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HR for Campus Employees
The HR training for Campus Employees Library includes courses designed to help you detect child abuse, prevent campus violence, and supervise student workers. From campus data security to bullying and hazing, we have you covered.
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Codes of Ethical Conduct for Higher Education
The main objective of this session is to make sure you understand the importance of a code of conduct for higher education and the benefits of abiding by your school’s code. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand how federal law influences your school’s code of conduct, your responsibility to your school, such as exhibiting ethical conduct and avoiding conflicts of interest, your responsibility to the school community, such as treating others with respect and dignity while avoiding discrimination and harassment, and your accountability for upholding the school’s code of conduct, including reporting any violations of the code.
Learn MoreData Security on Campus
The main objective of this session is to give you basic concepts and vocabulary to learn about data security in the university setting and to make sure you know how to incorporate secure practices into your daily use of computers and other devices that access the university computer system. By the time the session is over, you should be able to describe best practices in data handling; outline employee and student responsibilities for data protection and IT systems security; comply with best practices for designing user IDs, strong passwords, and safe remote access and user authentication; and incorporate security protocols in your daily activities.
Learn MoreDetecting and Preventing Child Abuse
The main objective of this session is to help you understand the importance of recognizing and preventing child abuse. By the time this session is over, you should be able to understand and identify the different types of child abuse, recognize indicators of abuse, know how to interview a child to find out if he or she is experiencing some area of abuse, and know how and when to report suspected child abuse.
Learn MoreDiversity on Campus
The main objective of this session is to help you understand the importance of campus diversity and how you can support it for the benefit of the community. By the time this session is over, you should be able to understand how the changing face of America can benefit the on-campus community; understand, accept, and respect personal differences; become familiar with some basic techniques to help you communicate better with the different members of your population; help encourage your students to seek out ways to embrace diversity in their community; understand how to deal with conflict when it comes to diversity; and know some methods of developing a good on-campus diversity plan.
Learn MoreFERPA: How to Protect Student Privacy in Higher Education
The main objective of this session is to make sure you know the provisions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and what is required of you to comply. By the time the session is over, you will understand why FERPA is important, basic terminology and concepts associated with the law, the rights of parents and eligible students and how to uphold those rights, what information schools can and cannot disclose, and recordkeeping requirements.
Learn MorePreventing Bullying and Hazing on Campus
This session will guide you through a variety of topics that will help you understand and prevent bullying and hazing on campus. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand why college bullying and hazing are a problem; recognize bullying and hazing, whether you witness it or it happens to you; understand the reasons behind bullying and hazing; understand the negative effects that bullying and hazing can have; take steps to raise awareness and help prevent bullying and hazing; know how to better confront bullying and hazing when it happens; and help your students deal with it.
Learn MorePreventing Discrimination on Campus
The main objective of this session is to make you more aware of discrimination on campus and how to prevent it. By the time the session is over, you should be able to know what discrimination is, understand different examples of discrimination, ways to prevent discrimination, and know what to do if you are faced with discrimination.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment on Campus
The main objective of this session is to inform you about sexual harassment so you can help recognize and prevent it. By the end of this session, you should be able to, recognize sexual harassment on campus, differentiate between the two main kinds of harassment, understand the different laws governing harassment against other employees and students, report incidents and cooperate in investigations of sexual harassment, and help promote and maintain a productive work and educational environment for faculty, staff, and students. Duration: 20 minutes.
Learn MorePreventing Violence on Campus
The main objective of this session is to make you more aware of violence on campus and how to prevent it. By the time the session is over, you should know the different types of violence that can occur, understand how to prevent violent occurrences, know the steps to take in case of a violent outbreak, and know the different ways you can make your campus have a safer atmosphere.
Learn MoreSupervising Student Workers
The main objective of this session is to teach you about student workers and how to supervise them properly. In this training module, we will go over what student workers are and what their work might entail, why they are important and, most importantly, how to supervise them.
Learn MoreThe Americans with Disabilities Act: Accessibility on Campus
This session will guide you through a variety of topics that will help you understand the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and its effect on campus. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand the purpose of and the need for the ADA, define “disability” and know what distinguishes an individual as being disabled, know how to recognize when accessibility needs to be addressed and have some ideas on how to address it, know different ways to make reasonable accommodations for those with disabilities, and help break down barriers for those with disabilities who need opportunities to grow as an equal part of the on-campus community.
Learn MoreThe Clery Act: Campus Security and Crime Data Reporting
The main objective of this session is to make sure you know what the Clery Act covers and what is required to comply with the law. By the time the session is over, you will understand the basics of what “Clery geography” means and why it’s so important; the classification of crimes covered by the Clery Act; recent changes to the law, including amendments under the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013; the interplay on campus of other federal laws, such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Title IX; requirements for collecting and reporting crime statistics; and emergency notification and timely warnings.
Learn MoreTitle IX for Higher Education
The main objective of this session is to make sure you know the broad scope of Title IX and what is required to comply with the law. By the time the session is over, you will understand why Title IX is important, what the law covers, the procedures that your institution of higher education must have in place to comply with the law, and your responsibilities under the law.
Learn MoreHR for Healthcare
The HR training for Healthcare library covers important laws and regulations that HR and HC administrators need to know in order to best manage staff. From healthcare compensation and benefits to handling claims, each course in this library is interactive, engaging, and quick — all sessions are less than 30 minutes. Most sessions include helpful attachments and handouts to increase learning retention, as well as quizzes to keep track of how trainees are doing.
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Compensation and Benefits in the Healthcare Industry
In this overview of Compensation and Benefits in the Healthcare Industry, you will learn about different compensation plans and benefits as they relate to health insurance, retirement, and leave programs. We’ll also touch on why it’s important for you, as a healthcare facility administrator, to be aware of the benefits offered at your facility.
Learn MoreEmployee Retention and Morale for Healthcare Administrators
In an industry where decisions can mean the difference between life and death, the excessive turnover rate that often plagues the healthcare industry is a serious problem. Today, we’ll discuss how your facility can beat that trend by reducing turnover and increasing employee morale. You’ll learn what causes high turnover and why it’s bad for your organization. You’ll also learn how to retain great employees and simple ways to keep them happy and engaged.
Learn MoreEmployee Training for the Healthcare Industry
Good training practice is critical in health care, because employee performance has a direct impact on the well-being of your patients. During this session, we’ll discuss how to assess training needs and how to develop effective training sessions. You’ll also learn best training practices when it comes to training new employees before they begin work, when they first begin work, and beyond.
Learn MoreHIPAA Privacy Rule: What Healthcare Workers Need to Know
By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand the purpose of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, identify covered entities, determine basic requirements of the rule, follow policies and procedures to protect patients’ health information, and use the HIPAA Privacy Rule to protect your own health information.
Learn MoreHR Laws in Health Care: An Overview
This training session is an overview of HR Laws in Health Care. During this session, we’ll discuss the human resources (HR) laws and regulations that you must be familiar with in order to effectively do your job as a healthcare facility administrator. The HR laws we are going to discuss in this training session fall under nine basic categories. Not complying with these laws can lead to costly lawsuits and noncompliance fines, so it’s important that you know and understand them.
Learn MoreHandling Claims in a Healthcare Setting
This training session will help you understand why the most effective way to handle claims is to prevent them. We’ll look at how you can do that, as well as the differences between employment-based claims and insurance claims. We’ll also touch on why it’s important for you, as a healthcare administrator, to be familiar with the laws that protect your facility and your workers.
Learn MoreHiring Legally for Healthcare
This training session focuses on hiring legally in the healthcare industry. During this session, we’ll discuss how to evaluate job applicants based on job-related criteria and how to conduct all phases of the hiring process to avoid discrimination. We’ll also discuss the importance of various fair employment laws and why handling all aspects of your hiring practice fairly and appropriately will go a long way to improving the success of your organization.
Learn MoreNLRA and Unions in Healthcare
Unions can have a big impact on the healthcare field, so it’s important that those in Human Resources as well as supervisors and managers understand employer rights and restrictions under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). This course will explain the laws and regulations surrounding unions and what you need to know to protect your facility and also protect the rights of your workers.
By the end of this training session, you will be able to identify the basic provisions and prohibitions of the NLRA, distinguish the rights of employers and employees under the Act, recognize the influence of unions in the workplace, and understand how the NLRA and union contracts may affect your relations with employees.
Duration: 18 minutes.
Performance Evaluations for Healthcare Workers
In the healthcare field, where decisions have a direct impact on the lives of your patients, conducting performance evaluations is one of the most valuable tools you can use to not only track your staff’s competence but also to help them grow and develop as great employees. In this session, we’ll discuss how to prepare for your staff’s performance evaluations and how to measure their performance. You’ll also learn how to conduct an evaluation meeting and how to handle employee performance moving forward.
Learn MorePersonnel Counseling for Healthcare Workers
During this session, we’ll discuss the pressures of working in the healthcare field, the mental health issues that can arise from those pressures, and the benefits of personnel counseling when it comes to dealing with them. You’ll understand what it takes to build a successful counseling program and then learn a little about stress and how to deal with it. You’ll also learn about making your staff aware of your counseling program before finally learning how to handle staff complaints—along with the importance of ethics in counseling.
Learn MoreRecruiting for the Healthcare Industry
During this session, we’ll discuss all the aspects of good recruiting practice. In an industry as important as health care, where workers are responsible for caring for others, good recruiting practice is critical. We’ll discuss not only how to find employee prospects but also how to find those who will be the best fit. We’ll also discuss the hiring process on through to getting your new hire on board. Duration 15 minutes.
Learn MoreSafety and Sanitation in Health Care
As an administrator, safety is a huge concern and a tremendous responsibility for you. In this session, we will look at safety risks in your healthcare facility—including how to identify infectious medical waste, how to handle and dispose of it, and how to prevent and react to hazardous exposures. Duration 21 minutes.
Learn MoreTracking Credentialing and Training of Healthcare Employees
In this training session on tracking credentialing and training of healthcare employees, we’ll discuss your staff’s training and continuing education responsibilities as they relate to keeping their certifications and licenses current. Then you’ll learn how to keep track of your staff’s credentials by properly collecting, organizing, and verifying them. Duration 18 minutes.
Learn MoreHR Video Training for Supervisors
The HR Video Training for Supervisors library includes courses to train new employees, existing employees, and experienced managers and helps ensure compliance with all Department of Labor (DOL) rules and regulations. From hiring to discrimination to privacy, we have you covered.
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Confident Supervisor: Difficult Conversations
Supervisors face times when difficult conversations may be necessary. Though the subject matter may vary, the feelings of dread are the same for both the supervisor and the employee receiving the news. This course will arm supervisors with tips and tools to help make difficult conversations more bearable and effective.
Learn MoreConfident Supervisor: Managing Conflict
Any time you have two or more human beings working together, it’s inevitable: There will be conflict between them. What may start out as a minor scuffle between coworkers can quickly escalate into a full-blown argument or worse if it’s not promptly and properly addressed. And this is where your supervisors come into play. This course will help supervisors prepare for and deal with clashes in the workplace.
