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TrainingBriefs® The Leadership Difference

New Micro-Learning! Leading others starts with your own values. The biggest difference between leaders and non-leaders is a leader’s level of self-awareness — a leader knows who they are. Leaders are hyper-aware of what’s important to them — they can put a name to their core values.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Successfully Leading Others, Learning Reinforcement, Management Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® There Is More We Can Do!

It's not rocket science... or is it? By treating our customers right and going above and beyond, we can create a relationship that lasts for years to come. These returning customers will choose us over any competitor if given a choice, allowing our business to grow and creating more opportunities for our employees.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Customer Service, Communication, Successfully Leading Others, Management, Problem Resolution, Professionalism Foundational 6 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® The Resilient Leader

New Micro-Learning! Resilient leaders recover quickly from failures and merely look at them as temporary setbacks. They maintain a positive attitude and a strong sense of opportunity during periods of turbulence. When faced with uncertainty, resilient leaders find ways to move forward and avoid getting stuck.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Management Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Communicating with Difficult Employees

New Micro-Learning! In conversations with employees that may be somewhat challenging, it’s important for you to have some strong communication skills. Asking good questions is one such skill. Communicating with an employee who may be defensive requires you to model an open, questioning stance - we can call it the learning stance.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Communication, Interpersonal Skills Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® The Five Clusters of Strength

New Micro-Learning! Based on research by Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman - two of the most preeminent thought-leaders on leadership development - this course focuses on the five tenets that encompass the characters of core strengths that really matter in becoming an extraordinary leader.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Management Foundational 9 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Leading to Engage Others

New Micro-Learning! In this course, we will take a look at three fundamental ways leaders enroll followers, and how only one really works. We will also look at how leaders capture the attention of their followers to take the journey to a better place by ensuring they know how much better it is then where they are now.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Effective Leadership, Management Intermediate 6 Minutes

The Power of Positivity

SOLLAH EXCLUSIVE!

We have to rely on and work with others in order to achieve results. The problem is that many work environments are not conducive to positive relationships. Instead, they employ the GOTcha approach. If someone does something wrong, then they think it is their job to point it out and say, “GOTcha!” While focused on the mistake, they are inadvertently reinforcing the negative behavior. This program focuses on the Power of Positivity (POP) Approach and can have a dramatic positive impact on your relationships with others.

eLearning - Signature Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Professionalism Intermediate 25 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Why Trust Matters

Trust is the foundation of any successful organization. Trust means that employees have confidence in each other's abilities, intentions, and actions. Trust also means that employees feel safe to express their opinions, share their ideas, and collaborate with their colleagues. Leaders play a crucial role in promoting trust in the workplace by setting an example through their behavior and fostering a culture of mutual respect and collaboration.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, Leadership Effective Leadership, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Successfully Leading Others Foundational 5 Minutes

Training Briefs® Yet Another Fire

Communication can make or break a project. Ensuring our team members are communicating effectively, efficiently, and timely is a key to success in the workplace. As leaders, we know there will be times when we must have those difficult conversations, but we need to make sure we confront and resolve these issues, not avoid them.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Professionalism Intermediate 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Termination Due to Downsizing

We all dread it. It's one of the toughest responsibilities of a manager/leader. You must terminate an employee because your organization is downsizing. How well you do depends a lot on your preparation. So… what do you do?

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Management, Professionalism Intermediate 8 Minutes

Leadership 101

Learners taking this course will quickly understand that leadership is the willingness and ability to influence those around them at all levels. They will also explore different methods for being more influential and identify leadership behaviors in a variety of situations. This course also helps learners determine ways to develop committed team members; and develop vision, mission and goal statements.

eLearning - Advantage Leadership Effective Leadership, Coaching & Mentoring, Interpersonal Skills, New Supervisor, Onboarding Intermediate 40 Minutes

Bury My Heart at Conference Room B™ (eLearning Program)

Many feel they can manage, but few were born to lead! Leadership is the key! But... there is more methodology, misdirection and generalized academic babble about the concept of leadership than almost any business subject out there. This course tackles the myths of leadership!

eLearning - Signature Leadership Effective Leadership, Change, Communication, Successfully Leading Others, Management Foundational 40 Minutes

