The interconnectedness between human resources and project management

Although a superficial look may suggest nothing in common between HR and project management; upon scratching the surface a bit, one discovers a close relationship between the two. Project management and HR are very closely related to each other, if one considers the similarity in the approach to the two disciplines:

Project management is rooted in planning. A detailed, systematic, team-involved plan is at the core of successful project implementation. Therefore, the project leader who plans well succeeds in executing the project and taking it a notch higher. 

The ability to plan precisely is of equal importance for HR, because much of what progresses in the organization hinges on HR’s planning ability. When HR plans and implements properly and effectively, that is a sure prescription for the organization’s success and growth. Like project managers, HR is also expected to transform a vague concept into a measurable outcome by channeling a broad array of knowledge, skills, and resources toward a critical organizational goal.

A learning session on the link between HR and project management

A proper understanding of this link between HR and project planning is the learning that a two-day, in person seminar being organized by GlobalCompliancePanel, a leading provider of professional trainings for the areas of regulatory compliance, will be imparting.

The speaker at this session, Cathleen Hampton, a professional consultant with over 25 years of HR experience, will talk about strategic and effective management and implementation of programs and ways in which HR professionals can facilitate both of these in their organizations. To gain learning of the crucial link between HR and project management, just log on to

http://www.globalcompliancepanel.com/control/globalseminars/~product_id=900725.

Understanding the similarities

Over two days of learning, Cathleen will expose participants to the basic principles concerning the nuts and bolts of planning, scheduling, and budgeting. These will be the outcomes of this learning:

o   Strengthening of skills and understanding how to generate valuable benefits for the organization by achieving crucial results that align with organizational objectives

o   Knowledge of the communication skills it takes to get ideas, instructions, and requests across quickly and accurately, thereby minimizing development time

o   Effectively using resources to stay on top of deadlines and expenses

o   How to rebound quickly from surprises and setbacks

o   How to get the best from people who don't normally report to them

o   These are the objectives of this seminar:

o   Learning the imperative questions to ask before even beginning

o   How to use the planning and scheduling tools that professional project managers use, such as GANTT charts, the critical path method, work breakdown structures, project management software, and others

o   Best practices for team work

o   Understanding when and how the “Murphy factor” could hit the project and impact it in a big way.

Get your HIPAA compliance right in six simple steps

The most important element that Covered Entities and Business Associates must keep in mind while carrying out HIPAA audits is best summarized in the words of Jocelyn Samuels, the top Federal official in charge of HIPAA enforcement. To quote her own words, Covered Entities and Business Associates must ensure compliance through “... a comprehensive and thorough approach to assessing and addressing the risks to all of the Protected Health Information (PHI) they maintain”.

Although Risk Analysis is mandatory; HIPAA audits of 2012 showed that as many as four fifths of health care providers failed to comply with this mandatory requirement. Covered Entities and Business Associates are under severe pressure to do a HIPAA Risk Analysis of all the PHI’s they maintain. Most of this, they are expected to do on their own. This explains perhaps just why 80% of health care providers failed to do the Risk Analysis, a fact discovered by the HHS. In fact, the incidence of HIPAA violations has been increasing so steeply that 2015 was sardonically referred to in HIPAA circles as the “Year of the Breach”. This fact leads to the next important point: higher and greater number of government enforcement and private lawsuits.

Learn the ways of getting HIPAA compliance right in just six simple steps

The above facts make it absolutely imperative for Covered Entities and Business Associates to get every aspect of the HIPAA compliance right, in the manner suggested by Jocelyn Samuels. This is precisely what GlobalCompliancePanel, a highly renowned provider of professional trainings for all areas of regulatory compliance, will be imparting at a two-day, in person seminar. To enroll for his event, just visit

http://www.globalcompliancepanel.com/control/globalseminars/~product_id=900616SEMINAR?master-HIPAA-compliance-six-steps-San-Diego.

The Director of this highly meaningful and valuable seminar is the well-known expert on HIPAA compliance, Paul Hales. Paul’s credentials get augmented by the fact that he has, with a team of expert advisors and practical field testers, created a method of making all HIPAA regulations accessible to the everyday person. Paul’s method explains all the aspects of HIPAA in uncomplicated and simple language and carries the exact citations to each regulation. This method is directed at organizations’ legal counsel who may not be well versed or experienced in HIPAA, and will be a major part of this seminar. 

Major benefits by learning from the expert

Organizations that are required to carry out HIPAA audits will gain enormously from this seminar. It will help them to save money, time, and research. Paul will discuss how Business Associates and Covered Entities can grow their practice and be compliant. His method will serve as the very foundation on which organization can implement their HIPAA Compliance Program. Most importantly, he will teach how they can grow what is most valuable to their business: Their patients. Paul’s HIPAA compliance method, which consists of six easy steps, will create a level of quality to the advice that the legal counsel provides.

He will take participants of this seminar through a Risk Analysis for their organization and will also delve into the Privacy, Breach, and Security Rules as applicable to their particular organization. 

Identifying and managing key risks is the primary purpose of HR auditing

Human resources audit should qualify as the most important of all audits of an organization. This is because HR auditing is directly related to employees, who are the organization’s most important resource. It is through an HR audit that an organization evaluates its employees’ strengths and weaknesses.

HR audits help organizations in a number of ways

HR auditing helps organizations in many ways. Through HR audits, organizations are able to ascertain potential and actual problem areas, assess the effectiveness of current HR management activities, measure the weaknesses in HR internal control processes, evaluate human capital strategic and compliance related risks, and suggest corrective action on all these.

Getting the HR auditing right

The fulcrum for all these for an organization is in getting its HR audit right. The ways by which this can be achieved will be the subject of a seminar that GlobalCompliancePanel, a renowned provider of professional trainings in the regulatory compliance areas, will be organizing. More on this teaching session can be had from

http://www.globalcompliancepanel.com/control/globalseminars/~product_id=900673SEMINAR?HR-auditing-identifying-Salt-Lake-City-UT.

 The Director at this seminar, Ronald Adler, who is President of Laurdan associates, Inc., will offer insights into HR auditing in a way only a person such as him, who has spent over four decades in the industry, can.

The basis of effective HR auditing lies in asking the right questions

Ronald Adler will emphasize the point that the root to carrying out HR audits effectively is in asking the right questions. The effectiveness of HR audits is measured by how they throw up a structured and systematic series of questions about the areas relating to key compliance, risk management, internal auditing, and human resource management issues in HR, which are the main purpose of these audits.

Key issues affecting HR audits in 2016

Because of the coming together of a variety of factors; HR auditing has taken a new role and importance from 2016. These factors include:

o   The increasing importance of human capital in the age of ever increasing globalization

o   The insufficiency of the present financial institutions to foresee and contain the outbreak of corporate scandals and bring about greater transparency in these institutions

o   The recognition by leading bodies and legislations such as the EEOC, the OFCCP, U.S. DOL, the NLRB, and ICE of the importance of HR audits as an effective tool for self-audits

The role of ERM in HR audits

Another important point that Ronald Adler will highlight at this seminar is the importance of HR audits in considering human capital-related risks and opportunities from an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) perspective. This means that the HR audit should take a holistic view of human capital risks and align the interrelationships and interactions between HR and other functions relating to management and the organization.

Yet another aspect that will be reviewed is the current use of HR audits. Adler will explain how HR Audits can be used to help the organization reduce risks and grab potential opportunities.

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