Learn MoreDiscipline
Before imposing discipline on an employee—stop, settle down, talk to Human Resources, and have a plan of action. Employee discipline is an area laden with legal danger and requires the utmost care. Learn more in this online training session.
Learn MoreDiscrimination
Discrimination in the workplace has been illegal since 1964, yet employers are still spending millions of dollars every year defending discrimination lawsuits and paying judgments when they lose. Learn more about recognizing and preventing workplace discrimination in this advice-rich online training session.
Learn MoreDocumentation
Documentation can make or break an employer during a legal dispute with an employee. The importance of sound documentation can’t be overemphasized. In the unfortunate event of an employee lawsuit, it will be your notes that take center stage in the courtroom.
Learn MoreFiring
You need to understand the policies and laws that you must adhere to when letting someone go. A fired employee may be angry—angry enough to claim the firing was for an unlawful reason such as discrimination or retaliation. Expect your actions and documentation to be examined under a microscope.
Learn MoreHiring
It’s hard to think of any supervisory function more important than hiring. Just one ill-advised question or comment during an interview can bring untold harm to your company. Supervisors must be well versed on topics such as protected classes, illegal discrimination, privacy, and a variety of laws. Learn more in this online training session focused on hiring.
Learn MoreOther Harassment
Harassment at work is a leading cause of employment lawsuits, and supervisors are in the best position to prevent, recognize, and deal with harassing conduct. Harassment based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, and age is covered under major federal laws. Learn more in this online training session.
Learn MorePerformance Evaluations
Performance evaluations often become evidence in court cases, and evaluations that don’t measure up are especially damaging to an employer’s case. That’s why you need to understand the importance of evaluating your employees, and you need to know the best ways to provide feedback.
Learn MorePrivacy
Supervisors need to know how to stay on solid legal ground when dealing with private information on their employees. Privacy is an area that does not have one clear-cut set of standards from one major federal law, but various federal, state, and local laws do govern how employers treat employee information. Learn more with this online training session on privacy.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment
Every year, millions of dollars are spent defending sexual harassment lawsuits and paying damages and settlements. This online training session will help you understand the kinds of conduct that can be considered harassment, the defenses available to the employer, how to prevent and punish harassing conduct, and how to document investigations and discipline.
Learn MoreViolence
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Act’s (OSH Act) General Duty Clause requires an employer to create a place of employment “free from recognized hazards” including workplace violence. Employers are required to take steps to minimize known risks of violence, and a failure to address hazards could result in the finding of a violation of the OSH Act.
Learn MoreWage and Hour
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) makes specific demands on how employees are classified and paid. Fail to pay a nonexempt employee overtime and you’ll face serious consequences. Classifying an employee as exempt when his or her duties say nonexempt also is likely to bring on a lawsuit. That’s why supervisors need a clear understanding of what the law requires. Learn more with this online training session on wage and hour laws.
Learn MoreHR-Employment
The HR-Employment Library includes HR training courses to train new employees, existing employees and experienced managers and helps ensure compliance with all Department of Labor (DOL) rules and regulations. From orientation, to FMLA, to team building we have your human resource training covered.
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ADA—What Supervisors Need to Know
This online employment course will help supervisors identify the purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), define “disability” correctly, make reasonable accommodations, handle job interviews and postoffer discussions properly, deal appropriately with leaves of absence and reinstatement, and avoid discrimination based on disability.
Learn MoreActive Shooter On-Site: What Every Employee Should Do (Multimedia)
When it comes to workplace shootings, there are measures you can take to not only limit the damage but also to save precious lives both before and during these traumatic incidents. Because most incidents are over within minutes, you must be prepared to react to the situation with speed. During this session, we’ll talk about how you, as an employee, should react to and prepare for an active shooter in your workplace.
Learn MoreAffordable Care Act: What You Need to Know
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) affects health insurance coverage for most Americans, and it has a considerable impact on the organization’s health insurance plan. Supervisors need to understand the basic requirements and benefits of the ACA so they can work with Human Resources to ensure employees understand how the law affects them and answer basic questions employees often have about how the law affects their health insurance coverage. By the end of the course, you will be able to identify the purpose of the ACA, understand it’s key provisions, and explain how the law affects employees. Duration: 23 minutes.
Learn MoreAttendance Management—What Supervisors Need to Know
Excessive absenteeism and lateness are serious problems that disrupt operations and negatively affect productivity, quality, and customer service. The objective of this online employment training course is to help managers and supervisors manage attendance effectively. At the end of the training session supervisors will be able to recognize the serious problems created by absenteeism and lateness, identify causes of attendance problems, understand the requirements of our attendance policy, control absenteeism and lateness in your department, and encourage punctuality and good attendance.
Learn MoreBasic First Aid for Medical Emergencies
The main purpose of this session is to familiarize you with basic first-aid procedures. By the time this session is over, you will be able to recognize the benefits of obtaining first-aid and CPR certification; identify proper procedures for a variety of medical emergencies; assist in administering first aid when a coworker is injured; and do no further harm.
Learn MoreBusiness Ethics: What Employees Need to Know—Spanish
The main objective of this session is to create awareness of ethical issues in business and to ensure that you always know the ethical course of action to take on the job. By the time this session is over, you should be able to recognize the importance of business ethics; understand the requirement of the law and our ethics policy; identify ethical problems on the job; and make ethical decisions.
Learn MoreBusiness Ethics—What Employees Need to Know
The main objective of this session is to create awareness of ethical issues in business and to ensure that you always know the ethical course of action to take on the job. By the time this session is over, you should be able to:
- Recognize the importance of business ethics;
- Understand the requirement of the law and our ethics policy;
- Identify ethical problems on the job; and
Make ethical decisions.
Coaching for Superior Employee Performance: Techniques for Supervisors
Coaches play a very important role in the success of a sports team. They develop and motivate players. They work hard to bring out the best in each player and to unify their players into a winning team. Coaching in the workplace has basically the same purpose and involves similar techniques. This session covers effective techniques you can use every day to coach your employees to higher levels of performance, which means greater success for you, your employees, and your department.
Learn MoreConducting Effective Performance Appraisals
This online performance appraisal training course will help provide managers and supervisors with the basic tools you need to conduct effective performance appraisals. At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify the importance and benefits of performance appraisals, assess and prepare necessary documentation, set motivational performance goals, plan for effective appraisal interviews, conduct fair and beneficial appraisals, and avoid discrimination charges.
Learn MoreDisaster Planning—What Employees Need to Know
The objective of this online training course is to teach employees how to deal with workplace disasters and other emergencies. At the end of this training course, employees will be able to identify different types of workplace disasters, understand the requirements of the emergency response plan, carry out emergency response assignments effectively, and evacuate quickly and safely in an emergency.
Learn MoreDisaster Planning—What Supervisors Need to Know
This online disaster planning training course will help teach supervisors and safety managers to recognize the types of workplace disasters they may face, understand the requirements of the emergency response plan, satisfy employee training requirements, and carry out emergency response duties effectively while at work.
Learn MoreDiversity Fundamentals for Supervisors
Creating a welcoming and diverse workplace where all employees feel empowered and supported in their career goals is the best way to attract quality employees—and the best way to keep them. But HR’s hiring and diversity initiatives will be for naught if supervisors don’t know how to manage a diverse group of employees. This course covers best practices for dealing with a diverse workforce for supervisors. By the end of the course, you will be able to identify how we are diverse; understand the challenges and opportunities of workplace diversity; avoid legal problems; and follow company policy.
Learn MoreDiversity for All Employees
Diversity in the workplace means having a group of employees with a wide range of different backgrounds in terms of race, age, gender, and other characteristics. This online diversity training course will teach employees to support diversity in the organization. At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify how we are diverse, understand the challenges and opportunities of workplace diversity, help avoid discrimination, and follow company policy.
Learn MoreDiversity for All Employees (Spanish)
This training presentation will explain how you can support diversity in our organization. At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify how we are diverse, understand the challenges and opportunities of workplace diversity, help avoid discrimination, and follow company policy.
Learn MoreEffective Communication for Employees Training
Effective workplace communication is the foundation of positive and cooperative working relationships. The objective of this online employee communication training course is to teach employees the basics of effective workplace communication. At the end of the course, trainees will be able to understand the benefits of effective workplace communication, recognize obstacles to effective communication, enhance communication skills, and communicate more effectively on the job.
Learn MoreEffective Meetings: How-to for Supervisors
All managers and supervisors must deal with meetings, either as a leader of a meeting or as a participant. The main objective of this session is to help managers and supervisors use meetings effectively to accomplish important goals. By the time this session is over, trainees should be able to:
- Plan meetings to achieve the best results;
- Conduct meetings efficiently; and
- Participate more effectively in other people’s meetings.
Emergency Action and Fire Prevention
This online safety training course will teach employees to understand workplace hazards that lead to an emergency and how to respond quickly and efficiently to an emergency situation. Also covered in this training course is how to evacuate an area in an emergency, protect others from fire and other hazards, prevent fires, and respond to fires and spills while at work.
Learn MoreEmergency Action and Fire Prevention—Spanish
This online safety training course will teach Spanish-speaking employees to understand workplace hazards that lead to an emergency and how to respond quickly and efficiently to an emergency situation. Also covered in this training course are how to evacuate an area in an emergency, protect others from fire and other hazards, prevent fires, and respond to fires and spills while at work.
Learn MoreEmployment Law for Supervisors—What You Should and Shouldn’t Do
The main objective of this session is to provide basic guidelines for compliance with important federal employment laws. By the time this session is over, you should be able to recognize that your job is directly affected by a variety of important employment laws, identify the requirements of these laws, use your knowledge to assist in compliance, and interact fairly and correctly with employees.
Learn MoreEssential HR—For Those Who Have Recently Assumed HR Responsibilities
The main objective of this session is to introduce you to your new responsibilities as an HR specialist and to help you learn more about your job and the organizations. By the time this session is over, you will be able to understand HR priorities, learn more about the organization, identify the requirements of employments laws and workplace policy, make ethical decisions, and perform job responsibilities successfully.
Learn MoreExit Routes—Supervisors
This online safety training course is designed for plant managers, supervisors, and other employees designated as emergency evacuation coordinators who need to understand the process for preparing a facility for the safe evacuation of employees. By the end of the training session, participants will be able to set up and maintain exit routes, implement the requirements of the facility Emergency Action Plan, recognize alarm signals, and, implement evacuation procedures.
Learn MoreFMLA—What Supervisors Need to Know
The objective of this training session is to familiarize you with the provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify the purpose and benefits of the FMLA, recognize when and to whom it applies, understand key provisions of the law, assist employees in handling leaves appropriately, and protect yourself and your organization from liability.
Learn MoreFair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)—What Supervisors Need to Know
This training presentation will familiarize you with the numerous requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). By the end of the training session, you will be able to comply with the basic requirements of the FLSA, including minimum wage, overtime, and equal pay; determine whether an employee is exempt or nonexempt; apply FLSA requirements to part-time workers and independent contractors; and identify and observe child labor restrictions.
