AGENDA

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*Agenda and sessions are subject to change


sunday.june.3
3:30 - 7:00 PM Registration Open
7:00 - 10:00 Welcome Reception (Brought to You by Our Sponsors)
monday.june.4
7:30 - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:30 Opening Session
10:30 - 10:45 Break
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
10:45 - 11:45 Customer Presentation - How Onboarding Affects Retention (RedCarpet) GreenLight - Managing Training Catalogs & Course Offerings (Beginner) OpenHire - Screening Candidates (Beginner) HeartBeat - Introducing Employee & Manager Self Service (Beginner)
11:45 - 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Customer Presentation - Getting the Most From Your Career Portal (OpenHire) WingSpan - Using Tags to Optimize Performance Output (Advanced) RedCarpet - Using multiple events in RC (Beginner) SilkRoad Point Demonstration
2:15 - 3:15 GreenLight - Assigning Mandatory Training to Students in GreenLight (Beginner) OpenHire - Managing Candidates through the Recruiting Process (Advanced) HeartBeat - Employee Lifecycle Management (Intermediate)
3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30 Customer Presentation - Compliance & Recruiting for Government Contractors (OpenHire) WingSpan - Designing Appraisals (Beginner) RedCarpet - Designing your Event Portal (Portal Studio) Beginner SilkRoad Point Demonstration
4:30 - 5:30 Reception
tuesday.june.5
7:30 - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 Keynote Presentation
10:00 - 10:15 Break
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
10:15 - 11:15 GreenLight - Adaptive Learning Components (Intermediate - Content Developer and Instructional Designer Roles) OpenHire - Tips & Tricks: Sourcing and Searching (Intermediate) HeartBeat - Introducing Requests & Workflows (Beginner)
11:30 - 12:30 Customer Presentation - GreenLight to the Rescue! WingSpan - Succession Planning (Beginner) RedCarpet - Specialize Notifications (Intermediate) SilkRoad Point Demonstration
12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Customer Presentation - Post WingSpan Appraisal Implementation - Where Do You Go From Here? GreenLight - Tips and Tricks: Troubleshooting Online Courses (Advanced - Content Developer Role) OpenHire - Building Reports in OpenHire HeartBeat - Tips & Tricks: Analytics & System Administration (Intermediate)
2:45 - 3:45 WingSpan - Using GreenLight to Fill Gaps in Performance (Intermediate) RedCarpet - Using Assignment Categories to Target Task Ownership (Advanced) SilkRoad Point Demonstration
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00 Learning Lab
6:30 Dinner
wednesday.june.6
7:30 - 8:30 AM Breakfast
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
8:30 - 9:30 Customer Presentation - Building Talent Communities to Enhance Employee Engagement (OpenHire) GreenLight - Working with Reports (Intermediate - Training Coordinator Role) OpenHire - Customizing Features in OpenHire (Advanced)
9:45 - 10:45 WingSpan - Tips & Tricks: Managing Navigation & Static Text (Intermediate) RedCarpet - Using RedCarpet to Manager E-Verify Process (Intermediate)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 RedCarpet - Integrating OpenHire and RedCarpet (Advanced)
12:00 - 12:15 Closing Remarks

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How Onboarding Affects Retention (RedCarpet)
Jill Kreissl, Employment Director, Cook Children's Health Care System
In this customer presentation attendees will hear about Cook Children's Health Care Systems assimilation of onboarding and new hire orientation and how an effective system can help improve retention of your top performers. Objectives include:
  1. An understanding of the importance of an effective onboarding process to reduce turnover and prepare new hires for their work
  2. How to utilize the internal processes and resources available to effectively provide new hires with an immediate connection to the team by making the orientation process both personally and organizationally meaningful and cost efficient
  3. How to provide managers with tools to transition new hires into their work environment by providing a structured, organized departmental orientation process
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GreenLight - Managing Training Catalogs & Course Offerings (Beginner)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Defining ILT and OLT course properties
  2. Publishing courses in Catalog
  3. Assigning courses to Memberships
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GreenLight - Assigning Mandatory Training to Students in GreenLight (Beginner)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Defining Performance and Enabling Objectives
  2. Defining Competencies, Qualifications and Requirements
  3. Associate jobs, job categories and student groups to qualifications
  4. Assigning training and managing certifications
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GreenLight - Adaptive Learning Components (Intermediate - Content Developer and Instructional Designer Roles)
Details to come!
