Core Telephone Seminars

Employment Law Compliance: Disciplining or Terminating a Workers' Comp Claimant ...orkers' compensation claimant. The program will cover the core concepts underpinning workers' compensation statutes and the primary types of anti-retaliation provisions found in workers' compensation statutes. The live audio conference will then examine the steps you can take when disciplining or terminating a workers' compensation claimant to avoid allegations of retaliation and, if such a  more...

How to Revitalize an Impoverished Neighborhood: Thirty Years of Successful Green Urbanism ...spected urban planners in the world. Dr. Gilderbloom is a core faculty member of the Planning Program, which recently ranked among the top 25 best programs in the country. In an international poll of thousands of urbanists, planners and architects, Prof. Gilderbloom was ranked one of the 'Top 100 Urban Thinkers in the World' past and present and ranked in the top 50 among the living in an  more...

Finance Skills for Procurement Professionals ...core financial skills that every procurement professional must have to assist with everyday decision making. We will focus on core finance concepts for procurement, the request for proposal (RFP) process, reading financial statements, understanding ratios and the impact of financial risk. As an added benefit, you will receive the Finance Toolkit for Procurement Professionals. This is a great  more...

Sale Leaseback Transactions Today: Monetizing Real Estate Assets ...al outlays in real estate that can be redeployed in their core business. Understand the basic financial and accounting rules governing treatment of sale-leaseback transactions and operating leases. Learn about the most common sale leaseback structures that are available, how they work and whether they would be advantageous for your business. Also, for real estate investors (large and small),  more...

Minimizing Credit Card Processing Fees BenefitsFor most retailers, payment processing costs represent more than 2 percent of sales. Effective management can reduce these costs by one-third or more and the savings can be even more dramatic for retailers selling through direct marketing channels such as e-commerce, mail and telephone orders, and infomercials where processing costs can run 50 percent higher. But direct cost savings aren't  more...

Best Practices in Commission Pay Plans ...ense and in worst cases, litigation, by understanding the core elements and decisions in commission design, management and optimization. Hewitt's Sales Force Effectiveness Practice leader will introduce a framework to help make large, complex, cross-functional decisions about commissions smaller and simpler. This teleconference will also use real company examples to highlight best and worst  more...

Promoting Wellness and Recovery of People With Mental Illness Through Strengths-Based, Person-Centered Practice BenefitsThis topic is important for all levels of the human service and community corrections fields. Policy-makers and funders must develop policies and procedures that support and promote evidence-based practice with this challenging group of service participants. Service organizations must become more outcome-focused in their helping efforts. Direct practitioners, therapists, case managers and  more...

Recognizing and Responding to Excited Delirium ... or who have alcohol, licit or illicit drugs on board are core tasks for you, the officer and/or first responder. It is not a matter of 'if' you are confronted by an individual who is mentally ill or who has ingested alcohol or drugs (or their combination), only 'when' you will face this situation. In rare situations, individuals have died during or shortly after struggling with law enforcement  more...

Suicidology: Your Responsibilities for Protecting Your Clients and the Public ... most important initial clinical objective, but is at the core of good risk management. Research continues to help clinicians predict suicidal behavior in the individual with increasing accuracy. However, there is no single test or method of assessment. Therefore, it is necessary to identify, quantify and manage those factors that constitute clinical risk. This teleconference will focus on the  more...

Multiplaintiff Settlement Negotiations ...s in attempting to settle such litigation, even where the core economic factors make settlement otherwise plausible. This teleconference will address those practical and legal considerations. The teleconference will help participants understand when and how best to approach such settlement attempts at various stages of the case, and will discuss how to ensure that any agreement is binding and  more...