Once Upon a Leader™ (eLearning Signature)

The majority of challenges calling for leadership are everyday situations in our professional and personal lives. This new eLearning course delves into these challenges and how to overcome them.

eLearning - Signature Leadership Effective Leadership, Interpersonal Skills, Management, Professionalism Foundational 30 Minutes

The Extraordinary Leader™: Going from Good to Great - eLearning

In a world growing increasingly complex, there is an urgent need for leaders at every level and in every organization. The need is for leaders who are prized because of contributions they make to their organizations, the role models they present and the elevated standards of performance they set. The Extraordinary Leader is a course designed to help leaders develop competencies needed to produce extraordinary results in their organizations.

eLearning - Signature Leadership Effective Leadership, Change, Coaching & Mentoring, Collaboration, Communication, Communication & Influencing, Interpersonal Skills, Management, Motivation, Professionalism Intermediate 30 - 45 minutes

TrainingBriefs® Dealing with Unprofessional Behavior

New Micro-Learning! This module emphasizes the role of coaching in creating successful outcomes when dealing with an employee’s unprofessional behavior. Making time for coaching has several benefits such as increased productivity, improved well-being and expanded employee effectiveness.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Coaching & Mentoring, Successfully Leading Others, Learning Reinforcement, Meeting Preparation, Professionalism Intermediate 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Motivating Bad Attitudes

Addressing an employee who has ceased to care about the job, can be very frustrating but it is possible to work with the employee and uncover the underlying issues. When an employee doesn’t seem to care about their job, it’s easy to make assumptions about why they might be acting that way. The problem is, you could be way off base and your actions could end up making the problem worse.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership, Personal Performance Effective Leadership, Coaching & Mentoring, Communication Foundational 6 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® The Benefits of Leadership

New Micro-Learning! Leadership isn't well understood by most managers and they may perceive it as something that they can't do, are uncomfortable doing, or that has no benefit to them. During this short course, you will learn about the benefits of making the transition from manager to leader.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Successfully Leading Others, Learning Reinforcement, Management Intermediate 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Leading in Unprecedented Times

New Micro-Learning! Unpredictable times call for unprecedented leadership. During times of intense fluidity, employees, team members and associates are all looking for their leaders to set the tone. They need to feel inspired and motivated to navigate the unknown. They need to know their leaders have their backs and are ready for what's next! Most importantly, they need to trust that their leaders are beside them - every step of the way.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Professionalism, Respect / Respectfulness Foundational 6 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Returning to Work: Common Employee Questions

New Micro-Learning! As employees and staff begin their return to the workplace after the pandemic stay-at-home orders, they will have questions... many questions. Things will take time to get back to normal. And many think the 'new' normal might not be much like how we did things in the past. As a manager, you need to be prepared for questions and concerns brought to you by your team.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Management, Onboarding, Workplace Safety & Awareness Foundational 4 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Effective Delegation

New Micro-Learning! Being a good leader or manager often involves delegating tasks to employees. This can be difficult to do for many people, but there are some tips and tricks to make it easier AND more effective. Whether you're a team leader, store manager, supervisor or in any manager role, delegation is a major component to maximizing your productivity and keeping yourself sane during tight deadlines or large workloads.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Successfully Leading Others, Teamwork Foundational 5 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Effective Leadership, Communication, Successfully Leading Others, Management, Professionalism Foundational 6 Minutes

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.

eLearning - Signature Leadership Effective Leadership, Change, Communication, Professionalism Foundational 20 minutes

Whale Done!™ in Action (eLearning Signature)

Transform your organization with the power of positive relationships

eLearning - Signature Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Professionalism, Sales & Service Foundational 30 - 45 minutes

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.

eLearning - Signature Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Professionalism, Sales & Service Foundational 35 minutes

TrainingBriefs® The Know-It-All Boss: Leadership by Proxy

New Micro-Learning! As a manager or supervisor, you manage multiple priorities and shifting deadlines on a daily basis. How you listen and respond to your team may or may not be your best example of good leadership skills.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Learning Reinforcement, Professionalism Intermediate 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Unacceptable Behavior in the Workplace

