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Upcoming ASHHRA Webinars

Webinars are excellent learning opportunities led by ASHHRA members and partners with specific expertise in the health care HR profession. Click on each title below to learn more about each webinar.

If you are interested in hosting a webinar, download the 2012 Webinar Hosting Form.

ASHHRA Webinar



AHA/ASHHRA Member Webinar:  Legal and Regulatory Oversight of Hospital Employment Relationships
Thursday, February 23, 2012
2pm ET, 1pm CT, 12pm MT, 11am PT
90 minute webinar
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Heavily regulated as provider organizations, hospitals also are subject to regulatory oversight as employers.  From the National Labor Relations Board to the Department of Labor with requirements, for example, from its Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), to the IRS, health care employers are facing increased attention and enforcement from a variety of labor and employment-related regulatory agencies, including new and additional legal restrictions.

Learning Objectives:

  • Review the latest initiatives that can affect hospitals' labor relations environment and employment relationships
  • Identify key regulatory agencies and other legal oversight that affects the hospital employment relationship, the new and existing agency initiatives that are likely to impact your organization
  • Discover what steps some healthcare employers are taking to prepare for and address issues raised by the regulatory requirements and targeted enforcement efforts of the agencies

Faculty:
Moderated by Lawrence Hughes, AHA assistant general counsel
F. Curt Kirschner, Jr., partner, Jones Day, AHA’s outside labor counsel
Brandon Melton, senior vice president, human resources, Lifespan Corp.
Jill Ragsdale, chief human resources officer, Mayo Clinic. 
Price:
ASHHRA Members: FREE
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(Direct link: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=399163&s=1&k=7FA28F552ECBECA778E57227EEA5EEC4). 

Confirmation of your registration including the link for the webinar, dial in number and background materials will be sent the day before the call.

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HR Leaders, Are You Ready for Health Care Reform and Value Based Purchasing? 
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
1pm ET, 12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am PT
60 minute webinar
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Health care HR leaders are key stakeholders in health care reform. This is especially true for health care providers, when in 2012-13 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initiates its value based purchasing program (VBP) linking Medicare reimbursement to achievement of specific performance standards that conform to measureable quality patient care outcomes. This is pay for performance. Each covered provider will be impacted in hospitals' rates of reimbursement and other incentive payments. During this webinar, we will review the Affordable Care Act and Value Based Purchasing requirements as well as how to deal with HCAPS survey measurements affecting reimbursement in both non-union and organized facilities. You will learn how to build a workforce designed to thrive in a new VBP environment and more!

Learning Objectives:

  • Review Affordable Care Act and Value Based Purchasing requirements
  • Understand the VBP measurement of quality based on clinical and patient care metrics and the role of physicians, nurses, and other staff in achieving measurable outcomes
  • Discover the opportunity to drive team members and staff behavior and performance through restructuring of compensation systems, incentives, rewards and benefits

Faculty:
K. Bruce Stickler, Partner, DrinkerBiddle

K. Bruce Stickler is a partner engaged exclusively in representing management in employment and labor relations matters. He has practiced employment and labor law for more than 40 years before federal and state courts and agencies, in matters arising under the National Labor Relations Act, federal and state equal employment laws, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Hospital Report Card Act and disability statutes.

Bruce has extensive experience in the health care industry. He has served as labor counsel to the American Hospital Association and Illinois Hospital Association, and as labor counsel to several religious orders, hospitals, health care institutions and integrated health care delivery systems. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Illinois Association of Hospital Attorneys and has served as chairman on several health care industry association and provider boards; including past chairman of the American Hospital Association’s Labor Relations Advisory Committee.

Price:
ASHHRA Members: FREE
Non Members: $24.99 (Join ASHHRA and you can register for FREE!)

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Hiring for Attitude 
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
1pm ET, 12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am PT
60 minute webinar
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Health care HR professionals must attend this webinar to ensure that you are asking the right questions during interviews.  There is no bigger waste of time than hiring an individual that doesn’t fit within the organization’s culture.  This complimentary ASHHRA webinar will assist you in finding the right candidate by dissecting the most common interview questions and strategies. 

W hat should you be asking in interviews?  Leadership IQ's research discovered that attitude, not skills, causes 89% of mishires.  Issues like Coachability, Emotional Intelligence and Temperament determine whether new hires will succeed or fail.  So you need interview questions that will reveal those characteristics (and differentiate high and low performers).

