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• Ventura County - Unlock the Magnificent Leader and Manager Mindset

  • When
    8 Jan 2025
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    7:20 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    Palm Garden Hotel, 495 N. Ventu Park Rd. Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
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  Unlock the Magnificent Leader and Manager Mindset:

  Boost Engagement, Drive Team Success, and Deliver Bottom-Line Results

  
  

  (NOTE: This event will be offered both in-person and online. Please select the ticket type that reflects how you will attend.)
  

  Join Russell Kern, CEO of Kern and Partners and expert in Team Leadership, for an exciting, interactive session that will transform the way you lead. Drawing from his journey—from selling jellybeans to building a $100 million, 4,000-person advertising powerhouse—Russell will reveal the secret to finding the magnificence in everyone and unlocking limitless human potential.
  

  What to Expect:

  • Engaging Stories: Learn leadership lessons through entertaining anecdotes from Russell's career.
  • Surprises: Discover bonus materials and insights that will set you up for a magnificent new year.

  Key Takeaways:

  • Understand how leaders can address today’s workforce engagement crisis.
  • Discover how a “Magnificent Leadership Mindset” can ignite passion and productivity in your team.
  • Conduct a self-assessment to focus on your highest-impact leadership activities.
  • Measure team health with three essential performance factors.
  • Master the art of impactful 1:1 meetings that go beyond status updates.
  • Explore a simple, memorable way to show appreciation that creates lasting impact.

  
  

  Start the year inspired - join this one-of-a-kind event and transform your leadership mindset!
  

  

  
  

  
  

  Russell Kern, CEO

  Kern and Partners

  

  Additional Event Details

  7:20 AM Registration & Networking

  7:30 AM Breakfast & Introductions

  7:45 AM Legal Update

  8:00-9:00 AM Program and Q&A

  
  

  
  

  Program has been submitted for 1.25 credit hours.

    
  

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• Rochester - Training for Engagement

  • When
    14 Jan 2025
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    8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
  • Location
    Virtual (Zoom)

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  Join us for our first Virtual Program of the 2025 Year!

  Program Agenda:

  • 8:00am-8:05am:  Welcome from our Rochester Board President
  • 8:05am-8:20am – Brief Legal Update, Littler
  • 8:20am-9:20am – Training for Engagement, Tom Schin
  • 9:20am-9:30am – Closing Remarks/Wrap Up

  This program will be submitted to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and HR Certification Institute (HRCI) for review.

  Ticket sales close on January 9th!

  Meet Our Presenter!

  
  

  Introducing Tom Schin, the high energy owner of Build Better Culture! With almost two decades of experience in HR, recruiting, and management under his belt, he's the go-to guru for organizations that want to create stellar workplaces. Tom's all about helping companies build an insanely awesome company culture, skyrocket employee engagement, and level-up their leadership skills to keep their team jammin’. Whether it's nailing communication skills, embracing accountability, mastering the art of hiring like a boss, or defusing conflicts, Tom's got your back. He’s also President of the Capital Region Human Resource Association where he leads the board in delivering learning, networking and collaboration opportunities to their 550+ member community

  Program Description:  Engagement is an elusive topic. Most likely, you fall into one of these camps:

  1. you think your employee engagement is awesome;
  2. you think it needs a lot of work or
  3. it doesn’t have an ROI to make it financially worth investing in.

  Sustainable Employee Engagement doesn’t happen on its own though. You have to build it, shape it, mold and nurture it as it continues to evolve. We’ll talk about ways you can weave Employee Engagement training into all aspects of your workforce. Onboarding, Orientation, 30/60/90 day check points, annual reviews, and throughout employee lifecycle through intentional leadership training; as well as how to involve key stakeholders in the process. Rome wasn’t built in a day, neither is a strong employee engagement program.

  Program Objectives:

  • Learning Objective 1: Determine where to start with employee engagement in the employee life cycle
  • Learning Objective 2: Build strategies on how to win over resistant managers/employees
  • Learning Objective 3: Build and discuss evaluation tools, how to use them, how often, and what to do with the data

  Thank you to our Sponsors: Alera Group & Canandaigua National Bank!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Mineral Handbook Session - January 15th, 2025 12:00 PM MDT (2 PM EDT)

  • When
    15 Jan 2025
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  Mineral Handbook Session - January 15th, 2025 12:00 PM MST (1PM CST; 2 PM EST)

  Join us to walk through how to build a 100% compliant handbook in minutes with Mineral's Handbook Builder:

  • Policy Update Alerts: Ensure you remain informed about changes in federal, state, and select local laws.

