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Navigating Student Debt with Savi

Navigating Student Debt with Savi

This webinar reviews student debt repayment strategies for municipal employees, including a tutorial on Savi’s Student Debt Navigator tool. Recommended audience: HR professionals, all members
Personnel ManagementWebinarfreePublication Date: Oct 22, 2025
Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act: What Municipalities Need to Know

Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act: What Municipalities Need to Know

This webinar reviews the key provisions of the Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act, including pay disclosure requirements and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data reporting. Recommended audience: Human Resource professionals
Employment LawsWebinarfreePublication Date: Sep 10, 2025
Municipal Legal Updates: Summer 2025

Municipal Legal Updates: Summer 2025

This webinar features a panel of attorneys with the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association addressing current issues. Topics include cannabis law and policy, tax title takings, recent accessory dwelling unit (ADU) bylaw decisions, and policies related to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities. Recommended audience: chief municipal officials, all members
Employment LawsWebinarfreePublication Date: Aug 06, 2025
Understanding and Supporting Mental Health in the Workplace

Understanding and Supporting Mental Health in the Workplace

This webinar provides an overview of mental health challenges and tools to support yourself and colleagues. Recommended audience: Municipal employees, all members
Personnel ManagementWebinarfreePublication Date: Jun 18, 2025
Mental Health Awareness for Managers

Mental Health Awareness for Managers

This webinar provides an overview of mental health challenges and equips managers with strategies to effectively support their staff. Recommended Audience: managers, supervisors
Personnel ManagementWebinarfreePublication Date: May 21, 2025
Navigating Immigration and Employment Law: Best Practices for Municipal HR

Navigating Immigration and Employment Law: Best Practices for Municipal HR

This webinar provides updates on immigration and employment law for municipal HR professionals, covering employment eligibility requirements, I-9 audits, an overview of visa types and timelines, and updates from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Recommended audience: Human resource professionals
Employment LawsWebinarPublication Date: Mar 13, 2025
Beyond Benefits: Advancing the Employee Onboarding Process in Municipal Workplaces

Beyond Benefits: Advancing the Employee Onboarding Process in Municipal Workplaces

This workshop covers strategies for streamlining the employee onboarding process, supporting new hires and connecting them with their departments, and establishing a healthy and welcoming workplace culture. Recommended audience: Human resource professionals
Personnel ManagementWebinarPublication Date: Dec 05, 2024
Tackling Tough Conversations with Emotional Intelligence

Tackling Tough Conversations with Emotional Intelligence

This webinar shares strategies for delivering difficult feedback, setting boundaries by saying “no,” and handling instances where you may disappoint others. Recommended audience: All members
Professional DevelopmentWebinarpaidPublication Date: Feb 27, 2024
Emotional Intelligence 101: Understanding the Key Components

Emotional Intelligence 101: Understanding the Key Components

This webinar explores the five components of EI (self-awareness, self-management, motivation, social skills, and empathy) and reviews several exercises designed to strengthen the “EI muscle.” Recommended audience: All members
Professional DevelopmentWebinarpaidPublication Date: Feb 07, 2024
Performance Appraisal Systems and Goal Setting in the Public Sector: An Overview

Performance Appraisal Systems and Goal Setting in the Public Sector: An Overview

This webinar reviews the objectives of a performance appraisal system and offers practical tips for setting “SMART” goals. Recommended audience: Chief municipal officials, all members
Personnel ManagementWebinarfreePublication Date: Jan 09, 2024
MMHR 2023 Virtual Holiday Meeting

MMHR 2023 Virtual Holiday Meeting

The Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources holiday meeting today featured registered dietitian Heidi Roth discussing healthy eating during the holidays, and Jon Wortmann on conflict management.
Personnel ManagementWebinarPublication Date: Dec 07, 2023
Embracing Critical Feedback: The Key to Personal & Professional Growth

Embracing Critical Feedback: The Key to Personal & Professional Growth

This session aims to increase attendees’ abilities to give and receive critical feedback and to leverage feedback to enhance performance and workplace relationships.
Professional DevelopmentWebinarpaidPublication Date: Nov 08, 2023
Delivering Hard-to-Hear Feedback: A Guide to Giving Feedback That Empowers

Delivering Hard-to-Hear Feedback: A Guide to Giving Feedback That Empowers

This session reviews three types of feedback (affirmation, coaching, and evaluation), how to view feedback as empowering, and tools for keeping defenses low and outcomes optimal.
Personnel ManagementWebinarpaidPublication Date: Oct 31, 2023
Reframing Recruitment: Key Takeaways, from Vacancy to Post-Recruitment

