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Managing Essentials™ Doesn't Interact Well With Others

You have an employee who doesn’t interact well with other people. If this is important in the person’s job, you need to address it... effectively and thoroughly. How do you do that? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Employee Will Not Work Extra Hours

You have an employee who won’t stay after hours or come in early when it’s needed. The job position requires some flexibility of this kind. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Excessive Socializing

You have an employee who spends too much time chatting with others instead of working. The employee is being paid to do the best job possible during work hours. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Gender Discrimination

An employee comes to you and complains that they have been discriminated against because of gender. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Inappropriate Dress

An employee is coming to work in clothes that are inappropriate for the workplace. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Lacks Necessary Job Skills

You’ve discovered an employee is not performing up to expectations due to lack of job skill. The employee insists that their work around is better. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Low Raise, Really?

You have an employee complains to you that their raise was less than expected. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Makes Unacceptable Mistakes

You have an employee who makes an unacceptable number of mistakes. It's impacting the team's work and deliverables. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Needs Motivation

You have an employee who seems disinterested, apathetic, or just isn’t putting forth the effort. What do you do? This type of behavior could impact the entire team. This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Perform Beyond Skill Level

You have an employee who may have been promoted beyond their capability, or perhaps the job outgrew this employee. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Personal Problems at Work

You’re aware an employee is having some personal problems and you feel they’re affecting his or her work. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Poor Attitude

You’ve got an employee with an attitude problem. In most cases you can’t change a person’s attitude but you can encourage a change in behavior. How do you do that? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Race Discrimination

An employee comes to you and feels that they have been the target of racial discrimination. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Religious Discrimination

An employee comes to you and complains that they have been discriminated against because of their religion. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Safety Rules Violation

You’ve got an employee who consistently ignores certain safety rules and needs to understand safety regulations must be adhered to. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Substance Abuse

You believe an employee is abusing alcohol or drugs. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Managing Essentials™ Termination Due To Poor Performance

You have to fire someone for poor performance and you want to make it as painless as possible for the employee and for you. What do you do? This video scenario provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Empowerment Works: A Guide for Supervisors and Employees (How-To Book)

Just as we instill courage when we “en-courage,” we develop power when we “em-power.” Empowerment relies upon the willingness of employees at all levels of an organization to accept the responsibilities that accompany authority. Empowerment is a kind of democracy in the workplace. Like democracy, empowerment frees us to make decisions and take action. And like democracy, empowerment requires that we recognize and establish boundaries within which effective decisions and actions can occur.

You Can't Do It All: Effective Delegation for Supervisors (How-To Book)

Most accomplished leaders would agree that delegation is one of the most important skills in their repertoire. Why? Imagine your own situation: Are you a manager or supervisor who comes in early, stays late, and gives 110 percent? Then delegation will help you improve your results while decreasing the time you spend at work. Do you wish your employees were more loyal to you or the organization? When you delegate well, your employees widen their horizons, develop new skills, and enjoy a new level of authority. That usually leads to an impressive increase in loyalty and commitment.

Discussion Card: Engaged Employees

Engagement is not the same as employee satisfaction… not the same as employee happiness. Employee engagement is the emotional commitment your employees have to the organization… and its goals. These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (E.N.G.A.G.E.) along with thought-provoking questions on employee engagement. These cards are great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a conversation generator.

FOSA™ Model Introduction (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

This video introduces the FOSA™ process - facts, objectives, solutions and actions. This approach is paramount to a successful progressive discipline approach to tackling tough workplace performance.

Introduction (from Confronting Workplace Conflict™ for Managers)

Most of us don't have all the tools necessary to resolve workplace conflict in a healthy and productive way. We end up damaging relationships, we lose trust… the list goes on and on. This video introduces a program packed with conflict resolution tips and tools - especially for managers and leaders.

FOSA™ Model at Work (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

It's often tough knowing what to do when poor performance hits you day-in and day-out. The FOSA™ process is available to get people moving in the right direction by leveraging the power of progressive discipline.

Preparing for The Three-Dimensional Interview

Preparing to conduct an effective (and legal) structured interview using key behavior-based interviewing techniques.

Profit is Not a Dirty Word: What Community Colleges Must Do for a Sustainable Future

Executive brief for community college leaders and HR professionals in the education industry on the controversial topic of profit.

