Webinar Recordings

What to do When Law Enforcement Shows Up

Politics aside, organizations have rights and duties in different circumstances where law enforcement makes contact. In this presentation, Mike Coffey will discuss why businesses need a law enforcement response policy, appropriate and legal options in different circumstances, common misunderstandings regarding law enforcement interactions, and ways to protect the company and employees while ensuring compliance with the law.

Alt+Ctrl+Deceive: Protecting Yourself from Remote Employee Fraud

While employers consider the advantages of remote work in attracting and retaining employees, most are unaware of, much less protected from, the risks of illegal activity and fraud unique to the remote environment. Foreign actors, fraudulent employment verifiers, and dishonest “overemployed” workers are but a few of the sources of liability, data breaches, and financial losses employers have suffered. Using traditional deception methods and modern artificial intelligence tools like “deep fakes”, bad actors are targeting unsuspecting employers. In this presentation, Mike Coffey, a career HR professional and licensed private investigator, will discuss some of the ways that dishonest actors have harmed employers and practical steps employers can take to protect themselves.

Using Generative AI to Increase Productivity

In this one-hour presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP will demonstrate the use of several artificial large language models to create efficiencies in common HR-related tasks. He will discuss the pros and cons of different AI tools, how to create effective prompts, and practical issues in using the tools. Live examples will include using AI to conduct research, summarize long documents, and create performance improvement plans that align with your organization’s policies. He will also demonstrate how to create AI-generated training videos and images.

Background Check Myth Busters

In this one-hour presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP will address the most common misunderstood issues surrounding employers’ review of criminal history, consideration of off-duty conduct, and use of background checks in making employment decisions.

Ethical and Practical Considerations on the Use of AI in Human Resources

Artificial intelligence presents many opportunities and challenges to human resources professionals. In this highly interactive presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP will demonstrate many of the ways that artificial intelligence is impacting HR departments and facilitate participants’ evaluation of ethical questions posed by the inevitable introduction of AI into many HR processes.

Identifying Candidate Behaviors to Help Predict Success

Many employers are recognizing that employees’ behavioral traits are as important to success as knowledge or experience. In this presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP will explore effective strategies for evaluating essential behavior traits such as communication, adaptability, and teamwork during the hiring process. Learn how to leverage the content of job postings and the application process, assessments, interviews, reference checks, and other tools to assess relevant behavioral skills and make informed hiring decisions that contribute to long-term organizational success.

Ethical Issues in Talent Acquisition

In this interactive presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP will discuss the difference between legal compliance and ethical behavior; where individual and organizational ethics come from; building an ethical framework for decision making; and the kinds of ethical issues that might arise in recruiting and selecting new employees

Mitigating Bias in the Employee Selection Process

For several years, businesses have come to understand how implicit bias is negatively impacting their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

In this presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, will discuss kinds of bias and practical ways to mitigate them during the employee selection process.

Drug-Free Workplaces in an Increasingly Tolerant (and Stoned) Society

In this one-hour presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP will review the legal, scientific, and practical landscape in regard to marijuana, opioids, and other drugs.

What to Do When an Employee Gets Arrested

In this presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, will review the kinds of insider threats about which employers may need to be aware. He will also review policy considerations to ensure that red-flag incidents are identified and evaluated fairly.

Legal and Practical Background Check Considerations

In this presentation, we will discuss the ways employers can verify their applicants claims while avoiding the most common causes of background check litigation.

How to Legally and Meaningfully Discuss Criminal History with Applicants

In this one-hour presentation, we will discuss what and when to ask applicants about their criminal history.

How to Fairly and Legally Evaluate Applicants’ Criminal History Information

In this webinar, we will walk through the process of developing a criminal history relevance matrix, an effective tool for documenting employers’ policies with regard to the impact of individuals’ criminal histories on their employment eligibility.

Seven Steps to Making Bulletproof Hiring Decisions

In this presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR will outline a thorough background screening process that begins with a risk-based analysis of the position, identifies red-flag behaviors of concern for the position, includes a thorough employment application and interview process, and ends with verification of the information provided by the applicant.

The Business Case for Becoming a Second Chance Employer

In this presentation, we will dive into the statistics and studies surrounding criminal offenses, recidivism, and employment as we review the benefits to businesses from considering and hiring qualified former offenders for positions.

Strategy, Execution, and The Art of Saying No (HRCI Business Credit)

In this presentation, entrepreneur Mike Coffey, SPHR discuss the reasons many businesses’ strategies fail and demonstrates simple tools to keep your business focused and on track.

Using Organizational Values as a Planning and Accountability Tool (HRCI Business Credit)

In this presentation, Mike Coffey discusses the importance of clarifying an organization’s values and how to use them in strategic planning, product and service design, and performance management.

Beyond Values: Building an Ethical Business Environment (HRCI Ethics Credit)

In this one-hour presentation, Mike Coffey will explore the differences between compliance, values, and ethics; how organizations can encourage ethical behavior; and ways to accommodate ethical differences in the workplace.