Bottom Telephone Seminars

Key Subcontracting Issues Including Flow-Down and Paid-if-Paid Provisions ...protection of one's interests can not only impact company bottom lines, but also subject one to liability under the civil False Claims Act, potential civil and criminal liability under federal fraud statutes, and potential administrative sanctions, such as suspension or debarment. This audio conference will cover some of the more important issues in a subcontract and provide valuable checklists  more...

Problems and Risks Associated With Green Construction ...the form of red-tape, job site interruptions and negative bottom-line impacts. In this live audio conference, we will explore some of the challenges that may be encountered when building green and going beyond the basic principles of conventional construction. You will learn risk considerations unique to green design and construction, failure modes that may be encountered, steps to identify  more...

How to Revitalize an Impoverished Neighborhood: Thirty Years of Successful Green Urbanism ...accounts of how to renew our depressed neighborhoods. The bottom line is that Dr. Gilderbloom has a long experience of working in depressed neighborhoods and turning them into vibrant, safe and sustainable neighborhoods. He will show you the mistakes and failures of liberal and conservative urban renewal programs and how we can learn from that. This is an opportunity to hear one of the most  more...

Using Travel Policy to Control Costs ...ed that travel expenses had little impact on their firm's bottom line. Clearly, those days are long gone. Attendees of this program will gain a high level of understanding about the best practices in travel management, so they can manage the balance between the competing strategic goals of service, savings and safety. Because a well-structured travel policy addresses the key components of  more...

Commercial Ground Leases: A Conceptual Framework ...ed to anticipate and identify the issues important to his bottom line. Solution - This live audio conference will provide a conceptual framework for ground leasing and then go into some specific areas designed to enable persons responsible for ground leasing from the owner's side to help the owner avoid unpleasant surprises with respect to the cost of the lease. This live audio conference is  more...

Using Human Capital Analytics to Maximize the Value of Your Workforce ...suring and maximizing the contribution people make to the bottom line is a critical issue for organizations, and analytics are the key to those insights. The challenge is using analytics to understand where making a change would improve engagement and performance. This audio conference addresses how to integrate the business and HR perspectives when conducting human capital analytics, how to  more...

Best Practices in Performance-Based Service Procurement BenefitsPerformance-based service procurement is a commercial best practice for many types of service procurements. The General Accountability Office says performance-based procurement is the government's primary resource for correcting problems in service procurement. In both the public and private sectors, it benefits the buying organization in many ways when done right. Performance-based  more...

Reverse Auctions: Current Issues and Opportunities ...urement spending can make a tremendous difference on your bottom-line in the private sector and in saving precious budgetary resources in the public sector. How can you achieve 5 to 20 percent or more savings on much of what your organization spends on products and services? The answer is quite simple - look at where you can effectively apply reverse auctioning in your procurement operations.  more...

Top Sales and Use, Credits and Incentives Tips to Improve Your Bottom Line BenefitsIn the current economic climate, additional free cash flow is a priority for all companies to sustain corporate activities and fund working capital, capital improvements, acquisitions, research and development, etc. This teleconference will focus on unprecedented tax credits and economic incentives currently offered by state and local jurisdictions to stimulate business investment and the  more...

Return on Investment for Wellness Programs ...ctive for the long-term health of your employees and your bottom line. Human resource, benefits and compensation staff members are all too familiar with the difficult - some say impossible - task of controlling health insurance costs. Implemented properly, a good wellness plan can and will deliver a positive return on investment and provide a driving force behind lowering health plan costs.  more...

Pervious Concrete - The Pavement That Drinks! ...wners and developers can also reduce fees and enhance the bottom line by using pervious concrete, which commonly provides 20 or more years of service with little or no maintenance. You will learn about the latest mix designs, freeze and thaw resistance, environmental benefits, storm water management planning and placement techniques. This teleconference will provide examples of projects and you  more...