Once Upon a Leader™

Offering a refreshing break from the typical and more formal examinations of leadership, Once Upon a Leader shares a whimsical, yet powerful message on the practices of effective leaders. Through the animation and discussion of popular tales, familiar characters will lead participants on a journey to discover the value of four leadership practices.

Legal Briefs™ Family and Medical Leave Act: What Every Manager Should Know

The intent of the Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is to help employees balance work and family responsibilities by guaranteeing them leaves in certain situations. Trying to decipher the in's and out's of the law can be a challenge. This program gives you a better understanding of the FMLA.

Legal Briefs™ The ADA: Tough Questions & Straight Answers

New Release! With critical legal information to guide decision making, this program helps managers understand their responsibilities under the ADA and how to sort through tough issues and respond effectively. Your managers will learn how the Act impacts them and their employees and find key answers to their most frequently asked questions.

Allowing the Victim to Dictate Actions (from Legal Briefs™)

When it comes to harassment and discrimination cases, there are clear steps in how to address and investigate. Those rules should be defined in the organization's harassment prevention policies.

Conducting The Three-Dimensional Interview

Explanation of how to conduct an effective three-dimensional interview.

Dealing with Workplace Dating (from Legal Briefs™)

Workplace dating can be a tough topic to tackle... especially if it happens between managers and direct reports. Get in front of the situation by understanding the issues and how your harassment and discrimination policy guides your steps.

Evaluating The Three-Dimensional Interview

Explanation of how to evaluate capability, commitment and culture fit in a three-dimensional interview

Failing to Enforce Organizational Policy (from Legal Briefs™)

Failing to implement and especially failing to enforce your organization's harassment and discrimination prevention policies can lead to big problems for you... and the organization. This short video discusses the consequences of failing to enforce harassment prevention policies and procedures.

Failing to Prevent All Forms of Harassment (from Legal Briefs™)

The consequences of not preventing workplace harassment are just too detrimental. This short video outlines those very consequences of failing to prevent harassment and discrimination.

FMLA - Key Actions to Stay in Compliance

Key actions discussed: Call your HR department whenever employees are out for 4 days or more, or whenever a potential FMLA issue arises. Make absolutely sure that your employees understand their rights and responsibilities under the law, by making sure they are in contact with HR. Always be fair and compassionate.

Follow-Up/Oral & Written Warning (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

Progressive discipline - combined with the FOSA™ process - is a great way steer employees and direct reports back to what you (and the organization) expect from them. This video provides more details on the follow-up and written warning parts of the process.

I Need The Report Today (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

Communicating your expectations are paramount for the basis of employee improvement. FOSA™ gives you a process for working through performance issues.

I Quit! (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

Sometimes things just don't work out. You've used progressive discipline to help bring issues to the forefront. With FOSA™, you gave ample opportunities for improvement. It's up to the employee to make those changes stick.

Incident Calendar – Max (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

Recording performance issues is a key step in progressive discipline. In the FOSA™ process, managers and supervisors use the incident calendar to properly document performance/discipline steps.

It's Just a Card, Right?

This vignette covers union authorization card signing. There is set-up vignette (showing the actual conversation) and then a resolution vignette (showing how the manager works through the issue).

I’d Like to Fire Them Both! (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

When it comes to less-than-desired workplace productivity, you need to have a plan and process for tackling the tough stuff. Using the FOSA™ process gives you the tools to effectively leverage progressive discipline in everyday workplace situations.

Late Again? (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

Deep in performance issues? Here's an example of the need to implement progressive discipline. Using the FOSA™ process, managers and supervisors have the tools to effectively tackle key workplace issues.

Legal Briefs™ Workplace Privacy: Managing Expectations of Privacy

Managing employees' expectations of privacy in the workplace.

No Mistakes! (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

Everybody makes mistakes. That's a true statement. But the expectation should be that we get all the work done and that it's 100% accurate. This video walks through setting accuracy/work expectations.

Recognizing & Stopping Harassment (from Legal Briefs™)

When it comes to preventing workplace harassment and discrimination, you need to recognize it... and quickly. This video outlines how to recognize and stop both.

Substance Abuse: Appropriate Action

Dealing appropriately with unprofessional behavior caused by substance abuse.

Substance Abuse: Detection

Using reasonable suspicion of substance abuse to raise the issue of drug use with someone.