Learn MoreGenerational Diversity
The main objective of this session is to help you better understand generational diversity so that you can supervise all your employees more effectively. By the time the session is over, you will be able to define generational diversity; identify the different generations in the workforce; understand differences among the generations that can affect the workplace; appreciate the impact of generational diversity in communication, feedback, teamwork, motivation, training, and development; and use knowledge of generational diversity to improve supervision of all employees. Duration: 29 minutes.
Learn MoreGrounds for Termination—What Managers and Supervisors Need to Know
The main objective of this online employment training course is to teach managers and supervisors the legal grounds for termination. By the time this session is over, supervisors will be able to identify the employment laws that affect termination, recognize legitimate reasons for terminating employees, and prevent wrongful discharge and discrimination lawsuits.
Learn MoreHIPAA—What Employees Should Know
This session will guide you through a variety of topics, which will help you understand the Health Insurance portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its privacy policy. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand how HIPAA helps you to acquire benefits when you lose eligibility, how HIPAA protects your rights to benefits when certain conditions or health issues may otherwise make it difficult, the purpose of HIPAA’s Privacy Rule, and what, when, and how your personal health information is protected.
Learn MoreHIPAA—Your Obligations Under the Privacy Rule
This session will guide you through a variety of topics which will help you understand HIPAA’s Privacy Policy. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand the purpose of HIPAA’s Privacy Rule, the basic requirements of the rule, covered entities and business associates, and what, when, and how personal health information is protected.
Learn MoreHandling Employee Complaints
The main objective of this session is to help you handle employee complaints successfully so that you and your employees can get past the problems that lead to complaints and get on with your work. By the time this session is over, you should be able to acknowledge employee complaints promptly and effectively, investigate complaints thoroughly and make fair decisions, decide when help is required to resolve a complaint, and avoid pitfalls that could cause complaints to escalate into larger problems.
Learn MoreHiring Legally
It’s hard to think of any supervisory function more important than hiring. Just one ill-advised question or comment during an interview can bring untold harm to your company. Supervisors must be well-versed on topics such as protected classes, illegal discrimination, privacy, and a variety of laws. Learn more with the online training course Hiring Legally.
Learn MoreHow to Conduct New Employee Orientation
The main objective of this course is to help you plan and conduct effective employee orientations. By the time the course is over, you should be able to recognize the benefits and goals of new employee orientation; assume a leadership role in the process; determine the issues to be covered; and plan and execute successful orientations.
Learn MoreHow to Explain the 401(k) to Your Employees
Gain a solid understanding of the 401(k) plan’s features, benefits, and rules so that you can explain these issues to your employees and answer their questions about the plan. By the time the session is over, you will be able to identify benefits of participating in a 401(k); understand investment options; explain the plan’s rules; answer questions; and help employees make informed choices.
Learn MoreHow to Manage Challenging Employees
Supervising other people is never easy, but some employees make it particularly difficult. Challenging employees can try a manager’s patience and drain a lot of time and energy. To turn things around takes skillful management and patience. The main objective of this online employment training course is to teach supervisors and managers how to manage challenging employees more effectively. By the time the course is over, you should be able to identify challenges associated with supervising difficult employees, manage your own feelings effectively, create a positive work environment for all, and respond positively to challenging employees and treat them fairly.
Learn MoreHow to Manage Military Leave
The main objective of this session is to talk about the requirements of the law concerning military leave and return to work and to clarify the rights and responsibilities of both employees and the organization under the law. By the time this session is over, you will be able to identify the requirements of the federal military leave law; understand the rights and responsibilities of employees and the organization under the law; inform employees about military leave procedures; handle return-to-work issues appropriately; and help the organization comply with the law.
Learn MoreHow to Manage Time Wisely—A Guide for Employees
This online time management training course teaches employees how to gain control over their time so that they can work more efficiently and productively. This employee productivity course offers ways that employees can make better use of their time and accomplish more with less effort. By the end of this online time management training course, employees will be able to identify and eliminate time wasters; plan and prioritize effectively; define goals and make time-wise decisions; capitalize on prime and commuting time; avoid procrastination; and handle communications, interruptions, and emergencies effectively.
Learn MoreHow to Prevent and Respond to Bullying
This session helps trainees understand why workplace bullying is a problem, how to recognize it, what motivates bullying behavior, common characteristics of bullies, steps that can help prevent bullying at work, and what to do if the employee is bullied or witnesses bullying.
Learn MoreInterviewing Skills for Supervisors (Multimedia)
When a hiring manager makes good hiring decisions, everyone in the organization benefits. Likewise, when a poor hiring decision is made, everyone suffers. This online interview training course will teach supervisors and hiring managers how to conduct more effective interviews. At the end of this course, supervisors will be able to recognize legal and policy issues related to interviewing, identify styles and types of interviews, plan an effective interview strategy, develop good interview questions, conduct successful interviews, and take precautions to prevent discrimination.
Learn MoreJob Descriptions—How to Write Them Effectively (Multimedia)
Job descriptions also help organizations comply with equal employment opportunity laws by ensuring that hiring decisions are made on the basis of essential job qualifications. This online job description training course will teach effective writing of job descriptions. By the end of the training course, you will be able to define the purpose of job descriptions; identify the key elements of an effective job description; gather and organize the necessary information; write complete, accurate, and objective job descriptions; and help your organization comply with employment laws.
Learn MoreMeasuring Job Performance—What Supervisors Need to Know
This training presentation will help provide you with the basic tools you need to conduct effective performance appraisals. At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify the importance and benefits of performance appraisals, assess and prepare necessary documentation, set motivational performance goals, plan for effective appraisal interviews, conduct fair and beneficial appraisals, and avoid discrimination charges.
Learn MoreNLRA and Unions—What Supervisors Need to Know
Are your supervisors aware of the key provisions of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the influence of unions within the workplace? If not, they could be setting you up for an expensive misstep. This course will train them on how to identify the basic features and prohibitions of the NLRA, distinguish the rights of employers and employees under the Act, recognize the influence of unions in the workplace, and understand how the NLRA and union contracts may affect interactions with employees.
Learn MoreOffice Ergonomics Training
Despite reports that the number of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) has declined in recent years because of widespread awareness and implementation of effective preventive measures, ergonomics remains a significant workplace safety and health issue. The main objective of this online office ergonomics training course is to cover the topic of office ergonomics from hazards to precautions so that employees can avoid developing work-related MSDs. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to define ergonomics and MSDs, identify ergonomic risk factors, recognize MSD symptoms, set up a workstation to minimize stress and strain, and perform tasks safely to avoid musculoskeletal injuries and illnesses. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MoreOffice Hazards (Multimedia)
The main objective of this session is to discuss office hazards and the safety precautions you need to take to prevent accidents and injuries. By the time this session is over, you should be able to: recognize office hazards, know what to do in emergencies; take proper precautions to avoid accidents; reduce ergonomic risk factors; use proper lifting techniques; and manage stress effectively.
Learn MoreOffice Hazards—What Supervisors Need to Know
The main objective of this session is to review office hazards and the safety precautions you need to take to help your workers prevent accidents and injuries. By the time this session is over, you should be able to recognize office hazards, know what to do in emergencies, take proper precautions to avoid accidents, reduce ergonomic risk factors, use proper lifting techniques, and manage stress effectively.
Learn MorePandemic Flu—How to Prevent and Respond
The main objective of this session is to make you aware of the risks of flu pandemics, the potential problems we could all face should we be hit with a pandemic, and the precautions you would need to take to keep yourself and your family safe. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand what a pandemic is, recognize the risks, identify flu symptoms, prevent the spread of infection, prepare for and deal with a pandemic at work and at home, and know what to do if you get sick.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment: A Guide for Employees
Sexual harassment is a form of illegal discrimination under federal and state civil rights laws. Not only can it lead to lawsuits and penalties; it can damage workplace morale, creating an unproductive, unpleasant, and sometimes even hostile working environment. Your employees need to know that sexual harassment violates your workplace policies and won’t be tolerated. This course will help employees recognize, respond to, and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Duration: 25 minutes.
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Preventing Sexual Harassment: A Guide for Supervisors
Not only is sexual harassment illegal, but it also has many detrimental effects on the workplace and workforce. Our workplace also has a formal policy that prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace—a policy supervisors are responsible for enforcing. But beyond laws and policies, sexual harassment is very damaging to the workplace and work environment. After taking this course, supervisors should be able to recognize, prevent, and respond to sexual harassment.
Learn MorePreventing Workplace Violence—What Employees Need to Know
This presentation will help you to identify the causes of workplace violence, spot the signs of potential violence, follow required security procedures, respond effectively to violent acts, and recognize and respond to terrorist threats.
Learn MoreProgressive Discipline
This training presentation will explain the steps of progressive discipline and help you use this disciplinary system consistently and fairly to manage employee behavior and performance. At the end of the training session, you will be able to apply progressive discipline steps fairly and consistently, identify laws and policy requirements affecting discipline, conduct effective disciplinary meetings, and document disciplinary action properly.
Learn MoreRecordkeeping and Notice Requirements
We’ll solve this puzzle of federal requirements by focusing on a few specific goals. We’ll begin this session with an introduction highlighting the importance of records and notices and commenting on retention, storage, and destruction of records. Next, we will review the recordkeeping requirements of key employment laws so that you will be familiar with the basic rules. Then, we will discuss notice requirements so that you will be aware of what notices need to be posted and how to post them in compliance with the laws.
Learn MoreRecordkeeping—Injury and Illness
This online recordkeeping training course is recommended for employees and supervisors required to maintain U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) illness and injury recordkeeping forms and those who need to know about the recordkeeping requirements. By the end of this training session, employees and supervisors will understand which employers are affected by recordkeeping standards, appropriate recordkeeping forms, how to reporting to the government, employee rights regarding recordkeeping, and injury and illness recording criteria.
Learn MoreReducing Turnover and Increasing Retention
The objective of this online employment training course is to understand the reasons for turnover and to discuss strategies to reduce turnover and increase retention. At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify the costs of excessive turnover, calculate and analyze your department’s turnover rate, determine causes of turnover among your employees, understand what your employees want from their jobs, and develop an effective turnover reduction strategy.
Learn MoreSaving Energy at Work and Beyond
In this session, you’ll learn key terms, such as “conservation” and “sustainability”; energy conservation and why it is important; facts about energy use, including nonelectrical energy; costs of using and wasting energy; and tips, strategies, and opportunities for saving energy.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment in the Digital Age
Almost everyone has some sort of online footprint, and your employees’ could affect your business. Furthermore, social media and other electronic communications exponentially expand the opportunities for workplace sexual harassment. By the time the session is over, employees should be able to recount types of online conduct that constitute sexual harassment; avoid improper online communications; understand why actions taken with personal devices or even off duty are covered by workplace rules; know their rights and limitation on those rights; recognize that harassment comes in many shapes and forms; and act to prevent and respond to harassment.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment: Draw the Line
Sexual harassment is not simply a knowledge problem…it’s a behavior problem—one that is pervasive in the modern workplace. This course focuses on employees’ responsibilities relative to preventing and dealing with sexual harassment in their workplace. By the end of the course, employees, supervisors and managers should be able to recognize sexual harassment in the workplace, understand their responsibility to report it, and what they can do to prevent it from happening. 36 Min.
