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Location: Live, Online Virtual Course (The link will be provided after registration)

Explore how employee relations and engagement can support a productive workplace and stronger business performance. This course examines HR’s role in fostering engagement, measuring its impact and developing strategies to retain key employees.

• Understand HR’s role in employee relations.
• Review current research on employee engagement.
• Explore how employee engagement affects business performance and profitability.
• Identify key elements of engagement through practical examples.
• Learn approaches to measure employee engagement and improve employee retention.

ABC Keystone’s Human Resources Management Academy is a 12-session HR training series designed to strengthen the skills and knowledge of human resources professionals. Through focused training on key HR topics and best practices, participants explore ways to attract and retain talent, lead through change, build a positive organizational culture, and support workplace safety, compliance and employee advocacy.

12 Session Series * Classes cycle continuously, join any time at series rate.

• HRMA 1: HR’s Strategic, Operational & Administrative Roles | March 17, 2027
• HRMA 2: Employment Laws, Compliance and Minimizing Risk | April 21, 2027
• HRMA 3: HR Record Keeping and Reporting | May 19, 2027
• HRMA 4: Effective Recruiting & Hiring | June 16, 2027
• HRMA 5: Behavioral-based Interviewing | July 21, 2027
• HRMA 6: Employment Assessments | August 18, 2027
• HRMA 7: Coaching Employees, Performance Feedback & Appraisals | September 15, 2027
• HRMA 8: Conducting Investigations, Disciplining & Terminating Employees | October 21, 2027
• HRMA 9: Employee Relations and Engagement | November 17, 2027
• HRMA 10: Employee Orientation, Training & Development | December 15, 2027
• HRMA 11: Pay, Benefits & Other Rewards | January 19, 2028
• HRMA 12: Safety, Security, Health & Leaves of Absence Management | February 16, 2028

Instructor: Jim Weischedel, Samaritan Consulting Group

Jim’s passion is to help organizations improve and to partner with individuals to grow and develop. He does this through providing services in the areas of human resources compliance, training, staffing, executive search, HR program reviews and audits, employee engagement surveys, leadership coaching and development, performance management, and many other human resources areas. Jim has more than 20 years of executive-level human resources experience with companies of varying industries and sizes. Additionally, he has senior operational leadership experience and has served on and led several organization boards. Jim holds a Master of Business Administration with concentration in human resources management from Penn State University, as well as a bachelor’s in secondary education from Millersville University. He is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI), and SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) through the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM).

Registration date: Seven days prior to session date.

Price includes: Instruction and Interactive Role-Play Activities

If you must cancel for any reason, please contact us immediately.
Cancellations received less than 7 days of the start of class cannot be refunded; substitutions are permitted.

ABC Members may select the option to be invoiced.
Non-members will need to please pay at time of registration either via credit card payment online or by calling the Chapter office: (717) 653-8106.

EIN: 23-1618254 – Contributions or gifts are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. However, payments may be deductible by members as an ordinary, necessary business expense. See your accountant for details.

Not a member? If you are interested in becoming a member, please contact Mike Bachman at mike@abckeystone.org.