Session 2 Description

Title & Description

Speaker / Bio

A. Child Support Enforcement

Everything you ever wanted to know about child support but were afraid to ask. The presenters in this workshop will discuss the employer’s role in New Hire Reporting, what the Automatic Income Withholding rules mean to you and the Federal National Medical Support Notice that has recently appeared in your mailbox. Come prepared to ask questions and participate in this energetic presentation

Deborah Kreger
Program Advisor, Awareness and Education
Child Support Program
Minnesota Department of Human Services
St. Paul, MN

Deb Kreger works with community outreach and collaboration with the Child Support Program. Prior to becoming involved in collaborative efforts, Deb was a trainer for the Child Care Assistance Programs at the Minnesota Department of Children, Families & Learning. She also worked in a county social service agency for 13 years primarily as a case manager. Deb’s educational background is in nursing, and she has served in the Minnesota Army National Guard for 26 years and is currently a First Sergeant with an Air Ambulance Company.

Linda Olson
Child Support Supervisor
Dakota County Minnesota

Linda Olson works as a Program Supervisor in Dakota County Minnesota. She currently has a staff of 14. She has worked in the Collections field for the past 15 years, including the past 11 in child support. She is a former Trainer with the State of Minnesota Department of Human Services. As a trainer her focus was new worker training and she was involved in the roll out of the current computer system PRISM.

B. Online Pay Statements – Panel Discussion

Many organizations have implemented Online Pay Statements as part of their employee self-service portfolio or are considering it. In this session you will see Online Pay Statement applications being offered today in three different Twin Cities organizations and hear what was learned in the process of development, implementation and roll out. This session will contain helpful "lessons learned" information to those seriously contemplating delivering paychecks online in their own organizations.

Panel Speakers:

	Patsy McGlynn, HRMS Project Manager, University of Minnesota
	Karen Hagert CPP, Manager, Payroll Operations and Tax/Acct., Thomson
	Sharlene Smith, Payroll Manager, GMAC/RFC

Round Table Panelists

1. Patsy McGlynn, University of Minnesota

Patsy McGlynn is currently the HRMS project manager of employee self-service applications at the University of Minnesota. There are currently 10 employee self-service applications available on the Human Resources Self Service Web site (HRSS). The most recently available is the Online Pay Statement, which was implemented in June. Patsy has worked at the U of M for 30 years, the last five years in HRMS. Her previous years of experience were in the Office of Information Technology including 15 years in management positions. She has extensive project management and customer service experience.

2. Karen Hagert, CPP, Thomson Legal and Regulatory

Karen Hagert CPP, is currently the Manager of Payroll Operations and Payroll Tax/Accounting for The Thomson Shared Service Center. She is also the payroll representative for research and implementation of thePoint, the employee self service application for all Thomson domestic employees. This application will service approximately 35,000 domestic employees encompassing more than 30 legal entities located in all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico. Karen has over 25 years payroll management experience in retail, leasing and legal and regulatory companies, including 6 years in a shared services environment. Karen earned her CPP designation in 1985, the first certification test offered by the APA.

3. Sharlene Smith, CPP, GMAC RFC

Sharlene Smith is currently the Payroll Manager for GMAC/RFC where she has worked since 1998. She has over 25 years of extensive payroll experience gained in retail and financial organizations. She is an active member of the Northstar Chapter of the American Payroll Association (APA), and is currently serving as Vice-President on the Board of Directors.

C. Tax Issues for Stock Options and Executive Compensation

"A review the various types of stock option plans. How do you calculate taxable wages, and how are they reported to the tax agencies."

Rick Seifert, CPP

Rick Seifert is a Senior Payroll Analyst for Deluxe Corporation, which is located in Shoreview, MN. Rick has worked for Deluxe for over 23 years in the accounting and payroll fields. During his payroll career at Deluxe he has worked on several payroll conversions and was part of the team that implemented automated time and attendance. He has also been involved with implementation of compensation programs as they relate to payroll.

Rick has been a member of the American Payroll Association since 1991, and currently serves as a hot line volunteer and the CPP/FPC certification advisory group. He has also served on the board of directors for the Northstar Chapter of APA as the Treasurer and Government Liason.

D. Tools to Reduce Stress in the Workplace

Learn the impact of your assumptions on your stress level and the tools of identification, mindfulness and focused breathing as ways to be more productive.

Stress

	Defining your stress - What it means to you
	Do 3 cups of coffee, two donuts and a little candy really increase my stress?
	Do you wonder who's in charge of your life. Did I really say I would do that?

Assumptions:

	Who me? "Talk to myself".
	Listening is a "response-ability"
	I can quit doing this anytime - I think!
	Using our imagination or "far side".

Mindfulness

	Who came up with the idea of multi-tasking anyway?
	Your demands, my priorities - shall we dance?
	When cutting off your nose to spite your face make sure you're right and other ideas for stressing effectively.

Breathing

	How long before I turn blue?
	Does air really belong in my torso?
	How lying down on the job can be productive

Did you know that people under stress eat more sugar? That's why "Stressed" spelled backwards is "Desserts"!

Kathleen Henry

Kathleen Henry has been a consultant and small business owner for the past 20 years. Kathleen works daily with people who are challenged by the opportunities that change presents. Our capacity for change requires the use of both left and right brain skills, with the left brain processing linear functions and the right providing social skills and emotion. Understanding these differences allows people to accept change as an opportunity.

An outline of Kathleen's presentations is included in the column to the left.

E. HR / PR / IT Teams Working Together

This session will focus on specific actions that HR, payroll, and IT people can take to work more effectively with people from the other two departments. These ideas can be effective even when those "other" people are unreasonable and (can you believe it?) don't want to see things your way.

Elliott Witkin is a project manager for Tesseract, a leading provider of HR and payroll solutions. He has over 20 years experience in the HR systems field, as both a practitioner and vendor. During that time, he has participated in and managed numerous system implementations at organizations of all sizes, and in multiple industries. In addition to project management, he has extensive experience in system training. He holds a bachelors degree in psychology, and a masters degree in education. He is a frequently published author in professional and general circulation journals and has written The Back Page column in IHRIM.link since 1994. He has been a member of IHRIM since 1984. He lives in Champaign, Illinois with his wife and two children.

F. Portal Mania - "Why do you really want one?"

Portals why do you need one?

The world wide web has become a key strategy for companies to interact with their employees. Today, portal technology can leverage this powerful channel enabling companies to enhance communication within the company, lower their costs of delivering benefit information, and create more self service applications. This presentation focuses on what companies can expect from a business to employee portal and a short demonstration of a fortune 500 company's implementation of it's employees portal.

Mark Casey is a business professional with over twenty years of experience in the information systems area. His background includes marketing positions with IBM, Ingres, and various executive level appointments with Computer Associates. He most recently joined Epicentric, a leader in the enterprise portal space, and manages the Minneapolis office for the central part of the country.