MEGA SESSION Changing the Culture, Not Checking the Box: Management Training in Today's Workplace
HR professionals have the unenviable task of trying to make routine training for supervisors and managers fresh, interesting and instructive. How can HR change workplace culture—as opposed to just checking a box—around such matters as proper documentation, meaningful performance appraisals, sexual harassment prevention, discipline risks and more? How do you keep the attention of managers who are receiving the same message over and over, year after year? This session offers creative, interactive approaches to management training and explores the essential training topics for 2019.
Learning Objectives:
- Why harassment, leadership, and diversity and inclusion should be on your list of must-do training.
- How to engage your audience and keep people’s attention.
- An examination of unconscious bias and its impact on the workplace.
Joseph L. Beachboard

Joseph (“Joe”) Beachboard is a nationally recognized employment lawyer who also closely tracks the most important developments at the U.S. Supreme Court impacting the business community. He has more than 30 years of experience representing management in a wide variety of employment and labor matters in perhaps the most challenging state in the nation for employers – California. Mr. Beachboard speaks regularly before human resource and employer groups on cutting edge employment law topics. He is a member of SHRM and has been an annual presenter at both the SHRM Annual Conference and the Employment Law and Compliance Conference for two decades. Mr. Beachboard is frequently quoted in such leading publications as HR Magazine, National Law Journal, Los Angeles Times, NY Times, HR Executive and Workforce, and has been published in dozens of legal and business journals. Throughout his career in Los Angeles, Mr. Beachboard has represented dozens of studios and entertainment properties. He cites his most interesting project as working with the cast and crew of the television show The Office, from its pilot through the final season.
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