New Micro-Learning! As managers, supervisors and team leaders, there are times when we have to make some pretty tough calls. It just goes with the territory. And when we're faced with those kinds of situations, we have to make sure we don't let short-term gains, like closing a big sale, completing a big project or hitting a production quota, take priority over the long-term integrity of the organization.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Effective Leadership, Ethics & Integrity, Learning Reinforcement, Professionalism Intermediate 7 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Understanding Decision-Making Styles

New Micro-Learning! Making decisions. It’s a part of your life, every day. Deciding what to wear to work in the morning, what to eat for dinner, and whether to walk up the stairs or take the escalator are some of the easier decisions to make during a typical day. On the other hand, when it comes to making decisions at work that involve other people, your decision is dependent on a variety of perspectives, including your hierarchical or equality decision making style.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Respect / Respectfulness, Teamwork Intermediate 10 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® What’s With the ‘Tude?

We can't make someone change his or her attitude. But we can choose how we react. That's why the solution starts with us. We owe it to ourselves to help create an environment where everyone respects each other, so we can get things done that need to get done. A big part of that is learning how to deal with difficult attitudes.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Successfully Leading Others, Management Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Zero Tolerance (with Fairness and Respect)

New Micro-Learning! Most organizations have zero tolerance policies these days. Whether it's drugs, workplace violence, or harassment… organizations are making a clear statement about what is acceptable behavior at work. But - even though the zero tolerance policy may be clear - as managers, you have to know how to enforce it. And that means you have to know how to recognize and correct situations that cross the line.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Effective Leadership, Collaboration, Compliance Intermediate 8 Minutes

Got Leadership?™ Are You a Know-It-All Boss?

As a leader, you manage multiple priorities and shifting deadlines on a daily basis. How you respond to your team may or may not be your best example of good leadership skills. This course gives you practice at assessing your personal reaction to situations. It will provide you with opportunities to see the impact of your choices and where you want to be as a leader.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Leadership Effective Leadership, Change, Collaboration, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Management, Respect / Respectfulness Intermediate 15 Minutes

Got Leadership?™ Dealing with Attendance Issues

This course emphasizes the role of coaching in creating successful outcomes when dealing with employee attendance issues. You will learn that making time for coaching has several benefits such as increased productivity, improved well-being and expanded employee effectiveness.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Leadership Effective Leadership, Coaching & Mentoring, Communication, Management Intermediate 15 Minutes

Got Leadership?™ Stephen Covey on Leadership™

This eLearning course is designed to help trigger meaningful discussion on the importance of personal leadership and the impact it can have within your organization.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Leadership Effective Leadership, Motivation, New Supervisor Intermediate 10 Minutes

Got Leadership?™ Taking Personal Responsibility

As a professional in today’s workplace, you are expected to deliver results and work effectively with others, regardless of obstacles you may discover. Not always an easy task! In this course, you'll learn one of the most important lessons for career success – taking personal responsibility for your actions and behaviors on the job.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Leadership Effective Leadership, Successfully Leading Others, Management, Professionalism Intermediate 15 Minutes

Goal Setting for Leaders: An Advantage eLearning Course

Learners of this eLearning course will: 1) Understand the importance of goal setting; 2) Identify specific areas that require goal setting; 3) Learn how to write SMART Goals: 4) Identify ways to provide feedback that will aid team members in accomplishing their goals.

eLearning - Advantage Leadership Effective Leadership, Collaboration, Goals and Goal Setting Advanced 40 Minutes

The Three-Dimensional Interview: Evaluating for Capability, Commitment & Chemistry™

This updated eLearning course shows how to take the guesswork out of evaluating candidates and selecting the right person for the job. Get practical, step-by-step instructions for how to effectively plan and conduct consistent, structured interviews.

eLearning - Signature Leadership Management, Change, Hiring & Recruiting, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Intermediate 30 - 45 minutes

ENOUGH!™ The Consequences of Sexual Harassment (eLearning for Managers)

Understanding the deep consequences of workplace sexual harassment is paramount to preventing it. Managers and supervisors are held to a higher legal standard in sexual harassment cases. ENOUGH! is an interactive course providing the education, guidance and authority to help managers rise to the challenge of preventing, recognizing and reporting sexual harassment in the workplace. The active bystander concept is also covered. When it comes to workplace sexual harassment... enough is ENOUGH!

