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Employee Relations |
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Communicating for Effective Employee Relations
How you communicate with your employees has a major impact on the overall atmosphere within the work-place. A positive, professional work relationship between the employer and the employee is a crucial aspect of successful businesses. This course explains how communication can foster or hinder employee/ employer relation-ships and what you can do to communicate effectively.
Satisfying Your Employees
Job satisfaction directly affects work performance. An unhappy employee will inevitably put forth a minimal amount of effort in his job. In this course, learn ways to satisfy employees in order to improve productivity and retain employees in the workplace. Satisfying your employees will motivate them to succeed, and therefore, your company will succeed.
Understanding Employment Law
Understanding employment law will help protect your company, yourself,and your employees. Take a crucial step in shielding your business from unwanted and costly litigation. Learn what laws affect your business and learn how to prevent violations. This course is a must for all managers and supervisors in any company. |
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Knowledge Management |
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Basics of Knowledge Management
Business managers understand that knowledge is their company’s greatest asset. In order for knowledge to propel company’s success, it needs to be properly harnessed and effectively distributed to the workforce. In this course, managers learn how to manage and cultivate knowledge in the work-place.
Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning
This course teaches the basics of creating and implementing a knowledge management system (KMS.) Knowledge management systems are inextricably linked to organizational learning. Understanding how to create a knowledge management system that matches your company’s specific needs and work culture is the first step to bringing the workforce together under one mission and leveraging company-wide learning initiatives.
Implementing Knowledge Management
This course teaches managers how to implement knowledge management systems after the design phase. Learn to effectively manage your knowledge management system to increase work-force knowledge of mission critical information and create a lasting competitive edge for your business. |
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HR Skills |
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Managing Human Capital
The Ethical Dilemma — As a manager, you set the tone for your company. A man-age who is perceived as unethical will instill a culture of distrust and substandard performance. Learn how to project an image of ethical superiority through principled methodology and internal accountability.
Downsizing — No one enjoys letting employees go. Your ultimate objective when down sizing should be to make sure your employees are treated with the utmost respect. Learn what considerations to take before downsizing and how to reduce your organization with dignity.
Mastering Key Retention Strategies — The American Management Association reports that the cost of recruiting and training a new employee costs between25 and 200 percent of their annual salary! This means finding and retaining excellent employees is crucial for the ultimate success of an organization.
Winning with People at Work
Mastering Concepts for Getting Results —The most effective management strategies are the ones that never fail to obtain the best performances from employees. A good manager implements proven techniques, and consistently examines their results. This course intro-dues practical ways to implement management techniques that create success.
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Human Resource Optimization |
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Creating and Maintaining a Talented Workforce
End the turnover epidemic by creating and maintaining a talented workforce.High employee turnover is costing your company time, resources, and a lot of money. Instead of spending your time recruiting new hires and investing money in expensive training programs, focus your energy on fostering long-term commitments from your current employees.
Managing Employees
Get rid of those pesky TPS reports and learn how to effectively manage your employees in order to cultivate a successful business environment. The difference between a sterile performance management system and an active performance management system is the latter’s potential for retaining quality employees, and the development of individual skill sets within the workplace.
Creating Development Plans
Today’s employees are acutely aware of their assets and vulnerabilities in the current job market. Employee development helps motivated employees reach their career goals within the confines of your business. Creating action plans for employees fosters loyalty while optimizing productivity in the workplace. In this course, learn how to create effective development plans for your employees.
Communicating Effectively
Communication in the workplace can be tricky. What should employers share?When should they share it? And how?Employees resent both lack of communication and poorly planned communication in the workplace. |
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Hiring Top Performers |
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Initiating the Hiring Process
Your hiring choices can determine the success or failure of your business.“Hiring choices” include not only who you hire, but into what position you place them. In this invaluable course,learn how to rethink the way you hire new employees, from how you recruit to how to determine placement.This course is perfect for both fledgling businesses and established corporations.
Handling Interviews
Do you take the necessary time and planning before conducting an inter-view with a potential new employee? Having an interview plan will help you gauge whether the interviewee is the right person for a specific position within your company. Learn what details to include in your interview plan, how to reach an unbiased decision, and what methods to incorporate during the interview.
Concluding the Hiring Process
It is critical for businesses to implement strategies to help retain new hires .Companies that are able to recruit and retain top employees are able to gain a significant edge because they waste less time, money, and resources managing constant turnover. Learn how to not only attract the best recruits, but how to make your brand new hires never want to seek work elsewhere.
