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TrainingBriefs® Narrowing Your Presentation Focus
When we narrow the focus of our presentation, we help avoid confusion. We quickly drill down to communicate in a way that helps everyone clearly understand our message. In this module, you'll learn about the importance of starting out wide to provide background and context and then quickly funneling down to specifics.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Communication, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Preparing Your Presentation
New Micro-Learning! We all know that to be successful at whatever we do, we must prepare for the task. In this module, you'll learn what preparation really means when it comes to inspiring, informing, and influencing people.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Communication, Professionalism Foundational 6 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
TrainingBriefs® Free Speech at Work
New Micro-Learning! It's important to know that the First Amendment right to free speech is not unlimited or does not outweigh the organization’s right to maintain a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. In this course, you'll learn about prohibited behavior in the workplace - as an employee exercises what he sees as his right to free speech.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Compliance, Communication, Discrimination, Harassment Prevention Foundational 5 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
TrainingBriefs® Responding to Workplace Gossip
New Micro-Learning! Some people are fascinated by gossip and some just ignore it. But when gossip is felt as harassment or discrimination in the workplace - it can be devastating!
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Harassment Prevention, Compliance, Discrimination, Learning Reinforcement Foundational 5 Minutes
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.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Harassment Prevention, Compliance, Management Foundational 6 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Behaviors for Success
New Micro-Learning! The behaviors we display at work can help you… get a promotion, succeed on projects, meet goals, and just generally enable you to enjoy your job more. By the end of this module, you’ll be able to identify the common behaviors of successful employees.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Professionalism, Collaboration, Communication, Goals and Goal Setting, Interpersonal Skills, Learning Reinforcement, Motivation Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Addressing Stereotypes
New Micro-Learning! Sometimes people look at another group as being different just based upon skin color or racial traits. It’s often easy to see other human beings as different if you look at them through the “We – Them” mindset. This depersonalizes people.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Diversity Dynamics, Learning Reinforcement, Unconscious / Hidden Bias Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Workplace Hazing
New Micro-Learning! Hazing, teasing, profanity, and horseplay are the kinds of unprofessional behaviors that lead to low morale, lost productivity, turnover and even safety issues. Even though we might have expected, and even tolerated these kinds of behaviors in the past, they absolutely cannot be a part of today's workplace.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Harassment Prevention, Compliance Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Explicit Bias
New Micro-Learning! Explicit bias refers to the attitudes and beliefs we have about a person or group of people on a conscious level. We know these biases exist. We are conscious of them. When people perceive their biases to be valid, they are more likely to justify unfair treatment – which has negative impacts on the target of the bias as well as the entire organization.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Discrimination, Respect / Respectfulness Intermediate 7 Minutes
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.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Communication, Management, Meeting Preparation Intermediate 6 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® Are Your Employees Engaged?
Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organization to give of their best each day. Engaged employees are committed to their organization’s goals and values, and motivated to contribute to organizational success, with an enhanced sense of their own well-being.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Motivation, Successfully Leading Others, Management, Team Builder or Retention Aid 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 Bias in Hiring
New Micro-Learning! Making assumptions about others is a natural way of interacting with each other. But, assumptions can have a negative effect when it comes to hiring. In this course, we will explore how unconscious bias, or assumptions can prevent you from finding top talent for the roles you are trying to fill.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Unconscious / Hidden Bias, Hiring & Recruiting, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Learning Reinforcement Foundational 5 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® 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.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Hiring & Recruiting, Management Intermediate 5 Minutes
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.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective (& Legal) Interviewing, Hiring & Recruiting, Management Foundational 5 Minutes