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Sexual Harassment, Effective Leadership, Management Foundational 60 Minutes

Legal Briefs™ Family and Medical Leave Act

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides employees with health problems and family challenges the opportunity to deal with those issues without having to worry about the impact on their careers. Managers and organizations need to be aware of the purpose and benefits of the FMLA and make sure they are correctly communicating and interpreting the law to employees.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Compliance, Communication, Effective Leadership, Management, New Supervisor Intermediate 35 Minutes

Legal Briefs™ The Americans with Disabilities Act: Tough Questions & Straight Answers

By taking this updated eLearning course, your managers will learn how the ADA impacts them and their employees and find key answers to their most frequently asked questions. With critical legal information to guide decision making, this course helps managers understand their responsibilities under the ADA and how to sort through tough issues and respond effectively.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Management, Compliance, Effective Leadership, Respect / Respectfulness Intermediate 35 Minutes

Training Briefs® The Refund

We all get frustrated sometimes, but we need to be positive and professional in our interactions with our customers. Taking out our frustrations on a customer could cause them to seek services from a competitor instead. As a leader in the organization, we need to make sure we are offering all of our customers the best experience possible. Without our customers, we wouldn’t have a business.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Customer Service, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Successfully Leading Others, Professionalism, Respect / Respectfulness Foundational 5 Minutes

Training Briefs® What’s The Big Deal?

Decision-making is a daily occurrence in the workplace. Making ethical decisions is important for everyone within an organization and those they serve. As a leader in the organization, we must ensure our team members are aware of the proper procedures for ethical decision-making and the numerous consequences that can occur if they are not followed. Big or small, an unethical decision can have a huge impact on the organization.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Ethics & Integrity, Compliance, Effective Leadership, Successfully Leading Others, Problem Resolution Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Respecting Sexual Orientation

Knowing when and how to deal with issues of sexual orientation, or sexuality, or even lifestyle choices can be a challenge. They're the kind of things that can give rise to gossip and innuendo, at the very least; and outright hostility and harassment if you don't deal with them correctly.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Diversity Dynamics, Effective Leadership, Respect / Respectfulness Foundational 8 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® They’re Both Older

It’s a good possibility that many members of our organization don’t understand that our organization is a collection of backgrounds, experience levels, and life lessons. It’s important for them to understand that we can draw on the strengths of those elements… developing a thorough solution that works for the entire team.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Discrimination, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Effective Leadership Foundational 5 Minutes

Mentoring 101™ - The Basics (eLearning Signature)

A mentor is someone who provides guidance to a less-experienced employee. A mentor may be another employee or even a professional from outside of the company. Regardless of the structure, mentors are role models who shares knowledge and advice to help the mentee grow professionally.

eLearning - Signature Leadership, Personal Performance Coaching & Mentoring, Collaboration, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership Foundational 20 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Planned Spontaneous Recognition

New Micro-Learning! You want high performance from your employees. You push them to give you exceptional results. In doing so you often raise stress levels-theirs and yours! This can create a potentially explosive situation. If you want to diffuse that possibility and keep your team motivated, try introducing Planned Spontaneous Recognition.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Motivation, Effective Leadership, Successfully Leading Others, Management Intermediate 6 Minutes

Integrity Every Day: Real Choices. Right Decisions.™ (Healthcare eLearning)

As a healthcare employee, you face situations every day where you have some real choices to make. And it’s important that you understand your responsibilities in those situations and then make the right decisions. This course is designed to help you learn how to do the right thing, for the right reasons, in the right way.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Change, Compliance, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 30 - 45 minutes

F.A.I.R. in Action™ for Managers (eLearning)

Diversity is about understanding the unique characteristics of the various groups that make up your business environment (such as customers, managers, employees, suppliers and other stakeholders). The paradox of diversity is that sometimes people may have to be treated differently in order to be treated fairly. F.A.I.R. in Action is designed to help you recognize and respond to those similarities and differences and understand what diversity really is and when it matters most in the workplace.