Substance Abuse: Staying Focused on the Issue

The importance of staying focused on performance concerns when dealing with a potential situation involving substance abuse.

Substance Abuse: Testing

The importance of communicating and enforcing employee drug testing policies is outlined in this short video.

The ADA: Tough Questions & Straight Answers - Program Conclusion

The bottom line when it comes to the ADA is this... If you use common sense, treat individuals with disabilities fairly, and provide them with equal opportunities to prove they're capable of doing the job...You'll not only help keep yourself and your organization out of court... you'll probably find that they will turn out to be some of the very best, most highly motivated employees you've ever had.

The New Max and Lorie (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

Working through discipline issues can be tough. Working through the progressive discipline process using FOSA™ can help. Remember, you can only give your employees the advice and tools to help them... you can force them. This video is an example of how two employees respond to the FOSA™ approach.

Credibility Is...™

Credibility is being aware of how we impact others. Building trusting relationships. Meeting deadlines...being responsive...having integrity. This thought-provoking, powerful short video uses impactful imagery, video and music to encourage discussion on the importance of credibility in the workplace.

Engagement Is...™

Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organization to give of their best each day, committed to their organization’s goals and values, motivated to contribute to organizational success, with an enhanced sense of their own well-being. This thought-provoking, powerful short video uses impactful imagery, video and music to encourage discussion on the importance of engaging your employees.

Interviewing Is...™

The reality is...hiring the right person is your most important responsibility. The right person is someone who has the skills to do the job, is motivated to do the job and can contribute effectively in your workplace. This thought-provoking video that uses music, text and graphics to reinforce why hiring the right person for job is an interviewer's most important responsibility.

Discussion Card: Recruiting Diverse Talent In-House

Finding diverse talent might be as easy as looking within... within your organization. These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (I.N.H.O.U.S.E.) along with thought-provoking questions on finding and developing diverse talent within your own organization. These cards are great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a conversation starter.

Introduction (from Legal Briefs™ Harassment & Discrimination)

This video provides a great introduction to the topic of avoiding harassment and discrimination lawsuits. It sets the stage for several situations and questions/answers to key legal landlines in the workplace.

Introduction to the FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act)

The intent of the FMLA is basically to help employees balance work and family responsibilities by guaranteeing them leaves in certain situations. But, trying to decipher the in's and out's of the law can be a challenge. This short video provides a quick introduction.

Legal Briefs™ Recruiting & Hiring: Program Introduction

This quick video offers an introduction to common hiring issues and appropriate actions for managers and/or supervisors to take.

Legal Briefs™ Substance Abuse - Program Introduction

Introduction to five aspects for dealing with substance abuse in the workplace and actions to keep the workplace drug-free.

Legal Briefs™ Workplace Violence: Program Introduction

Preventing workplace violence begins with manager awareness.

Program Introduction (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

Handling performance problems and disciplining employees are major parts of every manager's or supervisor’s job. And when you think about it, disciplining employees is one of the most difficult parts of a manager’s job. This video provides a quick introduction to the FOSA™ process.

FMLA - Benefits of the Family Medical Leave Act

It's important to remember the benefits of the FMLA. It provides employees with the means to take care of important personal obligations without having to worry about the impact on their careers. And it provides you with a tool to attract and retain motivated and productive employees. And that's a good thing.

Four Actions for Staying Out of Court (from Legal Briefs™ Harassment & Discrimination)

Working through legal landmines can be tough. Four key actions for staying out of a harassment & discrimination lawsuit are covered in this video.

Review/Summary (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)

This video provides a quick synopsis of effectively using the FOSA™ process to tackle tough workplace issues. From facts, objectives, solutions and actions, the entire process is reviewed - with examples.

Case Study & Branching Exercise: Goal Setting (Manager)

You are a new manager in the organization. A few weeks ago, you asked your employees to begin thinking about individual and department goals for the next year. When you reviewed their submitted goals, you were disappointed by the general lack of enthusiasm and creativity of the group. What do you do? Kick start a great discussion with this case study and branching exercise.

Case Study & Branching Exercise: Overwhelmed! (Manager)

You are the manager of a large department. Recently, you have become concerned one of your high-performing employees may be overwhelmed by his growing workload. What do you do? Kick start a great discussion with this case study and branching exercise.