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Sexual Harassment—What Employees Need to Know
This online sexual harassment training course will teach employees about sexual harassment in the hope that awareness will help lead to the prevention of such harassment. By the end of this session, employees will have learned to be able to recognize sexual harassment; differentiate between the two main kinds of harassment; understand and follow company policy; report incidents; cooperate in investigations; and help promote and maintain a comfortable, productive working environment.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment—What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)
Al terminar esta sesión de capacitación, usted podrá reconocer un acoso sexual, diferenciar entre dos clases principales de acoso, comprender y seguir la política del lugar de trabajo, denunciar incidentes y colaborar en las investigaciones y ayudar a fomentar y mantener un clima de trabajo confortable y productivo.
Learn MoreShiftwork Safety
Nontraditional shifts present unique safety concerns. By the time this session is over, you’ll be able to recognize the health, social, and safety effects of working outside an 8-hour day shift; identify strategies for minimizing the negative impact of shiftwork; and stay healthy and safe when working shifts.
Learn MoreStrategies for Legally Avoiding Unions
The main objective of this session is to help you avoid unions if you choose to do so. By the time the session is over, you will be able to understand employee union-organizing rights; identify reasons employees join unions; identify reasons employees reject unions; recognize signs of a union-organizing campaign; and take legal and effective action to avoid unionization in your workplace.
Learn MoreStress Management (Multimedia)
The main objective of this session is to help you better manage the stress in your life. By the time this session is over, you should be able to identify the causes of stress, recognize the different types of stress, understand how stress affects you, and manage stress effectively. Duration 25 minutes.
Learn MoreSubstance Abuse in the Workplace- What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)
Se estima que 1 de cada 10 empleados estadounidenses tiene problemas de adicción. El impacto personal que esto genera puede ser devastador, puesto que repercute de manera destructiva en todos los órdenes de la vida de una persona. Es posible que el adicto termine perdiendo todo: familia, hogar, amigos, ahorros, trabajo y la salud física y mental.
Learn MoreSubstance Abuse in the Workplace: What Employees Need to Know (Multimedia)
The main objective of this session is to help you understand the impact of substance abuse in the workplace and to suggest ways that you can help us deal with this serious problem.
Learn MoreTeambuilding for Supervisors
This course on teambuilding reviews how teams can be an extremely effective way to make the best use of our employees’ diverse skills, knowledge, backgrounds, and approaches to work. Properly used, teams can boost productivity, improve quality, and increase motivation and job satisfaction among our employees. You can use teams for everything from handling projects to solving problems to dealing with ongoing tasks. By the end of this course, trainees will be able to:
- Recognize the value of team efforts;
- Identify the characteristics of an effective team;
- Build commitment and cooperation among team members; and
- Use teams effectively to achieve goals.
Terminating Employees—The Process
The objective of this training session is to teach you key information about the termination process so that when you must fire an employee, you can do so effectively and legally.
Learn MoreThe Paperless Office—Conservation for Employees
In this session, you will learn about sustainability; what a “real” paperless office is—fact or fiction; the environmental costs of paper production and waste; the economic costs of waste paper; and “best practices” to save you paper, ink, and money.
Learn MoreTraining the Trainer: Effective Techniques for Dynamic Training
This course discusses effective training in all its stages, from assessing the needs at your workplace to developing a culture where training is ongoing and seen as an essential part of every job. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to:
- Assess training needs at your workplace.
- Identify training objectives to meet these needs.
- Understand the elements of adult learning. This will help you train adults effectively.
- Develop effective training sessions that enhance learning through participation.
- And finally, foster or encourage a culture of continued learning.
Training the Trainer: Effective Techniques for Dynamic Training—Spanish
This course discusses effective training in all its stages, from assessing the needs at your workplace to developing a culture where training is ongoing and seen as an essential part of every job. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to assess training needs at your workplace, identify training objectives to meet these needs, understand the elements of adult learning in order to best train adults effectively, develop effective training sessions that enhance learning through participation, and foster or encourage a culture of continued learning.
Learn MoreU.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act’s main purpose is to prohibit bribing foreign officials, and it applies to misconduct inside and outside the United States. So even if your organization has no direct foreign component, you need to understand the scope of the FCPA to encourage and maintain healthy business ethics within your workplace.
Learn MoreUnderstanding COBRA/HIPAA for Supervisors
The main objective of this session is to give supervisors an overview of COBRA and HIPAA and train them to understand the effects of the two laws, understand an employee’s continuation rights when terminated, recognize a qualifying event under COBRA, know the length of continuation coverage, help keep your company compliant with healthcare information privacy requirements, make sure healthcare information is secure, and inform employees of their rights.
Learn MoreViolence in the Workplace: How to Prevent and Defuse for Supervisors
This online violence in the workplace training course will help managers and supervisors identify the causes of workplace violence, spot the signs of potential violence, follow required security procedures, respond effectively to violent acts, and recognize and respond to terrorist threats.
Learn MoreWhat You Need to Know About Identity Theft
The main objective of this session is to discuss identity theft and talk about prevention, detection, and actions to take if your identity is stolen. By the time the session is over, you will be able to understand what identity theft is; recognize its effects; detect identity theft; take effective action in the event of identity theft; and finally, prevent identity theft.
Learn MoreWorkers’ Compensation—What Supervisors Need to Know
It is important for managers and supervisors to understand how the organization’s workers’ compensation program works so that they can help injured employees get prompt and proper care and ease the transition back to work when employees recover. Management plays an important role in helping the organization keep down workers’ comp costs and prevent workplace injuries and illness. This online workers’ compensation training course will teach supervisors and managers to be able to recognize the purpose and benefits of workers’ compensation, complete reports, and help workers file claims, maintain contact with employees on leave and ease their return to work, and help prevent workplace accidents to keep worker’s comp costs down.
Learn MoreWorkplace Diversity for Employees
The main goal of this session is to help you understand the importance of diversity in the workplace and how you can support it for everyone’s benefit. By the end of the session, you should be able to identify the ways in which we are diverse; understand both the challenges and the opportunities of a diverse workforce; help avoid discrimination and harassment in the workplace; and follow the laws and the organization’s policy regarding workplace diversity and discrimination.
Learn MoreWorkplace Diversity for Supervisors
The main goal of this session is to help you understand the importance of diversity in the workplace and how you can support it for everyone’s benefit. By the end of the session, you should be able to identify the ways in which we are diverse; understand both the challenges and the opportunities of a diverse workforce; help avoid discrimination and harassment in the workplace; and follow the laws and the organization’s policy regarding workplace diversity and discrimination.
Learn MoreWorkplace Ethics for Supervisors
This training session on business ethics for supervisors explores ethical issues that affect your job and your employees. The objective of this training session is to help ensure that as an organization and as individuals we act ethically in all matters related to our business. At the end of the training session trainees will be able to:
- Appreciate the importance of ethical conduct on the job;
- Understand the requirements of the law and company policy;
- Identify ethical problems in the workplace;
- Make ethical decisions; and
- Recognize and carry out ethical responsibilities.
Workplace Harassment—What Employees Need to Know
There are many forms of harassment—all of them against the law. This session will discuss the kind of harassment that arises from the diversity of the American workforce. It covers harassment on the job because of a person’s race, color, religion, or national or ethnic origin.
Learn MoreWorkplace Harassment—What Supervisors Need to Know
The main objective of this online workplace harassment training course is to teach managers and supervisors the nature of harassment in the workplace, how you can help prevent it, and what to do if, despite our best efforts, it occurs in our organization. This online training course will teach supervisors what harassment is and why it is a problem, all about company policy against harassment, the procedures for dealing with harassment, how to investigate incidents and determine whether harassment has occurred and the actions you need to take to stop harassment and correct its effects.
Learn MoreWorkplace Privacy—What Supervisors Need to Know
Supervisors need to know how to stay on solid legal ground when dealing with private information on their employees. Privacy is an area that does not have one clear-cut set of standards from one major federal law, but various federal, state, and local laws do govern how employers treat employee information.
Learn MoreWorkplace Security for Employees
It is commonly thought that workplace security is a job for management, security patrols, surveillance cameras, and the police. And, to some extent, it is. But in order to maintain a safe and secure workplace, everyone needs to become involved. The main objective of this online safety training course is to teach employees to be aware of security risks and what can be done to help prevent security breaches while at work.
Learn MoreWorkplace Security for Employees—Spanish
The main objective of this session is to make you aware of security risks and what you can do to help prevent security breaches. By the time this session is over, you should be able to understand the company’s security policy and procedures, take personal security measures on the job and while commuting to work, identify requirements for protecting computer networks and sensitive business information, and help prevent workplace theft.
Learn MoreHR-Employment Refresher
The HR-Employment Refresher Training Library includes refresher courses to retrain those employees who have already been through our full HR-Employment Training. These courses will help ensure continued compliance with all Department of Labor (DOL) rules and regulations.
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Business Ethics for Employees: Refresher
This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about business ethics. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.
Learn MoreDiversity for Employees: Refresher
This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about diversity. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.
Learn MoreEffective Communication for Employees: Refresher
This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about effective communication. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.
Learn MoreHow to Prevent and Respond to Bullying at Work: Refresher
This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about preventing and responding to bullying at work. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.
Learn MoreNew Employee Safety Orientation: Refresher
This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about new employee safety orientation. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.
Learn MoreOffice Hazards: Refresher
This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about office hazards. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.
Learn MorePreventing Workplace Violence for Employees: Refresher
This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about preventing workplace violence. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment for Employees—Refresher
This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about sexual harassment. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.
Learn MoreSubstance Abuse for Employees—Refresher
This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about substance abuse. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.
Learn MoreWorkplace Harassment for Employees—Refresher
This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about workplace harassment. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.
Learn MoreMental Health
The cost for dealing with mental Illness in the U.S. is approximately $193 billion a year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Affected employees must be properly accommodated under the ADA and employers must understand how to help employees cope with these conditions. With this library from TrainingToday, you’ll better understand various forms of mental illness, how to help employees deal with these conditions, and how to ensure your organization is meeting its legal obligations.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The main objective of this session is to help you understand what attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is and how you can help employees who are dealing with it. By the end of the session, you will be able to understand what ADHD is, know the causes and symptoms, understand how it can affect work, know what the law says, and learn how to manage employees with ADHD.
Learn MoreBipolar Disorder
The main objective of this particular session is to help you understand what bipolar disorder is and how you can help employees who are dealing with it. By the end of the session, you will be able to understand what bipolar disorder is, know the causes and symptoms, understand how it can affect work, know what the law says, and learn how to manage employees with bipolar disorder.
