Issue 3 - American Payroll Association

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TODAY
at a glance
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Registration
Grand Ballroom Foyer (Pre-function)
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Workshop Session 4
See Congress Guide
9:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
General Session
Grand Ballroom
Introductory Remarks
Dan Maddux, Executive Director
American Payroll Association
2015 Payroll Education Grant Recipients
sponsored by
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Guest Speakers
Karen Beaman, HRIP
Founder & Lead Researcher,
Mercer Payroll
Benchmarking Survey (MPBS)
Karen Piercy
Partner, Global HR Effectiveness, Mercer
“Mercer Global Payroll
Benchmarking Survey”
Keynote Speaker
Jason Dorsey
“Crossing the Generational Divide:
Unlocking the Power of Generations to
Grow Your Business”
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INSIDE
Attendees Laugh and Learn ............... 3
Chapter Award Recipients ................. 7
Exhibitor Prize Drawings................... 11
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Greater Milwaukee Takes Top Chapter
By Kerry Cole
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Greater
Milwaukee Chapter of the APA collected 75
copies of The Payroll Source® and created its
very own Payroll Palace.
Just as members built that palace book
by book, the chapter keeps building and
building. As a result, Greater Milwaukee
earned its place as the 2015 Chapter of the
Year.
The Greater Milwaukee Chapter is a model
of persistence and continuous improvement.
Chapter members applied for Chapter of the
Year each of the last seven years, taking third
place in 2012 and 2014 and garnering Best
Website in 2014.
“Their entries keep getting better, and
every year their chapter seems to get
stronger,” said Elizabeth Herrera, Chapter
Relations Manager for the APA.
The Chapter Recognition Committee
selects the Chapter of the Year from entries
submitted by local chapters.
The Greater Milwaukee Chapter is
involved in the community through:
• Outreach to the homeless
• Make-a-Wish Foundation
• Public television pledge drives
• Blood drives
• A Relay for Life cancer charity team that
walked for 24 hours
• Thanksgiving food drive
• Toy donation for Children’s Hospital
of Milwaukee and Penfield Children’s
Center
• Letters and care packages for military
personnel
“I loved reading all that your chapter has
done to give back to the community!” one
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Strategist to Explain Global Compliance Risks
By Kerry Cole
Global payroll has opened up a whole new
world of compliance regulations.
In the new workshop “Compliance Is No
Longer Just Local—It’s Now Global!” Celergo’s Michele Honomichl will discuss during
Session 5 today at 2:15 p.m. how to remain
compliant with international standards such
as Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
regulations, the UK Bribery Act, and the
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
“You have to be really careful
to ensure that you’re globally
compliant,” Honomichl said. “Even
if you’re locally compliant, you could
still be violating international or
U.S. policies. We will talk about the
difference between local and global
compliance. For example, as a U.S.
corporation, what are the additional
requirements you need to be aware
of to keep your company compliant
on a global level?”
Honomichl said the session will
benefit payroll professionals who already
manage global payroll or whose companies
are heading in that direction. Attendees will
learn tactics to reduce their risk of noncompliance on a global level.
As an example, she said a U.S. company
can have employees in France and be
compliant in paying them, but that may
not be enough. The company needs to be
compliant with OFAC to ensure an employee
is not on a terrorism watch list or that an
employee on the French payroll is not actu-
ally working in a country on the OFAC list
such as Syria.
“The world is becoming more aware,”
she said. “Ignorance is no longer acceptable regarding these statutes and they are
constantly changing. The goal is to get people
familiar with acronyms and to have them
think about not just local payroll compliance
but when going global, how am I going to
keep my company compliant?”
She said many of Celergo’s clients say one
of their goals is to be so compliant that they
never run the risk of landing on the
front page of The Wall Street Journal
“Compliance Is No
for violating an international or local
Longer Just Local—
compliance requirement.