Learning Objectives: 

  • Six words that ruin behavioral interview questions when you're trying to hire for attitude
  • Two quick tests to discover the attitudinal characteristics that your organization MUST include in interviews
  • Why you should never ask “tell me about yourself” or “what are your strengths/weaknesses”
  • Four-part interview question that reveals if people are "coachable" and what their last boss really thought about them
  • Learn why most hiring managers ask way too many questions, forcing candidates to give very fast and superficial answers (and learn how many questions you SHOULD ask)
  • One sentence to say when you think the candidate is lying to you
  • How to assess attitude when you’re conducting team interviews
  • Get a structured form for assessing and evaluating all of your candidates
  • One question that reveals if somebody goes "above and beyond"

Faculty:
Mark Murphy, founder and CEO, Leadership IQ

Mark Murphy is the founder and CEO of Leadership IQ, a global management consultancy.  He leads one of the world’s largest studies on leadership and employee engagement, and his groundbreaking research has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post, and hundreds more periodicals. Mark has appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning, ABC’s 20/20, Fox Business News, and other top broadcasts. 

Previously, Mark was President of a joint venture with Mercer Human Resources Consulting.  Prior to that he was a partner in the management consulting subsidiary of VHA, Inc., the world’s largest healthcare consortium.  He holds degrees from the University of Buffalo, executive coursework at The Wharton School and an MBA from the University of Rochester.  He lives in Atlanta and Washington, DC.

Price:
ASHHRA Members: FREE
Non Members: $39.99 (Join ASHHRA and you can register for FREE!)

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Middle Managers as Change Agents
Thursday, March 29, 2012
12pm ET, 11am CT, 10am MT, 9am PT
60 minute webinar
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Hosted by Development Dimensions International (DDI)

Transparency. Reorganization. Reimbursement changes. Coordinated care. These issues are top of mind to nearly every health care executive. How will your organization survive so many changes? While executives are driving execution of many initiatives underway, it is leaders at the mid-level who are dealing with the complexities of change day in and day out. Do they have the skills they need to ensure that the vision is carried out?

Our research says no. We’ve found that leaders at this level have four critical challenges: driving performance in a changing world, horizontal integration in a complex organization, leading and developing talent, and making tough decisions.
During this session, we’ll:

  • Relate the four leadership challenges specifically to the changing health care business environment
  • Share insights for how to address these challenges, and tips for arming your mid-level leaders with the skills they need to excel
  • Share key learnings and best practices

Price:
ASHHRA Members: FREE
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Managing Affirmative Action Plans and OFCCP Audits in 2012: Challenges that the Health Care Industry Must Face
Thursday, April 5, 2012
1pm ET, 12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am MT
75 minute webinar
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Sponsored by OutSolve

Health care facilities face many challenges when creating annual Affirmative Action Plans (AAP) and with the OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs) pushing for significant changes to the regulations, compliance in 2012 will be more difficult than ever. The OutSolve team will review the pending changes at OFCCP and their potential impact on Federal contractors in addition to discussion regarding specific issues that health care companies face during a desk audit.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand proposed and pending regulations
  • Prepare to identify and correct Affirmative Action problem areas to reduce risk and exposure to the Department of Labor
  • Be prepared to respond to OFCCP desk and on-site audits

Faculty:
Chris Lindholm, VP Compliance, OutSolve, LLC
Chris has 15 years of experience in Affirmative Action Planning and selection testing consulting including consulting service management, sales and marketing and software development. Chris has supported thousands of organizations in AAP management, OFCCP audit support, training, and implementation of Federal Affirmative Action Plans.

Desiree Throckmorton , Director, OutSolve, LLC
Desiree has an M.A. in Industrial Psychology from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Ill. Desiree has nine years of experience in Affirmative Action compliance and has supported Affirmative Action Plans (AAPs) for employers ranging from 50 employees to over 40,000. Desiree regularly conducts statistical adverse impact analyses of personnel action, and compensation analyses associated with OFCCP audits.  A major focus for Desiree is training the EEO/AA community on a variety of topics including but not limited to AAP methodology, OFCCP audits, adverse Impact, compensation, and recordkeeping requirements.

Price:
ASHHRA Members: FREE
Non Members: $24.99 (Join ASHHRA and you can register for FREE!)

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The Science of Succession: If It's Broke, Fix It
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
12pm ET, 11am CT, 10am MT, 9am PT
60 minute webinar
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Hosted by Development Dimensions International (DDI)

Recent DDI research tells us that in health care, formal succession processes are broken. Seventy-two percent of HR leaders believe succession is critical to success, but only 10 percent believe their process is effective. It’s not always easy to turn an exceptional nurse or physician into remarkable executives.

With an aging leadership population and increasing demand for health care services, and massive industry changes, things are likely to get worse before they get better. Fortunately, many boards are demanding a more formal approach to succession. To be effective, organizations must adopt an approach that makes succession as objective and scientific as any other clinical program.

During this one hour session, we’ll share information about a formal succession process. We’ll talk about:

  • How to create the right senior leadership success profile for their organization
  • Their evidence based process for identifying leadership passion, potential and readiness
  • How to accelerate the development of senior leaders

Price:
ASHHRA Members: FREE
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2012 Webinar Education Topics

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