Management and Leadership

Brush-up on Useful Excel Skills

 

In this 3-course bundle, you’ll learn or brush-up-on critical Excel skills, including Pivot tables, VLOOKUP and SUMIF. This course specifically includes skills that are helpful when reporting on employment and payroll data.

 

Lesson 1: 10 Ways to Improve Excel Workbooks

Lesson 2: Reporting with Pivot Tables

Lesson 3: VLOOKUP and SUMIF Excel Functions  

 

 

Learn To Identify the Best Candidates

 

Lessons include interviewing and pre-screening topics to help you find the right candidates for each role.

 

Lesson 1: Avoiding Illegal Pre-Employment Screening Practices: Update on Background Checks, Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Salary Secrecy Law

Lesson 2: Behavioral Based Interviewing

Lesson 3: Weeding Out the Bad Candidates: Best Practices for Sourcing, Resume Review and Pre-Screening

 

Credits: 4.5 HRCI^®, 4.5 SHRM

You Talkin’ to Me?

 

Managers learn a variety of ways to handle conflict in the workplace, whether it’s personal disagreements or coaching a team to resolve issues.

 

Lesson 1: Managing Workplace Conflict

Lesson 2: Conflict Resolution: Keys to Success™

Lesson 3: Dealing with Unrealistic Expectations at Work™

 

Credits: 4.25 HRCI^®, 4.25 SHRM

Important Managerial Skills Continuing Education

 

The “Must Have Managerial Skills” bundle includes 4 of our most popular 75- to 100-minute online courses specially designed to help managers learn about accounting, project management, negotiations, and speaking skills.

 

Lesson 1: Accounting for Managers

Lesson 2: Project Management for Non-Project Managers

Lesson 3: How to Negotiate Effectively for a Win-Win Outcome

Lesson 4: The Reluctant Speaker: Meeting and Other Presentation Speaking Skills™

 

Credits: 4 HRCI^®, 4 SHRM

Important Skills for New Managers

 

The “New Manager Bundle: Skills for Success” course includes 5 of our most popular 75-minute webinars specially designed to help new managers and supervisors improve their leadership skills. Topics include: performance evaluations, discipline and coaching topics.

 

Lesson 1:  Strategies for a Successful Transition for the First Time Supervisor™

Lesson 2:  Feedback That Works: How to Constructively Evaluate and Effectively Discipline Employees ™

Lesson 3:  Handling Difficult Personalities and Behaviors in the Workplace™

Lesson 4:  Getting the Best from Quiet or Shy Employees™

Lesson 5: Strategies for Conducting Successful Performance Evaluations

 

 

Credits: 6.25 HRCI^®, 6.25 SHRM

 

Continuing Education Credits for HR Professionals

 

Human Resources leaders play a critical role in every organization. This course includes three lessons covering both strategic and practical skills for HR professionals.

 

Lesson 1: HR Metrics Measuring and Communicating the Strategic Value of Human Resources

Lesson 2: Documentation: One of HR’s Most Critical Tasks

Lesson 3: Employee Handbook Mistakes

 

Credits: 4 HRCI^®, 4 SHRM

Learn How to Address Sensitive Subjects at Work

 

An HR Guide to Sensitive Subjects course includes four of the most popular webinars on touchy workplace issues. Topics range from personal hygiene and attire to office romances.

 

Lesson 1: Addressing Personal Hygiene Problems in the Workplace: Legal and Practical Issues

Lesson 2: How to Manage Office Romances, Investigate Sexual Harassment

Lesson 3: Tattoos, Sandals, Yarmulkes: Increasing Legal Challenges for Dress and Appearance in the Workplace

Lesson 4: Managing Political Speech at Work in a Polarized Era

 

Credits: 5.25 HRCI^®, 5.25 SHRM

Updated to reflect new FLSA rules, effective January 1, 2020.

Learn How to Comply with the New FLSA Overtime Regulations

FLSA Simplified for Managers is a comprehensive training program that clearly guides you through everything you need to know about FLSA requirements, with answers to all your questions. Why is FLSA compliance important? How does a company comply with overtime rules? What are the requirements and limitations of non-exempt employees versus exempt?

