• Analyzing possible financial statement effects of IFRS with regard to compensation and benefits programs, including executive compensation, health and welfare, and retirement programs.
• Evaluating the potential impact of IFRS accounting on the operation of your rewards programs, especially those driven by corporate financial performance.
• Assessing IT and process changes, including information gathering, reporting, and internal controls.

• HR transformation-related challenges during merger integration, including maintaining business as usual, providing merger support, and integrating HR functions.
• Key factors to consider in an M&A-led HR transformation, including time pressure; external and internal factors; HR footprint and customers; HR structure, roles, and enablers; and stakeholder commitment.
• A case study in effective M&A-led HR transformation, including lessons learned.

• Special tax rules applicable to ESOPs for C corporations and S corporations, including deferral of gain by a selling shareholder and taxation of the business.
• Plan considerations for and financing of an acquisition, disposition, or a leveraged buyout.
• Benefits of employee ownership to shareholders, management, and employees, including interest alignment and improved motivation.

• Establishing and refining your vision for enterprise sustainability and creating stakeholder alignment.
• Synchronizing employee communications, leadership commitment, culture, Learning, and brand enhancement toward common objectives.
• Achieving benefits of office greening, including recognition as an employer of choice, market differentiation, and stronger community and government relations.

• Stock compensation trends, including restricted stock units and the impact of increasing corporate governance.
• International pressures on U.S. companies, including differences in tax treatment in China, India, and other key countries.
• Plan considerations, including leading practices for restricted stock units and policies and procedures.

• Types of transformation projects that qualify for training credits and incentives and at what point you should apply for them.
• Key states that offer training credits and incentives, including several that offer cash grants.
• Adjustments to your training strategies that can help you qualify, including pre-approval process, application, documentation, and follow-through.

• Challenges sponsors face, including investment policy alignment, governance, centralized risk management, and operational requirements.
• Industry developments impacting the pension landscape, including legislation, capital markets volatility, and managing multiple global plans.
• Strategies for pension asset management, including asset pooling.

• Why companies need to emphasize coaching, including the shrinking labor pool and evolving interests of younger workers.
• Coaching strategies for management and leadership, teams, career, internal mobility, transitions, and organization development.
• Critical success factors — including a dedicated coaching team, executive sponsorship, and a focus on the future — and supporting tools, such as workshops, e-briefs, and self-service capabilities.

• Examples of frequently recurring reporting deficiencies due to controls breakdowns.
• Unique issues for equity compensation and retirement plans in the U.S. and overseas.
• Special challenges for employee mobility, tax equalization, and rewards management.

• How business-driven HR strategies should work.
• Ways to connect HR investments and activities to enterprise value.
• Approaches to align and prioritize projects and investments with business priorities.

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