“People who come to this class can
It’s Now Global!”
certainly help their company understand their global risk. I will share the
Session 5
things they need to pay attention to
2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
and watch for. A lot of them are easy
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to comply with, the mechanisms are
in place, but you have to be knowPresented by
ledgeable of the fact that they exist
Michele Honomichl
before you can comply.”
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TODAY
Attendees Laugh, Learn Life Lessons Too
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Marquee Ballroom
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11:45 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Workshop Session 5
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Workshop Session 6
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Expo Open
Cocktail Reception and Dinner
Marquee Ballroom
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Costume Contest
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By Fiona Soltes
In just his first five minutes, Keynote Speaker
Jason Hewlett hilariously reworked the lyrics
and performed the “signature moves” of the
Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Journey, Prince, and
Guns N’ Roses—and even threw in a little
Marge Simpson.
During Wednesday’s post-lunch presentation, “Discover the One and Only Amazing
YOU,” he kept the audience laughing—all
the while encouraging attendees to consider
their own unique skills.
“You have something that makes you
incredibly different and unique from anyone
else,” Hewlett said.
Sometimes, however, we don’t show
everyone what we can do because we think
we’ll look a little silly.
Hewlett apparently doesn’t share the same
fear. He sang, danced, made faces, played the
piano, and covered the range of Metallica,
Motown, Michael Jackson, Alvin and the
Chipmunks, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole,
Louis Armstrong, and Lady Gaga.
He said he recognized he was “weird”
from the first day of school, when a jock
commented on how large his mouth was—a
mouth that he now uses to great advantage
in his impersonations and storytelling.
He told of a later visit to the dentist that
changed his life, when he realized he could
impersonate the sounds of the dentist’s
tools.
“He didn’t know if his tools were on or
off,” Hewlett said. The tools came out of his
mouth, but Hewlett held his lips stretched
into position, with one side raised. When
the dentist saw that, he looked at Hewlett
and said, “You have a gift.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is my gift,”
he said, twisting his lips, playing with his
tongue, and twitching his nose like a rabbit.
“I ask you, what’s your gift?”
Over the years, he said, hearing the
rewarding laughter of others has spurred
him to hone his skills—and that has led to
rich opportunities such as performing for
U.S. troops overseas.
“When you discover the one thing that
Jason Hewlett breaks into his Elton John impression while sharing a life lesson on finding your
“signature move.” The entertainer had the crowd laughing and cheering from the start.
makes you unique,” he said, “you can change
the world.”
Becky Mulh eron, CPP, Manager of
Payroll/Accounts Payable with Children’s
Healthcare of Atlanta, conceded she didn’t
know what to make of Hewlett at first.
“But I thought he was awesome, and
he made his point that we’re all unique in
our own way, with something to offer, and
shouldn’t hold back,” she said.
Her favorite part, however, was the
session’s patriotic elements, including a
rousing rendition of “God Bless the U.S.A.”
that brought the audience to its feet.
“It was very touching,” said Mulheron,
whose father-in-law and brother-in-law
have decades of military and civil service
between them.
As for her own unique skill? “That’s so
hard,” she said. “But I do love to do volunteer
work, with our church and our community.”
Mary Christl, CPP, Payroll Tax Specialist
with Mercantile Bank of Michigan, said her
special skill is taxes, and with 25 years in
payroll, she’s certainly found a way to use it.
She, too, found Hewlett excellent.
“I enjoyed reliving some of the songs he
was singing,” she said. But she also appreciated his message. “It was needed, because
we all get so mundane in our job, and we
need to reiterate to ourselves that we do have
talent.”
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International Payroll Panel Shares Unique Challenges
By Fiona Soltes
• Marie Lyne Dion, CPM, MBA,
Chairman, The Canadian Payroll
Association
• Lavinthra Haripersad, Vice Chair,
South African Payroll Association
Maddux opened the discussion with questions about each organization’s history.
Dion noted that The Canadian Payroll
Association was founded in 1978 and was
the first payroll association in the world.