Case Study: The Rivals (manager)

Handling conflict between two employees

Cyber Bully

Bullying through social media is discussed in this case study.

The Three-Dimensional Interview Handbook (10 pack)

Bad hiring decisions cost time and money ...and a ton of frustration! That's why it's imperative that you select the best people for your job openings individuals who have the skills and talent to do each job ... AND A WHOLE LOT MORE! This book provides a proven,easy-to-follow process for evaluating candidates in terms of the three critical factors necessary for successful employment: capability, commitment and chemistry.

Article: Supporting Consistent Ethics and Values in the Workplace

As business leaders, what do we truly value? Integrity? Innovation? Delighting our customers? Being an employer of choice? Or are some of these just platitudes that make our annual reports look pristine? Does our aversion to ideas advocating radical change suggest we are really a conservative company, even though our words tell everyone we value risk taking?

Coaching to Support Success

When it comes to coaching, open-ended questions are usually the best questions. This simple tool lists open-ended questions you can ask to bring out the best in your employees.

Manager Obligations Under the FMLA

As a manager, your obligations in regard to the FMLA center primarily around four areas. This handout streamlines each obligation into easy-to-understand terminology.

Most Common Questions for Managers Regarding the FMLA

This supplemental handout covers the four most common questions managers struggle with in regard to staying compliant with the FMLA.

Strategic Planning Primer

Our decisions and actions need a firm foundation. Think of it this way. If you are building a house, you know the foundation has to be secure. Otherwise, cracks form. Water comes in. The rest of the house can shift, suffer damage. This short strategic planning primer gives simple steps to starting a plan.

SMART-START™ Coaching: It Takes Work!

This brief, high-impact video uses inspirational quotes and thought-provoking statements, wrapped around music, visual images and graphics to enlighten your audience about coaching others.

SMART-START™ Employment Law: The Manager and The Law

A thought-provoking video that uses music,text and graphics to inspire and stimulate discussion about workplace legal issues.

SMART-START™ Leadership: The Myth & The Reality

A thought-provoking video that uses music, text and graphics to inspire and stimulate discussion about leadership principles and concepts.

More Than a Gut Feeling™ IV

SOLLAH EXCLUSIVE!

World-Wide Best-Seller! Interviewers are more apt to select the best person for the job when they use this Behavior-Based Interviewing (BBI) strategy developed by Paul C. Green, PhD. More Than a Gut Feeling provides practical, easy to use instruction that helps organizations significantly enhance recruiting and hiring efforts, improve employee retention and equip managers (and others) with proven behavioral interviewing skills.

Ask Open-Ended Questions (from More Than a Gut Feeling™ IV)

SOLLAH EXCLUSIVE!

One of the steps in the behavior-based interview process, asking open-ended questions is essential in getting your interview questions answered... effectively. This video provides some tips on the importance of asking the right questions - in the right way - to get the most accurate information from interviewees.

Leadership Essentials™

SOLLAH EXCLUSIVE!

We all might have some preconceived ideas of what personal leadership might be. This short video explores the concept of personal (and effective) leadership and the impact it can have within our organization by asking these key questions: What is leadership? What are some of the characteristics of someone who exhibits personal leadership? What is it they say and do that demonstrates personal leadership? Why is personal leadership important to our organization/department/team?

I Wish My Manager Would Just...™

The powerful new program features employees speaking out about what their managers could do to help them be successful. It provides a fantastic look into what employees are really thinking about when it comes to their manager/supervisor relationship. It might not always easy to hear, but there's value in simply listening to what staff/associates/team members are all saying... about you!

Discussion Card: Unconscious Bias

A colorful and right-to-the-point reminder card that provides a simple model (H.I.D.D.E.N.) for understanding unconscious bias as well as providing questions to address hidden bias in the workplace. These cards can be printed and distributed for a quick reminder or conversation starter.

Discussion Card: Creating a Civil Workplace

Being civil means interacting and responding courteously and respectfully. These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (C.I.V.I.L.) along with thought-provoking questions on being polite towards others. These cards are great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a conversation generator.

Discussion Card: Inclusive Workplaces

These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (I.N.C.L.U.D.E.) along with thought-provoking questions on creating inclusiveness in the workplace. These cards are great for a quick training reminder or conversation starter.