Learn MoreCaregiver Syndrome
The main objective of this particular session is to help you understand the impact of caring for a sick family member and how that impact may affect your employees. By the end of the session, you will be able to understand that the burden of caring for a sick family member may, in fact, fall on one of your employees, understand the impact that caring for a sick family member may have on the caretaker, understand how work may be affected if an employee needs to care for a sick family member, know what the law says about time off and accommodations for caretakers, and learn how you can help an employee who is also a caretaker.
Learn MoreChronic Stress
The main objective of this particular session is to help you understand what chronic stress is and how you can help employees who are dealing with it. By the end of the session, you will be able to understand what chronic stress is, know the causes and symptoms, understand how it can affect work, know what the law says, and learn how to handle employees with chronic stress.
Learn MoreDepression
The main objective of this particular session is to help you understand what depression is and how you can help employees who are dealing with it. By the end of the session, you will be able to understand what depression is, know the causes and symptoms, understand how it can affect work, know what the law says, and learn how to manage employees with depression.
Learn MoreGeneralized Anxiety Disorder
The main objective of this particular session is to help you understand what generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is and how you can help employees who are dealing with it. By the end of the session, you will be able to understand generalized anxiety disorder, know the causes and symptoms, understand how it can affect work, know what the law says, and learn how to handle employees with generalized anxiety disorder.
Learn MoreInsomnia
The main objective of this particular session is to help you understand what insomnia is and how you can help employees who are dealing with insomnia.
By the end of the session, you will be able to understand insomnia, know what causes it, know how to prevent it, understand what treatment options are available, learn how to handle employees with insomnia, and be clear as to what the law says about insomnia.
Learn MoreObsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The main objective of this particular session is to help you understand what obsessive-compulsive disorder is and how you can help employees who are dealing with it. By the end of the session, you will be able to understand what OCD is, know the causes and symptoms, understand how it can affect work, know what the law says, and learn how to manage employees with OCD.
Learn MorePosttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
The main objective of this particular session is to help you understand what posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is and how you can help employees who are dealing with it. By the end of the session, you will be able to understand what PTSD is, know the causes and symptoms, understand how it can affect work, know what the law says, and learn how to manage employees with PTSD.
Learn MoreSubstance Abuse
The main objective of this particular session is to help you recognize and understand substance abuse. By the end of the session, you will be able to understand substance abuse, know the causes and symptoms, understand how it can affect work, know what the law says, and learn how to handle employees who use alcohol or drugs at work.
Learn MorePlus of Us: Diversity Training
The Diversity library is an interactive training program with different modules for supervisors and employees. It features real-world scenarios and insightful commentary from a leading workplace expert and employment law attorney.
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Dynamic Diversity Training—Employees
This course focuses on real-life diversity situations that illustrate how exclusionary, disrespectful, and unprofessional behaviors can violate your organizational policies and even the law. The focus of this presentation is employees.
Learn MoreDynamic Diversity Training—Supervisors
This course focuses on real-life diversity situations that illustrate how exclusionary, disrespectful, and unprofessional behaviors can violate your organizational policies and even the law. The focus of this presentation is supervisors.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment – National
This library will give you everything you need to train your employees, supervisors, and managers on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace. Several training options are available for multiple year training.
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Preventing Sexual Harassment: A Guide for Employees
Sexual harassment is a form of illegal discrimination under federal and state civil rights laws. Not only can it lead to lawsuits and penalties; it can damage workplace morale, creating an unproductive, unpleasant, and sometimes even hostile working environment. Your employees need to know that sexual harassment violates your workplace policies and won’t be tolerated. This course will help employees recognize, respond to, and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Duration: 25 minutes.
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Preventing Sexual Harassment: A Guide for Supervisors
Not only is sexual harassment illegal, but it also has many detrimental effects on the workplace and workforce. Our workplace also has a formal policy that prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace—a policy supervisors are responsible for enforcing. But beyond laws and policies, sexual harassment is very damaging to the workplace and work environment. After taking this course, supervisors should be able to recognize, prevent, and respond to sexual harassment.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment—Training for Supervisors (Video)
Supervisors play a crucial role in preventing sexual harassment claims and lawsuits. This course will explain exactly what sexual harassment entails and will also teach how to handle sexual harassment claims properly. It is a video training course with vignettes and includes attorney commentary to help illustrate points.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment
Every year, millions of dollars are spent defending sexual harassment lawsuits and paying damages and settlements. This online training session will help you understand the kinds of conduct that can be considered harassment, the defenses available to the employer, how to prevent and punish harassing conduct, and how to document investigations and discipline.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) — Training
This session will guide you through a variety of topics regarding EEO training. By the time the session is over, you should know about what sexual harassment is, hostile work environments, gender discrimination, sexual orientation harassment, transgender discrimination, quid pro quo harassment, coworker harassment, complaint procedures, and what to do when conducting investigations.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment in the Digital Age
Almost everyone has some sort of online footprint, and your employees’ could affect your business. Furthermore, social media and other electronic communications exponentially expand the opportunities for workplace sexual harassment. By the time the session is over, employees should be able to recount types of online conduct that constitute sexual harassment; avoid improper online communications; understand why actions taken with personal devices or even off duty are covered by workplace rules; know their rights and limitation on those rights; recognize that harassment comes in many shapes and forms; and act to prevent and respond to harassment.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment: Draw the Line
Sexual harassment is not simply a knowledge problem…it’s a behavior problem—one that is pervasive in the modern workplace. This course focuses on employees’ responsibilities relative to preventing and dealing with sexual harassment in their workplace. By the end of the course, employees, supervisors and managers should be able to recognize sexual harassment in the workplace, understand their responsibility to report it, and what they can do to prevent it from happening. 36 Min.
Check out the video below to watch a few sample scenes from the course.
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Sexual Harassment—What Employees Need to Know
This online sexual harassment training course will teach employees about sexual harassment in the hope that awareness will help lead to the prevention of such harassment. By the end of this session, employees will have learned to be able to recognize sexual harassment; differentiate between the two main kinds of harassment; understand and follow company policy; report incidents; cooperate in investigations; and help promote and maintain a comfortable, productive working environment.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment—What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)
Al terminar esta sesión de capacitación, usted podrá reconocer un acoso sexual, diferenciar entre dos clases principales de acoso, comprender y seguir la política del lugar de trabajo, denunciar incidentes y colaborar en las investigaciones y ayudar a fomentar y mantener un clima de trabajo confortable y productivo.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment—What Supervisors Need to Know
This training presentation will provide you with the information you need to know about sexual harassment in order to help us deal with incidents and prevent future problems. At the end of this session, you will be able to understand legal and policy requirements; recognize what constitutes illegal sexual harassment; handle complaints effectively; participate in investigations; take appropriate corrective action; and promote a comfortable, productive working environment.
Learn MoreStop Sexual Harassment—Employees
This course will describe the two main forms of sexual harassment with practical video examples. It will teach employees how they can help prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
Learn MoreStop Sexual Harassment—Employees—Spanish
This course will describe the two main forms of sexual harassment—hostile work environment and gender harassment—with practical video examples in Spanish. It will teach employees how they can help prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment in California: Training for Supervisors & Employees
The state of California requires employers with 5 or more employees to provide both supervisory and nonsupervisory employees with interactive sexual harassment training every 2 years. These courses meet the specific requirements for each group with hypothetical workplace scenarios, interactive “Knowledge Checks” throughout to assess learning, skill-building activities, ability to “ask a question” about the training, and a final quiz with results retained for your records. The courses will provide your employees and supervisors with the information and practical guidance regarding state and federal laws, how to prevent, respond to, and correct sexual harassment, remedies available to persons subject to harassment, and the potential for liability.
This complete training program gives you everything you need to conduct training that’s authoritative, attention-grabbing, and best of all, helps you protect your organization against devastating lawsuits.
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Preventing Sexual Harassment in California: Training for Supervisors (AB 1825) Video Training
Under California law, you are required to learn about the prevention of sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. That includes information and practical guidance regarding state and federal laws, how to prevent, respond to, and correct sexual harassment, remedies available to persons subject to harassment, and the potential for liability. By completing this course, you have met those requirements.
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Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response for Employees in California
California law mandates that employees receive one hour of training every two years on how to recognize and prevent sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. This course meets those requirements with hypothetical workplace scenarios, interactive “Knowledge Checks” throughout to assess learning, skill-building activities, ability to “ask a question” about the training, and a final quiz with results retained for your records. This course will provide your employees with the information and practical guidance regarding state and federal laws, how to prevent, respond to, and correct sexual harassment, remedies available to persons subject to harassment, and the potential for liability.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment Prevention and Response for Supervisors in California (AB1825)
California law mandates that supervisors receive two hours of training every two years on how to recognize and prevent sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. This course meets the requirements of CA Govt. Code Sec. 12950.1, including information and practical guidance regarding state and federal laws, how to prevent, respond to, and correct sexual harassment, remedies available to persons subject to harassment, and the potential for liability.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment in California: Training for Supervisors & Employees- Spanish
The Sexual Harassment Prevention & Response for Supervisors in California (Spanish) library includes training to meet new guidelines for sexual orientation/gender identity training, compliance with AB1825, full coverage of AB2053 Abusive Conduct Law, interactive exercises and real-life scenarios and exercises, and so much more!
The courses in this library provide California employers with everything needed to satisfy California regulation AB-1825, including a two-hour minimum course length and interactive content.
This complete training program gives you everything you need to conduct training that’s authoritative, attention-grabbing, and best of all, helps you protect your organization against devastating lawsuits. Unlike other training programs, this course is simple, engaging, authoritative, and convenient.
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Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response for Employees in California- Spanish
California law mandates that employees receive 1 hour of training every 2 years on how to recognize and prevent sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. This course meets those requirements with hypothetical workplace scenarios, interactive “Knowledge Checks” throughout to assess learning, skill-building activities, the ability to “ask a question” about the training, and a final quiz, with results retained for your records. This course will provide your employees with the information and practical guidance regarding state and federal laws; how to prevent, respond to, and correct sexual harassment; remedies available to persons subject to harassment; and the potential for liability.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment Prevention and Response for Supervisors in California (AB1825)—Spanish
California law mandates that supervisors receive two hours of training every two years on how to recognize and prevent sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. This course meets the requirements of CA Govt. Code Sec. 12950.1, including information and practical guidance regarding state and federal laws, how to prevent, respond to, and correct sexual harassment, remedies available to persons subject to harassment, and the potential for liability.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment in Connecticut
Why use Stop Sexual Harassment: Interactive Training for Connecticut Supervisors?
Stop Sexual Harassment feature professional actors in thought-provoking scenes followed by commentary from attorneys Mark Schickman and Linda Walton answering challenging questions about what to do in a difficult situation.
About Your Program Leaders
Stop Sexual Harassment: Interactive Training for Connecticut Supervisors features the energetic Mark Schickman, an attorney with Freeland, Cooper & Foreman in San Francisco and Linda Walton, an attorney with Seattle office of Perkins and Coie. They deliver vital information in a clear and captivating style that helps supervisors understand and retain valuable lessons.