eLearning - Signature Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Communication, Compliance, Diversity Dynamics, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Micro-Inequities/Micro-Aggressions, Unconscious / Hidden Bias Foundational 40 Minutes

Fearless Facilitation!™ How to Lead Effective Training (eLearning Course)

Exemplary facilitators are fearless because they prepare thoroughly for training sessions, are organized to the minutest detail, respect the experiences of adult learners, attend to various learning styles, and masterfully draw out the wisdom of participants. This course will help turn ineffective training into highly productive sessions.

eLearning - Signature Leadership, Personal Performance Effective Training, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Intermediate 35 Minutes

Get the Whole Picture™: Asking Probing Questions in a Behavioral-Based Interview

This course was created for people who are already familiar with basic behavior-based interviewing. It is an advanced workshop-format designed to significantly improve probing skills. Developed in collaboration with Dr. Paul Green, a leading industrial psychologist and behavioral-based interviewing expert, this course enables participants to identify their personal probing style and then practice five effective probing strategies.

eLearning - Signature Leadership Effective (& Legal) Interviewing, Hiring & Recruiting, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Advanced 30 Minutes

Ready. Set. CHANGE!™ Reacting Smarter. Adapting Faster. Engaging Together. (eLearning Course)

Change in the workplace today has taken on a new dimension. It is no longer just an event or an initiative, is it? Rather, it is pervasive and constant, and it impacts all of us. This course will provide you with a clear and practical strategy that will help you develop the skills to understand, respond to and navigate any change in a way that’s positive and productive for you, coworkers, customers and the organization.

eLearning - Signature Personal Performance Change, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Onboarding, Professionalism Intermediate 45 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® A Short Term Gain (for Managers)

When employees fail to behave ethically and violate organizational policy, you must act swiftly to address the behavior and take the appropriate disciplinary action. Doing so will help protect the organization and avoid sending the wrong message throughout the workforce. Promptly responding to violations of policy is one of many ethical issues that come up in the workplace.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Compliance, Effective Leadership, Management, Professionalism Foundational 8 minutes

TrainingBriefs® Accepting Your New Role

New Micro-Learning! Being a manager, supervisor or team leader can be an extremely rewarding position. It also is challenging, and, at times, frustrating to be caught between your team and the management team you report to. In especially challenging times, keep in mind that you were selected because of your skills and potential that people higher up in the organization recognize in you.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership, Personal Performance Successfully Leading Others, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement, Management Foundational 9 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Must Do’s As a Mentor

New Micro-Learning! Some organizations have official mentors while others have more of an informal approach to mentoring. No matter how it happens, a mentor fills a vital role in the success of the organization. In order to be a successful mentor, you need to understand what does a mentor does, who benefits from mentoring, and the “must do’s” as a mentor. In this course, we will look at must do’s as a mentor.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, Effective Leadership, Professionalism 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® Planning for a Successful Discussion

New Micro-Learning! In order to reap the benefits of a successful mentoring relationship, you need to have a thorough understanding of planning for a successful discussion, setting goals, identifying career paths and establishing development needs. In this course, we'll take a close look at planning for a successful discussion.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, Effective Leadership, Professionalism 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® Respecting Religious Diversity

New Micro-Learning! Managers often get busy and can’t always be on top of everything. Yet sometimes they can unknowingly send a message that excludes an employee. When the exclusion occurs because of something related to the employee’s religion, it can be serious.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Diversity Dynamics, Effective Leadership, Management, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® There’s No “I” in Team

Most people don’t intentionally come to work with a bad or difficult attitude. The problem is a lot of people don’t understand - or they forget - how our attitudes affect the people around us. When these situations do arise, all it really takes is a gentle reminder that what they're doing has an impact on the rest of us.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Communication, Effective Leadership Foundational 8 Minutes

Got Leadership?™ Now I’m the Manager…

Congratulations! Being a supervisor/manager can be an extremely rewarding position. It also is challenging, and, at times, frustrating to be caught between your team and the management team you report to. In especially challenging times, keep in mind that you were selected because of your skills and potential that people higher up in the organization recognize in you. So, take a deep breath and get ready to learn more about the exciting challenges you have ahead.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Management Intermediate 20 Minutes

