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TrainingBriefs® I’m Stressed!

The human body is designed to experience stress and react to it. Stress can be positive, keeping us alert, motivated, and ready to avoid danger. Stress becomes negative when a person faces continuous challenges without relief or relaxation between stressors. As a result, the person becomes overworked, and stress-related tension builds.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Reducing Stress (Work & Life), Employee Wellness, Mental Wellness & Health Foundational 7 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Telecommuting (Tips and Tricks)

New Micro-Learning! New to working remotely? Most of us have been conditioned to work and focus because of outside constraints. Meetings force us to adhere to certain schedules, office hours dictate our start and end time and a manager’s watchful eye usually keeps our daily Netflix reviews to a minimum. Once on your own, you may find yourself floundering a bit to stay productive.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Personal Performance Personal Improvement, Communication, Interpersonal Skills Foundational 8 Minutes

Mentoring 201™ The Next Steps for Success (eLearning Signature)

Mentoring 201 takes a closer look at some key elements of the mentor/mentee partnership. This course covers the following key points for a meaningful mentoring partnership: planning for a successful discussion, setting goals, identifying career paths and establishing development needs.

eLearning - Signature Leadership, Personal Performance Coaching & Mentoring, Collaboration, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership Intermediate 30 Minutes

Legal Briefs™ Substance Abuse: The Manager's Role in Creating & Maintaining a Drug-free Workplace

We have a responsibility to understand and communicate to employees the organization’s policy on substance use or abuse in the workplace. This course contains critical information on the things you need to be aware of in terms of how substance use and abuse in the workplace impacts you as a manager, your employees and your organization.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Substance Abuse, Compliance, Employee Wellness, Management, Professionalism Intermediate 30 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Team Cohesion (Diversity Moments)

New Micro-Learning! Being a successful manager requires being able to juggle numerous work priorities while keeping your balance. One of the priorities you must juggle is developing and maintaining a cohesive and productive team - easier said than done! A diverse workforce creates a diverse range of opinions, attitudes, and perspectives – and all that diversity can result in conflict, tension, and frustration leading to lost productivity – and possibly even a disruption to customer service.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Diversity Dynamics, Interpersonal Skills, Management, Professionalism, Respect / Respectfulness Foundational 9 Minutes

Right Side of the Line: Creating a Respectful and Harassment-Free Workplace™

Updated with the US Supreme Court decision protecting LGBTQ+ workers! Meet federal compliance standards for harassment-prevention training. This interactive course is designed to help you recognize, respond to and resolve difficult interactions that can stem from inappropriate or illegal behaviors in the workplace. It also addresses harassment in all its form, including hazing, gossip, retaliation and more.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance Harassment Prevention, Active Bystander / Ally, Compliance, Interpersonal Skills, Management, Professionalism Foundational 45 Minutes

Let's M.E.E.T.™ to Resolve Workplace Harassment (eLearning Signature)

This course is designed to help you recognize, respond to and resolve difficult interactions that can stem from inappropriate or illegal behaviors in the workplace. This allows you and your organization to stay on the “right side of the line.” As a manager, it is especially important that you respond to any incidents immediately and thoughtfully.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance Compliance, Harassment Prevention, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Professionalism Intermediate 20 Minutes

ATTITUDE!™ Resolving Difficult Situations in the Workplace for Healthcare (eLearning)

Bad attitudes in the workplace can deteriorate morale, lower productivity, and increase costs. It doesn’t take much for a co-worker, supervisor, or even a patient to feel the negative effects from someone with a bad attitude. The good news is there is a process for dealing with these difficult people! The course will walk you through four scenarios, which demonstrate negativity problems and how to deal with them to improve results.

eLearning - Signature Leadership, Personal Performance Collaboration, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership Foundational 40 Minutes

ATTITUDE!™ Resolving Difficult Situations in the Workplace (eLearning Signature)

Unless you're a psychologist, no one really likes to deal with a difficult attitude... If we're really truthful, most of us would rather walk on hot coals before we'd confront one of those bad apples who are making our lives miserable at work. But did you ever stop to think about what kind of price we're paying for that self-imposed misery? This interactive course helps by providing a 5-step process to tackling difficult situations.

eLearning - Signature Leadership, Personal Performance Collaboration, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership Foundational 40 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Involving Your Audience

New Micro-Learning! Involving the audience helps actively engage and manage their attention. It gets their minds off of the other priorities in their life and focused on you message. In this module, you’ll learn the importance of grabbing the interest of your audience and maintaining it.