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Sexual Harassment in CT
Sexual harassment is a very serious issue in the workplace, and supervisors play a crucial rule in preventing sexual harassment claims and lawsuits. Although sexual harassment is clearly a problem for employees, many supervisors still seem to feel that sexual harassment includes only very severe cases, it has become clear that the term is much broader. Since the topic is so emotionally charged, it can be hard to handle sexual harassment situation without causing more problem. This means supervisors need to be able to recognize sexual harassment claims, take them seriously, and plan how to handle such claims before they actually occur.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment in Delaware
This library includes training for both employees and supervisors to cover the new regulations for the state of Delaware. These regulations apply to employers with at least 50 employees in the state. Training must be completed by the end of 2019 for existing employees and within 1 year for new employees. Employers must provide new supervisors with training within 1 year of starting in a supervisory position, even if they have completed the employee training. Employers must provide “interactive training and education to employees regarding the prevention of sexual harassment.” TrainingToday has you covered with our new Preventing Sexual Harassment in Delaware interactive training library.
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Preventing Sexual Harassment: A Guide for Delaware Employees
Sexual harassment is a form of illegal discrimination under federal and state civil rights laws. Not only can it lead to lawsuits and penalties, it can damage workplace morale, creating an unproductive, unpleasant, and sometimes even hostile working environment. Additionally, Delaware requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide interactive training and education to employees on the prevention of sexual harassment. Your employees need to know that sexual harassment violates your workplace polices and won’t be tolerated. This course will help employees recognize, respond to, and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment: A Guide for Delaware Supervisors
Not only is sexual harassment illegal, but it also has many detrimental effects on the workplace and workforce. Our workplace also has a formal policy that prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace—a policy supervisors are responsible for enforcing. Additionally, Delaware requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide interactive training and education to supervisors on the prevention of sexual harassment. Your supervisors need to understand how to enforce your workplace policies and their role in enforcing those policies. This course will help supervisors recognize, respond to, and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment in Illinois
This library provides training for managers and employees, and addresses industry-specific training requirements for bars and restaurants.
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Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response for Employees in Illinois
Illinois law mandates that every employer with employees working in the state must provide sexual harassment prevention training annually to its employees on how to recognize and prevent sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. This course meets those requirements with hypothetical workplace scenarios, interactive “Knowledge Checks” throughout to assess learning, skill-building activities, ability to “ask a question” about the training, and a final quiz with results retained for your records. This course will provide your employees with the information and practical guidance regarding state and federal laws, how to prevent, respond to, and correct sexual harassment, and remedies available to persons subject to harassment.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment Prevention and Response for Illinois Supervisors and Employees: Restaurants and Bars
Sexual harassment can disrupt the workplace and cause lasting problems for everyone involved. The pressures and pace in the hospitality industry often lead to great camaraderie amongst staff. But the flip side to that is an informality that allows inappropriate behavior to go unchecked. When you add the element of dealing with customers—some who have been drinking—to the mix, there is great potential for inappropriate behavior, which could lead to employer liability. By the end of this course, supervisors and employees should be able to identify ways in which the unique employment setting found in restaurant and bars leads to unique challenges as well as recognize, prevent, and respond to sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior when it does happen.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment Prevention and Response for Supervisors in Illinois
Sexual harassment can disrupt the workplace and cause lasting problems for everyone involved. Supervisors play a crucial role in preventing sexual harassment claims and lawsuits, but many supervisors have difficulty pinning down exactly what sexual harassment entails. Since the topic is so emotionally charged, it can be hard to handle sexual harassment situations without causing more problems. By the end of this course supervisors will be able to recognize sexual harassment, address incidents and claims, and take action to prevent sexual harassment in the future.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment in Maine
This library consists of two courses—one for supervisors and one for employees—that will help employers comply with Maine’s Sexual Harassment training regulations. Under the Act, employers with 15 or more employees must conduct an education and training program for new employees within 1 year of commencement of employment. Both of these courses fulfill the training requirement. The course also includes an anti-discrimination policy and a handout that describes how to file a complaint in Maine.
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Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment in Maine—A Guide for Employees
This training course is about preventing sexual harassment in the workplace. It’s an important subject because sexual harassment is a form of illegal discrimination under federal law and the Maine Human Rights Act.
Learn MorePreventing Workplace Sexual Harassment in Maine—A Guide for Supervisors
This course is about preventing sexual harassment in the workplace. It’s an important subject because sexual harassment is illegal. This workplace also has a formal policy that prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace—a policy you are responsible for enforcing.
But beyond laws and policies, sexual harassment is very damaging to the workplace and work environment.
This course will cover what sexual harassment is, why it’s so damaging to employees and the organization, and what you can do about it. This course will cover laws specific to the state of Maine.
Project Management for Business
From goal planning to troubleshooting to learning strategies to keep projects on track, on budget, and on time, TrainingToday’s Project Management for Business library is your go-to source for essential project management training.
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Communicating Up: How to Talk to High-Level Management
The main objective of this session is to help you communicate effectively with your boss and senior management. By the time the session is over, you should be able to:
- Communicate effectively with management so that your needs, views, and concerns are heard;
- Identify the needs and goals of your boss and senior management;
- Provide management with the information and advice it needs to make good decisions and solve problems;
- Plan your communications so that they are timely and well received; and
- Position yourself as a partner with your boss and senior management.
Communicating in a Global Workplace
The main objective of this session is to help you communicate more effectively in the global workplace. By the time the session is over, you will be able to identify cultural differences, be respectful and tolerant and avoid stereotyping, recognize how cultural context and other cultural issues affect communication in a global workplace, and overcome communication challenges.
Learn MoreCommunication Between All Ages in the Workplace
The main objective of this session is to help you communicate better with all generations in your workplace. By the time it’s over, you’ll understand what makes your fellow employees “tick” and be able to identify some of their characteristics; understand and respect your cross-generational coworkers; recognize some bad habits that could be creating conflict; enhance your communication skills on the job; and become familiar with some techniques to help you communicate better.
Learn MoreConducting Effective Meetings: A Guide for Supervisors
The main objective of this session is to help you use meetings effectively to accomplish important goals. By the time this session is over, you will be able to plan meetings that achieve the best results; conduct meetings efficiently; and participate more effectively in other people’s meetings.
Learn MoreConflict Resolution and Consensus Building
Management experts estimate that most supervisors and managers spend as much as a quarter or more of their valuable work time managing conflicts. Workplace conflict may be based on disagreements over work procedures, different needs and interests, clashes of personalities, or a range of other situations and circumstances that lead to confrontations between or among employees. When you know how to resolve workplace conflicts effectively, you can save time and turn potentially destructive situations into positive, productive opportunities for growth and development within your work group. Additionally, when you know how to build consensus among employees, you can enhance motivation and cooperation as well as create an atmosphere in which agreement generally prevails over conflict.
The main objective of this session is to help your managers and supervisors manage conflict and build consensus among employees successfully. This session helps trainees:
- Recognize the impact of workplace conflict;
- Identify common causes of conflict;
- Understand how positive communication helps prevent conflict;
- Resolve conflicts successfully; and
- Build consensus among employees.
Conflict Resolution for Employees
Conflict is a normal part of life. Whether it’s at work, at home, with friends or neighbors, disagreements between people happen. When they do, you need to be able to manage and resolve conflicts successfully to achieve the best outcome for you and for those caught up in the conflict. This online conflict resolution training course teaches conflict management and conflict resolution skills and techniques that can be used to more effectively manage workplace conflicts . Furthermore, resolving team conflict is an essential part of effective team management—group conflict resolution is critical to a productive workplace. Training staff on conflict resolution is an essential element of a productive workforce.
Learn MoreDelegation for Project Management
The main objective of this session is to teach you how to use delegation as a core tool in managing your project. By the time this session, is over you will be able to recognize the role of delegation in helping a project succeed, learn why delegating is valuable, understand the delegation process, realize the importance of giving and receiving feedback, and understand factors that put delegation at risk of failing.
Learn MoreEffective Decision-Making Strategies for Employees
The main objective of this session is to help you make the best possible decisions on the job. By the time the session is over, you should be able to:
- Recognize the importance of making good decisions on the job;
- Identify the steps in the decision-making process;
- Avoid common decision-making mistakes; and
- Make more effective decisions, even under pressure.
Encouraging Employee Input
All managers and supervisors have an impact on other employees. Garnering input from those employees helps with improving individual skills as well as improves workplace communications and work practices. The main objective of this session is to help your managers and supervisors encourage employee input. By the time this session is over, trainees should be able to:
- Appreciate the benefits of employee input;
- Stimulate employees to develop ideas and suggestions for improvement;
- Use suggestion systems and other strategies for soliciting employee input effectively; and
- Respond positively to employee input and provide appropriate feedback and recognition.
How to Manage Time Wisely—A Guide for Employees
This online time management training course teaches employees how to gain control over their time so that they can work more efficiently and productively. This employee productivity course offers ways that employees can make better use of their time and accomplish more with less effort. By the end of this online time management training course, employees will be able to identify and eliminate time wasters; plan and prioritize effectively; define goals and make time-wise decisions; capitalize on prime and commuting time; avoid procrastination; and handle communications, interruptions, and emergencies effectively.
Learn MoreLean Project Management
This session will guide you through a variety of topics that will help you understand the main principles of lean project management. By the time the session is over, you should understand the concepts of eliminating waste, creating value, executing faster, and creating a sense of accomplishment among your project team.
Learn MoreNegotiation Skills for Supervisors
Negotiation is a process of building, maintaining, and improving relationships. It is something you use all the time at your work, whether you realize it or not. For example, you negotiate with your boss so that you can hire an additional employee. You negotiate with other supervisors to coordinate the operation of your departments and work groups. You negotiate many issues with your employees from performance goals to vacation schedules. The main objective of this session is to help managers and supervisors develop and improve negotiation skills. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to:
- Identify the purpose of negotiation;
- Recognize the importance of having good negotiation skills; and
- Negotiate effectively with a variety of people in the workplace to achieve goals and reach mutually beneficial agreements.
Organizing and Planning for Success: What Employees Need to Know
Organizing and planning are two of the most important things you can do to be more efficient and successful in your job. Simply by organizing yourself, your work, your time, and your workstation, you can improve your job performance and take a big step toward achieving your career goals. This online training course addresses how organizing and planning can help you work smarter, and it provides the blueprint to more efficient organization and more effective planning. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to:
- Recognize the importance of being well organized and planning effectively on the job;
- Organize yourself, your work, and your time efficiently.
- Identify the types of plans you may need to make and the elements of a plan.
- Plan effectively to achieve work goals.
- Plan special projects successfully.
Planning and Organizing Skills for Supervisors
During this training session, you’ll learn about how you can become better organized so that you can become more efficient and stop wasting valuable time. You’ll also learn how to develop better plans so that you can achieve goals and be more successful.
Learn MoreProblem Solving for Employees
This session teaches employees problem-solving techniques. It goes without saying that problem solving is part of any job. Problems can’t be avoided. “Problems” are better looked at as opportunities for improvement. The problem-solving methods covered in this session can help trainees identify and resolve work problems more quickly and effectively, change employee behaviors and attitudes toward problems and, consequently, be more empowered and successful at work.
