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The Oh Series™ Everyday Workplace Ethics (eLearning)

We’re all faced with making decisions every day. When making a decision that involves right & wrong choices, sometimes it's tough to figure out what's the best decision in a given situation. It’s important to remember that our decisions can result in actions that have major consequences - for the organization, our customers and for ourselves.

The Oh Series™ Ethics & Transparency (eLearning)

Price fixing. Bid rotation. Bribery. When we’re faced with a decision that involves right and wrong choices, sometimes it's tough to figure out what's the best decision in a given situation. In this program, we're going to look at some examples of ethical situations that can make a person say “OH?...”

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.

Got Ethics?® Integrity in Hiring

This eLearning module focuses on ethics and integrity in the hiring process. Business managers are ethically bound to oversee the recruitment process with honesty, consistency and objectivity. Human resources protect the ethical integrity of every step in the hiring process to help managers avoid actions that could put the organization at risk.

Got Leadership?™ The Importance of Integrity (Managers)

As a leader, you have a responsibility to promote a culture of integrity in your organization. It starts with your own behavior and by showing your employees that ethical conduct is important. Integrity happens when you make it safe for employees to speak up and prevent retaliation against anyone who does. By the end of this module, you will be able to identify ethical behavior and choose ethical reactions in various situations.

Got Performance?® The Importance of Integrity (Employees)

Although living our daily lives with ethics and integrity may seem simple enough, often times we can find ourselves in difficult situations when making the right decision is not always easy or clear. By the end of this course, you will be able to identify some of the most common work-related concerns as well as identify the best course of action given an ethical or compliance situation.

Got Performance?® Ethical Choices – What’s the Harm?

Ethics violations put the company and our work at risk. We count on you to conduct yourself with integrity and to help influence others to also act with honesty and professionalism. This course teaches a simple process when you notice a co-worker violating the code of business ethics.

A.C.T. with Integrity™ Real Situations for Discussion (eLearning Course)

Equip employees to make the right choices in tough ethical situations. This updated eLearning course will help your employees learn how to recognize the most common business ethics and compliance situations they face every day. It provides a clear, easy-to-use model that will help them think things through to arrive at the most appropriate choice of action to take, ensuring the integrity of your organization.

Whistleblowing: An Overview

SOLLAH EXCLUSIVE!

Whistleblowers perform an important service by bringing to light allegations of fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement and by reporting what they reasonably believe to be evidence of wrongdoing. They must not be subject to or threatened with reprisal for doing so. Employees who blow the whistle play a critical role in keeping our organization’s programs and operations honest, efficient, and accountable. Federal laws (such as the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act) strongly encourage employees to disclose wrongdoing and protect whistleblowers from retaliation.

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.

TrainingBriefs® Gathering Competitive Information

Ethics concern an individual's moral judgments about right and wrong. Decisions taken within an organization may be made by individuals or groups, but whoever makes them will be influenced by the culture of the company. One area of concern within many organizations is the gathering of competitive information. Collecting information about your competitors makes good business sense. However, you must do so in an ethical and reasonable way. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen. If you ever find yourself in this situation, it helps to know how to act.

A.C.T. with Integrity™: Real Situations for Discussion (eLearning Advantage)

Most organizations operate at a fast pace—which means real choices have to be made quickly by employees every day. And every time they make a choice, they hold the future well-being of your organization in their hands. This highly interactive course will help your employees learn how to recognize the most common business ethics and compliance situations they face every day.

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.

Good People, Bad Choices (eLearning Signature)

The eLearning course is a guide to ethical decision-making and provides an excellent vehicle for discussion based training that includes such topics as confidential information, gift giving, financial accountability, copyright infringement and more.

The Oh Series™ Everyday Ethics (The Complete Series eLearning)

The complete Oh Series situations in one course! When we’re faced with a decision that involves right and wrong choices at home or at work, sometimes it's hard to figure out what's the best decision in a given situation. This complete course covers 12 tricky ethical situations that make you go... "OH?!?"

Whistleblowing and the Law

The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, commonly known as the WPA, is a U.S. federal law that protects federal whistleblowers who work for the government and report agency misconduct. This course provides and overview of the WPA and WPEA.