Haripersad, conversely, said the South
African Payroll Association had just
become recognized as a professional body
in 2013. In Australia, The Association for
Payroll Specialists is actually a privately
owned enterprise, founded by Low’s father
25 years ago.
Naturally, each faces unique challenges.
In Africa, there’s the economic climate
to deal with, including no “strong financial arm to support us,” Haripersad said.
Fees for membership have to equate to the
benefits given, and the organization holds
regional conferences in three main cities
to cut down on travel costs. Then there are
issues of technological infrastructure as it
relates to the trend of downsizing in South
Africa while expanding elsewhere in the
continent, as well as language barriers. She
mentioned working in Angola—and having
Despite varying economic conditions,
language barriers, and compliance requirements, a group of international professionals
proved that payroll is still payroll Wednesday
afternoon—no matter what the accent.
Just after lunch, the panel sat down with
APA Executive Director Dan Maddux to talk
about the unique aspects of their individual
organizations, their regional challenges, and
even their favorite—and least favorite—
things about the United States. The panelists
also playfully offered Maddux some international language lessons in both French and
Australian, keeping the tone of the session
as one of friendly international relations.
Though the large majority of this year’s
Congress attendees hail from the United
States, Maddux said other regions represented include Canada, the United Kingdom,
France, Australia, and South Africa. As for
the panel, it featured:
• Michelle Crook, FInstLM, MCIPPdip,
DIOD, CIOD, Chair, the Chartered
Institute of Payroll Professionals, the
U.K.
• Jason Low, Senior Payroll SME, The
Association for Payroll Specialists,
Australia
International Payroll Association panel members, Jason Low, Marie Lyne Dion, CPM, MBA, and
Lavinthra Haripersad discuss their unique aspects of their organizations.
to do so through a Portuguese translator.
Dion also mentioned language challenges, and the need for everything to be
in both English and French. As for the
WHAT’S YOUR DAILY TARGET?
U.K., Crook’s biggest trial is finding the
right people. And in Australia, Low spoke
of regulatory issues—and new legislation
that can hold payroll managers personally liable for noncompliance. In a recent
case, the payroll manager of a mediumsized organization faced a personal fine
of $10,000.
Maddux closed the session with lighthearted queries that had nothing at all to
do with payroll. The lessons learned? Dion
is a definite fan of Celine Dion; Low is a fan
of McDonald’s; Haripersad is a fan of Las
Vegas; and Crook, a fan of Starbucks.
What’s your technology vendor model for payroll?
Germany
ERP Software
Local/Regional Provider
29%
38%
North America
Europe/Middle
East/Africa
Global Aggregator
36%
Global
South America
Global Outsourcer
19%
6%
28%
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31%
38%
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37%
40%
Top Chapter
53%
40%
20%
19%
0%
3%
20%
39%
Chapter Recognition Committee member
said.
In its application, the chapter cited its
accomplishments in three categories:
• Better communication through an
improved website and technological
tools to survey members
• Recognition of past presidents to honor
their role in leading the chapter to
where it is today
• A president’s newsletter to communicate
with members
“I really like the idea of text messaging
reminders or updates to members,” another
judge commented. “Using technology in
different ways is always a good idea.”
The chapter plans to continue its great
accomplishments as well as to continue
applying for Chapter of the Year.
Source: Mercer Payroll Benchmarking Survey, 2014 (n=248)
Vendor Technology Model
Forty-Four percent of North American organizations participating in the Mercer Payroll Benchmarking Survey (MPBS) outsource
their payroll to a Global Outsourcer or Aggregator, compared to 65% who do so globally. Thirty-eight percent in North America
utilize an ERP vendor (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, or Workday) to process their payroll in-house.
Why outsource or stay in-house? The major decision factors are size and know-how. Do you have the volume and know-how
to substantiate the business case? If not, outsourcing is probably a better proposition for you.