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

TrainingBriefs® Third Party Harassment

New Micro-Learning! Outside (also known as third party) harassment, especially sexual harassment, can lead to serious legal actions filed against individuals and organizations. Just because they are not employees of your organization does not mean their behaviors are acceptable or legal.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Compliance Harassment Prevention, Compliance, Learning Reinforcement, Professionalism, Sexual Harassment Foundational 8 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Planned Spontaneous Recognition

New Micro-Learning! You want high performance from your employees. You push them to give you exceptional results. In doing so you often raise stress levels-theirs and yours! This can create a potentially explosive situation. If you want to diffuse that possibility and keep your team motivated, try introducing Planned Spontaneous Recognition.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Leadership Motivation, Effective Leadership, Successfully Leading Others, Management Intermediate 6 Minutes

Smart Leadership: Conducting Legal Interviews™ (eLearning Signature)

Keeping interviewers up to date on legal interviewing practices is invaluable to your organization. Court costs and legal fees as well as time off the job can cost your organization both money and bad publicity. This course is designed to educate you on how to create and ask legally defensible pre-employment questions based upon a structured behavioral based interview that will help you hire the right person and stay out of court.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Effective (& Legal) Interviewing, Compliance, Management Intermediate 40 Minutes

Conducting Legal Interviews™ (eLearning Signature)

Hiring employees can be an expensive and lengthy process. Managers are often in a hurry to fill vacant positions in order to maintain the productivity of their departments. They are usually so focused on getting the position filled, they may not realize they have asked an inappropriate interviewing question. Keeping interviewers up to date on legal interviewing practices is invaluable to your organization. Court costs and legal fees as well as time off the job can cost your organization both money and bad publicity.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance, Leadership Effective (& Legal) Interviewing, Compliance, Management Intermediate 40 Minutes

The Oh Series™ Everyday Workplace Ethics (eLearning)

We’re all faced with making decisions every day. When making a decision that involves right & wrong choices, sometimes it's tough to figure out what's the best decision in a given situation. It’s important to remember that our decisions can result in actions that have major consequences - for the organization, our customers and for ourselves.

eLearning - Signature Ethics & Compliance Ethics & Integrity, Collaboration, Compliance, Conflict Resolution, Problem Resolution Foundational 30 Minutes

Conflict 101™ (eLearning Signature)

If you're like most people... you never really give much thought to conflict... you just deal with it. You either fight...take flight or...simply freeze. In other words, you argue or yell your way through it... avoid it all together... or you just don't know what to say or do. Conflict is simply a part of life - and that's especially true in the workplace. Conflict 101™ is the perfect program to cut through the nonsense and get straight to the point of conflict resolution.

eLearning - Signature Leadership, Personal Performance Conflict Resolution, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Foundational 35 Minutes

TrainingBriefs® Bias and the Brain

Unconscious bias refers to a bias that we are unaware of and which happens outside of our control. It is a bias that happens automatically and is triggered by our brain making quick decisions from data it gathers and then adding meaning to it.

eLearning - TrainingBriefs® Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Unconscious / Hidden Bias, Diversity Dynamics, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Learning Reinforcement, Respect / Respectfulness Foundational 5 Minutes

Taking TIME to Lead™

As a supervisor or manager, you’re responsible for yourself and others. Your role is vital to the success of the organization. Your leadership impacts morale, teamwork, collaboration, respect, inclusion, innovation, quality… and the list goes on... This powerful course provides an effective model for leading through workplace issues and conflict.

eLearning - Signature Leadership Conflict Resolution, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Successfully Leading Others, Management Intermediate 30 Minutes

Mentoring 101™ - The Basics (eLearning Signature)

A mentor is someone who provides guidance to a less-experienced employee. A mentor may be another employee or even a professional from outside of the company. Regardless of the structure, mentors are role models who shares knowledge and advice to help the mentee grow professionally.

eLearning - Signature Leadership, Personal Performance Coaching & Mentoring, Collaboration, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership Foundational 20 Minutes

Courage 2 Coach™ - (eLearning Signature)

Effective coaching is the single most important factor in employee development today. Courage 2 Coach™ turns common sense into common practice with a four-step process that can be applied to any employee performance situation. This course walks each user through a realistic range of tough employee performance situations make this program ideal for organizations committed to supervisory success.

eLearning - Signature Leadership, Personal Performance Coaching & Mentoring, Change, Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Management, Professionalism Foundational 35 - 40 Minutes