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An Employee Who Will Not Work Extra Hours (Managing Essentials™ Series)
New Just-In-Time Performance Management Tool! You have an employee who won’t stay after hours or come in early when it’s needed. What do you do? There are four steps you can take to help the situation.
How to Solve Conflict Between Employees (Managing Essentials™ Series)
New Just-In-Time Performance Management Tool! You have an employees with solving conflict. What do you do? There are five steps you can take to help the situation.
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.
TrainingBriefs® EEO Overview
New Micro-Learning! The best-known equal employment law is Title VII (Seven) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. This quick course will take a closer look equal employment opportunity and the Act that has been amended and expanded several times over the years.
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® 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.
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® Unwelcomed Advances
New Micro-Learning! Our working relationships are complicated for all kinds of reasons. That's why you really have to know where the lines are when it comes to managing interactions with co- workers, customers, and vendors. Take the unwanted pursuit of a relationship, for example. It doesn't make any difference where it comes from - a manager, a coworker, a vendor, or a customer. Unwanted pursuit could be considered illegal harassment and simply can't be a part of the workplace.
Understanding Wage and Hour Laws: An Overview
Wage and hour laws were created in accordance with federal and state laws and are designed to take care of our employees. These policies apply to everyone within the organization and give management the opportunity to address issues immediately, which helps create an atmosphere of fairness for everyone.
TrainingBriefs® A Difference of Opinion
New Micro-Learning! You may do a superb job of preparing for a meeting, running the meeting and even getting the best out of your team. However, it’s likely that you will encounter a challenge to your ability to stay on track by participants who express strong differences of opinion. If differences of opinion are not resolved effectively, a meeting can spin off track, become chaotic, and prevent the achievement of the meeting’s purpose and desired outcomes.
TrainingBriefs® Avoiding Discipline
New Micro-Learning! Although it can be uncomfortable or even unpleasant at times, you have a responsibility to take corrective or disciplinary action when the situation warrants it. In this course, we will examine the issue of avoiding discipline.
TrainingBriefs® Avoiding Reverse Discrimination in Hiring
New Micro-Learning! On paper, recruiting a new employee might appear to be a simple process. In reality, it’s an extremely complex process, and in every step of the way you need to be aware of certain legal implications. There are five common pitfalls in the recruiting and hiring process that you need to be mindful of; describing the job, dealing with protected groups, avoiding illegal questions, conducting legal reference check, and avoiding reverse discrimination. In this module, we will explore the topic of avoiding reverse discrimination.
TrainingBriefs® Behavior-Based Interviewing – Following a Lead
New Micro-Learning! This course lays out an interviewing strategy best used when you want to clarify or expand something a candidate says or implies by his or her body language. This strategy involves asking follow-up questions based on verbal and non-verbal clues and often requires you to share an observation first.
TrainingBriefs® Behavior-Based Interviewing – Seeking Contrary Evidence
New Micro-Learning! Clear, pre-planned questions help the candidate know how to answer. But often a candidate’s initial answer isn’t enough. Then, you have to ask job-related probes to get the whole picture of the candidate’s skills. In this course, you'll explore the topic of seeking contrary evidence.
TrainingBriefs® 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® 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® 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® 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.