companies. In order to effectively compete for the best talent, companies must look in non-traditional places for people who will make a difference. There are many companies recruiting and placing veterans in meaningful jobs that leverage their talents and experiences, but there are many companies that could do more. Missing this piece in your strategy could mean the difference between winning and losing this Talent War.
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WEBINAR: Employment Law Update
Presented by Daniel Klein, Esq. of Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Cost: Members - FREE!, Non-Members: $79
Human Resources professionals know that keeping abreast of current legal developments are of the highest importance. NEHRA'S Legal Update Webinars will run each quarter, covering the key developments in employment law and issues of current concern for employers and human resources professionals. Led by Dan Klein, a partner in the Labor and Employment Department of Seyfarth Shaw's Boston office, the Webinar will be an informative hour that will help ensure that you are up to speed in this vital area. Free to NEHRA members, we know that you won't want to miss this informative program!
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Cost:
NEHRA Members: $499
Non-Members: $699 (includes a 1-year NEHRA membership!)
Designed with the experienced HR professional in mind, NEHRA's Beyond the Basics program will prepare you for the transition from technical/content expert to HR leader. Our experienced faculty with help you build the critical leadership, communication, strategic and analytical skills needed to successfully navigate an organization at the leadership level. The entire program includes nearly 25 hours of instruction, from experienced HR professionals with a passion for their subject matter.
With experienced faculty instruction, the program is a great balance of theory and practice — and will prepare you for a well-rounded career in human resources management.
The HR Basics is ideal for:
- Experienced HR professionals who want to move from specialist to generalist
- Professionals who are new to the HR field and need a more sophisticated understanding of the core functions of Human Resources Management
- Managers in small organizations who are wearing many hats, including HR Managers
The program is meant to provide participants with access to articles; a book list; a glossary of HR terms, and links to important websites.
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Beyond the Basics: Benefits Strategy & Design
Cost: $179 Members, $199 Non-Members
Explore all aspects of benefit plan design, including how to align your offerings with the organizational strategic objectives. We'll cover key components of how to successfully transition from being a content expert to a more strategic role, by helping you understand the big picture implications of changes in benefit plan design.
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WEBINAR: Human Factors in the Workplace
Presented by Diana Glattly of HermanMiller
Cost:
Members - FREE!
Non-Members - $49
When we hear the word "ergonomics," we often think of the physical aspects, such as back support and monitor height, but there’s more to it. Ergonomics is a creative problem-solving process that can be applied to anything, physical or conceptual, in the human context
Join us as we expand the conversation to include a broader scope of what it means to be human in the workplace today. By understanding the physical, cognitive and social aspects of ergonomics, we can better face the challenges of the changing landscape of work. Prosperity depends on more than just physical health. How well can employees focus? What kind of impact is your space having on company culture?
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Resiliency Skills for HR Professionals
Presented by Kathy Greer Associates, Inc.
Cost: FREE for NEHRA Members!
Do you wish you could bounce back more quickly after stressful events?
You are invited to attend a complimentary workshop on Resiliency Skills for HR Professionals sponsored by NEHRA in partnership with KGA. Alison Magee and Heidi Beach, senior staff at KGA, will facilitate a discussion focused on:
- The relationship between positive psychology and resilience
- Our own resilient attitudes
- "Hardiness," how people become more psychologically resilient
- Risk-taking as a way to boost resilience
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WEBINAR: Effective Practices for Recruiting and Hiring Individuals with Disabilities
Presented by Work Without Limits
Cost: Member - FREE; Non-Member: $49
Finding and retaining qualified employees is one of the most significant workforce issues facing employers today; with baby boomers retiring and fewer candidates entering the workforce, this will become increasingly difficult in the future. By attending this webinar, you will learn about an innovative yet proven strategy to recruit and retain dedicated, qualified employees who want to work and just happen to have a disability.
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Beyond the Basics: Communicate & Negotiate
Cost: $179 Members, $199 Non-Members
Participate in a Predictive Index analysis and receive a feedback report designed highlight your own natural motivators and how they impact the way you process information, make decisions and communicate at work. Then, learn the art of negotiation from an experienced attorney by looking at different conflict styles and exploring the pros/cons of each. Broaden your approach to negotiation and discover principle based negotiation. This interactive session will offer plenty of opportunities to practice ways to be a more effective negotiator.
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Strategies for Phasing Out Performance Appraisals:
How to Create a System That Improves Performance
Cost: Members - $499, Non-Members: $699
The pressure is on for HR to introduce new thinking on a practice long overdue for change. Performance management should and can drive performance and business results. HR is poised to create a system that engages everyone, boosts organizational results and creates a strategic advantage. Your prime goal in 2016 should be to fix performance management, regardless of your industry, geographical location or size.
Objectives and Takeaways:
- Explore the reasons behind why the continual redesign of legacy processes such as ratings and review forms continue falling short of expectations.
- Alternatives to managing pay and performance without the use of performance appraisals and ratings.
- Clearly see your high, mid-level, new-developing, low results-good behaviors, mid-high results/disruptive behavior and low results/low behavior employees without using ratings or performance reviews.
- Re-shape and strengthen manager and employee communications with more frequent forward-looking dialogue [versus reviewing past performance].
- Acquire proven communication strategies designed to socialize alternatives to performance appraisal, involve your change sponsors and influence change resisters.
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WEBINAR: Understanding Autism Services for Employer Benefit Plans
Presented by Beacon Health Options
Cost: Members - FREE, Non-Members - $49
The presentation will cover the history of the autism and the factors related to its current prevalence. Next, DSM V diagnostic criteria will be shared along with the scientific basis underlying Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) treatment effectiveness and the evolution of ABA treatment. BHO’s autism management capabilities will then be discussed and followed by presentation of BHO’s ABA benefit management model. BHO’s significant clinical outcomes findings will then be shared followed by a legislative update on ABA benefit inclusion. The presentation will conclude with a discussion on lessons learned from BHO’s five years of managing ABA benefits.
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This D&I Forum will cover the topic of Unconscious Bias.
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Hiring Veterans to Win the War for Talent
Hosted by Willis Towers Watson, Boston, MA
Cost: Members - $49, Non-Members: $99
Talent acquisition strategies, by design, must be multi-faceted in order to meet the diverse and changing needs of companies. In order to effectively compete for the best talent, companies must look in non-traditional places for people who will make a difference. There are many companies recruiting and placing veterans in meaningful jobs that leverage their talents and experiences, but there are many companies that could do more. Missing this piece in your strategy could mean the difference between winning and losing this Talent War.
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