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TrainingBriefs® Workplace Privacy & Employee Consent
New Micro-Learning! A written sign-off that meets federal and state legal requirements for each of the situations discussed in this course could prevent many legal headaches - and it shows that you respect everyone's right and expectation to privacy.
TrainingBriefs® Actively Preventing Harassment
New Micro-Learning! Harassment in our workplace is unacceptable – in any format! Being an active bystander in a situation where someone is being harassed can be speaking up and telling the harasser to stop… or it can be subtle (e.g. stepping between the harasser and the target of the harassment). The important thing to remember is that if you see harassing behavior - and you feel comfortable - you CAN intervene.
TrainingBriefs® Workplace Inclusion
New Micro-Learning! Diversity awareness and inclusion means recognizing and responding to the needs of various groups within the workforce to improve working relationships within our organization and teams. Diversity is a given. It simply exists. But… creating an inclusive team environment that values diversity helps us achieve our organization’s goals – both cultural and financial.
TrainingBriefs® Diversity in Recruiting & Hiring
New Micro-Learning! Studies have shown that having a diverse team is more innovative. But let's be real, finding and hiring diverse talent is often easier said than done. You may even be asking yourself, how can we get past potential bias and get the right talent in the door? And how do we keep them once we have them?
TrainingBriefs® Involving Your Audience
New Micro-Learning! Involving the audience helps actively engage and manage their attention. It gets their minds off of the other priorities in their life and focused on you message. In this module, you’ll learn the importance of grabbing the interest of your audience and maintaining it.
TrainingBriefs® Narrowing Your Presentation Focus
When we narrow the focus of our presentation, we help avoid confusion. We quickly drill down to communicate in a way that helps everyone clearly understand our message. In this module, you'll learn about the importance of starting out wide to provide background and context and then quickly funneling down to specifics.
TrainingBriefs® Preparing Your Presentation
New Micro-Learning! We all know that to be successful at whatever we do, we must prepare for the task. In this module, you'll learn what preparation really means when it comes to inspiring, informing, and influencing people.
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.
SafetyBytes® - An Overview of Safe Lifting
“Oh, my aching back” is one of the most common complaints heard in the workplace. This SafetyBytes® course introduces the importance of proper lifting.
SafetyBytes® - Back Aches and Damage
In this SafetyBytes® module, we’ll discuss some of the common issues that cause back problems.
SafetyBytes® - Back Safety - Force and Repetition
It seems that almost everyone around us has back pain or a tender back. Yet we all take our backs for granted, until they give us problems. In this SafetyBytes® module, we’ll discuss some of the factors which contribute to the risk of back injury.
SafetyBytes® - Good Housekeeping in the Workplace
This SafetyByte points out that good housekeeping reduces operating costs, increases production, opens aisles to permit faster traffic, lowers accident rates, reduces fire hazards, and raises employee morale.
SafetyBytes® - Hazardous Gases (Ignoring the Need for PPE)
A confined space + lack of personal protective equipment spells disaster in this SafetyByte.
SafetyBytes® - How Your Back Works
Have you ever wondered how and where back problems occur? In this SafetyBytes® module, we’ll discuss the mechanics of how your back works.
SafetyBytes® - Lock Out/Tag Out (Office Machine Maintenance)
This SafetyByte shows the results of failing to lock and tag office equipment before attempting a repair.
SafetyBytes® - Saving Your Back (Tips and Tricks)
Back pain is not joke! In this SafetyBytes® module, we’ll discuss some basic tips and tricks to help you prevent injury to your back.
SafetyBytes® - Slippery When Wet
Falls. They can be prevented! This SafetyByte discusses the importance of paying attention while on the job - to avoid slips, trips or falls.
SafetyBytes® - Why and How Falls Happen
Many jobs have inherent risks. Some people consider them occupational hazards and while you might pay close attention to the obvious risks, you’re more likely to ignore the subtle, equally dangerous risks. In this SafetyBytes® module, we’ll review why and how falls happen.
