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Best Practices for Managing Remote Staff
January 21, 2021 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
$35The COVID pandemic has altered much about how we work, including an increase to nonprofit employees working remotely. This workshop will take you through best practices on managing remote staff for sustaining a well-run office culture, even when everyone isn’t able to be in the office. In addition to maintaining staff remotely, this workshop will include best practices for hiring and onboarding new remote employees as well as how to navigate employees leaving your organization.
About the Presenter: Ann B. Plunkett
Ann has over thirty years of legal and human resource experience as corporate counsel, employment counsel and human resources executive in various corporate settings.
After two years in private law practice, she served as Assistant Counsel for TG&Y Stores Company, a national discount retailer based in Oklahoma City, OK. In 1985 Ann relocated to St. Louis to join the May Department Stores Company. As a senior Counsel at May Company, she specialized in employment law, handling a broad scope of legal and human resources matters for their numerous divisions through the country. Ann also gained hands-on human resource management experience at May, directing the store human resource function in an operating division.
At Fox Photo, Inc., a photo/imaging subsidiary of Eastmen Kodak, Ann combined her legal background with her human resource expertise, serving as General Counsel and Vice President of Human Resources. In addition to managing all legal business issues internally for 435 stores in 26 states, she directed the human resource functions including compensation, benefits, HR information systems, employee relations and federal and state compliance.
In 1998, Ann founded the full-service human resource consulting firm, WorkPlace Partners, Inc., which serves a myriad of companies in the St. Louis area and around the country. Clients include a number of industries and all sizes of businesses, from start up companies to large well-established enterprises and non-profit organizations. Ann serves as an expert witness in employment litigation around the country and is a frequent guest speaker on various employment related topics.