Discussion Card: Micro-Affirmations

These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (I.N.V.O.L.V.E.) along with thought-provoking questions on small actions that include people. These cards are great for a quick training reminder or conversation starter.

Discussion Card: Multicultural Interactions

These easy-to-use cards provide a model (C.U.L.T.U.R.E.) and questions to address common issues in the multicultural workplace. These cards are great for a quick training reminder or conversation starter.

Discussion Card: Resolving Conflict

When it comes to resolving conflict, we all know it can be tough - especially if you don't have a plan! These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (R.E.S.O.L.V.E.) along with thought-provoking questions on better understanding & addressing conflict. Great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a conversation generator.

Discussion Card: Starting Conversations

When it comes to having a tough conversation, just starting is often the most difficult part. These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (S.P.E.A.K.) along with thought-provoking questions to create a respectful flow of communication. These cards are great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a conversation generator for all employees and managers.

Discussion Card: Working Across Gender

These colorful, easy-to-use cards provide a working across gender model (G.E.N.D.E.R.) and questions to address common gender-specific issues in the workplace. These cards are great for a quick training reminder or conversation starter.

Discussion Card: Working on Diverse Teams

These easy-to-use, straight-to-the-point cards provide a simple model (R.E.S.P.E.C.T.) and questions to address common team issues and areas for improvement. These cards are great for a quick training reminder or conversation starter.

You Can't Believe Anything They Say

There are two keys to working with an employee who thinks the information you're using in your discussion is biased; the first is to take extra time to really listen to the employee's perspective. And the second is to be specific about the information you're basing your evaluation on. The key is to use the T.A.L.K.™ model to help the employee identify areas that need improvement on their own.

Discussion Card: Let's T.A.LK.™ Navigating Difficult Workplace Discussions

Dreading that difficult discussion with an employee or coworker who just isn't engaged or performing as expected? These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (T.A.L.K.) along with thought-provoking questions on starting those tough conversations. Great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a discussion generator.

Discussion Card: Peer Today, Boss Tomorrow™

Help newly promoted managers, supervisors and leaders navigate their changing roles and have immediate impact! These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model along with thought-provoking questions on better understanding what it takes to truly and successfully lead others. These cards are great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a conversation generator.

ACTIONS Speak!™ Behavior-Based Interviewing

From the creators of More Than a Gut Feeling™, this powerful program offers a fresh and vibrant new approach to legal and effective hiring. Based on the time-tested truth, "past actions predict future performance", ACTIONS Speak! combines the elements of memorable storytelling, practical content and realistic acting to weave together a highly effective interview skills training course for a new generation of interviewers.

More Than a Gut Feeling™ Interviewing Essentials (Sample Interview)

Designed to be used in conjunction with More Than a Gut Feeling™ Interviewing Essentials or as a stand-alone training tool and refresher. It features a correct interviewing scene highlighting the essentials of a proper behavior-based interview.

Traditional vs. Behavior-Based Interviewing Questions

When it comes to behavior-based interviewing, it's all in how you ask your questions. This video is designed to illustrate the difference between a traditional interview question and a behavior-based interview question.

Discussion Card: ATTITUDE! Producing Positive Results

We've all faced a difficult employee. Tackling tough situations often means taking a step back and thinking through the issue. Remember, conflict can be reduced and misunderstandings addressed or prevented when we take the time to deal with a bad attitude . These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (A.T.T.I.T.U.D.E.) along with thought-provoking questions to create a respectful flow of communication - helping leaders, managers and supervisors address individual or team attitude issues. These cards are great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a conversation generator.

Preventing Workplace Bullying: Manager's Module

A module specifically created for managers covering the bullying topic and how to address and prevent it in the workplace.

More Than a Gut Feeling™ III

In any organization, hiring the right people for the right job is a challenge. Successfully meeting that challenge helps organizations keep turnover down and productivity high. More Than a Gut Feeling III is designed to educate interviewers on how to make the right hiring decisions by using behavior-based interviewing skills.

More Than a Gut Feeling™ - Manufacturing Version

Give plant managers, shop supervisors and other personnel the skills they need to make sound hiring decisions and reduce costly turnover! Based on the premise that people tend to perform in the future the same way they've performed in the past, this program helps interviewers go beyond making hiring decisions based primarily on how they feel about a candidate.