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.

TrainingBriefs® Accepting and Giving Gifts

Updated! The acceptance of gifts, services, and hospitality can leave an organization vulnerable to accusations of unfairness, partiality, deceit, or even unlawful conduct. This is one of many ethical issues that come up in the workplace.

TrainingBriefs® Confidential Information

Updated! Maintaining confidentiality at the workplace is of utmost importance in today’s competitive world to ensure that information about customers, clients, and employees are safe. This course delves into the importance of keeping things confidential.

TrainingBriefs® Conflict of Interest

Updated! A conflict of interest arises in the workplace when an employee has competing interests or loyalties that either are, or potentially can be, at odds with each other. A conflict of interest causes an employee to experience a struggle between diverging interests, points of view, or allegiances.

TrainingBriefs® Cutting Corners

Ethics violations put the company and our work at risk. We count on you to conduct yourself with integrity and to help influence others to also act with honesty and professionalism. If you notice a co-worker violating the code of business ethics, it is your ethical obligation to them, to the company, and to yourself to gather your thoughts about the situation and organize an appropriate response to help minimize potential risks.

TrainingBriefs® Ethical Choices - Quality Products & Services

Updated! Cutting corners can involve any number of actions. It could mean ignoring policies, regulations, or laws. It might involve short-cutting the processes that are in place. It could mean cutting quality. It might mean ignoring or taking significant risks. It could involve lying or covering up problems.

TrainingBriefs® Ethical Choices - The Competition

Updated! Everybody should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to their business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. What you say speaks volumes about how you think about your business, how smart you are, and your personal integrity.

TrainingBriefs® Ethical Dilemma - Careful What You Say

Updated! 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 quite possibly the safety of others.

TrainingBriefs® Ethical Dilemma - Insider Information

Updated! In this course, you’ll observe two coworkers having a casual conversation when one of them makes the suggestion of obtaining inside information to win a contract bid. As you complete this course, ask yourself “would I know what to do in this situation?”

TrainingBriefs® Ethical Dilemma - Spreading Rumors

Updated! You and a friend are having lunch… when the friend reveals that she has been fostering uncertainty about her company’s competitor... you know... spreading rumors about them. What would you do in this situation?

TrainingBriefs® Ethics and Compliance Concerns

New Micro-Learning! Although living our daily lives with ethics and integrity may seem simple enough, often times we can find ourselves in difficult situations when making the right decision is not always easy or clear. You will face choices every single day that impact your success, and the success of your organization.

TrainingBriefs® Integrity Action Steps for Managers

New Micro-Learning! Integrity is everyone’s responsibility. By doing your part to build a business culture of high integrity, you can achieve greater personal job satisfaction and help others to do the same. As a leader, you have a responsibility to promote a culture of integrity in your organization. It starts with your own behavior and by showing your employees that ethical conduct is important. Integrity happens when you make it safe for employees to speak up and prevent retaliation against anyone who does.

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.

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.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) - An Overview

U.S. law strictly prohibits offering or receiving bribes and gifts when doing commerce with people in or from foreign countries. U.S. employees and the companies they represent who violate this law face prosecution when caught paying or accepting bribes from foreign officials. Violators pay heavy fines...and the people involved can spend years in prison. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the FCPA.

TrainingBriefs® Being Transparent

The value of honesty in business has obvious and subtle implications. Unfortunately, there are times when individuals are asked to be less than totally honest in order to paint a brighter financial picture. In this course, you’ll observe two coworkers discussing an upcoming presentation to the board of directors. The boss is pressuring his subordinate to paint a picture that is brighter than it actually is.

TrainingBriefs® Cheating the System

New Micro-Learning! Most of the ethical misconduct in an organization is the small bad choices that employees make day to day. Breaking simple policies or taking advantage of privileges and benefits (like PTO) may not seem like serious ethical misconduct – but these infractions are a reflection of what kind of employee you are or could become. Small bad choices may lead to bigger bad choices.

TrainingBriefs® Compromising Your Standards

New Micro-Learning! When it comes to using inaccurate information to meet a deadline - even if it doesn't seem to impact or affect the outcome of a situation - it is a very slippery slope. Sometimes there is information that should not be kept confidential.

