Solutions Training Group, Austin, Texas

Fundamentals of HR - July 26-27, 2010

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Title: Fundamentals of HR

Class Date: July 26-27, 2010

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Instructors: Matthew Levitt, SPHR and Mark Majek, PHR

Location: One Highland Center, 314 E. Highland Mall Blvd., Suite 403, Austin, TX 78752

Price: $425
Early Bird Discount: $399 if you register by June 26, 2010.

Group Discount:

$375 per person if 3 people from the same organization attend.

$365 per person if 4 people from the same organization attend.

$350 per person if 5 or more from the same organization attend.

Course Description

If you are a "front line" supervisor, new public sector human resource staff member, need a general HR refresher and update, or want to broaden your HR knowledge beyond your focus as an HR specialist, then this is the class for you. In the Fundamentals of Human Resource Class, you will come away with a solid foundation of the principles and practices of Human Resources.

This class will provide you with the fundamental foundation for all aspects of Human Resources including: HR employment law, workforce planning, the hiring process, compensation and benefits, performance management and employee relations, and staff development. This class will provide you with the latest information - both current laws and best practices.

The topics covered in this class will allow your organization to best manage its human resources which translates into higher productivity. In the state of the economy today, this is what is required to survive.

After taking this course, you will better understand the unique policies and procedures of Texas public sector and receive Texas-specific resources to use in your daily work.

Who Should Attend:

Front Line Supervisors

New Texas public sector staff members including state, higher education, federal, city, county, and school districts

HR Staff needing a refresher or updates

HR Specialists seeking to broaden their knowledge

Please note: Materials are designed and geared towards the public sector.

Course Objectives:

In this two-day class, you'll learn:

Basic HR law including new rules and regulations on the amended ADA and FMLA

Effective and Legal use of the "at-will" doctrine

Techniques on retrieving real employment verifications

Pointers on hiring right

Strategies on providing blunt and effective employee feedback - with respect

To eliminate the "gray areas" of Sexual Harassment - what it is and is not!

How to prevent illegal discrimination

How to write job descriptions that work

How to motivate and reward employees

Course Outline:

HR Employment Law

Legal Introduction/Overview

At-will doctrine - the human factor

Discrimination - hiring process, personnel decisions

Sexual harassment

FMLA/ADAA

FLSA

Workforce Planning

Workforce Planning requirements and process

Workforce Planning best practices

Hiring Process

Posting positions

Applicant screening

Behavioral interviewing

Reference checking

Compensation and Benefits

State Classification Plan

Base pay and additional compensation

Job analysis

State leave provisions (Sick, Annual, Emergency, Sick Leave Pool, etc.)

Incentives and rewards

Insurance and other ERS benefits

Performance Management and Employee Relations

Job Descriptions - basis for HR decision making

Setting goals

Providing feedback

Performance documentation

Performance evaluations

Progressive discipline

Employee investigations

Staff Development

Safety/health/wellness (time permitting)

Note: Course outline may be edited prior to course offering to reflect updates in content and format.

About Our Instructors:

Matthew Levitt, SPHR is the HR Director at the Texas School for the Deaf and has twenty years of human resources management experience in Texas State Government. In addition to his directing agency HR operations, his statewide projects for all of Texas State Government have included: managing contractor data reporting, developing the online HR self-assessment guide, and managing the reporting and analysis of state employee turnover.

He has been teaching college level business classes for fifteen years and was the 2006-2007 Alpha Sigma Lambda faculty inductee, as the outstanding instructor at Concordia University’s Accelerated Degree Program.

He graduated from Antioch College with a Bachelor’s degree in economics and received his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a past president of the Texas State Human Resources Association and he received his Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification in 1997.

Mark Majek, PHR has served as the Operations Director for the Texas Board of Nursing for the past 22 and 1/2 years. He has been in the state human resource trenches all that time and has real life experiences on translating state/federal HR laws into staff productivity. He has delivered over 50 classes to over 1,000 state agency employees and has taught the fundamentals class over the past five years. He is certified as a Professional in Human Resources by the Society of Human Resource Management and is the Board of Nursing HR Director.

Mr. Majek graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in Political Science and Czech Language and holds MA degree from Corpus Christi State University in Business and Communications. Mark is currently the Chair of the Small State Agency Task Force and serves on several state committees to provide feedback to policy makers on wellness and other state issues. He also serves a member of the Finance Committee for the National Council of State Boards of Nursing of which he was elected as a board member of that organization from 2001 though 2005.

CPE: 16 hours

Level: Beginner

Type of class: Human Resources

TX Board of Public Accountancy Sponsor Number: 009317

Class participants will be billed after the class. Payment should be made to SOLUTIONS TRAINING GROUP, Federal Tax ID: 20-2732184 and mailed to 2701 Maria Anna Rd, Austin, TX 78703. If you have any questions, please contact Shannon Bieberdorf at (512) 914-5557 shannon-solutions@austin.rr.com.

Cancellation Information: Cancellation Date: July 5, 2010
To cancel your registration from this course, please call or email the course contact listed below. If a cancellation is received after the cancellation date, the registrant will be charged $145 for course materials.

If you are making travel plans to come to the training, please make "refundable" air and hotel reservations or wait until 14 days before the class to actually book your reservations. Courses are occasionally canceled or rescheduled due to low enrollment. We determine whether a course has enough participants approximately 16 days prior to the course date. If we cancel or reschedule, we will email the participant no later than 14 days before the original class date. Solutions Training will not pay for cancellation/change fees associated with travel and hotel arrangement changes.

For additional information about this class, please contact Laurie Garrant at laurie@solutionstraininggroup.com, (512) 914-5567.

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