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GreenLight - Tips and Tricks: Troubleshooting Online Courses (Advanced - Content Developer Role)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Setting properties of Course objects
  2. Checking Navigation & Sequencing settings
  3. Diagnostic Detail Reports
  4. Tracking progress and completion
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Building Talent Communities to Enhance Employee Engagement (OpenHire)
Michael Goldberg, Director of Talent Acquisition, Freeman
Talent Communities and employee engagement are not a fad or the best practice of the day. Quite the contrary, these tools are a necessity. So what are you doing about building your pools of talent for pipelining, how are you continually engaging those pools to generate candidate interest? This strategic and informative session will provide you the necessary information to get things started.
Attendees will learn:
  1. How to build and enhance your talent communities through social recruiting influence
  2. Develop, implement and execute candidate engagement strategies to your communities with the help of OpenHire
  3. Measuring and reporting success to your leadership team
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GreenLight - Working with Reports (Intermediate - Training Coordinator Role)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Working with System Reports
  2. Using Microsoft Visual Studio to Create Custom Reports
  3. Working with Diagnostic Detail Reports
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HeartBeat - Introducing Employee & Manager Self Service (Beginner)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Viewing Employee Access
  2. Initiating a Request as an Employee
  3. Viewing Manager Access
  4. Initiating a Personnel Request as Manager
  5. Benefits of Self Service
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HeartBeat - Employee Lifecycle Management (Intermediate)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Adding a worker
  2. Working with Contingent Workers
  3. Managing Job and Compensation changes
  4. Making employee Benefit eligible
  5. Terminating and rehiring employees
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HeartBeat - Introducing Requests & Workflows (Beginner)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Reviewing Request Types
  2. Editing Workflows
  3. Designing workflow rules
  4. Initiating Requests based on Workflow Rules
  5. Notifications
  6. Taking Action on Requests
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HeartBeat - Tips & Tricks: Analytics & System Administration (Intermediate)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Generating & Saving Reports
  2. Checking workflow Request
  3. Resetting user accounts
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OpenHire - Screening Candidates (Beginner)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Reviewing Resumes
  2. Screen Candidates using CQEs
  3. Qualifying Candidates
  4. Ranking Candidates
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OpenHire - Managing Candidates through the Recruiting Process (Advanced)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Completing Review Requests
  2. Completing Interview Requests
  3. Changing Dispositions
  4. Communicating with Candidates-Sending CCE's, Comments, Reminders
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OpenHire - Tips & Tricks: Sourcing and Searching (Intermediate)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Using Search Folders
  2. Sharing Jobs on Social Networking sites
  3. Sourcing Candidates using Hot Matches, Candidate Agents, and Advanced Search
  4. Managing Candidate Skill Sets
  5. Sourcing Candidates from Third Party Job Boards
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Post WingSpan Appraisal Implementation - Where Do You Go From Here?
Cynthia Thorland, VP/Director of Educational Resources, Life Care Services
Catching your breath from your appraisal implementation and wondering - where do we go from here? Come learn from LCS how over the past 4.5 years the use of WingSpan as a Talent Management tool has continued to expand and evolve each year. Attendees will learn about the vital role WingSpan implementation played in assisting and expanding the use of the system including:
  1. Moving from a paper-based to automated appraisal process
  2. How to prepare for your second year of training and maintenance
  3. How year-end feedback and assessments have evolved
  4. The use and incorporation of the development library
  5. Tracking employee contributions and succession planning
  6. Future use of the Wingspan succession planning features
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OpenHire - Building Reports in OpenHire
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Performing Advanced Searches
  2. Saving Search Criteria and Search Results
  3. Managing Report access
  4. Generating and Saving Reports
  5. Creating ad hoc reports
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OpenHire - Customizing Features in OpenHire (Advanced)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Sharing Hiring Stages with Candidates
  2. Working with Multiple Workflows
  3. Attaching Documents to Job Posting
  4. Sharing Jobs to Social Networks
  5. Allowing Unsolicited Resumes
  6. Limit OpenHire User Access via Location
  7. Limit Recruiting Manger Access in the Organize Menu
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RedCarpet - Using multiple events in RC (Beginner)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Managing Event Workflow
  2. Assigning Teams, Categories, Key Properties, People
  3. Using Portal vs. User Interface
  4. Designing Notifications
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RedCarpet - Designing your Event Portal (Portal Studio) Beginner
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Creating and using various page formats (faq's, documents...)