TrainingBriefs® Ethical Choices – Violating Procedures

New Micro-Learning! Some organizations have SOX or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to consider when it comes to policy. All publicly traded companies are now required by law to set in place accounting internal controls – ones that measure the organization’s effectiveness. Policies, like getting three bids, is an example of the many kinds of internal controls that must be followed – noncompliance is against the law.

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® Ethics & Budgets

New Micro-Learning! Individuals make ethical choices, not organizations. In most cases, we are not talking about bad people. Granted, there some out there making conscious unethical choices, but this is the exception, not the rule. It’s usually good people that make bad choices. In this short course, you’ll observe an individual who discovers that her department is under budget. The question is will she make bad choices with this knowledge?

TrainingBriefs® Evaluating Ethical Situations

Updated! Deciding to how to react when you observe coworkers breaking policy or even laws can have consequences not only for them, but for you and the organization as well. If you find yourself in this type of situation, remember to use the filtering steps; evaluate the situation, evaluate the outcome of possible actions, and proceed accordingly.

TrainingBriefs® Everyone Does It

New Micro-Learning! In this course, we'll look at software theft. By the time we're finished, you'll be in a better position to not only recognize the kinds of ethical situations that can lead to problems; but you'll also be better prepared to really think through the issues and figure out what's the best choice of action for you and your organization.

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.

TrainingBriefs® Misusing Confidential Information

Updated! A code of ethics establishes parameters for professional conduct. It involves the principles and moral values of an organization. If you are informed of the inappropriate use of confidential information, take the claim seriously. A breach of confidential information by a former employee can be disastrous.

TrainingBriefs® Providing Accurate Information

Updated! In the absence of accurate, reliable, and timely information, people and organizations will make bad decisions; they will be unable to help or persuade others to make better decisions. One problem all too often faced in the workplace is when someone is asked or told to compromise their ethical code. Accurate information and maintaining our ethical code are one of many ethical issues that come up in the workplace.

TrainingBriefs® Selling with Integrity

Updated! One definition of being ethical is “conforming to professional standards of conduct.” Herein lies both a problem and an opportunity for those of us in the world of sales. The problem lies in the fact that many people do not think of sales as a profession. Negative stereotypes have caused them to avoid or look down at a salesperson with disdain.

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.

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?® 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.

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?® Gathering Competitive Information

This module focuses on the appropriate ways to gather competitive information. There are right ways and wrong ways to get that information; we must always choose the right way. Bottom line: Know and follow the organization’s policy on gathering competitive information.

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.

Got Ethics?® I Didn’t Really Say Anything

This eLearning module focuses on a problem many individuals within an organization struggle with. Namely, ensuring that confidential or, need to know only, information does not become compromised when they find themselves in an awkward situation.

Got Ethics?® Is It a Done Deal?

This eLearning course focuses on the problem of maintaining inside information confidential regarding the ventures of an organization.

Got Ethics?® It Isn’t in Their Best Interest

This eLearning course focuses on the appropriate ways to compare your organization to the competition. Comparing your products and services to the competition must be done in a truthful manner.

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.

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.

Got Ethics?® Misuse of Confidential Information

This eLearning module focuses on the appropriate ways to handle reports of violations of policy (misuse of confidential information). All reports of violations must be taken seriously and appropriate action taken in a timely manner.

Got Ethics?® No Harm, No Foul

A key component to workplace ethics and behavior is integrity, or being honest and doing the right thing at all times. This module focuses on fraud and deception.

Got Ethics?® No Time for Training (for Managers)

This eLearning module focuses on the problem many leaders struggle with, namely, ensuring subordinates receive their organization’s mandatory training.

Got Ethics?® Only The Best Case Scenario

This eLearning module focuses on truthful communication. Whether your role is to communicate reports, data or information - internally or externally - you have an ethical responsibility to report the facts.

Got Ethics?® Providing Accurate Information

This eLearning module focuses on why honesty and accurate information is important in business. The value of honesty in business has obvious and subtle implications. Asking who benefits from business honesty can explain why virtue is also important.