This training program has specific guidelines that will educate managers on how to properly meet FLSA guidelines.

This ready-to-go presentation is perfect in a presenter-led group setting or as a self-directed training program. It covers:
     º The role of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
     º The penalties for not staying FLSA compliant
     º Differences between exempt and non-exempt workers
     º Timekeeping requirements
     º Recording hours of work
     º Regulations regarding child labor
     º Rules for working overtime

Workplace protocol can be tricky and too often supervisors ask the wrong questions or ignore legitimate complaints because they aren’t properly trained. And these mistakes can lead to legal troubles for your business.

10 Legal Pitfalls Supervisors Should Avoid is a straightforward presentation that outlines common workplace mistakes and offers detailed answers so managers don’t overstep boundaries. Is it okay to ask a job candidate if they have been arrested? Can non-exempt employees work “off the clock”? Is it considered harassment if an employee tells dirty jokes?

This ready-to-go presentation is perfect for a presenter-led setting or as a self-directed training program. It covers:

•      • Asking inappropriate questions in interviews    
•      • Making promises to applicants
•      • Violating the FLSA
•      • Failing to document
•      • Making exceptions
•      • Treating all absences alike
•      • Failing to take harassment law seriously
•      • Giving in to temptation to retaliate
•      • Violating employee privacy
•      • Ignoring requests for accommodation

Learn How to Take Care of Conflict Effectively in the Workplace

Everyone has an opinion or at least a different way of doing things. However, when conflict arises at work, knowing how to deal with it can be the difference between success and failure. Managing Conflict in Today’s Diverse Workforce is a comprehensive training program that shows how effective conflict management methods work to everyone’s advantage – through problem solving, communication and negotiation. It clearly illustrates the pros and cons of engaging in disputes -- with specific guidelines anyone in business needs to understand.

This ready-to-go presentation is perfect in a presenter-led group setting or as a self-directed training program. It covers:

•      • What is conflict management?
•      • Reasons for conflict
•      • Main factors that determine how we deal with conflict
•      • 5 ways to address conflict
•      • Phrases to avoid when dealing with conflict
•      • The importance of understanding conflict management methods
•      • Dealing with customer conflict

Avoid Common Management Mistakes

Using examples from everyday life, 12 Mistakes Managers Commonly Make walks managers through the rights and wrongs of dealing with workplace situations. Attorney developed and reviewed, it offers potential solutions to improve your management teams' effectiveness and legal compliance.

Train Your Staff How to Identify and Resolve Workplace Conflict

Conflict is an inevitable occurrence in the workplace, but it doesn't have to be destructive. Using enacted scenarios and targeted instruction, this training program highlights the common forms of conflict that occur in the workplace and the best methods for identifying, understanding and resolving them.

Manage Employee Performance Legally and Effectively

Get the best out of your employees with this instructive training program that demonstrates the importance of managing employee performance. Through real-life scenarios, the experts give advice on how to set performance objectives and best practices for conducting appraisals that protect both manager and company from legal liability.

Reduce the Risk of Wrongful Terminations

This training program teaches managers the termination basics, including how to avoid costly, risky legal mistakes. The video is narrated by an attorney and features ex-employees who share their experiences and reactions to losing their jobs.

Effective Harassment Training Helps Protect Your Business From Legal Claims

Without proper harassment training, a surprising number of employees - including managers and supervisors - actively engage in harassing behavior and never even realize it.

From Sex to Religion: Taking Control of Harassment helps employees understand what harassment is through demonstration. After seeing reenactments of common workplace examples in this modern harassment training, employees can more easily take personal responsibility and avoid those kinds of behavior.

Train Managers to Identify and Address Harassment

This educational yet engaging training program uses realistic scenarios to demonstrate the categories of harassment as defined by law. By witnessing various realistic scenarios, employees will learn what harassment is, as well as how to recognize and prevent it, and respond to harassment complaints. This Manager's Version explains the specific obligations of managers regarding anti-harassment policies.

This complete harassment training program includes a DVD with training modules and a CD-ROM with reproducible materials to acknowledge training program completion.