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TrainingBriefs® Sensitive Performance Appraisals
New Micro-Learning! Navigating through a performance appraisal that addresses sensitive issues is one of the most difficult management responsibilities. It requires tact and compassion. But it’s also required to make the organization’s expectations clear, and to put an under-performing employee on the right track.
Strategic Planning 101 (Advantage Course)
Powerful eLearning Primer! Organizations of all types and sizes use strategic plans to become more successful and competitive. Strategic plans help to focus energy and resources on activities that align with the organization’s mission and vision. They help to increase efficiency and reduce costs; improve marketing efforts and organizational development; and manage risk and uncertainty by making the organization more responsive to a changing environment.
TrainingBriefs® Unwelcomed Advances
New Micro-Learning! Our working relationships are complicated for all kinds of reasons. That's why you really have to know where the lines are when it comes to managing interactions with co- workers, customers, and vendors. Take the unwanted pursuit of a relationship, for example. It doesn't make any difference where it comes from - a manager, a coworker, a vendor, or a customer. Unwanted pursuit could be considered illegal harassment and simply can't be a part of the workplace.
TrainingBriefs® Workplace Hazing
New Micro-Learning! Hazing, teasing, profanity, and horseplay are the kinds of unprofessional behaviors that lead to low morale, lost productivity, turnover and even safety issues. Even though we might have expected, and even tolerated these kinds of behaviors in the past, they absolutely cannot be a part of today's workplace.
TrainingBriefs® Explicit Bias
New Micro-Learning! Explicit bias refers to the attitudes and beliefs we have about a person or group of people on a conscious level. We know these biases exist. We are conscious of them. When people perceive their biases to be valid, they are more likely to justify unfair treatment – which has negative impacts on the target of the bias as well as the entire organization.
Legal Briefs™ Discipline & Termination: Improving Performance & Reducing Liability (eLearning)
Discipline and termination are critical business issues managers deal with regularly, though not always effectively. Through plain-speak language and practical examples, this course demonstrates protocol and procedures to follow for legal compliance and successful decision making.
Legal Briefs™ Recruiting & Hiring: A Manager's Guide to Staying Out of Court
All organizations have to recruit and hire new employees. It is one of a manager’s most important duties. Finding the right person for the right job can be a struggle for any manager, not to mention the myriad of legal issues that surround recruiting and hiring. This course is designed to simplify recruiting and hiring by focusing on the toughest issues managers face and giving you some real-world examples to help you understand and implement a recruiting and hiring process.
Legal Briefs™ Workplace Privacy: Does It Really Exist? (eLearning Program)
Workplace privacy issues can be tricky—in large part due to expectations on the part of employees of having the same rights to privacy at work as they do at home. From things such as appropriate handling of employee records and information to the need of the company to track the use of technology, privacy definitions and expectations can raise many questions for which managers need to have the answers.
Understanding Wage and Hour Laws: An Overview
Wage and hour laws were created in accordance with federal and state laws and are designed to take care of our employees. These policies apply to everyone within the organization and give management the opportunity to address issues immediately, which helps create an atmosphere of fairness for everyone.
TrainingBriefs® A Difference of Opinion
New Micro-Learning! You may do a superb job of preparing for a meeting, running the meeting and even getting the best out of your team. However, it’s likely that you will encounter a challenge to your ability to stay on track by participants who express strong differences of opinion. If differences of opinion are not resolved effectively, a meeting can spin off track, become chaotic, and prevent the achievement of the meeting’s purpose and desired outcomes.
TrainingBriefs® Active Listening
You may be hearing someone during a conversation, but are you really listening? Are you actively listening? Active listening simply means being deeply engaged in and attentive to what the speaker is saying... as it requires more listening than talking.
TrainingBriefs® Are Your Employees Engaged?
Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organization to give of their best each day. Engaged employees are committed to their organization’s goals and values, and motivated to contribute to organizational success, with an enhanced sense of their own well-being.
TrainingBriefs® Avoiding Discipline
New Micro-Learning! Although it can be uncomfortable or even unpleasant at times, you have a responsibility to take corrective or disciplinary action when the situation warrants it. In this course, we will examine the issue of avoiding discipline.
TrainingBriefs® Avoiding Reverse Discrimination in Hiring
New Micro-Learning! On paper, recruiting a new employee might appear to be a simple process. In reality, it’s an extremely complex process, and in every step of the way you need to be aware of certain legal implications. There are five common pitfalls in the recruiting and hiring process that you need to be mindful of; describing the job, dealing with protected groups, avoiding illegal questions, conducting legal reference check, and avoiding reverse discrimination. In this module, we will explore the topic of avoiding reverse discrimination.
TrainingBriefs® Behavior-Based Interviewing – Following a Lead
New Micro-Learning! This course lays out an interviewing strategy best used when you want to clarify or expand something a candidate says or implies by his or her body language. This strategy involves asking follow-up questions based on verbal and non-verbal clues and often requires you to share an observation first.
TrainingBriefs® Behavior-Based Interviewing – Probing for Current Work Examples
New Micro-Learning! When it comes to interviewing, clear, pre-planned questions help the candidate know how to answer. But often a candidate’s initial answer isn’t enough. The Probing for Current Work Examples strategy is best used when a candidate provides an answer involving an event, which took place many years ago. Because the candidate’s skills may have changed significantly since that time, it makes sense to ask for a more current example.
TrainingBriefs® Behavior-Based Interviewing – Seeking Contrary Evidence
New Micro-Learning! Clear, pre-planned questions help the candidate know how to answer. But often a candidate’s initial answer isn’t enough. Then, you have to ask job-related probes to get the whole picture of the candidate’s skills. In this course, you'll explore the topic of seeking contrary evidence.
TrainingBriefs® Behavior-Based Interviewing – Target of the Question
New Micro-Learning! A behavior-based interview uses a structured interview that organizes questions under job skills, or competencies. Clear, pre-planned questions help the candidate know how to answer. But often a candidate’s initial answer isn’t enough. In this course, we'll explore the topic of returning to the target of the question.
TrainingBriefs® Behind the Times
New Micro-Learning! Harassment and/or discrimination in the workplace is a very serious issue. This course takes a quick look at the potential consequences of making comments about an employee’s work habits that could possibly be construed as age bias or discrimination.
TrainingBriefs® Being Cooperative and Respectful
New Micro-Learning! Excelling at work doesn’t simply mean you should be good at what you do, but how professionally you conduct yourself in a team. In this course you'll learn about three ways you can be cooperative and respectful in the workplace; building relationships, sharing the credit and keeping your manager informed.