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TrainingBriefs® Your Attitude Effects the Team
Addressing tough attitude issues is a common problem for managers. You can have a terrific team of people, but one bad attitude can be the weak link in the chain that pulls everyone else down. It’s very difficult to hide a bad attitude. Research shows us that employees generally express their bad attitudes in three primary ways.
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® 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.
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.
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 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® 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® 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® 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® 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® 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® 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® 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® 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® Identifying Career Paths
New Micro-Learning! Mentoring is a powerful tool for building success. A key part of your conversations with your mentee involves diving more deeply into their future career paths. By this time, you’ve already looked at the big picture of where your mentee would like to be in the years ahead. In this program, we will look at some examples of what you might want to recommend depending on the situation.
TrainingBriefs® Indirect Leadership Development
New Micro-Learning! This quick course focuses on a better and faster way to achieve your leadership development goals by tapping into competency companions. Remember... “the fastest way to becoming extraordinary isn't always a straight line.”
TrainingBriefs® Interviewing: Clarifying Actions & Outcomes
New Micro-Learning! In a behavior-based interview this is achieved by using a structured interview that organizes questions under job skills, or competencies. The clarifying actions and outcomes strategy should be used when a candidate provides an answer that involves team effort or uses the word “we.” Asking for clarification on specific actions that the candidate had taken and the outcomes or results of those actions is important for getting the whole picture.
TrainingBriefs® It’s About Respect (Managers)
New Micro-Learning! It often happens that managers honestly believe themselves to be neutral on issues of race, sexual orientation, national origin, age or gender. But the reality is that employees need to be recognized for their differences in order to feel respected.