SafetyBytes® - Why Take Chances
In this SafetyBytes™ module, we’ll look at the seriousness of unsafe work practices and the reality of ignoring the safety message behind a no injury accident.
SafetyBytes® Fire Safety - Fire Classifications
Every 20 seconds, a fire department responds to a fire somewhere in the United States. Once a minute, a fire occurs in a structure. Although fire's toll has declined steadily over the past two decades, fire continues to cause major losses. In this SafetyBytes® course, we’ll discuss fire classifications.
SafetyBytes® Fire Safety: Fire Extinguisher Overview
Just how important are fire extinguishers? It turns out very important! Often ignored, these life saving devices play a vital role in keeping us safe. It is time for fire extinguishers to get the respect they deserve. In this SafetyBytes® module, we’ll review the important things you must consider about your fire extinguishers.
SafetyBytes® Fire Safety: Fire Extinguishers
There are different classes of fire as well as different types of fire extinguishers for each class. Using the wrong type can make the fire worse and cause serious injury to you or the people around you. In this SafetyBytes® lesson, we’ll review the different types of fire extinguishers.
SafetyBytes® Fire Safety: Using Fire Extinguishers Safely
Fire is among the most serious hazards that you may face in the workplace. While proper procedures and training can minimize its likelihood, you still must be prepared to deal with a fire emergency should it occur. In this SafetyBytes® lesson, we’ll review the procedures you should follow in the event of a fire.
TrainingBriefs® Free Speech at Work
New Micro-Learning! It's important to know that the First Amendment right to free speech is not unlimited or does not outweigh the organization’s right to maintain a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. In this course, you'll learn about prohibited behavior in the workplace - as an employee exercises what he sees as his right to free speech.
TrainingBriefs® Zero Tolerance for Practical Jokes
New Micro-Learning! Have you ever played a practical joke on a co-worker? What about telling an “inside joke” in front of an unsuspecting new employee? It’s all just innocent fun, isn’t it? Not necessarily – it depends on if it crosses the line into malicious teasing or even hazing another employee – all behaviors that are unprofessional are inappropriate in the workplace.
TrainingBriefs® Responding to Workplace Gossip
New Micro-Learning! Some people are fascinated by gossip and some just ignore it. But when gossip is felt as harassment or discrimination in the workplace - it can be devastating!
TrainingBriefs® Behaviors for Success
New Micro-Learning! The behaviors we display at work can help you… get a promotion, succeed on projects, meet goals, and just generally enable you to enjoy your job more. By the end of this module, you’ll be able to identify the common behaviors of successful employees.
I Wish My Manager Would Just...™ (eLearning)
25,000 employees can't be wrong…when it comes to knowing what managers and supervisors can do to make their workplaces more productive, efficient and rewarding. Based on candid responses gathered in a large-scale, five-year survey, this course helps managers and supervisors consider the impact—positive and negative—that their management styles have on employees. It's a refreshing and honest look at the relationship between employees and managers.
TrainingBriefs® Addressing Stereotypes
New Micro-Learning! Sometimes people look at another group as being different just based upon skin color or racial traits. It’s often easy to see other human beings as different if you look at them through the “We – Them” mindset. This depersonalizes people.
Win the S.A.L.E.™ Coaching for Sales Success
Coaching is essential to the success of any employee... but when it comes to a sales person, coaching makes a profound impact on performance, attitude and service! This program helps sales managers quickly recognize and respond to common challenges/issues they face by providing a four-step process (S.A.L.E.) which can be used to motivate and coach sales teams and staff.
Win the S.A.L.E.™ Supporting the Sale
Sales support is essential to keeping the sales funnel and process moving. This program contains time-tested and optimized training that educates and inspires employees with limited sales experience, enabling them to strengthen your organization's sales performance, top-to-bottom. Note: This program (and materials) is designed for sales service and support team embers and professionals.
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.
Be S.A.F.E. (Not Sorry)™: Preventing Violence in the Workplace (eLearning Signature)
Promote a safe work environment and prevent workplace violence. Using dramatic examples taken from real life situations, this course provides specific instructions for everyone in your organization about how to make your workplace S.A.F.E. It demonstrates practical—and even necessary—tools to help keep your company safe in today’s hectic and pressure-filled world.