Hit the bulls-eye by joining the Mercer Payroll Benchmarking Survey: www.imercer.com/mpbs.
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Congratulations Chapter Award Recipients
2015 Chapter of the Year
2015 Best Chapter Website
• 1st Place:
Greater Milwaukee Chapter
• 2nd Place:
Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter
• 3rd Place:
Greater Nashville Chapter
• Honorable Mentions:
Dallas Chapter
Richmond Chapter
Silicon Valley Chapter
• 1st Place:
Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter
• 2nd Place:
Alamo Chapter of the APA
• 3rd Place:
New York Metropolitan Chapter
• Honorable Mention:
Sacramento Valley Chapter
2015 Gavel Awards
• 1st Place:
Dallas Chapter
CenTex Chapter
Fort Worth Chapter
Galveston Bay Area Chapter
Houston Chapter
South Plains Chapter of the APA
Texas Bluebonnet Chapter of the APA
Alamo Chapter of the APA
The Woodlands Chapter of the APA
West Texas & Southern New Mexico
Chapter
Texas Payroll Conference
Theme: “A Tribute to 25 Years of Payroll
Excellence”
•
•
•
•
Innovator: Alamo Chapter of the APA
Mentor: Chicago Chapter
Facilitator: Houston Chapter
Communicator: Northstar Chapter
2015 Chapter Pictorial
• 1st Place:
Richmond Chapter
• 2nd Place:
Houston Chapter
• 3rd Place:
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
• Honorable Mention:
Dallas Chapter
2015 Best Statewide or
Regional Meeting
• 2nd Place: Northstar Chapter of the APA
Northstar Payroll Conference
Theme: “Land of 10,000 Payroll
Challenges”
• 3rd Place:
Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter
Richmond Chapter
Hampton Roads Chapter
Southwest Virginia Chapter of the APA
Shenandoah Valley Chapter of the APA
Colonial Capital Chapter of the APA
Charles Town West Virginia Chapter
Virginia Statewide Payroll Conference
Theme: “Putting the Compliance
Puzzle Together”
• Honorable Mention:
Greater Nashville Chapter
Memphis Chapter
Chattanooga Chapter
East Tennessee Payroll Association
Tennessee Statewide Payroll Conference
Theme: “Payroll Always on My Mind”
Chapters’ Choice Award
• Northstar Chapter of the APA
New Global Institute Serves Multinational Corporations
Global payroll professionals need a
go-to resource to manage the challenges
of operating on an increasingly global
scale. To meet these unique challenges,
the Global Payroll Management Institute (GPMI) launched in early 2015 to
support the global payroll community
by providing education and a support
network for global payroll professionals.
GPMI is a subscription-based orga-
nization that provides payroll professionals around the world opportunities
to interact through
networking discussions, collaborative
opportunities, and
access to education
and publications
dedicated to global
payroll strategies, knowledge, research,
employment, and training.
“As more and more companies
expand globally, the complexities of
payroll processing
are a tremendous
and ongoing challenge to overcome,”
said GPMI Executive Director Dan
Maddux. “GPMI
will provide education, training, and
the latest global payroll news to help
multinational companies and payroll
professionals effectively process payroll
globally for their businesses.”
Visit GPMInstitute.com for more
information about GPMI, to sign up as a
subscriber to Global Payroll, a monthly
e-publication that provides news and
in-depth features to help payroll professionals manage the challenges of operating globally, and to join its LinkedIn
group.
Support NPW, Get Exposure
By Joshua White
Support payroll at work! Sign your company
up as an official National Payroll Week®
Supporter to show your appreciation for the
payroll profession.
Becoming an NPW
Supporter is as easy as
A-B-C. Visit the NPW
website at www.nationalpayrollweek.com and
fill out the form on
the “Become an NPW
Supporter” page under
the “How To Celebrate”
menu.