Got Ethics?® Quality Products and Services

The pressure to perform and get work done can cause us to consider compromising our work or product quality. However, taking any action that compromises work or product quality can have serious consequences for us, our organization, our vendors, and our customers.

Got Ethics?® Reporting Ethical Concerns (for Managers)

This eLearning module focuses on a problem many leaders struggle with. Namely, ensuring that their subordinates/direct reports have faith in the system of reporting ethical violations.

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.

Got Ethics?® We Don't Need Another Quote

In this eLearning module we meet an employee who received bad advice from her manager to violate policy because of a personal relationship within the organization. The question is how will she react?

Got Ethics?® We've Got Extra Copies

Copyright infringement is common. It’s easy to do. But it’s illegal. This eLearning module focuses on ethical side of copyright infringement within an organization.

Got Leadership?™ Building a Culture of Integrity

Establishing a culture of integrity is the job of every manager, supervisor, and team leader in the organization. Your daily actions speak loudly and have a profound impact on the ability of an organization to develop a culture of ethical conduct. By the end of this module, you will be able to identify unacceptable behaviors and effectively handle integrity moments.

Got Leadership?™ Ethical Selling

Sales professionals are asked to understand customer problems and business issues, propose innovative solutions and provide efficient follow-up services all while keeping costs down as much as possible. By the end of this course, you will be able to identify the actions you - as a leader - can take to raise the bar of professionalism in sales.

L.E.A.D. with Integrity™: Promoting a Culture of Ethical Conduct and Compliance (eLearning Signature)

How do you turn a Code of Conduct into a living, breathing part of your organization? Enlist the active, committed involvement of every leader! This eLearning course helps managers and supervisors step up to the daily task of promoting ethical conduct and ensuring compliance.

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.

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.

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.

LearningBytes® Am I Really Like That?

Who are you?... Who are you, really?... Have you ever asked yourself that question? Did you know each of us can choose who we want to be? Much like our attitudes we choose each day, we also have an impact on the very characteristics we display day in and day out.

Protecting Intellectual Property

A great primer on IP protection! Intellectual property protection is critical to fostering innovation. Without protection of ideas, businesses and individuals would not fully benefit from their inventions and would focus less on research and development.

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® 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® Unintended Ethical Dilemma - Hearsay (Managers)

More employee lawsuits are being won on grounds of retaliation than for any other reason. Remember, retaliation means “revenge.” In employment law, it involves an employer taking an adverse action against an employee who has engaged in a legal activity—an activity that the law believes is in the public interest. When your company is sued for unlawful retaliation, it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong. If you go to trial, what matters is how the situation looks to a jury.

TrainingBriefs® Who Am I?

New Micro-Learning! Who are you? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Did you know each of us can choose who we want to be? Much like our attitudes we choose each day, we also have an impact on the very characteristics we display day in and day out.

TrainingBriefs® Workplace Bullying – Committing to Next Steps

New Micro-Learning! So you know what bullying is. You know you need to speak up for yourself and you know how important it is to stand up for others when faced with a bully. But what do you do next? You’ll never change the situation if you don’t commit to taking the next steps.

Got Ethics?® Using Company Resources for Personal Use

This Got Ethics?® module focuses on the use of company resources for personal use. Company resources are meant for business, and not personal use. We all have a responsibility to protect and safeguard company resources from loss, theft, misuse and waste.

Got Leadership?™ Retaliation Clues and Cues

Being a leader means many things. One important role you have is that employees look to you for guidance. Your attitude, actions, and words impact your organization’s environment and represent your organization’s values. By the end of this course, you will be able to identify and react appropriately to retaliation as well as create a safe environment for employees.

Preventing Workplace Bullying: How to Recognize and Respond to Bullies at Work (eLearning Program)

This program is about recognizing and preventing bullying in the workplace. Bullying can happen in any size organization and in any department. Awareness is paramount. It is everyone's responsibility to prevent it. There is also a manager eLearning course available.

Preventing Workplace Bullying: How to Recognize and Respond to Bullies at Work - for Managers

This program for managers is about recognizing and preventing bullying in the workplace. Bullying can happen in any size organization and in any department. Awareness is paramount. It is everyone's responsibility to prevent it.