  • Custom Policies and Edits: Develop tailored policies to your organization and make revisions to the existing policies.

  • Reorder Functionality: Effortlessly arrange policies in the exact order you prefer within your handbook.

  • Live Hotline & Technical Support: HR advice and general technical assistance.

  • Cross-Team Collaboration: Allow multiple admins to cohesively collaborate on your employee handbook.

  
  

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• WNY - Generational Diversity at Work

  • When
    16 Jan 2025
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    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    Buffalo Marriott HarborCenter 95 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203

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  For the first time in history, five generations — representing nearly a century of experience — are active in today’s workforce. With that comes both challenges and opportunities in terms of communications, expectations, and compliance. Join us and Joan Graci, of APA Solutions as she helps you explore the five generations and how their perspective influences today’s workforce.
  
  Discover fact versus fiction when it comes to how each generation has been uniquely impacted by the time in history that they grew up in and how to crack the code on how to achieve a cohesive and collaborative workforce. 

  

  About our Speaker:

  Joan Graci
  Owner, President of APA Solutions
  
  
  

  As one of the only brain-based-certified Talent Coaches in the country, Joan has made it her mission to discover the secret of transforming organizational effectiveness as well as helping leaders grow through self-awareness. She incorporates hard data and science and uses it to bridge the communication gap between leadership and the people they employ by disrupting human capital norms. Leveraging three decades of analyzing data in the coaching and recruiting space, Joan defies traditional beliefs as it relates to the mindset of the workforce. Her passion is people, and she strives to coach leaders to work within the confines of the human brain’s natural abilities, rather than against it.
  
  Joan has spent the past decade pursuing education in the field of neuroscience, including a focus on the advances that validate everyone has access to developing new ways of thinking. She studies at the NeuroLeadership Institute as well as other institutions that focus on this methodology. Her expertise includes team formation, organizational development, productivity, and people improvement, change management and corporate culture, conflict resolution and team building, empowerment, and motivation. She has used her knowledge to unpack how this innovative brain-based methodology helps thinkers, teams, and organizations benefit from self-awareness, promoting growth and transparency.
  
  
  

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• Silicon Valley - 2025 California Employment Law Updates

  • When
    21 Jan 2025
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    UCSC Extension, 3175 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara, California
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  VIRTUAL or IN-PERSON!

  2025 EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATES

  This past legislative year in California was another busy one, introducing a wave of critical updates that every HR professional needs to understand. Ben Ebbink (partner with employment law firm Fisher Phillips) will cover important California legislative and legal updates that will affect employers and HR professionals in 2025 and beyond with an overview of important new laws impacting workplace policies, compliance, and employee management.

  
  

  LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • The most significant legislative shifts from the 2024 session and how they will affect employers in 2025.
  • How to adapt your policies and practices to remain compliant.
  • Strategies to mitigate risks and prevent costly litigation.

  
  

  AGENDA

  5:30 PM IN-PERSON NETWORKING (dinner included)

  6:00 PM PROGRAM BEGINS

  7:15 PM Q&A

  ABOUT THE SPEAKER
  

  
  

  Benjamin M. Ebbink is a Partner in the Sacramento office of Fisher & Phillips LLP and is a Legislative Advocate and Principal of FP Advocacy LLC. With two decades of experience in labor and employment law and in assisting the development of California labor law and regulations, he focuses on legislation introduced at the federal, state and local levels. For nearly 15 years, Benjamin served as Chief Consultant to the California Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment where he was the primary policy expert on labor and employment matters for the California State Assembly. Benjamin played a key role in virtually every major labor and employment issue to come before the Legislature during his tenure, and personally drafted hundreds of legislative proposals. During his service in the Legislature, Benjamin earned a reputation for his integrity, his ability to work with diverse stakeholders on all sides, and his skill as a problem-solver.