Learn MoreProblem Solving for Supervisors
The main objective of this session is to help you become a highly effective problem solver. Duration: 30 minutes.
Learn MoreProject Management Planning
The objective of this training session is to learn how to plan a project effectively. At the end of the training session, you will be able to understand the steps involved in effective project planning, understand how to troubleshoot your own project plans to anticipate problems and prevent bottlenecks, and create project strategies that will successfully achieve goals, meet deadlines, and contain costs.
Learn MoreProject Management Stakeholders
This session will guide you through a variety of topics that will help you understand the concepts of stakeholder analysis and management. By the time the session is over, you should be familiar with the purpose of a stakeholder analysis, how to identify your project’s key stakeholders and important peripheral stakeholders, why you should involve stakeholders and why getting to know them is important, and understanding some different methods for conducting a stakeholder analysis.
Learn MoreProject Management—The Beginning
The main objective of this session is to prepare you for the demanding task of getting a project under way. By the time the session is over, you will understand the many steps involved in successfully executing a project, how to wind up a project properly, and special situations that can complicate the implementation of a project.
Learn MoreProject Management—Troubleshooting
The main objective of this session is to teach you about troubleshooting within project management. In this training module, we will go over what troubleshooting is, what the signs of trouble are and how to avoid them, why troubleshooting is important, and ways to react to different situations to become a more efficient troubleshooter.
Learn MoreProject Planning: Budgeting
The objective of this training session is to learn how to create a budget—and how to stay on it. We will talk about the importance of careful and accurate budgeting in the project planning process, the basic steps involved in budgeting for a project, and the importance of monitoring expenditures during project implementation. By the end of the session, you should be better prepared to deal effectively with problems and bring any project in on budget.
Learn MoreProject Quality Management
The main objective of this session is to teach you about Project Quality Management and how the process works. In this training module we will go over the Project Quality Management process, why it is important, and how to implement the process.
Learn MoreProject Risk Management
The main objective of this session is to teach you about project risk management and how to identify and plan for risks. In this training module, we will go over what project risk management is, why it is important and, most importantly, how to identify risks.
Learn MoreTeambuilding for Project Management
The main objective of this session is to teach you techniques for building more effective project teams. At the end of the training session, you will be able to recognize the value of team efforts, identify the characteristics of an effective team, build commitment and cooperation among team members, and use teams effectively to achieve project goals.
Learn MoreTime Management Skills for Employees
This training presentation will help you gain control over your time so that you can work more efficiently and productively. At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify and eliminate your time wasters; plan and prioritize effectively; define goals and make time-wise decisions; capitalize on prime and commuting time; avoid procrastination; and handle communications, interruptions, and emergencies effectively.
Learn MoreTime Management for Supervisors
This course on time management for supervisors addresses ways to make better use of your valuable time so that you can accomplish more with less effort. This training session focuses on practical techniques and information that you can start using right away to gain more control over your busy work schedule. The main objective of this session is to help you work more efficiently and productively. By the time this session is over, you should be able to:
- Define goals and make time-wise decisions;
- Plan and prioritize efficiently;
- Process information more efficiently;
- Delegate effectively;
- Avoid procrastination; and
- Handle communications, interruptions, and emergencies more effectively.
Recruiting
Whether you need help streamlining your recruiting efforts or are looking for ways to make sure your hiring practices are cost-effective, TrainingToday’s Recruiting Library can give you tips and tools to find and keep the right people for the job while saving time and money.
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How to Conduct New Employee Orientation
The main objective of this course is to help you plan and conduct effective employee orientations. By the time the course is over, you should be able to recognize the benefits and goals of new employee orientation; assume a leadership role in the process; determine the issues to be covered; and plan and execute successful orientations.
Learn MoreInterviewing Skills for Supervisors (Multimedia)
When a hiring manager makes good hiring decisions, everyone in the organization benefits. Likewise, when a poor hiring decision is made, everyone suffers. This online interview training course will teach supervisors and hiring managers how to conduct more effective interviews. At the end of this course, supervisors will be able to recognize legal and policy issues related to interviewing, identify styles and types of interviews, plan an effective interview strategy, develop good interview questions, conduct successful interviews, and take precautions to prevent discrimination.
Learn MoreJob Descriptions—How to Write Them Effectively (Multimedia)
Job descriptions also help organizations comply with equal employment opportunity laws by ensuring that hiring decisions are made on the basis of essential job qualifications. This online job description training course will teach effective writing of job descriptions. By the end of the training course, you will be able to define the purpose of job descriptions; identify the key elements of an effective job description; gather and organize the necessary information; write complete, accurate, and objective job descriptions; and help your organization comply with employment laws.
Learn MoreRecruiting: Evaluation (MULTIMEDIA)
This course will go over the correct process on how to invite key stakeholders and rank the most important qualities, experiences, education, and characteristics that a successful candidate should have. Now you can use that ranking—along with the job description—to screen résumés as you start to evaluate applicants.
Learn MoreRecruiting: Planning (MULTIMEDIA)
Qualifications, experience, culture, and fit are all valid markers, but none provide a secret ingredient to finding the best talent pool. For that, you need a recruitment plan. Recruiting isn’t a one time thing; it’s an ongoing and proactive process that you must pay attention to all year.
Learn MoreRecruiting: The Process (MULTIMEDIA)
Not one successful business flourishes without great employees. It’s a fact. But these days, recruiting the best employees can be confusing—a challenge in a highly competitive world where there are so many platforms to choose from. The days of simply putting an ad in the paper to find new employees are long gone. During this training session, we’ll show you where and how to recruit the best people in today’s expansive landscape.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment Training for Supervisors and Employees in NY and NYC
New course now available!
All New York employees must be trained annually on sexual harassment prevention. New York employers will need to have the approved training topics and programs in place for all employees. They will also need to know the proper documents to distribute and processes to follow. If you have employees in the state of New York, the regulations also apply.
The training must be interactive and should:
- Be web-based
- Require employees to answer questions as part of the training
- Accommodate questions asked by employees
- Provide an explanation of sexual harassment consistent with guidance issued by the state
- Provide examples of unlawful sexual harassment.
- Describe the federal and state laws prohibiting sexual harassment and remedies available to victims.
- Advise employees about all available forums for employee complaints.
Sexual Harassment Training for Supervisors and Employees in NY and NYC provides training for supervisors, managers, and other employees covering all areas of workplace harassment and includes:
- An explanation of the laws that prohibit sexual harassment
- Examples of sexual harassment to help trainees understand what sexual harassment is – and what to do when it happens
- A fully web and mobile friendly interactive experience with real-life scenarios and exercises
- An expert “help link” providing trainees with access an in-house expert to answer questions about the course
- And more!
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Sexual Harassment Training for Supervisors and Employees in NY and NYC- Extended Version
The New York Human Rights Law (NYHRL) requires all employers to provide employees with interactive sexual harassment prevention training every year. This course helps employees and supervisors understand what sexual harassment is and how it affects people and the workplace, what can be done to prevent sexual harassment, and what must be done if it occurs.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment Training for Supervisors and Employees in New York and New York City
The New York Human Rights Law (NYHRL) and New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) require all employers to provide employees with interactive sexual harassment prevention training every year. This course meets the state’s minimum standards for the training.
The course helps employees and supervisors understand what sexual harassment is and how it affects people and the workplace, what can be done to prevent sexual harassment, and what must be done if it occurs.
Duration: 31 Minutes
Learn MoreSexual Harassment Training for Supervisors and Employees in NY and NYC (Spanish)
All New York employees must be trained annually on sexual harassment prevention. New York employers will need to have the approved training topics and programs in place for all employees. They will also need to know the proper documents to distribute and processes to follow. If you have employees in the state of New York, the regulations also apply.
TrainingToday just launched a new Spanish course to help meet the New York and New York city regulations. Sexual Harassment Training for Supervisors and Employees in NY and NYC (Spanish) provides training for supervisors, managers, and other employees covering all areas of workplace harassment and includes:
- An explanation of the laws that prohibit sexual harassment
- Examples of sexual harassment to help trainees understand what sexual harassment is – and what to do when it happens
- A fully web and mobile friendly interactive experience with real-life scenarios and exercises
- An expert “help link” providing trainees with access an in-house expert to answer questions about the course
- And more!
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Sexual Harassment Training for Supervisors and Employees in NY and NYC (Extended Version) (Spanish)
The New York Human Rights Law (NYHRL) and New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) require all employers to provide employees with interactive sexual harassment prevention training every year. This course helps employees and supervisors understand what sexual harassment is and how it affects people and the workplace, what can be done to prevent sexual harassment, and what must be done if it occurs.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment Training for Supervisors and Employees in New York and New York City (Spanish)
The New York Human Rights Law (NYHRL) and New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) require all employers to provide employees with interactive sexual harassment prevention training every year. This course is an abridged version of “Sexual Harassment Training for Supervisors and Employees in NY and NYC―Extended Version” that still meets the state’s minimum standards for the training. The course helps employees and supervisors understand what sexual harassment is and how it affects people and the workplace, what can be done to prevent sexual harassment, and what must be done if it occurs. It is recommended that this course be used as a refresher training and a follow-up to the longer course.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment: Draw the Line
From Hollywood to Washington, allegations of sexual harassment have dominated headlines in the past few months, but sexual harassment is not just limited to celebrities and politicians; it’s a problem for many organizations.
A recent study by the Center for American Progress shows sexual harassment charges filed in industries ranging from food service and retail to finance and education.
Don’t let your workplace become a statistic. With TrainingToday’s Sexual Harassment: Draw the Line library, you’ll learn more about prevention, retaliation, guidelines for sexual orientation/gender identity, and more. All in an engaging, animated format!
With effective training, employees, supervisors and managers should be able to recognize, report, and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Sexual Harassment: Draw the Line
Sexual harassment is not simply a knowledge problem…it’s a behavior problem—one that is pervasive in the modern workplace. This course focuses on employees’ responsibilities relative to preventing and dealing with sexual harassment in their workplace. By the end of the course, employees, supervisors and managers should be able to recognize sexual harassment in the workplace, understand their responsibility to report it, and what they can do to prevent it from happening. 36 Min.
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Unconscious Bias
The unconscious bias library will address the need to recognize and overcome involuntary thoughts or feelings toward others that influence our judgment of and the way we interact with them. From defining what exactly unconscious bias is, to recognizing common patters and training supervisors how to be fair and objective when making critical personnel-related decisions, this library will provide training to prevent costly mistakes in your organization.
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Interrupting Unconscious Bias for Supervisors
As a manager, you make personnel decisions every day that affect you, your team, and your organization. To ensure that you build and cultivate a talent-rich, diverse team or organization, you need to overcome your unconscious biases so they don’t interfere with your ability to make fair and objective decisions. This course will benefit all managers, supervisors, and workplace leaders who determine which applicants are interviewed and eventually hired, evaluate employee performance, enforce workplace policies and standards, and oversee employees’ daily activities. After completing this course, you’ll be able to identify your own unconscious biases so you can take steps to “interrupt” them when making critical personnel management decisions.
