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PayTalk is a monthly podcast created with the goal of sharing earned knowledge from high-level payroll professionals to the greater industry at large. Join us each month as we take a look at the leaders behind the payroll processes. Whether you’re just starting out in payroll or are a seasoned professional, PayTalk will help uncover the insights needed to unlock the next stage of your career.
EPISODE 56: Global Workforce Management Survey Analysis: Insights Shaping the Future of Payroll
In this podcast: (available December 6, 2024)
- Key differentiators on how organizations are structuring WFM efforts
- How to leverage WFM data
- Best practices for process standardization
EPISODE 55: Elevating Your Payroll Career: Strategies for Growth and Visibility
In this podcast:
- How to strategically position yourself for future roles
- Actionable steps to increase payroll’s impact and value
- Leadership development and future trends
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EPISODE 54: Earned Wage Access Redefined: Expert Insights on CFPB’s New Role
In this podcast:
- Key EWA regulatory changes being proposed
- Challenges posed for EWA providers, employers
- Steps to take now to prepare >
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EPISODE 53: Navigating Payroll Year-End
In this podcast:
- Essential year-end tasks with preparation strategies
- How year-end insights inform strategic planning, forecasting
- Year-end approaches from corporate and consultant vantage points
EPISODE 52: The Pursuit of Happiness and Payroll Certifications
In this podcast:
- When the right time is to get certified
- How certification helps
- Certification resources
EPISODE 51: The Truth About Global Payroll: Service Models and Unified Platforms
In this podcast:
- Challenges of current global payroll systems
- What “cloud-washing” payroll solutions mean
- How global payroll can exist in a single platform
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EPISODE 50: Conversations With Industry Leaders Transforming the Global Payroll Landscape
In this podcast:
- Challenges and opportunities in global payroll
- Technology's transformative impact on the industry
- Global payroll's future
EPISODE 49: Strategic Data and Global Payroll Operations
In this podcast:
- Aligning payroll operations with organizational goals
- How to take data to the next level
- Biggest challenges global payroll teams face in the world today
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EPISODE 48: Global Payroll Operations: Outsourcing vs. In House
In this podcast:
- Expectations vs. reality for in-house global operations and outsourced teams
- Factors that impact the decision to outsource or keep multi-country payroll in house
- Risk profiles between outsourced and in-house global payroll operations
EPISODE 47: Mastering Payroll Communications
In this podcast:
- How to start now to improve your communication skills
- Key communication skills to elevate your career
- Tailoring your communication style for diverse teams
EPISODE 46: AI-Powered Payroll: Redefining the Future of WFM
In this podcast:
- How AI is reshaping the payroll industry
- Benefits/Risks of incorporating AI into payroll processes
- Advice on how to navigate AI integration, data analysis, and more
EPISODE 45: Merge With Caution: Emotional Intelligence in M&A
In this podcast:
- Areas of expertise payroll should focus on
- How to prepare for future M&A activity
- Tips for handling high employee emotions
EPISODE 44: Pay Transparency: Insights from the Robert Half 2024 Salary Guide
In this podcast:
- Pay transparency laws impact on employers, job seekers
- Guidance on salary, benefits negotiations
- Retention strategies for managers
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EPISODE 43: The Global Payroll Pulse Survey Special
In this podcast:
- Top priorities for global payroll
- How to address global mobility, nexus
- Leading-edge capabilities, trends payroll teams are talking about
EPISODE 42: From Payday to Any Day: Unpacking On-Demand Pay Impacts
In this podcast:
- The trends influencing companies to adopt
- Implementation best practices
- Compliance, legal implications
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EPISODE 41: Pairing Up to Pare Down: Streamlining HCM Complexities
In this podcast:
- How business sees HCM
- ERP systems and HCM apps
- Partner selection process
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EPISODE 40: Mastering the Global Payroll Game: Unveiling the Secrets of Operating Systems
In this podcast:
- Key features, functionalities of global payroll OS
- How the right payroll OS can help with compliance
- Best practices for a global payroll OS implementation
EPISODE 39: More Interviews With Global Payroll Leaders Shaping the Landscape of Tomorrow
In this special guest podcast:
- Challenges, opportunities with global payroll
- Technology's impact on the industry
- Payroll's Future
EPISODE 38: Interviews With Global Payroll Leaders Shaping the Landscape of Tomorrow
In this special guest podcast:
- Technology's impact on the industry
- The challenges and opportunities that come with global payroll
- Payroll's Future
EPISODE 37: Stepping Into Global Payroll: Part Two
In this podcast:
- More of the global skills needed
- Examples of global payroll nightmares
- Best pieces of global payroll advice, shared by our experts
EPISODE 36: Stepping Into Global Payroll: Part One
In this podcast:
- How to transition from domestic to global payroll
- Different processing models
- Skills needed, and more!
