Welcome to the Washington State Employment Law & HR Conference, preconference webinarEMPLOYER PERSPECTIVES ON SOFT SKILLS presented by Linda Rider.

Today’s webinar is sponsored by New Era HR Solutions.

Before we get started we would like to take a minute to quickly address a few housekeeping items.

If you are having any technical difficulties please use the “ask a question” feature and direct the question to the organizer. We will work to resolve any issues as quickly as possible.

If you would like to ask a question please use the “chat feature” that is available with the web conferencing. Make sure you use the drop down menu and select to share with organizer. The presenter will answer as many questions as possible in the Q&A period and throughout the presentation.

Today’s webinar has been approved for 1 HRCI recertification credit and 1 SHRM-CP/SCP professional development credit. In order to receive the approved credit, you will need to attend the entire webinar and we will email the documentation this afternoon.

The webinar is being recorded and will be made available for viewing on the Washington State HR Council’s website.

Intro of Linda: Lizzie

As previously mentioned, today’s webinar is presented by Linda Rider.

"Linda Rider is the Workforce Readiness Director for the Washington State Human Resources Council and a Senior Project Manager for Seattle Jobs Initiative where she manages training program partnerships with local community based organizations, community colleges and employers. She has chaired a multi-stakeholder coalition focused on the need for soft skills in the workforce called the Performance Skills Coalition since 2008. Prior to her work with SJI in 2005, Linda was an organizational development and training consultant and human resources professional in the food production sector. She is a passionate advocate on behalf of the business community and works for better clarity regarding soft skills and for establishing better 'performance' skills training and development strategies."

Welcome Linda!

Presentation: Linda

Closing: Lizzie

THANK YOU Linda!

Thank you again to everyone for joining our call today.

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Remember that the credit information will be emailed out this afternoon. If for some reason you don’t receive the email please feel free to email me .

Thank you again for attending!