NPW Supporters are vital contributors
who spread the NPW message and celebrate
their payroll professionals at the office. You
can spread the NPW message by:
• Sending correspondence to employees
announcing NPW and recognizing
the achievements of your payroll
professionals.
• Placing NPW information on your
company website or intranet.
Visit www.nationalpayrollweek.com
for more celebration ideas and useful tips
such as a “Memo to the Boss” template, a
supporter Q&A section,
and an NPW email
template to send to your
staff.
Once registered,
you will be joining the
ranks of past supporters
such as AT&T, Cabela’s, General Mills, the
Kansas City Royals,
T-Mobile, and Starbucks. All NPW supporters receive recognition for their efforts in the pages of
PAYTECH magazine, on the NPW website,
and during the NPW video shown here at
the Annual Congress.
Support payroll and your company’s
payroll professionals. Register as an NPW
Supporter today.
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Prediction Contest
Don’t forget to vote who you think will be the last tribute standing!
Place your ticket in one of the colored buckets located at the
APA Solution Center booth #354 in the Expo this evening.
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Join in the Fun for the ‘Payroll on Fire’ Party Tonight
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the MGM’s Producer’s and Talent Pools.
Fun includes:
• Dance to the sounds of DJ Louie—
The Master of Music and Fashion
• Fire Dancers
• Archery demonstration
• Cirque Aqua Spheres
• Stilt Walkers
• Fortune Tellers
• Hunger Games-themed face painting
• Giant Jenga game
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Workday Reps, Customers Share Experiences in the Cloud
By Fiona Soltes
Seated on blue velvet-cushioned benches,
surrounded by ferns, an intimate group of
payroll professionals took the opportunity
Wednesday afternoon to ask questions and
get answers about payroll in the cloud.
The Expo’s Workday Learning Lounge,
with sessions several times throughout the
day—and continuing this afternoon—not
only offered insight from Workday officials; it also encouraged those attending
to teach each other. Some payroll professionals, sporting buttons identifying them
as Workday customers, were ready to
share their experiences with the company’s
software solutions. Topics ranged from
managing validation across devices to the
pros and cons of location-based time entry.
The session, held in the quieter back
portion of the Expo, was led by Kosin
Huang, Workday’s Senior Manager, Product
Marketing HCM; and Rahul Lakhanpal,
Product Marketing Manager.
The company has a reputation for
engaging its customers and incorporating
feedback through its Workday Community
site and Brainstorm process. With the latter,
users can suggest features and functionalities they’d like to see in coming releases, and
others can vote on them. The open dialogue
of the Learning Lounge, then, was a natural
fit. Among the topics, the most common
involved the way cloud-based solutions can
enable compliance.
“It was very interactive discussion,”
Lakhanpal said. “A lot of organizations are
still trying to understand what it means to
have a cloud solution, so it’s important to
educate the customers on the benefits, rather
than initially deep-diving into what features
and functionalities there are…. Whether
they were customers or not, they still agreed
that moving to the cloud is the way going
forward, and they see tremendous benefits
when they move to the cloud.”
Heather Clark, PR Support Analyst with
Corning Inc. said she found the session
helpful. Even though her company ended
up choosing a product other than Workday,
she enjoyed the idea of getting “the whole
story,” rather than just a carefully crafted
sales pitch. Her company’s biggest concern
is managing customization, and she thought
the open dialogue was great.
Nearby, two employees of BB&T proudly
displayed their Workday customer badges.
“We’re just so happy with the product that
it’s rewarding to be able to share with other
people and let them know this is a really
great thing,” said Payroll Manager Shelly
Robinson.
Gwen Saulter, CPP, HSIS Payroll Lead,
added that she recently had lunch with
Attendees share challenges and learn solutions about payroll in the cloud during Workday’s
interactive Learning Lounge.
another Workday customer, “and we’re
going to piggyback off each other. I’m going
to show her a configuration that I’ve done
in my system, and she’s going to show me
one she’s done in hers … so we can both
get the advantages. She can use it, and I
can use it, and our employees will be that
much happier.”
