HR That Works Direct Mail Piece

Risk management experts reveal
insider's secrets that have saved
business's like yours millions
of dollars in fines and penalties
while growing the bottom-line!

Don't Risk Exposing Yourself to Disloyal
Employees, Greedy Lawyers,
Power Hungry Bureaucrats and Your Own
Costly Mistakes…

Dear Friend,

Have you ever fantasized about going to work without having to manage any people? We all have! I'm sure you would agree that managing people is one of the toughest jobs there is. A job made ever more complex because of two factors: 1) today's confusing employment laws and 2) the difficulty in attracting and retaining great employees.

Unfortunately, most companies don't get wake up to getting serious about their HR efforts until after getting clobbered on the head with a destructive employee claim or after losing some of their best employees and customers to the competition.

Is that what your company is waiting for? How much did your last bad hire cost? How much did it cost to lose a good employee? What price do you pay suffering from endless employee dramas? Have you been hit with one of these crazy employee claims? How much is lost productivity costing you? Truth is, there is no longer a reason to wait!

HR That Works is a powerful program for your company. Unless you are willing to risk considerable time, money and aggravation managing poor employee performance or defending against the filing of unnecessary claims, there is no escaping the need for this unique program. Your small investment in purchasing and implementing the HR That Works program is offset many times by the risk exposures it helps eliminate and the increased productivity it helps generate. In the end this program is all about growing the bottom line.

If you value your sanity and your pocketbook, you are encouraged to read on!

Why HR That Works is a Unique Program . .

There is a ton of legal compliance and HR literature out in the marketplace. There may even be some on your shelves. It's a billion-dollar industry and there's plenty of competition. But none of it compares with the HR That Works program!

First of all, we don't try to be everything to everybody. We focus only on the needs of companies with 15 to 500 employees. Companies with growing HR needs. It is easy to use, focuses only on critical risk management exposures and opportunities, and gives you strategies and tools you can apply inexpensively and immediately. The point of the HR That Works program is to empower your workplace -- not stifle it. It is designed to help your company to increase productivity without the interruption of destructive employee dramas.

A Million Dollar Reward for Poor Performance? . . .

In 1997, I quit my litigation practice. The last time I defended a company in a wrongful termination trial the plaintiff, who was fired for poor performance after only three months of employment, wanted $1,000,000 just to settle the case! Despite exposing a series of blatant lies, the jury awarded him all of $20,000 - and that was after his attorney spent more than two years and $100,000 preparing the case for trial. He received the $20,000 because the company used a poorly drafted letter of intent. To everyone's surprise, the juror's invoked a 30-day warning notice in the document which was never even signed by the plaintiff!

Despite the fact my client “won” that case, it still had to pay me over $80,000 in legal fees to try the case, and then it went on appeal where my client “won” again after paying an additional $20,000 to the lawyers and $20,000 to satisfy the final judgment. Had my client hired one of those mega-law firms with antique Chinese vases in their lobby and $120,000 first-year associates, chances are their legal fees would have been two or three times that amount. What few employees and managers understand is this: my client had to raise an additional $400,000 in net revenue to match the $120,000 outlay caused by the filing of the lawsuit.Now that hurts!!

Not only are these lawsuits expensive, the costs associated with defending against them are immediate. There is no amortizing the expenditure. If you're like most employers and don't have insurance coverage, you're picking up the entire defense. If the case goes to trial, and you end up losing (as 67% of employers do), then odds are you're looking at a verdict that nationwide averages more than $250,000, with 15% having punitive damages claims of over $1,000,000. Just think how much new revenue you'll have to generate to absorb those figures!

The reason I point out this sad reality is not to scare you but rather to educate you. Most executives I speak to don't have a clue about HR. How could they? It's simply not their background. Good news is we've spent the last 10 years designing cutting edge tools to help build a powerful HR department. One that helps you hire better, retain good workers, maximaize productivity and eliminate the dramas. The first step in the risk management equation is to understand the risk. In developing the HR That Works program, we have intensively analyzed the factors and statistics surrounding today's employee lawsuits…and it's not a pretty sight. Good news is, you can do something about it.

When you gain access to HR That Works, you will learn . . .

