Best Practices in

Hiring & Performance Management

About the Workshop:

Participants will learn:

 Best Practices in Hiring 

·         Finding and Recruiting Qualified Candidates

·         Interviewing Tips

·         Using Social Media in Hiring

·         Use of Assessments

·         Reference Checking

·         Criminal Background Checks

·         Preventing Discrimination Claims

·         Onboarding

Best Practices in Performance Management

·         Coaching and Counseling

·         Using Performance Reviews

·         Employee Disciplinary Process

·         Employee Misconduct

·         Managing Absenteeism

·         Responding to Employee Complaints

·         Investigation Process

·         Termination of Employment

About the Presenter:

Ann Plunkett, Workplace Partners, Inc 

Ann has over thirty years of legal and human resources experience as corporate counsel, employment counsel and human resources executive in various corporate settings.

Throughout her career, she has advised senior management on a wide variety of employment issues, including hiring practices, EEO issues, employment discrimination, employment testing, screening and selection, drug testing, reductions in force, employee benefits, plant closings, FMLA, ADA, policy and procedure development, employee discipline, sexual harassment, employee investigations, terminations, workplace violence, workforce diversity, and employee relations.

After two years in private law practice, she served as Assistant Counsel for T.G. & Y. Stores Company, a national discount retailer based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1985 Ann relocated to St. Louis to join The May Department Stores Company, a $14 billion national retailer. As Senior Counsel at May, she specialized in employment law, handling a broad scope of legal and human resources matters for May’s numerous divisions throughout the country, including Lord & Taylor, Payless ShoeSource, Famous-Barr, Hecht’s, Foley’s, Robinsons-May and Filene’s. Ann also gained hands-on human resources management experience at May, directing the store human resources function in an operating division.

At Fox Photo, Inc., a photo/imaging subsidiary of Eastman Kodak, Ann combined her legal background with her human resources expertise, serving as General Counsel and Vice President of Human Resources. In addition to managing all legal business issues internally for the 435 stores in 26 states, she directed the human resource functions including compensation, benefits, HR information systems, employee relations and federal and state compliance. She organized and staffed the human resources department and directed the implementation of payroll and human resources information systems.

In 1998, Ann founded the full-service human resources consulting firm, Workplace Partners.

Ann has been a frequent guest speaker for various professional organizations, both locally and nationally, on numerous employment-related topics.

A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ann is a 1975 graduate of Oklahoma City University, Summa Cum Laude, and earned her Juris Doctor from Oklahoma University in 1978. She is a member of the Missouri Bar Association.

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