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If you were planning to move to France and live there, would you learn to speak French?  Why…Of course, because it would make life easier and you could connect and get your needs met much easier.  Then let’s do the same in your Company or Team and learn to speak the 7 Languages that best help build, inspire and motivate your Employees!  Everyone likes all 7, but your people have a top one or two that connects with who and how they are.  Once we know their language, Leaders can mix their language and style with the Leader’s 7 to build, inspire, and moti

Leaders have a choice:  stay comfortable and continue to operate as they always have, or disrupt the status quo and become a high performing organization.  Comfortable is easy, but it results in just surviving at best.  Becoming a high performing organization requires hard work, patience, consistent effort, and risk taking.  The thought of change brings out a lot of fear!

#SHRM19 Sexual Harassment Case Studies Jonathan A. Segal, Partner and Managing Principal, Duane Morris Institute
 

Workplace Application:   Guidance for how HR can contribute to the creation of a safe, respectful and inclusive culture, in terms of what is done—and not done—by those at the level of supervisor and above.

Randall C. Schauer, Esquire, Partner at Fox Rothschild, LLP

How did we get here? Overview of Federal and Pennsylvania Marijuana Law & Policy.

How does it work? Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Program.

What Now? Practical tips for employers: You will receive actual POLICY SUGGESTIONS! Hear about the Major Issues such as:

o DrugTesting&“ZeroTolerance”
o Hiring/Firing&ReasonableAccommodations
o Workers’CompensationandUnemploymentInsurance o Federalcontractors/grantees

Diversity and inclusion work isn’t easy, but here is a secret: It can be some of the most important and rewarding work you’ll ever do! The key is choosing to start – or if you’ve already started, to take your current focus to the next level.

Join a panel of professionals for an honest discussion on:

• the benefits of inclusion and diversity

• the challenges experienced

• and practical steps we can each take to make real progress in advancing diversity and

  inclusion

Because of the abundance of scientific studies correlating employee happiness with employee retention and performance, business development and HR publications contain a plethora of strategies to build employee happiness. These strategies can range in complexity, beginning with the simple act of thanking employees. Because of the reality of legal risk inherent in almost any HR or management initiative, many employers are hesitant to implement new strategies, even where there is some promise of positive change.

This presentation will provide an update on some of the hot topics in HR and employment law impacted by the non-stop, energized Trump administration and what the future holds. Though at times arguably unpredictable, the Trump administration’s intentions in terms of impacting the workplace have never really been in doubt. The question is how smoothly and efficiently the current administration has been (and will be) able to change the framework established by the Obama administration.

Ross DeSimone, Managing Director, peripheri and Greater Pottstown SHRM Board Member

This workshop is a light-hearted review of leadership basics exercised by Santa Claus.  This interactive experience enables each participant to evaluate her/his approach to leading a team and supporting her/his colleagues’ leadership objectives (from a Human Resources perspective) against the success practices used by Santa.  By the end of the workshop, the participant will:

Anita D. Tinney, Esq., Employee and Labor Relations Academy

In this presentation, we will review the top 10 best practices for internal workplace investigations.  Following this presentation, participants will be able to: 

Christina M. Reger, Esq., Shareholder at Bazelon, Less & Feldman, P.C. and Robyn Pollack, Esq., CEO & Founder of Trellis Consulting, LLC

Join us for an interactive sexual harassment program discussing The #METOO Movement - What is Sexual Harassment?  How to protect your business and change your culture.  Learn