The three most common reasons why employers hire the wrong employee and what you can do about it
Why most performance appraisals backfire in court -- and what you should replace them with
15 questions you need to ask before firing any employee
More than a dozen personnel policies that must be in your employee handbook
A step-by-step approach to follow when faced with a claim of sexual harassment or discrimination
A checklist you must review before hiring any temporary or leased employee
The most important factors insurance agencies review when assessing your risk- management exposure
How you can give job references without getting sued for slander or defamation
Where you can go for free assistance with the ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act)
How you can use governmental agencies before they use you!
The most powerful question you should ask any job applicant before you hire them to see if they could be your next lawsuit in waiting
An exit interview you should use as a last ditch effort to find out about any potential claims
How just one form -- the Compliance Survey -- can immediately cut your exposure to employment law claims in half!
How one simple but powerful form helped a company eliminate $5,000 per month in wasted overtime!
If you are considering a downsizing, a checklist you should review immediately before doing anything else
The one form you should have every departing employee sign to protect you against defamation and slander lawsuits
The secrets to drafting a sale commission agreement that keeps you out of court
The most important question you should ask when conducting reference checks
An agreement that should be signed by any home-based worker
The form every employer must use to help employees "own" their disciplinary problems
The policy you must distribute to prevent voice mail, e-mail and Internet privacy claims
Four strategies you can use to avoid claims of misrepresentation in the hiring process
The advantages and pitfalls of mediation and arbitration and how to draft an agreement that will keep you out of court
How to protect yourself from the 12 most important factors government agencies look at when conducting an independent contractor classification audit
Critical notices and disclaimers that must be on your job application
Three magic words that must be in your independent contractor agreements to protect your property rights
The three most common wage and hour claims and what you can do to prevent them
Two forms you must use to meet your obligations under the family and medical leave laws
More than 20 questions you should ask any attorney before hiring them
How to create a vacation policy that avoids confusion and protects you from wage and hour claims
And, there's much, much more . . .

As age-old wisdom has it . . .

"It will not injure you to know enough of the law to keep out of it!"
- Old Farmers Almanac - 1851

Like I Said, There's More . . .

Here are the tools that come with the HR That Works program.

Personnel Forms - HR That Works contains more than 190 personnel forms including everything from job applications to employment contracts and pre-termination checklists. Some of these forms, such as the Compliance Survey and 60-Day New Employee Survey, are one of a kind, while others are improvements on existing forms. They are a centerpiece in this program. They're so good that Inc. Magazine has licensed many of them. You can see examples of these forms by clicking here. Many of our employee forms have been translated in Spanish.

Compliance an Productivity Audit - This "do-it-yourself" audit comes with suggested responses, strategies and tools. You can take it all at once or focus on critical areas first. Take a look at a sample of the Self-Conducted Compliance Audit.

Compliance Quizzes - These 10 and 50 question quizzes are designed to make sure your HR executives and employees "get it" when it comes to personnel law compliance. If they don't, you have a lawsuit in the making.

LAWSUIT FREE!™ How to Prevent Employee Lawsuits - This is the best nuts and bolts compliance program in the country. It addresses the 80/20 principle of legal compliance in an easy to follow format. This program comes with Audio Files, links to Personnel Forms, Special Reports, websites and more. An outline of the Lawsuit Free!™ program contents can be seen by clicking here.

Employee Handbook Software - This easy to use program can help you produce an employee handbook in no time. Each section comes with a help file that contains a legal/management narrative and, where appropriate, links to Personnel Forms, Special Reports or related web sites. See the handbook Table of Contents. Also translated into Spanish.

Contract Builder - A comprehensive program that builds draft employment contracts.

Employee Surveys - Some of the most powerful tools in your HR arsenal. Click here to see a sample of the Survey. Also contains shorter survey tools.

HR Department Improvement Plan - A 39 step process to build a powerful HR department. We suggest all users take a "one new thing every month" approach to building the HR function. If you are not doing that…what are you doing?

Special Report Series - It has taken years of writing and thousands of dollars of professional editing to generate the Special Report series. Each report focuses on a critical compliance or personnel management issue. It's a great source of education for your management team. See a listing of all the Special Reports and White Papers.

Strategic HR Tools - This part of the program is designed to help advance an HR career to the next level. Comes with HR assessments, audits, score carding techniques and much more. This alone is worth the cost of the program.

When it comes to the nuts and bolts of running a great HR department, these materials are as good as those produced by the largest law firms and publishing houses in the country. (Many think they're even better.) But that's not all…

SEMINAR, TRAINING AND SUPPORT MATERIALS

Building Powerful Employment Relationships! - This is a dynamic program that has been presented to executives all across the country. It focuses on how the factors of trust, direction, communication and commitment can improve your workforce and bottom line. As with all of our training modules, it comes with a PowerPoint presentation, streaming video, book or special report, handouts, quizzes and more.

LAWSUIT FREE!™ How to Prevent Employee Lawsuits - The compliance program discussed above can also be given in-house by way of a half-day or full-day train-the-trainer PowerPoint presentation. As with all these presentations, you can personalize it for your company.
Training Modules - Compliance and management training is no longer a luxury - it's a necessity. Yet, an amazing 45% of all companies fail to do this! Every training module comes with a streaming video, PowerPoint presentation, report, forms, audit and quiz. Each one of these programs would cost hundreds if purchased independently:
1. How to Find and Hire the Best Employees
2. How to Keep Great Employees
3. Sexual Harassment: What it is, How to Prevent It (Also in Spanish)
4. Diversity and Discrimination (Also in Spanish)
5. Discipline and Termination
6. Investigating, Managing and Preventing Wrongful Employee Conduct
7. Managing Employees Who Can't or Won't Come to Work
8. Wage and Hour Exposures
9. Performance Management

Click here to learn more about the Training Modules.

Hotline Support - We are experienced HR attorneys here to help guide you through difficult employee problems. Give our office a call and let us help keep you out of court in the process!