LearningBytes® Accentuate the Positive™

The key to getting great results is to pay more attention to what's going right; rather than what's going wrong. And that's a big part of what we like to call accentuating the positive.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Leadership, Personal Performance Motivation, Change, Energizer, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Team Builder Foundational 10 Minutes

PREVAIL!® Armed Intruder Preparedness & Response Training (Advantage Plus - Manager)

Since the 1980’s, workplace violence has been recognized as a leading cause of occupational injury and mortality. Violence on the job manifests itself in many forms; from emotional abuse to bullying to assault and even homicide. PREVAIL!® will help you - the manager/supervisor - better respond in violent situations involving an armed threat. The goals & objectives of this course provide you with information and strategies on recognizing and responding to the dynamic challenges and issues of violent incidents within the workplace.

eLearning - Advantage Plus Ethics & Compliance Armed Intruder / Active Shooter, Effective Leadership, Workplace Safety & Awareness, Workplace Violence Prevention Intermediate 105 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Management, Communication, Effective Leadership, Teamwork Foundational 5 Minutes

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.

eLearning - Advantage Leadership Strategic Planning, Effective Leadership Intermediate 45 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Harassment Prevention, Abusive Conduct / Bullying, Effective Leadership, Management, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes

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.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance Compliance, Communication, Harassment Prevention, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 30 - 45 minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement, Motivation Foundational 5 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership, Personal Performance Communication, Communication & Influencing, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement Foundational 5 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Management, Compliance, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 6 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Compliance, Effective Leadership, Management Intermediate 5 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective (& Legal) Interviewing, Hiring & Recruiting, Effective Leadership Foundational 6 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement, Management Foundational 5 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, Communication, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership, Personal Performance Conflict Resolution, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement Foundational 5 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Hiring & Recruiting, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Intermediate 5 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Compliance, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 6 Minutes

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?

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Effective Leadership, Management Intermediate 6 minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Communication, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 6 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes

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.”

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement, Management Intermediate 5 minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective (& Legal) Interviewing, Hiring & Recruiting, Effective Leadership Foundational 6 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, Leadership Unconscious / Hidden Bias, Diversity Dynamics, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement, Management, Respect / Respectfulness Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Keeping Diverse Candidates

New Micro-Learning! Now that you have made that new hire, how do you ensure they stay on the team? This course will take a look at the leadership steps you must take as you onboard your new hire so they feel included and set for success.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Diversity Dynamics, Coaching & Mentoring, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Effective Leadership, Respect / Respectfulness Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Keeping It Confidential

Updated! 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. When it comes to ethical discussions, confidentiality is one of many ethical issues that come up in the workplace.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Communication, Compliance, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Lack of Commitment

Getting people to care when they think something is no big deal or when they just don’t seem to have any sense of urgency can be a challenge. This course takes a look at the impacts an individual has on the rest of his or her co-workers when they display a lack of commitment to the team and the organization.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Successfully Leading Others, Management Foundational 6 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Leading Is A Commitment

New Micro-Learning! You won't become a leader because it's logical that you do, or because the company demands that you become a leader, or because it's a new way to get you people to work harder. Forget it! Leadership is too big a commitment, and too big a change from the way you’re used to working. You will only become a leader if you are first convinced it's in your personal best interests to do so.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Effective Leadership, Management Intermediate 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Leading Others

We all know excellent leaders. We marvel at their skills. We trust them and willingly follow them. And, they lead our organizations and us to extraordinary success. So, what is it about them that’s so great?