Learn MoreRecognizing and Overcoming Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
We all have unconscious biases that affect our interactions with others and how we view the world. These unconscious biases can have a negative effect in the workplace when they go unchecked. This course will benefit all employees who interact with coworkers, customers, or anyone else as part of their job. After completing this course, employees will be able to identify and address their own unconscious biases and take steps to “interrupt” them when communicating and interacting with others in the workplace.
Learn MoreWellness
The Wellness Training Library includes everything you need for both your managers who help to set up and manage a workplace wellness program–and your employees to learn about keeping themselves and their families healthy. Statistics show that keeping employees healthy can not only improve their quality of life–but it can also significantly impact your bottom line with reduced healthcare costs and absenteeism rates and improved employee morale and productivity.
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A Manager’s Role in Wellness
Managers play a key role in making a workplace wellness program a success. Managers need to help to motivate staff by setting a good example, providing the tools that staff members need to keep themselves on the right track, communicating your organization’s wellness messages, and helping to educate staff on the latest wellness techniques. This online wellness course for managers will empower key staff on how to embrace a wellness program and show the critical role managers play in the success of the program and the consequent health and wellness of all employees. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MoreAll About Nutrition
A healthy diet has a tremendous impact on the health, happiness, and productivity of employees. But healthy eating in today’s frenetic world can be difficult. Despite available nutrition labeling, how many people really read and/or understand the nutrition labels and better yet, how many use the information to optimize their own health? Whether a person likes to cook or not, eat out or eat home-cooked meals, graze or eat sit-down meals— understanding good nutritional guidelines will help with overall health, outlook, productivity, energy, and healthy aging. This online nutrition awareness course will help educate and inspire trainees to better nutritional choices and better health.
Learn MoreAvoiding Back Injuries
The main objective of this session is to help you prevent back injuries. By the time the session is over, you should be able to identify causes of back injuries; prevent back injuries; use proper lifting, load carrying, and unloading techniques to help protect your back; and think smart about your back and the importance of keeping it healthy.
Learn MoreAvoiding Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens
This session discusses how you might be exposed to bloodborne pathogens (BBP) and infectious diseases, how you can protect yourself from exposure, and how to clean up and properly dispose of blood or bodily fluids. Employees most likely to be exposed include first-aid responders, janitorial and maintenance personnel, and workers assigned to clean up after an industrial accident. Even if your job does not normally expose you to blood or bodily fluids, this session is helpful to raise your awareness of bloodborne pathogens, to understand why you should not come in contact with them, and to understand that it is important to report spills of blood or bodily fluids so that they can be cleaned up safely.
Learn MoreBalancing Work and Home
Many people struggle to juggle a full-time job while also caring for young children, aging parents, and other responsibilities on a daily basis. It can feel like there are not enough hours in a day—that there are too many responsibilities at work and at home—and that you can’t complete tasks in either place—many people feel this way. This online employee wellness course helps trainees manage home and work responsibilities, stress, and daily expectations. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MoreCreating a Successful Wellness Program—A Guide for Managers
A workplace wellness program needs to be well-focused and well-executed to succeed. This training course goes over the necessary steps to create a successful wellness program designed for the specific health risks and vulnerabilities of your employee population. A well-run wellness program can not only help employees be healthier but it also increases your bottom line by decreasing healthcare costs, decreasing employee time away from work, increasing productivity, and even increasing morale.
Learn MoreDriver Wellness
For employees who drive, wellness is an important issue for several reasons. Fatigue, heart trouble, and other health problems are known to play a role in many accidents, injuries, and driver deaths. Studies conducted by federal highway safety experts, such as the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), have shown that a significant number of truck accidents are health related. It’s been proven—wellness is an important component in safe driving. This online driver wellness training course ensures drivers are aware of risk factors of safe driving, staying healthy for better productivity, and how to apply good wellness techniques for long-term driving safety and personal wellness.
There are two versions of this course, standard and multimedia.
Learn MoreFinancial Wellness
Personal finance is a challenge for many people. Yet, as an employer, you may not be aware of these personal challenges faced by your employees. As a result, employee financial education is a critical component of any corporate wellness program. Financial literacy can be learned and improved. Financial training that leads to employee financial wellness reduces employee stress and health-related problems. This employee financial wellness training online course teaches trainees about financial planning, effective money management, how to budget, and how to live within one’s means. With these key skills, an employee will be healthier with less stress. A healthy employee is a productive employee.
Learn MoreFitness for Everyone
Regular exercise is one of the best ways to gain and maintain good health throughout your life. In fact, increasing your physical activity level may be one of the best, and simplest, things you can do for yourself. This online fitness course discusses physical fitness and looks at how to plan carefully and pace yourself to make fitness a healthy habit that lasts your lifetime. This online fitness for everyone course addresses the benefits of fitness, and provides tips and tactics to help trainees start improving fitness levels today. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MoreHazards of Smoking—How to Quit
Despite the proven and well-documented health risks associated with smoking, it continues to be widespread, with new smokers joining the ranks every day. An effective smoking cessation program for employees can result in lower healthcare costs for employees, more productive employees, and improved overall health of employees. An effective smoking cessation program must address the underlying reasons for starting to smoke as well as the myriad challenges of quitting. This online smoking cessation course helps employees understand the health risks of smoking, the benefits of quitting, and how to quit and remain tobacco-free. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MoreHealthy Aging
No matter what age you are now or what shape you are currently in, you can make improvements that will extend and improve your life. It’s never too late to make healthy choices. Genetics are only part of longevity. The other part is taking good care of your health. This means that the quality of your life in your senior years depends largely on you and the choices you make today. For example, choices like not smoking; eating healthy, nutritious food; keeping your weight down; and getting enough exercise will help you live a longer life. This course highlights the impact today’s choices have on your future and how to make changes now for a healthier, more productive future. The benefits to an employer in providing this training to employees are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MoreHealthy Sleep Habits
A lot of Americans have trouble sleeping, and sleeping is very important to maintaining good health. We’ll talk about the problems associated with sleep deprivation, the various sleep disorders that interfere with healthy sleep, and we’ll look at a variety of suggestions for getting a good night’s sleep. Duration: 17 minutes
Learn MoreHeart Health
Our hearts are responsible for pumping oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood throughout our bodies. The heart has one of the most important jobs in keeping our bodies alive and healthy. This online heart health training course addresses this most amazing muscle in our body, how it works to keep us alive, and what we can do right now to make sure our hearts are healthy for years to come. Cardiac health can be managed and improved with some simple guidelines. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MoreKeeping Yourself—and Your Family—Healthy
The health and wellness of our families has a great impact on our lives. How often do employees have to stay home or worry about an ailing family member? How much in healthcare costs do the employer and employee bear for family members? It’s significant. Therefore, in any effective workplace wellness program, guidance on improving and maintaining the health of family members is vital. This online wellness course is designed to help employees identify risk areas in the health and wellness of their families, use effective strategies for helping improve the health and wellness of family members, and apply good practices for maintaining health. Preventive care, nutrition, exercise, and other factors play important roles. The benefits to you, the employer, in helping your employees with this challenge, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MoreOffice Ergonomics Training
Despite reports that the number of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) has declined in recent years because of widespread awareness and implementation of effective preventive measures, ergonomics remains a significant workplace safety and health issue. The main objective of this online office ergonomics training course is to cover the topic of office ergonomics from hazards to precautions so that employees can avoid developing work-related MSDs. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to define ergonomics and MSDs, identify ergonomic risk factors, recognize MSD symptoms, set up a workstation to minimize stress and strain, and perform tasks safely to avoid musculoskeletal injuries and illnesses. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MorePandemic Flu—How to Prevent and Respond
The main objective of this session is to make you aware of the risks of flu pandemics, the potential problems we could all face should we be hit with a pandemic, and the precautions you would need to take to keep yourself and your family safe. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand what a pandemic is, recognize the risks, identify flu symptoms, prevent the spread of infection, prepare for and deal with a pandemic at work and at home, and know what to do if you get sick.
Learn MoreStress Management (Multimedia)
The main objective of this session is to help you better manage the stress in your life. By the time this session is over, you should be able to identify the causes of stress, recognize the different types of stress, understand how stress affects you, and manage stress effectively. Duration 25 minutes.
Learn MoreSubstance Abuse in the Workplace: What Employees Need to Know (Multimedia)
The main objective of this session is to help you understand the impact of substance abuse in the workplace and to suggest ways that you can help us deal with this serious problem.
Learn MoreSuccessful Weight Management
This session is designed to help employees manage their weight successfully and live a healthier life. Obesity is now considered an epidemic. Approximately two-thirds of the adult population is either overweight or obese. And yet, overweight individuals can reduce the risk for some chronic disorders by losing as little as 5 percent to 15 percent of their weight. This course will help trainees understand the risks of being overweight, learn the formula for maintaining a healthy weight, identify simple ways to cut calories, maintain a healthy exercise program, choose a sensible and safe weight loss program; and keep fit for life. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MoreWellness and You
Good health is perhaps the most important factor in anybody’s life. Without health, you can’t enjoy the rest of your life and meet the challenges you face every day. This course addresses wellness and how to improve your health and the quality of your life. The course offers practical tips for improving health and staying healthy for life. The benefits to the employer in helping facilitate your employee’s wellness, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MoreWhat You Need to Know About Headaches
A whopping 90 percent of all people in the United States get some kind of headache, with 20 percent seeking professional medical help for their pain. One category of headaches, the migraine, is experienced by an estimated 28 million people. Whether sufferers stay at home or go to work, migraines are a major, largely unrecognized cause of lost workplace productivity. This headache management and prevention online training course addresses different types of headaches, symptoms, medical and alternative treatments and, finally, healthful lifestyle changes that can help avoid the onset of headaches or minimize headache pain. These manageable changes enhance quality of life in general and improve employee productivity. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.
Learn MoreWorkplace Harassment: Microlearning
What are you doing to prevent workplace harassment in your workplace?
Every day, it seems that a new name is added to the growing list of those facing an harassment allegation, but the voice of opposition is growing with the help of a movement known as Time’s Up.
According to https://www.timesupnow.com, “The clock has run out on sexual assault, harassment, and inequality in the workplace. It’s time to do something about it.”
Now more than ever, it’s crucial for you to not only keep your organization safe and in compliance but also to have a workplace harassment prevention training program that can ignite true behavior change within your organization.
TrainingToday® is here to help you become part of the solution with our all-new Workplace Harassment microlearning library.
Microlearning is proving to be quite effective, because learning in shorter spans increases employee attention, engagement, and retention. Microlearning is a way of teaching and delivering content to learners in small, targeted bursts. The content is delivered regularly, which is scientifically proven to maximize retention and prevent information overload.
This is particularly helpful not only when you have very complex topics to cover but also as a way to support a behavioral change for the benefit of your company culture.
See a sample course that is part of TrainingToday’s all-new Workplace Harassment microlearning library, and let us help you transform the way you train.
Click here for more information about this library.