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Recorded Webcasts
	Automation: The Performance Improvement Process for HR To dramatically improve performance while maintaining compliance, automation is the key. This hour long recorded webcast will review the status quo in HR and provide a blueprint on how to prepare and defend a proposal for automating the administrative functions within HR
Whitepapers
	Stay in Control: The Benefits of In-House Payroll Software Depending on your company’s internal resources and the complexity of your payroll, it is likely that in-house payroll software can produce long-term savings over the cost of continual outsourcing fees. Payroll software also increases your control over employee data and the payroll process itself, so you can protect private information, including wage and salary details.
	Make Your Talent Even More Talented: The Power of Learning According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 60 percent of all new jobs in the twenty-first century will require skills that only 20 percent of current employees possess. Ensuring that your workforce is ready to meet your business objectives through learning and development is imperative. This white paper discusses the value and best practices of learning and some of the myths and facts associated with talent development.
	Workforce Career Development Planning: A Winning Strategy for Your Business and Employees With four generations of employees in the workforce and a large number of experienced workers expected to soon retire, organizations are facing new challenges with respect to engagement and labor productivity. This white paper can help you understand if your company is ready to take on the experience gap.
	Five Key HR Trends to Watch in 2012 HR managers cannot control events or predict future economic conditions. But they can prepare for uncertainty and contingencies. This white paper outlines five HR trends and topics that HR managers should consider when thinking about 2012.
	Failing to Learn: Why Learning is Critical to Strategic Talent Management Many organizations, regardless of size or industry, are turning to talent management technology solutions to achieve a significant business impact. The irony is that most talent management solutions are missing the one critical component that will make that business impact a reality–learning.
	Best Practices in HR: Five Steps to Advance Your Midsized Company's Talent Management Strategy Where do you begin as you attempt to develop an effective talent management process based on best practices? Begin by focusing on the five core internal performance management components necessary to support your key business priorities as outlined in this white paper.
	Performance Management Solutions for the Mid-Market Organization: Why Bother? At companies in the mid-market segment, businesses with roughly 250 to 3,000 employees, performance management may seem like an unnecessary annual bureaucratic exercise. However, nothing could be further from the truth.
	Employee Leave Issues This whitepaper offers five tips to help you navigate the Bermuda Triangle of employee leave. It is imperative that employers stay up to date on changing compliance requirements in order to ensure that employees receive the benefits and protections of these laws, as well as to control costs, and avoid possible penalties.
	Social Media and HR Social media is changing the way we and make decisions. It may still seem like a fad used by younger people, but in truth, it is rapidly gaining users across generations and becoming a main stream business tool. You may wonder if it is your friend or your foe. But one thing is clear: The time to adopt social media strategies and policies for your business is right now.
	The Payroll Manager's Guide to Year End Sage Employer Solutions is providing this guide as a resource to help you navigate year-end payroll tasks and prepare to process payroll in the next calendar year. Includes checklist, deadlines, calendar, and links.
	The Benefits of Paperless HR Because of the many paper-intensive administrative processes in the Human Resources department, it is a great area to embrace corporate sustainability objectives by eliminating paper. In this white paper you'll learn how paperless HR is sustainable, cost-effective, and within your reach.
	15 Factors to Consider When Changing How You Process Payroll When changing how you process payroll, there are numerous considerations that must be taken into account. Here are 15 factors to keep in mind.
	5 Things to Consider When Choosing an HRMS In order to support executives and managers, HR needs to have the right tools in place to improve access to timely, accurate information that helps produce informed business decisions. This whitepaper explores important things to consider.
	HR Technology Tools - What You May Be Missing The more informed you are about human resources technology options, the better decisions you’ll make when choosing what’s best for your company. This white paper gives you a roundup on how a human resource management system (HRMS) can free you from paperwork, reduce time spent on routine tasks, lower costs, and improve productivity.
	HR Software Buyer's Guide Our experience has taught us that when people begin searching for human resources management software, they find the process overwhelming. With this white paper, we want to make the HR software purchase process as painless as possible and help you find the right HR software solution for your needs whether that solution is Sage HRMS or another.
	The Complete Buyers Guide for Payroll Software Get the scoop on recent payroll trends, how to analyze the effectiveness of your current payroll software, the key capabilities to look for when you’re ready to purchase, and approaches to determining the credibility and reliability of your software solutions provider.
	Avoiding Costly Fines - 2012 Guide to HR Compliance Mandates If you’re not overwhelmed by the onslaught of constantly changing compliance regulations, you’re likely at least humbled by them. This insightful white paper gives you nearly effortless yet powerful approaches to avoiding fines and maintaining compliance with new regulations and statutes.
	What the CEO Needs from Human Resources Learn what the CEO needs from human resources and what today's CEO wants to change about workforce management. This white paper will show you how to help executives make well-informed decisions about the workforce.
	The Data-Driven HR Organization - How to Achieve It and How to Benefit From It This white paper was written by Don Farber of VineyardSoft and supports the decision to use KnowledgeSync as a tool for business to stay compliant.
	The HR Manager's Guide to Employee Engagement White Paper In this guide, we will examine some current statistics about employee engagement, show how employee engagement affects companies’ financial performance, and provide tips to effectively increase employee engagement at your company.
	HR Data Management - The Hard Way vs The Easy Way Guide Eliminate error-prone spreadsheets and paper personnel files with an HRMS.
	Workforce Planning for New Realities A new generation of tools using business intelligence, visualization, and workforce planning is powering a new set of HR initiatives and practices. This white paper explains how these tools support three key practices HR and management teams should adopt for managing the workforce in the new reality.