Reframing Recruitment: Key Takeaways, from Vacancy to Post-Recruitment

This webinar highlights key takeaways from the Reframing Recruitment webinars and workshops on innovative hiring strategies, vacancies and advertising, interviewing, and onboarding.
Recruiting and HiringWebinarfreePublication Date: Jun 14, 2023
Other Post-Employment Benefits Trust Fund FAQS

Other Post-Employment Benefits Trust Fund FAQS

Published by the Mass. Dept. of Revenue, Division of Local Services, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law
Pensions and Other Post-Employment BenefitsGuidancepdf - 172 KBPublication Date: Oct 25, 2019
Reframing Recruitment: What Happens After the Offer

Reframing Recruitment: What Happens After the Offer

This webinar provides strategies for optimizing onboarding and creating a process that helps strengthen organizational integration and highlights your municipality’s unique employee benefits.
Recruiting and HiringWebinarfreePublication Date: May 17, 2023
Reframing Recruitment: The Interview Process

Reframing Recruitment: The Interview Process

This webinar shares tips for reviewing applications, building an interview panel, and selecting the best questions for prospective candidates to tailor the processes according to current vacancies and community needs.
Recruiting and HiringWebinarfreePublication Date: Apr 19, 2023
Coping With Conflict: Internal Resolution Strategies webinar

Coping With Conflict: Internal Resolution Strategies webinar

This webinar highlights strategies for effective internal conflict management, including in the municipal workplace and within volunteer committees and councils, and for negating its negative effects and maintaining a positive and healthy work culture.
Municipal OperationsWebinarfreePublication Date: Mar 28, 2023
Municipal Recruitment: Vacancies and Advertising resources

Municipal Recruitment: Vacancies and Advertising resources

Provided by Jen Breaker, town of Danvers, Caitlyn Julius, city of Springfield and Kristina Ordung, town of Shrewsbury as part of ‘Reframing Recruitment’ webinar series
Recruiting and HiringPresentationpdf - 1 MBPublication Date: Mar 15, 2023
Reframing Recruitment: Setting the Table - Vacancies and Advertising

Reframing Recruitment: Setting the Table - Vacancies and Advertising

Provided by Jen Breaker, town of Danvers, Caitlyn Julius, city of Springfield and Kristina Ordung, town of Shrewsbury as part of ‘Reframing Recruitment’ webinar series
Recruiting and HiringPresentationpdf - 3 MBPublication Date: Mar 15, 2023
Reframing Recruiting: Setting the Table – Vacancies and Advertising

Reframing Recruiting: Setting the Table – Vacancies and Advertising

This webinar reviews how to attract a broad pool of candidates and remain competitive by embracing innovative strategies for advertising vacancies and writing standout ads.
Recruiting and HiringWebinarfreePublication Date: Mar 15, 2023
Onboarding Checklist

Onboarding Checklist

Provided by the town of North Reading
Recruiting and HiringGuidancepdf - 87 KBPublication Date: Feb 01, 2019
Municipal Hiring Strategies: North Shore Municipal Hiring Event

Municipal Hiring Strategies: North Shore Municipal Hiring Event

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources association
Recruiting and HiringWebinarPublication Date: Mar 10, 2022
Labor Law Update: New Laws, Recent Cases and Agency Decisions

Labor Law Update: New Laws, Recent Cases and Agency Decisions

2022 MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show webinar: Two employment and labor law attorneys with decades of experience in the public sector discussed developments in 2021.
Employment LawsWebinarPublication Date: Feb 09, 2022
Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Public Works and Other Municipal Departments

Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Public Works and Other Municipal Departments

2022 MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show webinar: Public works leaders from across the state shared insights on recruitment, retention and succession planning for the next generation of municipal public works professionals.
Labor and PersonnelWebinarPublication Date: Feb 07, 2022
Dealing With Difficult People

Dealing With Difficult People

Presented by MMA Human Services Council
Personnel ManagementWebinarPublication Date: Oct 20, 2021
Costing Out Contracts

Costing Out Contracts

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources association
Collective Bargaining AgreementsWebinarPublication Date: Jun 17, 2021
The Future of Work

The Future of Work

Presented by Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources association and the Massachusetts Municipal Management Association
Labor and PersonnelWebinarPublication Date: Apr 15, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine and Labor Law Update

COVID-19 Vaccine and Labor Law Update

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources association
Employment LawsWebinarPublication Date: Mar 04, 2021
Diversity and Immigration

Diversity and Immigration

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Councillors’ Association
Community EngagementWebinarPublication Date: Nov 19, 2020
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