Saulter called Workday a “one-stop shop”
that has allowed employees to find whatever
they needed in a single place. Previously,
they had to go to multiple applications to
find data.
“From a validation perspective, it’s absolutely critical to come and listen to other
customers who have implemented and have
been using Workday,” Lakhanpal said. “It
addresses the credibility and the validation aspect, rather than us talking about
our solutions.”
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EXPO NEWS
Symmetry Software
Announces Giveaway Winner
Symmetry Software is proud to announce
Teresa Salsbury, CPP, as the winner of the
APA National Congress Giveaway. Teresa is
a Payroll Coordinator at the Good Samaritan Society in Stillwater, Minnesota. She
has been
working
in payroll
since 1986
and became a CPP in 1999. Symmetry Software is excited to present her with an allexpenses-paid trip to Congress. Her prize
included a round-trip flight to Las Vegas,
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IOI Launches New
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IOI has launched a job posting, applicant
tracking, and onboarding tool: IOIHire.
IOIHire’s applicant tracking features allow
employers to view applicants who best
match their job posting. The onboarding tool
provides documentation review and sign
capability to
streamline the
hiring process.
IOIHire stores
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information, with an automated data import
into payroll processing systems.
“IOIHire revolutionizes the way employers
handle their hiring cycles. This product illustrates yet another way we’re consistently
working to simplify HR management and
meet our clients’ needs,” said IOI President
and CEO Najeeb Khan.
Visit www.ioipay.com to learn more.
EPAY to Showcase Cloud-Based
T&A Tracking System
EPAY will showcase how its uniquely flexible,
cloud-based time and attendance tracking
system helps employers with a distributed
workforce to solve common labor management challenges. They will do this by
streamlining the payroll processing workflow, tracking
workers down
to the minute
with mobile/
GPS, managing ACA requirements, and
staying on top of budgets.
Visit EPAY Systems at booth #558 or
www.epaysystems.com to learn more.
HR Embraces HCM Technology
Human resource professionals are recognizing that a comprehensive human capital
management
(HCM) platform with
employee self-service (ESS) is critical to
create efficiencies and save time. A driving
factor for companies switching from traditional systems to integrated HCM solutions
is the ease of a single solution.
With cloud-based iSolved HCM technology,
HR functions are automated, providing faster,
more accurate, and more efficient processes.
The platform manages core HR functions to
facilitate better workforce development and
management. iSolved ESS empowers the
employee to manage benefits, view pay stubs,
and request time off quickly and securely,
providing the HR professional time for personto-person contact when necessary.
Visit www.infinisource.com to learn more.
Don’t miss the Expo
Networking Luncheon
11:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. • Today
the needs of users across the human capital
management spectrum.
Visit www.paychex.com or booth #327.
Synerion Offers Workforce
Management Solutions
More than 25,000 employers, representing
over one million employees, have now
committed
to iSolved,
Infinisource’s
cloud-based human capital management
solution. Launched in 2013, the iSolved platform achieved spectacular adoption within
the small to mid-sized employer market by
deploying through a network of elite service
bureau partners. iSolved helps customers
focus on growing their business while maintaining ultra-high quality.
Visit www.infinisource.com to learn more.
Organizations often overlook the importance of their most valuable asset— human
resources. In order to effectively optimize
organizational goals and maximize business performance, a workforce management solution is
needed. Simply
put, workforce
management
encompasses all of the activities, processes,
and tools needed to manage a workforce.
Synerion offers a variety of workforce
management solutions. These include
time and attendance, absence planning,
workforce planning, and scheduling. The
Synerion team makes a concentrated effort
to understand your culture, business, and
workforce management requirements.
Synerion will then implement the solutions
that will help you meet your organizational
goals and maximize business performance.
Visit www.synerion.com to learn more.