Employee Safety and Health Systems: Cutting Injuries Using the Team Approach ...leadership which in most cases is low to nonexistent. The bottom line is that employee safety will be as good as management wants it to be or as poor as management will allow it to be. And although most managers care for the health and well being of their workers, they usually do not understand the proper way to manage the safety system. This teleconference will describe how to effectively  more...

Internal Controls BenefitsWhether you're part of the Fortune 500 or a small private company, understanding how to develop and implement effective internal controls is critical to your business. In addition to helping you comply with the law, a good system of internal control can dramatically improve your bottom line. In this 90-minute teleconference, you'll learn about basic internal control concepts that will help  more...

Contractor Selection ...e important for a successful project, in these 'watch the bottom line' times, the contractor you place in charge of the work is the most important person on the project. This teleconference will assist you review the key issues on contractor selection and raise important points for the negotiation of construction contracts. Learning Objectives - You will be able to breakdown project delivery  more...

Effective Job Rotation Programs: Development and Implementation BenefitsThere is little argument that job rotations, stretch assignments and on-the-job development projects are some of the most effective development tools in the talent management arsenal today. However, the design of many programs currently in operation date back to a time when the speed of organizational change was much slower than it is today, when the pressures of global competition were  more...

Lighting Design and Control for Commercial Buildings: Increase Sales, Increase Productivity and Save Energy ...ED and show you how proper illumination will improve your bottom line. Learning Objectives - You will be able to review technology relating to lighting sources. - You will be able to propose daylighting as a design feature. - You will be able to paraphrase lighting codes. - You will be able to apply design issues and architectural integration. This teleconference is based on publicly  more...

Commodity Risks: How to Identify and Implement a Corporate Hedging Program ... with changes in commodity prices and their effect on the bottom line. Such firms often wonder if there is a way to manage the risk differently - could they identify the risk in advance, anticipate the impact and mitigate the changes such that their bottom line is preserved? Yes. This teleconference will help you identify the risks of commodity price changes to your firm, communicate them  more...

Measurement, Management, Reduction: Tools for Tracking Waste in Construction Projects ...n managing waste to increase profitability and add to the bottom line. New technologies such as building information modeling, LEAN construction techniques and online waste tracking tools will be discussed as means of waste management and avoidance. Learning Objectives You will be able to recognize shifts in client's expectations. You will be able to discuss regional variation. You will be  more...

Using Purchasing Metrics to Drive Bottom and Top Line Contribution ...curement managers has become increasingly critical to the bottom line performance of companies in today's complex and dynamic environment. Yet most procurement organizations focus metrics on cost and productivity rather than business value added and risk. Without appropriate metrics, managers cannot quantify their business impact or allocate resources to the best advantage of the company. A key  more...

Paperless Payroll: Essentials to a Seamless Transition ...processes have the potential to be a healthy boost to the bottom line without eliminating employees. The notion of paperless payroll has come a long way since the introduction of direct deposit in the 1970's, but despite the advances, most companies are still distributing paper checks, pay advices and W2s. In this teleconference, we'll take a look at the cost saving potential of a fully  more...

Supply Chain Strategies in a Down Economy ...t supplier costs can be a key strategy for shoring up the bottom line. This teleconference will help you answer the following questions: Have you pulled all the levers possible to achieve savings in the short term? Are you getting the best price for the goods and services that enable your business? Do you have an understanding of your key suppliers' financial condition? Are you matching what  more...

Overcome Your Competition: Stand Out in a Crowded Marketplace ...pect at best. Too many times sales professionals employ a bottom-up sales approach versus the top-down approach that has proven to be more effective. Even the best sales skills, or sales approach, even the quid pro quo approach, is not effective if applied to the wrong people. As economic conditions become more challenging, salespeople have to improve their approach and really focus on the  more...

Advanced Records Management: The Intersection of Good Records Management and eDiscovery Preparedness ...us impact on e-discovery preparedness and a corporation's bottom line. While many corporations have established policies related to paper records, many of those same corporations have failed to update those policies to account for their rapidly increasing volumes of electronically stored information. No form of ESI demonstrates these complex issues more so than backup tapes. Backup tapes can be  more...