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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® 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® 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® 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.
LearningBytes® Diversity 101 - That Wasn't Funny™
When it comes right down to it, when you're at work, the best thing to do is refrain from using potentially offensive expressions in the workplace, even when you don’t mean to offend anyone. That includes telling inappropriate jokes...even while on break.
LearningBytes® Diversity 101 - Spreading Rumors™
Spreading false information or accusations concerning employees is often a violation of organizational policy. Employees engaged in this behavior often forget the disruptive effect on relationships in their workplace - even worse, forget it could be seen as contributing to possible harassment or a hostile environment 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.
LearningBytes® Diversity 101 - Merge Ahead™
Quite often, diversity and inclusion go beyond race, gender and ethnicity. Organizational diversity includes work habits and values that are affected by time zone differences, commuting patterns, virtual teams and geographic distance.
LearningBytes® Diversity 101 – Seriously, at Work?™
Interactions between people of the same sex are sometimes interpreted as inappropriate or offensive - when in fact the behavior is within the range of acceptable conduct. Gender and gender identity continue to present significant challenges in the workplace due to strongly held traditions, beliefs and values.
LearningBytes® Diversity 101 - Don’t Know What You Got™
Unconscious (hidden) biases can distort our perception of reality. We all have them. This course defines unconscious bias and how to understand and address it within the workplace.
LearningBytes® Being An Ally
Anyone can be an ally. If you are willing to be supportive of an individual who’s being unfairly treated, then you are an ally. Some people are allies in small ways and some in big ways. Like a pebble thrown into water, you are creating a ripple-effect of change starting with just one action.
Got Leadership?™ Now I’m the Manager…
Congratulations! Being a supervisor/manager can be an extremely rewarding position. It also is challenging, and, at times, frustrating to be caught between your team and the management team you report to. In especially challenging times, keep in mind that you were selected because of your skills and potential that people higher up in the organization recognize in you. So, take a deep breath and get ready to learn more about the exciting challenges you have ahead.
Diversity 101 - An Overview (Diversity Basics)
Diversity primer in under 10 minutes! Diversity and inclusion are not the same. Inclusion allows us to leverage the advantages of diversity. Diversity without inclusion focuses on differences without necessarily seeing similarities or respecting the differences.
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.
LearningBytes® We Have to Use That Name!™
Getting to know your patients, including aspects of their sexual and gender identity, behavior, and desires is key to providing quality care. It is important that you respect a person’s privacy and how much of their private life and decision to transition they want to share with others.
LearningBytes® Diversity 101 - What Did She Say?™
Many organizations want and need people who speak different languages. Typically, there are no organization requirements that only English can be spoken at work. This course addresses concerns and the ability to be inclusive while speaking a foreign language in front of others.
LearningBytes® Accentuate the Positive™
The key to getting great results is to pay more attention to what's going right; rather than what's going wrong. And that's a big part of what we like to call accentuating the positive.
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.
Ready. Set. CHANGE!™ Reacting Smarter. Adapting Faster. Engaging Together. (eLearning Course)
Change in the workplace today has taken on a new dimension. It is no longer just an event or an initiative, is it? Rather, it is pervasive and constant, and it impacts all of us. This course will provide you with a clear and practical strategy that will help you develop the skills to understand, respond to and navigate any change in a way that’s positive and productive for you, coworkers, customers and the organization.