Paychex Streamlines WFM Through
Innovative Technology
Xerox to Showcase
Latest Payroll Innovations
Paychex’s software-as-a-service platform and
newly expanded service offering, Paychex
Flex, delivers seamless access to payroll, HR,
and benefits information for
a streamlined and integrated approach to
workforce management. Paychex Flex offers
a unique blend of customer service options
and robust software driven by a simple yet
powerful user experience that spans desktop
and mobile applications to drive efficiency
and performance across an organization.
The comprehensive, cloud-based Paychex
Flex platform offers powerful capabilities in
a simple user experience that is adaptive to
Xerox is showcasing its latest payroll innovations for business and government. The
Xerox booth will feature ExpertPay, Xerox’s
national portal that delivers child support
payments electronically to 49 states, the
District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Xerox
will highlight its
Go Program—a
debit MasterCard
program that allows businesses and government agencies to deliver funds more securely
and effectively than paper check issuance. As
part of its end-to-end HR outsourcing offerings, Xerox will promote its global managed
payroll services.
Visit booth #554 or www.xerox.com.
Sponsored by
iSolved Zooms Past Million
Employee Milestone
Workday Delivers Payroll for the UK
Workday announced the general availability of Workday Payroll for the UK. The
new payroll application enables customers
with UK employees to address the full
spectrum of enterprise payroll needs,
providing administrators with the
flexibility, control, and insight required to
support the unique aspects of their organizations. Workday also announced momentum
for Workday Global Payroll Cloud.
Customers using Workday Payroll for the
UK benefit from automatic tax updates, a
powerful and flexible calculation tool, high
configurability, support for the UK-specific
statutory requirements, anytime mobile
access, and real-time analytics and reporting.
Workday Global Payroll Cloud is the foundation of the company’s global yet local
approach to payroll, where customers benefit
from a unified view of HR and payroll data.
“With companies moving to the cloud
faster than ever, we are excited to deliver
UK payroll to alleviate a huge piece of the
complexity faced by these organizations,”
said Leighanne Levensaler, Senior Vice
President, Products, Workday.
Visit www.workday.com to learn more.
Today’s Expo Suites
Workforce Software
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. • Room 101
Xerox Services
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. • Room 103
ADP
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. • Room 101
Workday
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. • Room 103
Today’s Exhibitor Prize Drawings, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
BSI
2 – $100 Best Buy gift cards
Booth #416
Accountemps and Robert Half
Finance & Accounting
Fitbit
Booth #412
Keane
GoPro camera
Booth #110
JAT Software
$200 American Express gift check
Booth #521
Ryan, LLC
$200 Amazon gift card
Booth #128
Wolters Kluwer
$200 American Express gift card
Booth #247
MarketSphere Unclaimed
Property Specialists
Samsonite Cruisair Bold 26” Spinner luggage
Booth #453
Telliris
$250 American Express gift card
Booth #429
SpinifexIT
Fitbit
Booth #535
Celergo
Coach bag – brown with neon trim
Booth #519
Ceridian
Sephora gift pack
Booth #101
Workday, Inc.
Michael Kors Selma medium Saffiano leather satchel – pale blue
Booth #221
Workday, Inc.
Bose QuietComfort noise cancelling headphones
Booth #221
Brink’s Money
Kindle Fire HD
Booth #448
Paychex, Inc.
Kindle Fire HDX 8.9” Tablet (32gb)
Booth #327
Symmetry Software
HDTV
Booth #210
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Become the Real Deal Teaches Art of Authenticity
By Sarona-Lee Wilde, CPP, PCP
• Layer Three — Outer Presence, How
Others Experience You.
She then has several chapters within each
of these three layers to explore each topic
more deeply.
I love how she presents the details because
she describes to us what behaviors look like
when done well, when done too little, and
when done too much. In reading through
each section, usually I find myself more in the
done-too-little section, with some elements of
the done-well section. If you read this book,
I know you’ll find yourself easily.