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  This event is co-sponsored by: the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Human Resource Management Certificate Program

  
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• Los Angeles - i4cp's 2025 Priorities and Predictions

  • When
    22 Jan 2025
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    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  2025 Priorities & Predictions

  2025 is shaping up to be another fast-paced year, full of disruptions, challenges, and opportunities for HR and business leaders. Organizations that place the right bets—in the form of prioritization, investment, and time—will be well positioned to leapfrog the competition. Talent management, upskilling, culture, and the ability to operationalize AI will play crucial roles in separating high-performance organizations from the rest, complemented by massive external challenges including ongoing workforce divisiveness, global unrest, and economic concerns.

  Each year, i4cp gathers priorities and predictions about the coming year from our executive boards, representing heads of HR, talent, learning, talent acquisition, DEI, total rewards, people analytics, and the future of work.

  In this forward-looking session, you'll hear from Lorrie Lykins, Vice President of Research and Mollie Lombardi, Sr. Research Analyst at i4cp—the leading authority on next practices in human capital and the research firm known for its Market Performance Index methodology. They will share just-released insights from i4cp's 2025 Priorities and Predictions report, including:

  • 4 predictions that serve as opportunities for the HR profession in 2025
  • Top priorities of CHROs and other functions
  • Smarter ways to navigate the year ahead

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• St. Louis - The Benefit Initiative for Creating a Financially Secure Workforce

  • When
    23 Jan 2025
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    1030 Woodcrest Terrace Drive

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  The Benefit Initiative for Creating a Financially Secure Workforce

  With Chris Thixton, QPA, QKC

  Financial insecurity and stress are wreaking havoc on workers. It affects their mental and physical health, as well as their working lives, in numerous and detrimental ways.

  In this session, we will gain a deeper understanding of employee financial security and how it impacts workplace productivity.

  We will also address the most effective and achievable way employers can use an existing resource to make a difference in the financial security and overall well-being of their employees.

  Learning Objectives: 

  • How employee financial stress affects the workplace.

  • What are the greatest barriers to employee financial security.

  • How employers can help improve employee financial security. 

  
  

  Our Speaker: Chris Thixton, QPA, QKC

  Principal - Pension Consultants, Inc. 

  
  

  For over 20 years, Chris has been an advocate for improving the financial security of employees in the United States.

  Chris shares his passion, knowledge, and experience as he educates clients, plan sponsors, and fiduciaries on the consequences of financial stress on people and workplace productivity.

  He currently serves on the leadership council for the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) which is one of five member organizations of the American Retirement Association based in Washington, DC. As a member of ASPPA, he serves as both a Qualified Pension Administrator (QPA) and a Qualified 401(k) Consultant (QKC).

  As a subject matter expert in retirement plan fees, Chris testified in Washington D.C. at the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration on fiduciary matters related to fee disclosure as part of the Hearing on Reasonable Contracts or Arrangements under Section 408(b)(2), and he has testified before the DOL’s ERISA Advisory Council. Chris pioneered PCI’s vendor research system which includes extensive service-provider comparative analysis and benchmarking.

  Chris leads public workshops to train fiduciary committees, as well as conducts private training sessions for individual fiduciary committees across the country. He has spoken at over 100 conferences and programs throughout the country.

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• ROC - NHRA / GVCSHRM Legal Update 2025

  • When
    6 Feb 2025
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    7:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    DoubleTree Rochester (1111 Jefferson Road, Rochester, NY 14623)
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  Join us for an essential Human Resources Legal Update designed to equip HR professionals with the latest developments in employment law. This engaging session covers key legal changes, compliance strategies, and best practices to ensure that your organization stays up to date and legally sound.

  Networking opportunities allow you to connect with peers, expand your professional network, and collaborate on strategies to tackle shared challenges. Do not miss this chance to enhance your knowledge and foster valuable relationships within the HR community.

  This year's agenda includes presentations from Harter Secrest & Emery, Underberg & Kessler, and Bond Schoeneck & King

  This program will be submitted to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and HR Certification Institute (HRCI) for review.

  Breakfast, coffee, and water will be provided. Guests may arrive at 7:30 am for registration and networking. 
  