EPISODE 35: Developing Payroll Competencies - How to Promote Full-Time Compliance
In this podcast:
- Key challenges to ensuring compliance
- Identifying core competencies needed to master compliance
- Competency measurements, data to use, and more!
EPISODE 34: Accelerated Innovation in Payroll
In this podcast:
- The latest payroll innovations
- Global consolidated payroll data
- Self-service options, and more!
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EPISODE 33: Consulting With a Payroll Consultant
In this podcast:
- How to determine if consulting is right for you
- Skills needed
- Changes in, and future of, consulting
EPISODE 32: Business Leadership Skills for Future-Ready Payroll Pros
In this podcast:
- Lessons from the top
- Résumé refresher
- Staying in the know
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EPISODE 31: Borderless Hiring and Building the Best Team on Earth
In this podcast:
- Benefits to borderless hiring
- Common pitfalls
- Impacts on company culture
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EPISODE 30: Earned Wage Access: The Payroll of the Future?
In this podcast:
- The types of earned wage access (EWA)
- What payroll's role is in defining and creating EWA best practices
- The future of EWA
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EPISODE 29: The Best of Payroll Advice
In this podcast:
- Career trajectory
- Helpful resources
- Mentorship, guidance, and lots more advice!
EPISODE 28: A Primer in Data Analytics: Part Two
In this podcast:
- How HR can use data analytics for employee projections, retention
- Specific programs, other tools to use
- What questions to ask to get the right analytics
EPISODE 27: A Primer in Data Analytics: Part One
In this podcast:
- Ways payroll analytics can monitor business operations, prevent fraud
- How data analytics can be used to improve employee retention
- The technological tools to use
EPISODE 26: A Global Perspective on Family Leave
In this podcast:
- Antenatal leave
- Tax and social insurance implications
- Expat employees
EPISODE 25: Digitization, Global Payroll, and You!
In this podcast:
- The business impact when technology strategies are misaligned
- Key technology trends, and its future, in global payroll
- The problems, and how to fix them, of project implementations
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EPISODE 24: Working From Home ... Abroad!
In this podcast:
- Immigration issues
- Reporting obligations
- Cross-border enforcement of payroll responsibilities
EPISODE 23: The Joy of HRIS
In this podcast:
- The basics of HRIS
- How to expand your career or company into HRIS
- The intersection of payroll and systems technology
EPISODE 22: The Recipe for a Successful Payroll 2022: Part Two
In Part Two of this podcast:
- How technology helps make an efficient payroll professional
- Why payroll and HR make a great team
- The impact data has on global payroll operations
EPISODE 21: The Recipe for a Successful Payroll 2022: Part One
In this podcast:
- What team leaders can do to help a hesitant team prioritize self-care
- The secret ingredients to a successful payroll team
- The importance of relationship management in global payroll operations
EPISODE 20: Empathy, Technology & the Payroll Practitioner
In this podcast:
- Examples of digital innovations reshaping the employee experience
- The greatest technological impact for the year to come
- How technology is helping to enable the employee-employer relationship
EPISODE 19: The Best of the Best Practices
In this podcast:
- How to get into a best practices mindset
- Some key indicators of waste in a payroll department
- A payroll best practices road map, and more
EPISODE 18: Year-End Prep for Payroll Nomads
In this podcast:
- Remote work (nomads) impact on YE reporting (state nexus issues)
- Nontaxable fringe benefit incentives
- 2020 social security deferrals, and more
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EPISODE 17: Hybrid Workforce: Tempering Sweatpants and Socialization
In this podcast:
- The evolution of the hybrid workforce model
- Resources for supporting a hybrid workforce
- Potential billing or tax issues
EPISODE 16: Global Outsourcing Management
In this podcast:
- First steps to take when offshore expansion is occurring
- How to determine the right outsourcing model for your company
- What to look for in the right outsourcing partner
EPISODE 15: A Payroll Transformation Story
In this podcast:
- Emerging trends and transformation challenges to stay on top of
- Outsourcing by HR and payroll departments
- The transformation from domestic to global payroll
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EPISODE 14: Mergers and Acquisitions and Taxes, Oh My!