What Others Say About HR That Works. . .

The incredible value of the HR That Works program has drawn critical acclaim from across the country. Here are what just a handful of business owners, risk managers and others are saying:

"The HR That Works program provides us with a risk management approach to a very complex legal area that is easy to understand and implement."

Leslie Logan, CEO
Rose Electronics,
San Jose, CA

"I only wish we had the HR That Works program a year ago. It would have saved us thousands of dollars and tons of wasted effort."

Karen Dutter, Director of Human Resources
Career Guidance Foundation
San Diego, CA

"The HR That Works compliance program is superb, cutting edge material. The material is 'quick' and hard-hitting. It is low on verbiage and high on readily applicable techniques. The program is worth thousands."

Bob Bregman, Senior Research Analyst
Insurance Risk Management Institute
Dallas, Texas

"Great tools to improve productivity and morale! "

Stephanie Burnside,
Burnside Body Shop

"I want to take a minute to let you know how helpful HR That Works has been. I recently returned from a 3-week vacation and when I returned, I had about 5 major legal issues to deal with and I REALLY needed some advice. I called the hotline and I could not believe how helpful Don Phin was. He went over and above what I would expect. I have called him in the past for some quick advice and he has ALWAYS been there for me. He not only listens to me and guides me in how to handle sticky HR situations, but explains things in such a straight forward way that I can understand. I actually don't know what I would have done without him being willing to talk to me. I remember calling him last year and he answered his phone at the airport and even when he was at Disney World on vacation, he stopped and helped.

So, Thank You for the services your company provides its clients. I greatly appreciate it."

Lynda Klinger - Administrator
Recovery Homes of America, Inc.

"We use HR That Works to help keep our business in compliance with changing laws. It is invaluable is saving time and money by not having to invest in having outside counsel help write new policies, training modules or creating personnel forms. HR That Works is one of my most referred to sites. It is just another example of how our insurance agency is providing us with the kind of information we need to make more informed business decisions."

Mark Prior - Director of Human Resources
Mesa Distributing Co., Inc.

"HR That Works has been a lifesaver! We are a medium-sized company and I am the HR Department. Having no formal HR training, I am able to make sure our company is in compliance with all legal requirements, without having to pay for legal advice. I have also implemented many of their suggestions to keep our company from being open to lawsuits. They have also provided me with sample forms for all types of personnel issues, including a company handbook and all at no cost to us! If we had to pay for all this, it could cost 100's to 1000's of dollars."

Melissa Hickey - Office Manager
Preferred Air Conditioning & Mechanical, Inc.

"HR That Works has been such a blessing for our company! We have a small Human Resource Department (me!) and it has saved me an immeasurable amount of time in handling all the duties involved with handling 50 employees. I have used HR That Works to create our expansive employee handbook, manage critical HR issues, create productive evaluation programs, and more! When I go to HR That Works, I always find something to help me - it never lets me down! A Big Thank You for providing us with this service! "

Michelle Teachout, Controller
AutoBuilders General Contracting Services, Inc.V

"HR That Works is an effective tool to keep your business in compliance with changing laws. I've saved a lot of time and money not writing new policies, training modules or creating personnel forms by using HR That Works available resources. I don't think a monetary value can be put on the importance this resource holds in day-to-day business. "

Paige Bonopaine, PHR
Paramount Mold

"I use HR That Works for information about HR issues such as applicable laws, best practices, suggestions and interesting tidbits about the HR world. I am the HR department at my company, but I do not have much formal training for it. I find HR That Works is an excellent resource to help me do my job better."

Gail Parsons - VP Human Resources
Moon Maryoras Architects, Inc.

"Excellent, very worthwhile, there is much to be gained from this program.

Leslie Kruger, Kruger Foods, Inc.

So, you ask what does this cost? . . .

Much less than you would think! Because of proprietary restrictions we have with some partners we cannot provide you with the cost of the program in this letter. We gladly let you know when you email or call us. Fact is, every company we've taken on a demo of the program has purchased it when they realize how valuable it is and how little it costs. We believe you will too. .

"It is a mistake often made in this country to measure things by the amount of money they cost."
Albert Einstein"

So, is there any reason to wait? . . .

. . . For a very reasonable cost, you can have instant access to a program that will save you thousands of dollars in legal fees and help grow and protect your company for years to come, guaranteed. There is not much more you can ask for. To get your personal demonstration of this exceptional program today, email or call us at (800) 234-3304.
I wish you great success in growing and protecting your business . . .

Very truly yours,

Donald A. Phin, Esq.
President,
The Employer Advisors Network, Inc.

There's a Serious P.S. . . .

P.S. Here is my No-Risk, Better-than-Money-Back Offer To You . . .

This program is about the long-term benefits of serious commitment to your workplace. Even if you paid many thousands for the program (it would still be a bargain), the issue is not how much it cost -- we are so confident you will greatly benefit by using this program, we offer a no-nonsense, unconditional one year money back guarantee. If for any reason you decide the success that comes with using this program is not for you, we'll immediately return your money! There will be no complaining and no hassles. It's that simple.