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement, Management Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Professional Leadership

New Micro-Learning! A manager must base their professional leadership on their personal values. That's why every leader in history has done the things that they do: to promote their personal values. That's the big perk of leadership.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement, Management Foundational 9 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Protecting Confidentiality in an Investigation

New Micro-Learning! Harassment, discrimination and other inappropriate behaviors are serious issues that must be dealt with. Accusations, right or wrong, can also have a devastating effect on a person's career, reputation in their community and relationships with other co-workers - and because of that, they can lead to lawsuits. It's up to you as the manager to get the facts, and it's also up to you to make sure those facts remain as confidential as possible.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Compliance, Effective Leadership, Management Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Redirection

Discipline should be a last resort. It’s negative and often leads to separation. Redirecting behavior is positive, forward-thinking, and often leads to success. Before you give a reprimand—think! In many cases an employee needs to be redirected rather than reprimanded.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Communication, Effective Leadership, Management Foundational 5 minutes

TrainingBriefs® Setting Your Team Up for Success

Hitting on all cylinders... you've heard that term before. But, even the most talented teams don’t start out as high performing. There are several steps you can take as a manager to set your team up for success and create a work environment that values teamwork and collaboration over grandstanding and competition.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership, Personal Performance Teamwork, Conflict Resolution, Effective Leadership, Successfully Leading Others, Learning Reinforcement Foundational 7 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Strive for Extraordinary

New Micro-Learning! To be an extraordinary leader, we cannot be in the mindset of how do I go from bad to good or from good to a little bit better. We need to be in the mindset of how do I get from good to great because it is great leaders that make an overwhelming difference.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Effective Leadership, Management Intermediate 6 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® The Impact of Negative Attitudes

New Micro-Learning! Dealing with attitude issues is a common problem for managers. Negative attitudes not only impact the company’s bottom line performance, but co-workers, the culture, the company, and customers as well.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, Communication, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement, Management Foundational 7 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® What Does a Mentor Do?

New Micro-Learning! In order to be a successful mentor, you need to understand what a mentor does… right? Well, in this quick course, we’ll take a look at exactly what a mentor does? When you have a new employee to the company, or an employee new to a particular role, there is no substitute for the conversations and support that you can provide as a mentor.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, Effective Leadership Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Who Benefits from Mentoring?

New Micro-Learning! You probably think that a mentee receives all the benefits of a mentor. As you will see in this course, mentorship is a win-win for everybody! Mentoring is a very positive process, an experience that benefits mentors, mentees and organizations alike. Mentoring provides the opportunity to give something back and create a legacy.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, Effective Leadership Foundational 5 Minutes

Got Ethics?® A Short Term Gain (for Managers)

This eLearning course focuses on the responsibility manager’s have to be fair and consistent in counseling and disciplining individuals who violate the organization’s standards of business conduct.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Compliance, Effective Leadership, Management, Professionalism Intermediate 14 Minutes

Got Ethics?® An Overview

This introductory module to the Got Ethics? series provides a great overview of the different ethical situations that employees might face in the workplace.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Communication, Ethics & Integrity, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 9 Minutes

Got Ethics?® I’m Not Here (for Managers)

This eLearning module focuses on a problem many leaders struggle with. Namely, remembering that everything they do on the job is setting the example for subordinates and peers alike.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Compliance, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Intermediate 10 Minutes

Got Ethics?® Listening to Our Employees (for Managers)

This eLearning module focuses on a problem many leaders struggle with. Namely, ensuring that their employees feel that they are approachable and that they are there when they need them.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Communication, Compliance, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Intermediate 15 Minutes

Got Ethics?® Use of Intellectual Property

This quick hitting, topic-based eLearning module covers the use of intellectual property in and outside of the workplace.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Communication, Ethics & Integrity, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 10 Minutes

Got Leadership?® Interviewing 101

Part of your job as a manager or supervisor is to create and lead a successful team. Being able to select the right person for the job impacts your team, your organization, and you! As a manager, taking a look at a person’s capabilities, commitment, and chemistry will help you select the right person for the right job, for the right reasons. This course gives you the tools to quickly understand the best (and legal) steps to successful interviews.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Leadership Effective (& Legal) Interviewing, Communication, Hiring & Recruiting, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership Intermediate 15 Minutes

Got Leadership?® Listening to Your Employees

This course reinforces the concept that taking employee views into consideration does not mean you will always do what your employees want. You may at times make some unpopular decisions. The key is to take the time to talk to your employees and truly take their opinions into consideration before you make your decision.

eLearning - LearningBytes® Leadership, Personal Performance Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Management Intermediate 10 Minutes