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TrainingBriefs® Imposing Personal Beliefs
New Micro-Learning! Your professional beliefs and business ethics should be what drives your behavior in the workplace. How your personal beliefs affect your life outside of work is not relevant, but how your personal beliefs affect how you interact with people at work is.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Harassment Prevention, Compliance, Discrimination, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Integrity in Hiring
Updated! As a manager, we are ethically bound to oversee the recruitment and hiring process with honesty, consistency and objectivity. This course looks at a specific hiring example and spends some time talking about what you should do in this situation making sure you always act with integrity.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Hiring & Recruiting, Compliance, Ethics & Integrity, Learning Reinforcement Foundational 6 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® It’s A Free Country, Right?
New Micro-Learning! This course takes a look at how the First Amendment Free Speech Right applies differently at work than in public. You will observe the reactions among coworkers when one of them starts playing music that the others find offensive. As you work through the course, ask yourself, could a conversation like this impact the employees ability to work together?
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Harassment Prevention, Communication, Discrimination, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Maintaining Confidentiality
Maintaining confidentiality at the workplace is of utmost importance in today’s competitive world to ensure that information about customers, clients, and employees is safe. But… there might be times that we may find ourselves in an awkward situation that could lead to the compromise of such information.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Compliance, Learning Reinforcement, Professionalism Intermediate 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Managing Retaliation Situations
New Micro-Learning! Many people have misconceptions about retaliation in the workplace. Well, here are the facts. Retaliation is one of the fastest growing types of harassment reported to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Retaliation is a costly problem. So, you must be proactive in addressing retaliatory behavior in the workplace and be very vigilant of your own behavior, so you are not personally accused of any wrongdoing.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Compliance, Management, Professionalism Foundational 8 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Misplaced Paternalism
New Micro-Learning! Taking employment actions that you believe are in the employee’s “best interests” – also called misplaced paternalism – can be viewed as discrimination if they are based on stereotypes about a disability, or sex, or any other characteristic protected by law.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Discrimination, Compliance, Discrimination Foundational 5 minutes
TrainingBriefs® No Time for Training (for Managers)
New Micro-Learning! Supporting the growth and development of your staff is vitally important in helping them be as productive and successful as possible in their current role, encouraging motivation and retention, and setting them up for career opportunities. Compliance with organizational training is one of many ethical issues that come up in the workplace.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Effective Leadership, Management, Professionalism Intermediate 8 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Pregnancy is No Joke
New Micro-Learning! This module takes a look at the workplace protections pregnant employees receive under the law. Even if it’s unintentional, jokes about a co-worker being pregnant or repeated comments about the pregnancy can result in creating a hostile work environment and lead to charges of harassment.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Harassment Prevention, Compliance, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Preventing Retaliation
New Micro-Learning! Retaliation in the workplace is a real issue. As a manager, it is your responsibility to know how to recognize, appropriately respond, and resolve potential retaliation issues. There are several signs of possible retaliation. Examples include micromanaging, unnecessary surveillance, arbitrarily enforcing policies or procedures, or other activities unrelated to employment.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Compliance, Abusive Conduct / Bullying, Management Intermediate 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Preventing Workplace Bullying
New Micro-Learning! Workplace bullying, also known as abusive conduct, can have devastating effects on both organizations and individuals. We are hearing more and more about bullying – so much so, that several states have legislation outlawing bullying – even categorizing it as a legal issue.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance, Workplace Safety Abusive Conduct / Bullying, Learning Reinforcement, Management, Professionalism Intermediate 7 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Progressive Discipline
New Micro-Learning! Progressive discipline is a process for dealing with job-related behavior that does not meet expected and communicated performance standards. This course will address this process so you can avoid a wrongful termination lawsuit.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Effective (& Legal) Interviewing, Management Intermediate 7 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Recognizing Bullying Behavior
New Micro-Learning! Bullying is a very serious issue and even though legal action can’t always be taken, it still requires action from employees who witness it or are targets. This means that preventing bullying and speaking up about behavior that crosses the line is dependent upon you being aware and willing to take the next step.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Abusive Conduct / Bullying, Compliance, Harassment Prevention Foundational 9 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Recognizing Retaliatory Behavior
New Micro-Learning! Retaliation is defined as any action that could dissuade a reasonable employee from making or supporting a charge of illegal, unethical or unsafe conduct. Many people have misconceptions about retaliation in the workplace. It is up to you, as a person in a leadership position, to recognize these behaviors and take appropriate action.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Workplace Violence Prevention, Abusive Conduct / Bullying, Compliance, Harassment Prevention, Professionalism Intermediate 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Recruiting & Hiring: Protected Groups
New Micro-Learning! In this course, we'll cover that concept that almost everyone could be in a protected group based on race, national origin, religion, gender, age, or disability. So, there are some important things regarding recruiting and hiring that you need to remember.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Management, Compliance, Professionalism Foundational 6 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Recruiting and Hiring (Legally)
New Micro-Learning! Recruiting and hiring is the process of reviewing applications, selecting the right candidates to interview, testing candidates, choosing between candidates to make the hiring decision and performing various pre-employment tests and checks. In this course, we’ll take a look at this process and some of the pitfalls you must avoid.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Hiring & Recruiting, Management Foundational 7 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Religion at Work
It’s one thing to casually invite someone to attend religious services with you, or to occasionally mention a religious belief or practice. But when you repeatedly and openly talk about your religious beliefs, or proselytize, to the point that it offends a co-worker, you can be accused of harassment. And when a supervisor is the one talking about religion in the workplace, employees may believe that religion discriminatorily effected employment decisions.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Discrimination, Harassment Prevention Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Reporting Ethical Concerns (for Managers)
New Micro-Learning! High-profile corporate scandals have received considerable media attention in recent years. Management should have a keen interest in avoiding such outcomes by encouraging employees to report unethical conduct anonymously. Unfortunately, many employees struggle with ethical decisions because they feel that they cannot remain anonymous so unethical behavior persists.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Communication, Compliance, Effective Leadership Intermediate 7 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® The Virtual Workplace: Tackling Time Theft
New Micro-Learning! Remote teams and mobile workers are becoming more and more popular among businesses. This makes tracking an employee’s efficiency and productivity very difficult. This course tackles time theft… when an employee accepts pay from their employer for work that they haven’t actually done, or for time they have not actually put into their work. Time theft can certainly hurt business by decreasing employee productivity and costing the organization money.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Professionalism, Ethics & Integrity, Management Foundational 6 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Too Big a Job
Stereotypes about what physical jobs women can or cannot do may create illegal gender-based discrimination situations. In some very specific cases, a job could have legitimate lifting requirements that could exclude some women. However, every employee or applicant should be given an opportunity to prove that they can do the required job duties.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Discrimination, Compliance, Management Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Too Old, Huh?
Making employment decisions such as promotions and reporting relationships, because you think an employee is too old can get you and the organization into a lot of trouble. This might lead to an adverse employee action. Age is a protected class under federal law.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Discrimination, Compliance, Harassment Prevention Foundational 6 Minutes