  NHRA and GVCSHRM members are encouraged to apply through their respective organizations to receive member pricing. For GVCSHRM Registration, please visit their website.

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• Ventura County - Evidence, Interviews & Credibility, Oh My! How to Obtain and Make Sense of Evidence in a Workplace Investigation

  • When
    12 Feb 2025
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    7:20 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    Palm Garden Hotel, 495 N. Ventu Park Rd. Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
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  Evidence, Interviews & Credibility, Oh My! How to Obtain and Make Sense of Evidence in a Workplace Investigation

  (NOTE: This event will be offered both in-person and online. Please select the ticket type that reflects how you will attend.)
  

  
  

  This presentation is designed to guide participants in the theory and practical skills necessary to gather, interpret, and analyze evidence in workplace investigations.

  
  

  Key Takeaways:

  • Discussion of basic investigation principles and theory
  • An in-depth overview of documentary evidence gathering and interview techniques designed to obtain relevant, reliable evidence
  • How to use credibility assessments to make sense of the evidence that the investigator has gathered
  • A case study will be used to demonstrate real-world evidence and credibility scenarios

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  Susan Arduengo, Esq., AWI-CH

  Arduengo Investigations

  

  Additional Event Details

  7:20 AM Registration & Networking

  7:30 AM Breakfast & Introductions

  7:45 AM Legal Update

  8:00-9:00 AM Program and Q&A

  
  

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• St. Louis - 2025 Employment Law Forum

  • When
    27 Feb 2025
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    1030 Woodcrest Terrace Drive

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  NHRA - St. Louis Annual Employment Law Forum 2025

  With McMahon Berger: Stephen B. Maule & Associates

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  Stephen B. Maule, Labor & Employment Management Attorney

  
  

  
  

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• Ventura County - The Hard Stuff Behind Soft Skills: Dissecting 2025’s Most In-Demand Competencies

  • When
    12 Mar 2025
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    7:20 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    Palm Garden Hotel, 495 N. Ventu Park Rd. Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
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  The Hard Stuff Behind Soft Skills: Dissecting 2025’s Most In-Demand Competencies

  (NOTE: This event will be offered both in-person and online. Please select the ticket type that reflects how you will attend.)
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  Tina Schust Robinson, Founder / CEO

  WorkJoy, LLC

  

  Additional Event Details

  7:20 AM Registration & Networking

  7:30 AM Breakfast & Introductions

  7:45 AM Legal Update

  8:00-9:00 AM Program and Q&A

  
  

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• St. Louis - Workplace Safety in 2025

  • When
    27 Mar 2025
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    1030 Woodcrest Terrace Drive

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  Workplace Safety in 2025

  With Mike Minicky, CSP, CIT, President of MSM Safety Management, LLC

  Employee injuries, illnesses, and fatalities continue to happen in our workplaces. This presentation will explore injury and illness data, how to manage your employees' safety, how and why OSHA conducts inspections - including frequently cited standards and emphasis programs, and resources that are available - many of which are free! Specifically, this presentation will allow participants to:

  • Explore injury, illness, and fatality data in the U.S. What industries have the most incidents and what are the most common types of injuries?

  • Discover the critical elements in managing safety and health in the workplace.

  • Understand the most frequently cited OSHA standards.

  • Find workplace safety and health resources.

  
  

  Mike Minicky, CSP, CIT

  Mike has 30+ years of experience as a safety and health professional and currently serves as President of MSM Safety Management LLC, a nationwide occupational safety and health consulting firm. He spent a total of 18 years with OSHA in positions which included Safety Engineer, Compliance Assistance Specialist, and Assistant Area Director, and has worked extensively with OSHA's Voluntary Protection Programs. Mike served as National General Safety Program Manager for the Veterans Health Administration and as an Associate Safety Manager for Bayer in St. Louis. He is a member of the St. Louis Chapter of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), past Chairman of the Greater St. Louis Field Federal Safety and Health Council, and is an Associate Member of the VPP Participants Association (VPPPA). He holds two certifications from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP): Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and Certified Instructional Trainer (CIT). He has earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Missouri. Mike is also a Certified Safety Consultant with the Missouri Workers' Safety Program.

  
  

  
  

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