Improving Personal Productivity: How to Accomplish More with Less Stress
This powerful, interactive eLearning course gives you easy-to-use tools you need to begin improving your personal productivity - including how to avoid time wasters!
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.
Legal Briefs™ Workplace Violence: The Legal Role in Keeping Your Workplace Safe
Workplace violence is an issue that no one can afford to ignore. An organization’s top priority is to ensure the safety of the workplace. But there are also some legal liability issues that you need to be aware of. This course provides an understanding of critical issues related to workplace violence including five of the toughest issues managers must deal with.
Protecting Intellectual Property
A great primer on IP protection! Intellectual property protection is critical to fostering innovation. Without protection of ideas, businesses and individuals would not fully benefit from their inventions and would focus less on research and development.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) - An Overview
U.S. law strictly prohibits offering or receiving bribes and gifts when doing commerce with people in or from foreign countries. U.S. employees and the companies they represent who violate this law face prosecution when caught paying or accepting bribes from foreign officials. Violators pay heavy fines...and the people involved can spend years in prison. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the FCPA.
TrainingBytes® Increasing Emotional Intelligence (eLearning)
Help your emerging leaders advance their interpersonal skills and become more resilient in the face of workplace challenges. In three, straight-to-the-point modules, employees will experience focused learning on how to stay in control, maintain a positive outlook and adopt big-picture thinking for better results.
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.
Whale Done!™ in Action (eLearning Signature)
Transform your organization with the power of positive relationships
Whale Done!™ The Power of Positive Relationships (eLearning Program)
Transform your organization with the power of positive relationships - based on the highly popular and best-selling book by Ken Blanchard. Best-selling author Ken Blanchard shows how to improve workplace relationships and productivity by using the Whale Done!™ approach. Based on behavior-changing strategies developed at SeaWorld, this program offers a compelling message and memorable workshop activities that will have an immediate and positive impact on your workplace.
Win the S.A.L.E.™ One Step at a Time
This program is especially relevant for participants who are new to sales or have limited sales experience. Buyers in organizations today are highly sophisticated. They prefer to collaborate with salespeople who are equally sophisticated and professional. They expect sales professionals to be knowledgeable, skilled and trusted advisors, providing solutions for the needs of their organizations. A goal for sales professionals, therefore, is to surpass the competition. This workshop helps sales professionals reach that goal by providing a basic formula to build rapport and manage the sales process with prospects and customers.
Win the S.A.L.E.™: Putting it All Together
Designed for service and support professionals. This program is a comprehensive for employees with limited sales experience, enabling them to strengthen your organization's sales performance, top-to-bottom.
TrainingBriefs® Accentuate the Positive
New Micro-Learning! For many leaders, their focus is typically upon when the mark is being missed. In most organizations, considerable energy and attention are invested in what’s off track as opposed to what’s working well and that is what this module is all about, accentuating the positive.
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® Asking Someone to Lie
New Micro-Learning! In general, people lie so they can tip the balance toward things going their way. They rationalize the lie. This rationalization is like poison to work relationships and the ultimate success of a business. The antidote is to STOP. Search your motivations. Think about the implications. Open yourself up to other options and Preserve your integrity.
TrainingBriefs® Avoiding Bias in Hiring
New Micro-Learning! Making assumptions about others is a natural way of interacting with each other. But, assumptions can have a negative effect when it comes to hiring. In this course, we will explore how unconscious bias, or assumptions can prevent you from finding top talent for the roles you are trying to fill.
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® Behaviors to Improve Customer Service
New Micro-Learning! Great customer service means putting your heart into everything you do. It’s about making customers feel valued. It’s caring… plain and simple. We all must take an active role in creating a customer-centric workplace.
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.
TrainingBriefs® Being Positive and Proactive
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. The course takes a look at the concept of being positive and proactive in all that you do.