In this podcast:
- How to make sure the payroll team is part of the merger and acquisition conversation early
- First things a payroll department should do in a merger or acquisition
- Federal, state, or local regulations covering mergers and acquisitions
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EPISODE 13: How to Navigate Payroll's Legal Pitfalls
In this podcast:
- The most common legal payroll issues
- What happens in a payroll legal audit
- What to do if a lawsuit ensues
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EPISODE 12: An American Take on Global Payroll
In this podcast:
- Insight into setting up global payroll operations
- Where to find global payroll resources
- How to overcome challenges to global payroll
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EPISODE 11: The Evolution of Payroll's Technological Revolution
In this podcast:
- How payroll strategy and technology marry together
- What a modern global payroll manager looks like
- The things a payroll professional should be aware of as their work becomes more visible
EPISODE 10: Data Driven Storytelling in Payroll
In this podcast:
- Uncover the power of visual storytelling through data
- Learn the core technology competencies needed to harness data
- Find out the future of data collection and reporting
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EPISODE 9: Stoking a Passion for Payroll
In this podcast:
- What drives you to keep improving payroll
- How to stay engaged and have fun
- The skills and competencies most important for global payroll
EPISODE 8: 2020's Impact on Unemployment Insurance
In this podcast:
- The biggest changes to unemployment insurance
- Best practices to deal with employers operating across multiple states
- How these changes will continue to evolve in 2021
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EPISODE 7: Farewell 2020: Year-End Prep
In this podcast:
- Reconciliations – Why important, Who requires them
- Forms W-2 questions
- COVID-19 impact on year-end processes
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EPISODE 6: How Trends Today Help Define the Payroll of Tomorrow
In this podcast:
- Top three results from the Global Payroll Benchmarking Survey
- The need for a global payroll strategy
- The future of payroll with next generation technology, pay on demand, and more
EPISODE 5: Unlocking the Power of Payroll Certifications
In this podcast:
- Preparing for the Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) exam
- Benefits of a CPP designation for your career
- Tips to grow your career exponentially after the CPP
EPISODE 4: The Era of Payments as Policy: Part Two
In this podcast:
- Predictions for future Economic Impact Payments
- Insight into the pros and cons of prepaid cards
- A deep dive into the potential nightmare of physical check distribution
EPISODE 3: The Era of Payments as Policy: Part One
In this podcast:
- Nacha and the CARES Act
- Economic Impact Payment concerns
- Overall impact on pre-paid cards
EPISODE 2: APA’s Newest President
In this podcast:
- Find out how APA’s newest President begins her term virtually and what it was like being sworn in
- Learn the role volunteering plays in paving your path to success
- Explore the impact the pandemic has had on the payroll profession
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EPISODE 1: The Strategic Payroll Professional
In this podcast:
- Hear how the payroll profession has evolved
- Find out how the payroll professional helps to drive strategic decisions
- Explore those strategic decisions needed in today’s demanding compliance needs
About Our Host
Nina Talley is a creative content professional who has been developing engaging experiences for high-level topics like software and healthcare for more than a decade. In her downtime, you'll likely find her pursuing her creative writing, or petting a dog.
Interested in being a guest? Let us know.
Tel: (210) 226-4600 x2201 | Email: podcasts@payroll.org