Bob Burg of the Wall Street Journal wrote
of this book, “… you are about to learn from
the master in her field how to tap into this
sense of authenticity and communicate it
much more effectively. The result will be
more self-confidence, more effectiveness,
and a true connection with those with whom
you wish to connect.”
This is great news for someone like me. I
can still be my authentic self, express selfconfidence (I have confidence, it’s just the
expression of it that I fall short in), and
connect better with those higher up the
chain!
I’m telling you all this from my personal
point of view because I know many of you
can relate to my experience. I’m hoping that
if you do, you’ll get this book and read it
several times.
I have a pretty laid-back personality. I’m
quiet in meetings. Until I experience frustration, I’m pretty calm. I’m also an introvert.
So you can imagine that in an executive’s
presence, even in a casual setting, which
of course is a fabulous opportunity to sell
oneself, I often do not come across with
enough “presence” to sell myself.
Is this a learned trait? Is it a personality
thing? I’m hoping it can be learned so that I
can learn it! So how does one learn this? If
you’ve read my articles before, you already
know I turn to books as a self-help resource.
At the APA’s 32nd Annual Congress in
Minneapolis last year, I heard about author
Connie Dieken and some of her titles. The
one that really caught my attention was,
Become the Real Deal: The Proven Path to
Influence and Executive Presence.
Besides a catchy title, I need it to be a
quick read, a step-by-step process so that
I can easily grasp the concept and follow
the instructions, and something within my
realm of control. This book is all of that!
Dieken has the concept broken down into
three elements:
• Layer One — Inner Presence, How You
Experience Yourself
• Layer Two — Verbal Presence, How You
Reveal Your Messages
It’s a leadership model for today.
She calls it the paradox of 21st century
leadership: The world demands perfection
yet craves authenticity. Have you seen that
in today’s workplace?
She goes on to tell us, “You don’t have to be
born with a set of special talents.” Awesome;
there is hope!
She explains why it’s important to develop
in all three layers, how to blend the layers,
and how to stay centered when something
comes along that throws us off.
Some of these concepts may sound like
something from the ’80s when people were
intent on “being real.” But this book goes
further back and helps us with “being real”
not just in our personal lives but also our
professional ones. We don’t have to be “real”
at home and “fake” at work to get ahead. We
can be “real” at all times.
One of the most thought-provoking
sections for me deals with what a balanced
person looks like. One of the traits was
listening well. But when “listening” was
explained, it was an “aha” moment for me.
In the book, she writes, “Listening isn’t
just what you do when you don’t happen
to be talking; listening is the desire to hear.”
This also demonstrates the commonsense writing style Dieken uses. What we
read seems too obvious to have to be put in
writing, but it’s said in a different way than
we’ve encountered it before, and it makes
perfect sense the way she tells it.
Seriously, if any of this has struck a
chord with you, you have to get and read
this book. You and your career will be glad
you did!
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What communication methods do you use to convey
payroll changes to employees?
QUESTION OF THE DAY
“We use employee selfservice, and we send
information in our biweekly
mail pack. We also have an
HR newsletter.”
Linda Pappillion, CPP
Pacific Sunwear
Anaheim, Calif.
“In many cases we have an
employee self-service tool, so we
like to use that to give employees
updated information. If there is a
particular change, like a new W-2,
then we communicate to employees
via email. We also use snail mail for
employees who do not have email.”
Deborah Ellis Timberlake,
Esq., CPP
“We typically communicate
by phone or email. We try to
reach out by phone because
we try to have a one-on-one
service model.”
Corinne Tirone
Paycor, Inc.
Cincinnati
“Generally, either through a
payroll newsletter via email
or by placing a banner on our
website.”
“We exclusively use email to
communicate to employees.”
Jamie Phillips, CPP
Jonathan Jensen, FPC, CPP
Cook Children’s Health System
Fort Worth, Texas
County of Riverside
Riverside, Calif.
Timberlake and Associates
Fort Washington, Md.
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