Presentations
	Employee Development Begins with Onboarding This presentation will provide you with a number of tools for use in building an effective onboarding strategy designed to attract and retain the talent needed to manage business success, meet organizational strategic goals and win in your competitive business environment.
	Recruiting Strategies: Get Results with the Perfect Mix of Old and New This presentation explores the highs and lows of technology as a recruiting strategy side by side with old-fashioned techniques. Whether you’re in recruiting mode or seeking ideas for recruiting strategies, you will learn the benefits of a combination strategy for finding top performers.
	The New Rules of Employee Engagement In this presentation you’ll learn about new trends in the workforce that affect employee engagement and how good management skills, paired with an understanding of culture, cooperation, and communication can be the right prescription for fiscal success and future growth.
	Trends in Compensation Management Many human resources professionals still have compensation questions they can't find the answer to. What will the 2013 focus be: basic wage increases, specific bonuses, or even stock options? This presentation provides an overview for 2013 issues and ideas surrounding compensation management.
	Compliance in 2013: Are Your Prepared? Compliance, it’s still considered by some human resource professionals as a dirty little word and now SHRM identifies compliance as an HR discipline right up there with staffing, compensation and employee relations. This presentation provides an overview of critical compliance issues for 2013 and beyond.
	Automation: The Performance Improvement Process for HR To dramatically improve performance while maintaining compliance, automation is the key. This presentation will review the status quo in HR and provide a blueprint on how to prepare and defend a proposal for automating the administrative functions within HR.
	Proven Negotiating Strategies for Settling Workplace Disputes: Stop the Temper Tantrums Life is difficult! And conflict is common in all areas of life, and very specifically in work environments. This presentation will introduce you to the concepts critical to developing negotiation strategies for settling workplace disputes.
	How a Paperless HR Department Can Survive the Compliance Jungle Many HR functions can be managed from your computer, reducing errors, improving data quality and increasing your ability to provide timely reports in meeting stringent government compliance requirements. This presentation will contrast and compare the benefits of paperless HR vs. an automated compliance program.
	Cost Effective Wellness Programs that Don't Break the Bank In this presentation you'll learn more about the benefits of wellness programs by examining data on absenteeism, employee engagement and productivity. Also, you'll receive an introduction to the variety of wellness program options for small and midsized businesses.
	How to Create a Solid Line of Communication Between HR and Payroll In this presentation you'll learn about the common goals and differing objectives of HR and payroll. It includes best practices for sharing data and working as a team on project assignments as well as how to combine talents to support field human resource and payroll representatives.
	Creating Champagne Training Programs on a Beer Budget Learn how to develop successful training programs using a mix of different training ingredients to meet the needs of your business.
	GenX, GenY, Gen? . . . The Risks of Age Profiling in the Workplace Learn why there is so much emphasis placed on generational differences in today's world and how to avoid the pitfalls of labeling generations and the impact this will have on business operations.
	Recent Court Case Rulings and What They Mean for HR Learn how you can avoid putting your company at risk of incurring costly fines, penalties, and employee lawsuits by examining the 2011 dockets of HR related cases and how they relate to day-to-day business operations.
	Social Media and HR—Friends or Foes? In this webcast learn the different types of social media networks, how they work, and how they can be used by businesses and employees. Find out what the NLRB has to say about social networking, and the ramifications of the law and social media.
	KISS—Keep It Simple Strategies: A Toolbox for First Line HR Managers Learn skills and principles for being an effective Human Resources Manager, why managing in the HR function is different, and how to be successful.
	Employee Onboarding: Engagement Strategies for Your New Hires Learn the critical components of onboarding, strategies for implementation and management, and the metrics to measure for return on employee investment in your onboarding program.
	“Trust But Verify” Pluses and Minuses of Background Screenings The Balancing Act Between EEOC, the law, and the juries. What’s a Business To Do? Learn more in this presentation from the Sage HR R&R: Refresh and Recertify Webcast Series.
	Navigating the Mine Field of Federal and State Leave Laws This presentation provides human resource professionals and organizational managers information that will help them comply with the many twists and turns of federal- and state-mandated leave programs.
	Creating the Recruiters Little Black Book This presentation introduces readers to the concepts critical to developing a tactical approach to recruitment and employee retention.
	Measuring Up - Using Metrics to Meet and Exceed Expectations Learn what CEOs need to know from human resources and how to use metrics to evaluate and improve staffing and employee management.
	Wage and Hour: Staying on the Right Side of the DOL Learn what CEOs need to know from human resources and how to use metrics to evaluate and improve staffing and employee management.
	NLRB: Should You Be Concerned? What actions are currently being taken by the NLRB that can affect your company? Learn this and find out what actions your company should be engaging in now before you become the target.
	The HR Manager’s Guide to Proper Worker Classification If you incorrectly classify a worker, you could be subject to penalties by the IRS, and by many states. Learn about properly classifying workers in this presentation.
Analyst Reports
	Core HR Systems - Aberdeen Research From competition for top talent to spiraling benefits costs, the challenges of human resources make many business owners squirm. Now, globalization is bearing down on businesses with increased competitive pressures. This, combined with evolving technological advances, calls for an acceleration of workforce skill development. You can take control of your HR functions by using the proper technology to your advantage.
	Raise the Bar on HR Talent management has been elevated to the top of strategic human resources management challenges propelled by the changing workplace expectations of Generation Y and the struggle to attract and retain the quality of human capital that businesses require. How organizations handle this will determine the winners and losers in this evolving environment.

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