TrainingBriefs® Being Transparent
The value of honesty in business has obvious and subtle implications. Unfortunately, there are times when individuals are asked to be less than totally honest in order to paint a brighter financial picture. In this course, you’ll observe two coworkers discussing an upcoming presentation to the board of directors. The boss is pressuring his subordinate to paint a picture that is brighter than it actually is.
TrainingBriefs® Beware of Personal Opinions
New Micro-Learning! In the workplace, we need to understand how controversial issues outside of the organization can affect internal working relationships and productivity when we start voicing our personal opinions in the midst of a culturally diverse workforce.
TrainingBriefs® Building Trust
New Micro-Learning! To build relationships you have to start by building trust. And that doesn't just happen... you have to work on it. You need to show your people that they can trust you and depend on you. If your employees see you right there with them, doing the job with them and working with them in a way that builds that trusting bond, they're going to trust you.
TrainingBriefs® Change Resiliency
New Micro-Learning! The basic truth is that change is constant. Sometimes it seems so much is changing, that we may get to the point of not even noticing many of the changes. Then… something happens that brings it to our attention. Other times, change seems jarring. It creates what feels like a huge obstacle falling into our life and way of doing things.
TrainingBriefs® Cheating the System
New Micro-Learning! Most of the ethical misconduct in an organization is the small bad choices that employees make day to day. Breaking simple policies or taking advantage of privileges and benefits (like PTO) may not seem like serious ethical misconduct – but these infractions are a reflection of what kind of employee you are or could become. Small bad choices may lead to bigger bad choices.
TrainingBriefs® Coaching Basics
New Micro-Learning! Have you ever been reluctant to coach an employee because you didn’t know where to begin or how to handle what may come up during the conversation? Yes, coaching can be scary. You have to excel in the necessary interpersonal skills while at the same time follow a process. You need to engage your employee in recognizing and solving the current problem. And, you need to help develop his or hers own problem-solving capabilities.
TrainingBriefs® Coaching Overview
New Micro-Learning! Have you ever been reluctant to coach an employee because you didn’t know where to begin or how to handle what may come up during the conversation? Yes, coaching can be scary. You have to excel in the necessary interpersonal skills while at the same time follow a process.
TrainingBriefs® Coaching the High Performer
New Micro-Learning! Coaching a high-performing employee is one of the most enjoyable aspects of being a leader. But, it requires sensitivity or it can become like walking the razors edge between encouraging them to do more and pushing them too far.
TrainingBriefs® Combine Your Strengths
New Micro-Learning! Extraordinary leaders understand that it's the combination of strengths that produces exponential results. It is these results that result in extraordinary leadership. This course takes a look at easy-to-understand steps to maximizing your leadership skills.
TrainingBriefs® Communicating & Listening
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, we’ll explore the power of effectively communicating and listening.
TrainingBriefs® Compromising Your Standards
New Micro-Learning! When it comes to using inaccurate information to meet a deadline - even if it doesn't seem to impact or affect the outcome of a situation - it is a very slippery slope. Sometimes there is information that should not be kept confidential.
TrainingBriefs® Conducting Legal Reference Checks
New Micro-Learning! Every day, organizations come under fire for hiring people with a past the company should, and could have, been aware of. Studies show that over 30 percent of all résumés contain fabrications. So checking out references and doing thorough background research on a candidate is becoming more and more important.
TrainingBriefs® Conflict… Can’t You Just Deal with It?
New Micro-Learning! When it comes to conquering conflict, sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone when confronting an employee about their behavior. Using a “Flight” response to get away or avoid a situation may feel good in the short-term, but conflicts seldom resolve successfully when we avoid them.
TrainingBriefs® Consequences of Exclusive Behavior
New Micro-Learning! When employees feel left out, it impacts everyone in the workplace. Employees fail to work together, they miss work more frequently, and they eventually may choose to find employment elsewhere.
TrainingBriefs® Creating a Positive Customer Experience
New Micro-Learning! Creating a positive customer experience requires flexibility. To gain and maintain customer loyalty, you must focus on active listening, demonstrate a positive attitude and be ready to solve problems.
