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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
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
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
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
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
Dealing With Difficult People

Dealing With Difficult People

Presented by MMA Human Services Council
Personnel ManagementWebinarPublication Date: Oct 20, 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
Managing During Difficult Times

Managing During Difficult Times

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Management Association and the Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources association
Labor and PersonnelWebinarPublication Date: Apr 09, 2020
Re-evaluating Your Employee Evaluations

Re-evaluating Your Employee Evaluations

Presentation by Joellen Cademartori, CEO of GovHR USA, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 25, 2020
Personnel ManagementPresentationpdf - 1 MB
Opiate/Opioid Abuse at Work

Opiate/Opioid Abuse at Work

Presentation by Martha Deering, certified rehabilitation counselor, a licensed and certified alcohol and drug abuse counselor, and a qualified substance abuse professional through the U.S. Department of Transportation, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 25, 2020
Personnel ManagementPresentationpdf - 1 MB
Addressing Opioid Use in the Workplace

Addressing Opioid Use in the Workplace

Presentation by Desiree Murphy, associate at Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP and practices in the area of labor and employment, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 25, 2020
Personnel ManagementPresentationpdf - 4 MB
Using Mindfulness to Increase Workplace Engagement and Effectiveness - presentation

Using Mindfulness to Increase Workplace Engagement and Effectiveness - presentation

Presentation by Brenda Fingold, Brown University School of Public Health, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2020
Personnel ManagementPresentationpdf - 36 MB
Using Mindfulness to Increase Workplace Engagement and Effectiveness - handout

Using Mindfulness to Increase Workplace Engagement and Effectiveness - handout

Handout by Brenda Fingold, Brown University School of Public Health, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2020
Personnel ManagementGuidancepdf - 2 MB
MMA Best Practice Recommendation: Wellness Programs for Municipal Employees

MMA Best Practice Recommendation: Wellness Programs for Municipal Employees

Established by MMA Policy Committee on Personnel and Labor Relations, published in MMA Best Practices Series, vol 4, 2019
Personnel ManagementGuidancepdf - 158 KB
MMA Best Practice Recommendation: Professional Development for Municipal Officials

MMA Best Practice Recommendation: Professional Development for Municipal Officials

Established by MMA Policy Committee on Personnel and Labor Relations, published in MMA Best Practices Series, vol 4, 2019
Personnel ManagementGuidancepdf - 151 KB
MMA Best Practice Recommendation: Human Resources Professionals

MMA Best Practice Recommendation: Human Resources Professionals

Established by MMA Policy Committee on Personnel and Labor Relations, published in MMA Best Practices Series, vol 4, 2019
Personnel ManagementGuidancepdf - 151 KB
Setting the Tone: Creating a Respectful and Professional Work Environment

Setting the Tone: Creating a Respectful and Professional Work Environment

Presented by Bill Cole, the human resources director in Barnstable, at MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show, Jan. 18, 2019
Personnel ManagementPresentationpdf - 7 MB
#MeToo In Town Hall

#MeToo In Town Hall

Presented by Regina Ryan,founder of Discrimination and Harassment Solutions, at MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show, Jan. 18, 2019
Personnel ManagementPresentationpdf - 268 KB
Workers' Compensation and Job Related Disabilities

Workers' Compensation and Job Related Disabilities

Presented at the Massachusetts Municipal Personnel Assocation monthly meeting by Niko Pappas, Director of WC Claims, MIIA Member Services, April 6, 2017
Personnel ManagementPresentationpdf - 282 KB
Municipal Mental Health: Nurturing a Productive, Happy and Mentally Healthy Workforce

Municipal Mental Health: Nurturing a Productive, Happy and Mentally Healthy Workforce

Presented at the Massachusetts Municipal Personnel Assocation monthly meeting by Michael Johns, Director of Veterans Services, Foxborough, April 6, 2017
Personnel ManagementPresentationpdf - 458 KB
Mental Health Accommodations in Municipal Human Resources

Mental Health Accommodations in Municipal Human Resources

Presented at the Massachusetts Municipal Personnel Assocation monthly meeting by Sandra DeBow-Huang, LD, MPH, HR Director, Brookline, April 6, 2017
Personnel ManagementPresentationpdf - 2 MB
Succession Planning 2017

Succession Planning 2017

Presentation on Succession Planning at the 2017 MMA Annual Meeting, January 20, 2017.
Personnel Managementpdf - 53 KB
Employer Rights and Obligations When Monitoring Employees at Work

Employer Rights and Obligations When Monitoring Employees at Work

Presentation at 2016 MMA Annual Meeting by attorney Leo Peloquin of Collins, Loughran & Peloquin, January 22, 2016
Personnel Managementpdf - 223 KB
A Legal Look at Medical Marijuana and Impairment on the Job

A Legal Look at Medical Marijuana and Impairment on the Job

Presentation by attorney John Clifford of Clifford and Kenny to the Massachusetts Municipal Management Association, March 20, 2014
Personnel Managementpdf - 2 MB
Unemployment Insurance Fundamentals

Unemployment Insurance Fundamentals

Presentation by Michelle Amante, acting Director of the Department of Unemployment Assistance, from MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 25, 2013
Personnel Managementpdf - 581 KB
Improving Public Services Through Collaborative Labor-Management Relations

Improving Public Services Through Collaborative Labor-Management Relations

Presentation by Thomas Kochan, professor of Work and Employment Relations at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research, at Massachusetts Municipal Personnel Association’s Labor Relations Seminar, October 31, 2012
Personnel Managementpdf - 530 KB
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