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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.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Learning Reinforcement, Professionalism Intermediate 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
New Micro-Learning! The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act overturned the Supreme Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which severely restricted the time period for filing complaints of employment discrimination concerning compensation. This course explains the act an the EEOC's longstanding position that each paycheck that contains discriminatory compensation is a separate violation regardless of when the discrimination began.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Discrimination, Compliance Intermediate 7 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® The Negative Impact of Unconscious Bias
New Micro-Learning! The term bias may be used to describe both positive and negative mindsets towards individuals and groups. Negative bias refers to the persistent, harmful and unequal treatment of someone based solely on some characteristic they possess or their apparent membership in or identification with a particular group.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Unconscious / Hidden Bias, Diversity Dynamics, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Micro-Inequities/Micro-Aggressions, Respect / Respectfulness, Workplace Civility Foundational 7 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® The Negative Impact of Unconscious Bias (Managers)
New Micro-Learning! Bias refers to the persistent, harmful and unequal treatment of someone based solely on some characteristic they possess or their apparent membership in or identification with a particular group. By being self-aware and willing to engage with others when bias is unintentionally implied or expressed, we can better resolve problems and promote more effective working relationships.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Unconscious / Hidden Bias, Diversity Dynamics, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Management Foundational 6 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® The Resilient Leader
New Micro-Learning! Resilient leaders recover quickly from failures and merely look at them as temporary setbacks. They maintain a positive attitude and a strong sense of opportunity during periods of turbulence. When faced with uncertainty, resilient leaders find ways to move forward and avoid getting stuck.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Management Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Unacceptable Behavior in the Workplace
New Micro-Learning! As managers, supervisors and team leaders, there are times when we have to make some pretty tough calls. It just goes with the territory. And when we're faced with those kinds of situations, we have to make sure we don't let short-term gains, like closing a big sale, completing a big project or hitting a production quota, take priority over the long-term integrity of the organization.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Effective Leadership, Ethics & Integrity, Learning Reinforcement, Professionalism Intermediate 7 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Understanding Behavior-Based Interviewing
New Micro-Learning! What many successful interviewers have found is that the way in which a person handled a specific situation in the past gives you valid information about how that person will approach a similar situation in the future. This is the foundation for behavior-based interviewing. Once you understand this concept, you can plan to ask the kinds of questions that will give you the information you need to make good hiring decisions.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective (& Legal) Interviewing, Management Intermediate 8 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Understanding Decision-Making Styles
New Micro-Learning! Making decisions. It’s a part of your life, every day. Deciding what to wear to work in the morning, what to eat for dinner, and whether to walk up the stairs or take the escalator are some of the easier decisions to make during a typical day. On the other hand, when it comes to making decisions at work that involve other people, your decision is dependent on a variety of perspectives, including your hierarchical or equality decision making style.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Respect / Respectfulness, Teamwork Intermediate 10 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Understanding Exclusive Behaviors
New Micro-Learning! Exclusive behaviors in the workplace are any behaviors that make an employee feel like they are not a part of the group in which they belong. Examples of such behavior include greeting co-workers inconsistently; leaving people out of meetings, discussions, and activities... and more!
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Communication, Diversity Dynamics, Learning Reinforcement, Respect / Respectfulness Foundational 7 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Understanding Millennials
New Micro-Learning! Millennials share some characteristics that set them apart. Understanding how these core characteristics influence their behavior and who they are will help you recruit, engage, and retain this workforce.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Generational Challenges, Diversity Dynamics, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Learning Reinforcement, Respect / Respectfulness Foundational 8 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Understanding Office Politics
New Micro-Learning! Office politics are real! If you work in a professional environment and think you can avoid politics, you’re not being honest with yourself or others. You may not be able to change the entire culture of your organization…but you can impact how YOU deal with office politics - proactively and intelligently.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Professionalism, Learning Reinforcement, Onboarding Foundational 7 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Understanding Team Dynamics
New Micro-Learning! You may be familiar with the saying, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” As it pertains to teams, this means a well-organized group of people can achieve more by working cooperatively than individually.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Diversity Dynamics, Learning Reinforcement, Professionalism Foundational 7 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Unintended Ethical Dilemma - Hearsay (Managers)
More employee lawsuits are being won on grounds of retaliation than for any other reason. Remember, retaliation means “revenge.” In employment law, it involves an employer taking an adverse action against an employee who has engaged in a legal activity—an activity that the law believes is in the public interest. When your company is sued for unlawful retaliation, it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong. If you go to trial, what matters is how the situation looks to a jury.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Retaliation / Reprisal, Compliance, Ethics & Integrity, Management Foundational 8 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Using Inside Information
New Micro-Learning! Everyone needs to remember that it is a federal crime to trade securities, including the distribution of 401k’s, based on "inside information" - information you learn about your company or a closely allied company which is not generally available to the public, and which could cause the security's price to change if it became known.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Compliance, Professionalism Foundational 6 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Violence Prevention: Pre-Employment Screening
New Micro-Learning! In this module, we'll reviewed several areas where managers get themselves into trouble when it comes to pre-employment screenings such as: inquiring about criminal records, improperly using information from credit reports, improper reference checks and the actual interview itself.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Workplace Violence Prevention, Compliance, Effective (& Legal) Interviewing, Professionalism Foundational 8 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Violence Prevention: Rumors of Threats
New Micro-Learning! Like it or not, workplace violence is an issue you can't afford to ignore. Obviously, your top priority is making sure the workplace is safe. But there are also some legal liability issues that you need to be aware of. In this course, we'll address the topic of investigating rumors of threats.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Compliance, Workplace Violence Prevention Foundational 8 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® Warning Signs of Workplace Violence
New Micro-Learning! Workplace violence is a cycle of repeated and escalating behavior: subtle threats and statements, open intimidation and harassment, and ending with direct physical violence. It’s our job to recognize warning signs and then tell someone in authority...before it’s too late.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Workplace Violence Prevention, Harassment Prevention, Problem Resolution Foundational 6 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® What Does a Mentor Do?
New Micro-Learning! In order to be a successful mentor, you need to understand what a mentor does… right? Well, in this quick course, we’ll take a look at exactly what a mentor does? When you have a new employee to the company, or an employee new to a particular role, there is no substitute for the conversations and support that you can provide as a mentor.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, Effective Leadership Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® What’s With the ‘Tude?
We can't make someone change his or her attitude. But we can choose how we react. That's why the solution starts with us. We owe it to ourselves to help create an environment where everyone respects each other, so we can get things done that need to get done. A big part of that is learning how to deal with difficult attitudes.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Effective Leadership, Communication, Successfully Leading Others, Management Foundational 5 Minutes
TrainingBriefs® When Peers Collide
New Micro-Learning! The pressures we face in the workplace can put a lot of strain on our relationships with our coworkers that might even prevent us from getting our work done. It’s not easy confronting your coworkers when you are having problems… but it is possible.
eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Interpersonal Skills, Communication, Learning Reinforcement Foundational 5 Minutes