TrainingBriefs® Cultural Competence & Communication
New Micro-Learning! Diversity is reality. Because social and economic change is coming faster and faster, organizations are understanding the need for cultural competence. We're realizing that if we don't improve our skills we're asking for organizational and cultural gridlock. Creating an inclusive team environment that values diversity helps you achieve our organization’s bottom line.
TrainingBriefs® Cultural Considerations in Business
New Micro-Learning! In the business world, communication is imperative for the successful execution of daily operations. Understanding cultural differences and overcoming language barriers are considerations you should have when dealing with people of various cultures.
TrainingBriefs® Difficult Performance Appraisals
The performance appraisal is one action tool that helps facilitate communication. It helps establish goals, it allows you to exchange feedback, and it is an excellent opportunity to revisit position expectations. Knowing how to navigate through a difficult performance appraisal is very beneficial in keeping “good” employees, identifying areas of opportunity, and redirecting employees who could improve in some areas such arriving late to work, missing deadlines, or displaying a negative attitude.
TrainingBriefs® Effective Interviewing: Contrary Evidence
New Micro-Learning! When an interviewer begins to get a one-sided impression during a job interview, they tend to ask questions that will further confirm that impression. The reverse is also true. When an interviewer thinks a candidate has all the wrong skills or behaviors, they tend to ask questions that confirm the impression. To prevent these common interview issues, the interviewer needs to ask for contrary evidence.
TrainingBriefs® Effective Interviewing: Preparation is Key
New Micro-Learning! Hiring the right person the first time takes more than a gut feeling. It takes planning and preparation. The result? You will be able to interview and evaluate candidates in such a way that you get the information you need to identify the right person for the job.
TrainingBriefs® Embracing Assistance
New Micro-Learning! Assistance is about making sure we've got what we need to do the job and it is not just a management function. If someone is dependent on you for something, or if you've got some knowledge that's going to help someone get his or her job done - you've got to offer assistance. And, if you need something, you need to ensure you ask for it.
TrainingBriefs® Embracing Feedback
New Micro-Learning! Diversity is a fact of life in today’s workplace. Which means we need to be able to recognize and respond to those similarities and differences and make better decisions based on those understandings. In this short course, we’ll explore the importance of providing accurate feedback to our direct reports - and being open their insights.
TrainingBriefs® Embracing Inclusion
New Micro-Learning! Inclusion is about recognizing and responding to the needs of all employees. It’s talking about co-workers in a supportive way, rather than criticizing them behind their backs. Most importantly, inclusion is about making sure work assignments and activities, including work-related social events, do not exclude or disadvantage anyone.
TrainingBriefs® Engaging Your Employees
New Micro-Learning! Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organization to give their best each day, commit to their organization’s goals and values and achieve motivation to contribute to organizational success - with an enhanced sense of their own well-being.
TrainingBriefs® Ethical Choices – Violating Procedures
New Micro-Learning! Some organizations have SOX or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to consider when it comes to policy. All publicly traded companies are now required by law to set in place accounting internal controls – ones that measure the organization’s effectiveness. Policies, like getting three bids, is an example of the many kinds of internal controls that must be followed – noncompliance is against the law.
TrainingBriefs® Ethical Dilemma - I’m Not Here
If you’re being pressured by a friend, coworker or even a manager... to lie… going along with them may seem like the easiest thing to do at first. It’s not! If you find yourself in such a dilemma, this course introduces a simple strategy to help.
TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Budgets
New Micro-Learning! Individuals make ethical choices, not organizations. In most cases, we are not talking about bad people. Granted, there some out there making conscious unethical choices, but this is the exception, not the rule. It’s usually good people that make bad choices. In this short course, you’ll observe an individual who discovers that her department is under budget. The question is will she make bad choices with this knowledge?
TrainingBriefs® Evaluating the Interview
New Micro-Learning! So you think you know how to properly prepare for and conduct your interview but what do you do next? Once you have concluded all your interviews, the next step is to evaluate the interviews to determine who among all the candidates is the best fit for the job.