  2. Upload documents into RedCarpet
  3. Integrating media
  4. Portal Roles
  5. Formatting pages
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RedCarpet - Specialize Notifications (Intermediate)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Using for Self-Completing tasks
  2. Resending notifications
  3. On Tasks
  4. On Key Properties
  5. On Event Categories
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RedCarpet - Using Assignment Categories to Target Task Ownership (Advanced)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Defining Assignment Categories (Difference between Assignment Categories and Key Properties)
  2. Task assigned to a team-visible assignment to a team
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RedCarpet - Using RedCarpet to Manager E-Verify Process (Intermediate)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Setting up tasks in the workflow
  2. Confirmation
  3. TNC's
  4. Resolving cases
  5. Notifications
  6. Gov't resources
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RedCarpet - Integrating OpenHire and RedCarpet (Advanced)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Integrating Employee Profile fields
  2. Managing Roles between systems- Recruiter/Onboarding Coordinator and Hiring Manager/Manager
  3. Managing Pending Employees
  4. Launching employees into Events
  5. Managing launched employees
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Getting the Most From Your Career Portal (OpenHire)
Monica Lloyd, Trumpet Behavioral Health
Join this session to hear how you to use video, employee testimonials, events and branding to entice people to apply to your open positions! Objectives include:
  1. How and what kind of content to put on your site
  2. An understanding of what branding means to your recruiting process
  3. How to leverage your OpenHire career portal to increase your number of applicants
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WingSpan - Using Tags to Optimize Performance Output (Advanced)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Managing Tags and Process Labels
  2. Configuring Profile Tags
  3. Report Status
  4. Adding Activities to Development Plan as a Manager
  5. Uploading supporting documents as an employee
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Compliance & Recruiting for Government Contractors (OpenHire)
Jennifer Romero, HR Generalist, ARA
Compliance and recordkeeping obligations can be confusing. In this session attendees will take away a real understanding of the Definition of an Internet Applicant, including actual requirements and how OpenHire can help meet such compliance obligations.
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WingSpan - Designing Appraisals (Beginner)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Creating and Editing Workflows
  2. Creating Outlook based meeting requests
  3. Launching the Appraisal process
  4. Filtering with User Defined Fields
  5. Using Email sets
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GreenLight to the Rescue!
Mib Scoggins, Director of Organizational Learning, McLeod Health
Learn how GreenLight afforded McLeod Health the ability to streamline their learning process and eliminated confusion job and training confusion. This session will showcase, to users, the many capabilities of GreenLight and how they can all be brought together to provide a total learning experience
Attendees will take away:
  1. An understanding of the capabilities of GreenLight
  2. An understanding of how GreenLight can blend instructor led and e-course formats
  3. An understanding of the reporting/tracking capabilities of GreenLight
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WingSpan - Succession Planning (Beginner)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. System Defaults
  2. Creating 9 box
  3. Creating Candidate Pools
  4. Potential/Promotobility Tab evaluations
  5. User Defined Fields
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WingSpan - Using GreenLight to Fill Gaps in Performance (Intermediate)
Details coming soon!
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WingSpan - Tips & Tricks: Managing Navigation & Static Text (Intermediate)
In this session attendees will learn:
  1. Customizing the left navigation menu
  2. Using Search and Replace feature on Static Text
  3. Working with User Defined Fields
  4. Adding Activities to Development Plan as an employee
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