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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.
TrainingBriefs® Illegal Harassment
New Micro-Learning! Harassment is unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. This module will take a look at what you can do as a manager and as an organization to prevent such behavior.
TrainingBriefs® Inclusion Is for Everybody
New Micro-Learning! Over the last 30 years or so, we've paid a lot of attention to overcoming the past exclusion of women and minorities in the workplace. But we don't give a lot of thought as to how those changes have affected white men. It's easy to see how the focus on minorities and women has caused many white men to worry about discrimination. And sometimes those concerns were justified by inappropriate actions taken to meet hiring goals.
TrainingBriefs® Inconsistent Discipline
New Micro-Learning! Managers should always be professional, be even-handed, and above all, be consistent. Now obviously, employees aren't machines. And part of being a good manager is being able to tailor your management style to the unique needs of individuals. But when it comes to progressive discipline, making exceptions or applying different standards is a great way to end up telling your story to a judge.
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.”
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® Intercultural Dynamics in Business
In America, individual rights are often valued over the rights of society, but what many Westerners do not realize is that more than two thirds of the world’s population comes from cultures that value collective rights over the rights of an individual.
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.
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.
TrainingBriefs® Keeping Complaints Confidential
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. Employees can retaliate against other employees - you don't have to be a manager to retaliate. In fact anyone who is aware of the protected activity can commit retaliation. And anyone who engages in a protected activity can be the target of retaliation; even managers can be subjected to retaliation if they've engaged in a protected activity.
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.
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® Kindness Matters
Traditionally, kindness has often been considered a weakness in the world of business. Everyone knows you can’t be successful climbing the corporate ladder by being touchy-feely or… even nice, right! Fortunately, being kind has nothing to do with being weak… actually… it has everything to do with strength!
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.
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.
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?
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.
TrainingBriefs® Let’s M.E.E.T.™ to Resolve Issues
New Micro-Learning! It's up to us to take advantage of our differences to help make us more productive and more successful. To do that, we have to make an effort to recognize and respond to situations where coworkers or customers don't feel respected. It’s not easy but it’s certainly worth the effort.
TrainingBriefs® Leveraging the Power of Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the capability to identify and manage one's own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. Leveraging the power of emotional intelligence helps a person guide their thinking and behavior, and then manage and/or adjust emotions to adapt to environments or achieve one's goal(s).
TrainingBriefs® Listening to Our Employees
New Micro-Learning! Listening to your employees is absolutely critical in creating a highly motivated, committed, and fully-engaged work environment. In this course, we'll take a look at an example of this type of situation and spend some time talking about what we, as managers and leaders, should do to ensure that we are always approachable.