TrainingBriefs® Everyone Does It
New Micro-Learning! In this course, we'll look at software theft. By the time we're finished, you'll be in a better position to not only recognize the kinds of ethical situations that can lead to problems; but you'll also be better prepared to really think through the issues and figure out what's the best choice of action for you and your organization.
TrainingBriefs® Excelling at Work: Being Accountable & Flexible
New Micro-Learning! Excelling at work doesn’t simply mean you should be good at what you do, but also how professionally you conduct yourself on a team. There are four key strategies that, if you really focus on them, will make all the difference in the world. In this course, we'll explore the topic of being accountable and flexible.
TrainingBriefs® Exploring Our Filters
New Micro-Learning! How we communicate and how effectively we communicate has to do with a lot more than just mastering language. In addition to the varied ways of sending communication, each person receives it via various different filters... filters we all have.
TrainingBriefs® Focus on Your Strengths
New Micro-Learning! This course focuses on the energy that should be spent exploiting our strengths instead of focusing our energy on our weaknesses. As you complete this quick course, ask yourself in what areas do I want to be recognized as outstanding?
TrainingBriefs® Gender Identity Protections
New Micro-Learning! This course explores the topic of gender identity in the workplace. There are a variety of Federal, state and local laws that expressly protect workers based on their gender identity and sexual orientation. Most employers are covered by one or more of these laws.
TrainingBriefs® Generational Communication Barriers
New Micro-Learning! Workplaces across the country are adjusting to a new reality. Baby Boomers are remaining as active workforce participants. Meanwhile, the first members of Generation Z, roughly defined as those born since the mid-nineties, will soon be beginning their careers and will make up a large share of the labor market soon. Due to communication differences among generations, communication styles can often be a problem.
TrainingBriefs® Generational Diversity: Age Does Matter
New Micro-Learning! Managing across generational lines can be challenging for a manager of ANY generation. Our ability to do it well can make huge differences in our organization's ability to recruit and retain talented people, increase productivity and create and maintain a respectful workplace.
TrainingBriefs® Generational Diversity: Work Styles
New Micro-Learning! Different work styles are major source of conflict and frustration between the generations. Each generation has different viewpoints toward the workplace. Working on a team that is comprised of different generations really creates challenge when the group has to tackle a common problem or project.
TrainingBriefs® Generations in the Workplace - Feeling Valued
New Micro-Learning! We are all shaped by our life experiences, people who have similar life experiences tend to think and respond to situations more similarly than others who didn’t share those experiences. At the heart of most of the conflict and misunderstanding that develops between employees of different generations are communication styles and core motivations, and sometimes, the reluctance to change.
TrainingBriefs® Gossip Can Be Hurtful
New Micro-Learning! An inclusive workplace is one that discourages gossip and malicious rumors. The fact that the conversation took place in the workplace means that those impacted by it have a right and a responsibility to respond.
TrainingBriefs® Handling Integrity Moments
New Micro-Learning! An integrity moment is any time an opportunity presents itself for you to make a choice that displays integrity or shows an example of integrity for others. This course outlines a process to guide your responses in order to build a culture of both honesty and trust in your organization.
TrainingBriefs® Holding Others Accountable for Retaliation
New MicroLearning! To demonstrate your commitment to the organization’s culture of integrity, you must consistently hold employees accountable for their actions. You should expect everyone in the workplace to have that same commitment to compliance. Finally, managers need to hold one another to the same standards as everyone else… with NO exceptions.
TrainingBriefs® Humor Gone Wrong
New Micro-Learning! We all like to have fun at work. But playing off stereotypes - even when it's intended as "just a joke" - isn't everybody's idea of fun. It could be seen as ridicule, which nobody likes. And if it happens a lot, it could create a hostile environment, which nobody wants.
TrainingBriefs® Hurtful Conversations
New Micro-Learning! Insensitive remarks about an overweight co-worker can lead to the perception of harassment. Discussions with co-workers that ridicule or disrespect anyone because of a protected class status can be offensive and lead to an accusation of discriminatory harassment.