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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.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Compliance, Onboarding, Professionalism Foundational 40 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Planning for a Successful Discussion

New Micro-Learning! In order to reap the benefits of a successful mentoring relationship, you need to have a thorough understanding of planning for a successful discussion, setting goals, identifying career paths and establishing development needs. In this course, we'll take a close look at planning for a successful discussion.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Mentoring - Establishing Development Needs

New Micro-Learning! As a mentor, going through this process of working with you, your mentee will learn more about the organization, discover other opportunities to explore, uncover other leadership resources and above all, they’ll leave with a greater sense of self insight that will serve them well for the rest of their career.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, Communication, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Motivating Bad Attitudes

Addressing an employee who has ceased to care about the job, can be very frustrating but it is possible to work with the employee and uncover the underlying issues. When an employee doesn’t seem to care about their job, it’s easy to make assumptions about why they might be acting that way. The problem is, you could be way off base and your actions could end up making the problem worse.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership, Personal Performance Effective Leadership, Coaching & Mentoring, Communication Foundational 6 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Communicating with Difficult Employees

New Micro-Learning! In conversations with employees that may be somewhat challenging, it’s important for you to have some strong communication skills. Asking good questions is one such skill. Communicating with an employee who may be defensive requires you to model an open, questioning stance - we can call it the learning stance.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Communication, Interpersonal Skills Foundational 5 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Communication Tools

New Micro-Learning! Let’s face it, leaders can never have enough communication skills to deal with all of the situations that come their way in the workplace. By the end of this module, you will be able to identify coaching and problem-solving questions to help employees develop greater competence and confidence.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Successfully Leading Others, Communication Foundational 6 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Generations in the Workplace - Feeling Valued

New Micro-Learning! We are all shaped by our life experiences, people who have similar life experiences tend to think and respond to situations more similarly than others who didn’t share those experiences. At the heart of most of the conflict and misunderstanding that develops between employees of different generations are communication styles and core motivations, and sometimes, the reluctance to change.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Generational Challenges, Diversity Dynamics, Teamwork, Unconscious / Hidden Bias Foundational 9 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Generational Communication Barriers

New Micro-Learning! Workplaces across the country are adjusting to a new reality. Baby Boomers are remaining as active workforce participants. Meanwhile, the first members of Generation Z, roughly defined as those born since the mid-nineties, will soon be beginning their careers and will make up a large share of the labor market soon. Due to communication differences among generations, communication styles can often be a problem.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Communication, Diversity Dynamics, Generational Challenges Foundational 7 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Communication, Compliance, Effective Leadership Intermediate 7 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Responding to Change with Commitment

New Micro-Learning! The commitment phase of the Change Response Strategy is all about exploring the consequences, making a choice you're comfortable with and then moving forward. During this course, you’ll observe how a team leader uses an experience within her organization to explain the strategy to a friend.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Change, Interpersonal Skills, Professionalism Intermediate 9 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Responding to Change with Clarification

New Micro-Learning! Everyone reacts differently to change, and we can influence how others around us react. Anyone can respond to change in a way that's positive and productive for themselves and their organizations. The Change Response Strategy™ is a tool you can use in any change situation by clarifying how and why a change impact you and others.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Change, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Professionalism Intermediate 6 Minutes

Substance Abuse - A Real Danger™

Most people have had too much to drink at least once in their lives. Unfortunately, people don’t always recognize the danger of drinking alcohol or using drugs. In this lesson, we’ll discuss the dangers of substance abuse, the effects of different substances, factors behind substance abuse and support options available in the workplace.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance, Personal Performance Substance Abuse, Compliance, Employee Wellness, Workplace Safety & Awareness Foundational 20 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Responding to Change with Communication

New Micro-Learning! Change is pervasive and constant. And that's why being able to navigate change is a required skill. This course leverages the Change Response Strategy - a tool you can use in any change situation to analyze a change and effectively communicate to express your concerns, share needs, and get answers to questions.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership, Personal Performance Change, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Professionalism Intermediate 7 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Diverse Work Ethics

One of the most common management challenges involves how to effectively manage all kinds of different people, not just people who look and think as we do. With the influx of millions of Millennial and Gen Z employees, understanding the differences across generations in the workplace has become a huge focus for supervisors, managers, and HR professionals.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Diversity Dynamics, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Management Foundational 10 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Effective Leadership, Management, Professionalism Intermediate 8 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Resolving Sales Problems

New Micro-Learning! In an ideal world, everyone - sales, support and service - would all be highly connected. Everyone would know all the details about a customer account and everything would go off without a hitch. But, as we all know, the reality is misunderstandings, mistakes and problems happen. What's important is how you handle the situation. The truth is, how you recover from a problem can be a major factor in keeping that customer's business.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Sales & Service, Communication Foundational 7 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Recognizing Sales Opportunities

New Micro-Learning! One way in which you can support the sales process is by recognizing and responding to sales opportunities as they present themselves. The key, just like it is with any sales strategy, is to ask questions and then really listen to the answers using the ask, listen, clarify and confirm strategy. This will help keep the customer engaged and confirm understanding of the opportunity.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Sales & Service, Communication, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes

Motivation: Dream it. Walk it. Believe it.™ (eLearning Signature)

While numerous books, programs and articles talk about goal setting and motivation, most people still don't know where to begin. They need a simple, real-world and practical approach they can apply to all aspects of their lives. This program delivers the approach. Using this program, employees discover what motivates them and how to use that knowledge to set individual goals.

eLearning - Signature Personal Performance Motivation, Change, Communication, Professionalism Foundational 40 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Must Do’s As a Mentor

New Micro-Learning! Some organizations have official mentors while others have more of an informal approach to mentoring. No matter how it happens, a mentor fills a vital role in the success of the organization. In order to be a successful mentor, you need to understand what does a mentor does, who benefits from mentoring, and the “must do’s” as a mentor. In this course, we will look at must do’s as a mentor.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 5 Minutes

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.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective (& Legal) Interviewing, Hiring & Recruiting, Effective Leadership Foundational 6 Minutes