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TrainingBriefs® Substance Abuse - Suspicion/Detection
New Micro-Learning! As managers, we have a responsibility to understand and communicate the organization’s policy on substance abuse or use in the workplace to employees. Let’s face it—the last thing any manager, supervisor or organization wants to deal with is a lawsuit regarding substance use or abuse in the workplace.
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.
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.
TrainingBriefs® Understanding Team Dynamics
New Micro-Learning! You may be familiar with the saying, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” As it pertains to teams, this means a well-organized group of people can achieve more by working cooperatively than individually.
TrainingBriefs® Using Inside Information
New Micro-Learning! Everyone needs to remember that it is a federal crime to trade securities, including the distribution of 401k’s, based on "inside information" - information you learn about your company or a closely allied company which is not generally available to the public, and which could cause the security's price to change if it became known.
TrainingBriefs® Violence Prevention: Pre-Employment Screening
New Micro-Learning! In this module, we'll reviewed several areas where managers get themselves into trouble when it comes to pre-employment screenings such as: inquiring about criminal records, improperly using information from credit reports, improper reference checks and the actual interview itself.
TrainingBriefs® Working the Plan
New Micro-Learning! To effectively manage your progress toward your goals and tasks, you have to control your time… and influence the events around you. Planning and organizing can help you take control of all the things you need to do in a day, week or even month.
TrainingBriefs® Workplace Bullying - Speaking Up for Yourself
New Micro-Learning! If you think you’ve seen your last bully once you graduated from school, you may be surprised to discover that you’ll likely face them in the workplace as well. You can’t get away from them… and trying to bully back can backfire on you. However, you can learn to deal with them in an adult manner that puts them in their place without your having to resort to rudeness.
TrainingBriefs® You’re Not a Team Player
Most people know that laws exist to protect employees from discrimination and harassment. However, many don't know these laws also protect employees from retaliation. That means employers cannot punish employees for making discrimination or harassment complaints or participating in workplace investigations. And punishment doesn't just mean firing or demotion: It can include other negative employment actions, from being denied a raise or transfer to a more desirable position to missing out on training or mentoring opportunities or being given an unjustified poor performance review.
Got Compliance?™ Unintended Ethical Dilemmas
In this eLearning module, we’ll discuss different reactions to ethical dilemmas at work. Two situations are explored, with people feeling compelled to intervene in a constructive way, with them wanting to influence a coworker to help them avoid an ethical conflict and to bring about a more positive outcome. Both obtaining inside information to win a contract bid and fostering uncertainty about a competitor are covered in this topic.
Got Compliance?™ When Someone Asks You to Lie
When someone at work asks you to deceive others by lying or breaking promises, they’re asking you to compromise your integrity, your reputation, your job, and at times, even the company’s reputation and the safety of others. By completing this course, you will learn some ways to respond if someone in the workplace asks you to behave deceptively, explore the possible reasons why people may ask you to lie, and realize the implications of various responses to their requests.
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.
Got Ethics?® Accepting and Giving Gifts
The acceptance of gifts, services, and hospitality can leave an organization vulnerable to accusations of unfairness, partiality, deceit, or even unlawful conduct. The acceptance of gifts is one of many ethical issues that come up in the workplace.
Got Ethics?® Accepting Gifts - Outside the Office
A newly approved vendor sends an expensive gift to an employee through the mail. Accepting gifts from vendors or partners could cloud objectivity.
Got Ethics?® Better Use It Now
We all have personal responsibility for understanding our corporate financial standards and conduct. This eLearning module focuses on a problem many individuals within an organization struggle with. Namely, understanding financial responsibility.
Got Ethics?® Confidential Information
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. Confidentiality is one of many ethical issues that come up in the workplace.
Got Ethics?® Conflict of Interest
This module focuses on conflict of interest. A conflict of interest occurs when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly bias the motivation for an act in the other.
Got Ethics?® Document Retention & Destruction
Straight to the point! Destroying documents should be done per company or departmental policy.
Got Ethics?® Faking It (for More Vacation Time)
An organization’s success depends on the integrity of its employees. In this eLearning course, we'll take a look at an example of an ethical situation (taking more PTO than requested) and spend some time reviewing what we can do if such a situation arises.
Got Ethics?® Hearsay (for Managers)
This eLearning module focuses on the problem many leaders struggle with, namely, perceived retaliation against an associate who reports a violation of the organization’s Code of Conduct.