Managing the Generation Mix
This course focuses on management techniques that make it easy to effectively lead a multi generational work-force. Accommodating your employees specific needs will help pique their work performance; Gen X parents may require different techniques than a Generation Y employee. This course helps managers recognize and juggle the complex nature of managing a generation-mixed work force. |
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Public Presentations |
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Deciding to Speak
You’ve been invited to give a speech at a conference. Flattery may impel you to accept right away; however, deciding whether or not giving a speech benefits your company should be your first consideration. Learn basic guidelines that aid in helping you consider which speech opportunities you should accept and which ones you should step away from.
Preparing Your Speech
Once you’ve decided to give a speech,your next step is preparation. Learn the pivotal elements and valuable tips that will enable you to prepare a dynamic,crowd-pleasing speech.
Delivering Your Speech
It doesn’t matter how well your speech is written: if it is poorly presented, it will not influence or impress the audience. Delivery is everything! This course helps novice and seasoned public speakers by providing simple advice on how to give the best speech possible.
Publicizing Your Speech
Your speech was a success! You’re finished! Or maybe not… this course discusses the critical importance of publicizing your speech. Increase the chances of being invited to subsequent speaking engagements by learning how to increase your publicity.
Building a Winning Team — Winning teams work well together, and produce exceptional work on time through careful planning and strategic management.In this course, managers, supervisors,and team leaders learn the skills and steps to take in order to build a winning team.
Developing Ethical Leadership Skills — Is the ethical corporate leader more successful? Ethical leaders give their corporations a competitive edge by building upon the trust of both clients and investors. Learn how creating a work ethic based on principled management will boost your company’s position in its markets and the community.
Performance Under Pressure
Managing Stress in the Workplace — Employees in today’s workforce are expected to do more with less: more productivity, better results, and longer hours,all within the same five-six day work week. To counter these increased pressures, managers need to provide more ways of alleviating stress in the workplace.
Working Well Under Pressure — How do your employees cope with high-pressure situations? This course provides management techniques that help both employers and their employees learn how to cope under pressure. Learn invaluable stress management techniques to teach employees how to anticipate and manage potentially stressful situations.
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Mentoring Others |
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As an experienced mentor, you are in a great position to share your accumulated workplace wisdom and expertise with someone else. You want to refresh your understanding of the theories behind effective mentoring to ensure the greatest possible return on your investment of time and energy. This course will give experienced mentors rapid access to important concepts and techniques they can directly utilize in assisting mentees.
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Leadership Skills |
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Position Yourself to Lead
Senior managers are constantly looking for ways to attain better and more lucrative results from their team. Find out how effective leaders improve employees trust and dedication to bring out the best in their performance. Learn principles to great communication, organizing, and effective time management.
Building a Winning Team
Running a successful workplace requires flexibility. It’s time to lose preconceived notions about management and learn how to supervise a modern-day workforce effectively. This course teaches managers essential leadership skills that help you delegate more responsibility to your team while enabling you to strategize and focus on the bigger picture. Learn how to effectively manage a 21st century work team by implementing 21st century techniques.
Lead with Confidence
A manager should command respect from his employees; without confidence, there is no respect. A lack of respect equals less productivity in the workplace. This course teaches you how to present yourself as a strong leader who can motivate, manage, and set goals for individual employees, the work group, or the company.
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Wellness |
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These courses promote wellness within the workplace. First, employees assess their level of wellness in relation to their health and/or fitness goals. Follow-up courses include:
Introduction & Self Assessment
Where do you need help?
Stop Smoking—Kick the Habit!
Weight Control—Develop a healthier way of living!
Job Satisfaction—Understanding the effects and achieving results!
Blood Pressure Control—Reduce your risk of serious conditions!
Stress Management—Improve your stress resiliency!
Fitness Primer—Establish your own fitness program!
Personal Safety—Get “Safety Smart”!
Personal Growth—Set a clearer path for your future!
Creative Thinking—Strategies for expanding your creativity!
Low Back Care—Don’t let the pain slow you down!
Managing Change—Navigate new situations effectively!
Nutrition—Gain knowledge on healthier eating!
Interpersonal Communication—Make all communication stress free!
Wellness learning spans the science behind blood pressure to stress management techniques to designing a personalized fitness plan. The wellness series benefits employers and employees by promoting and maintaining healthier lifestyles at home and in the workplace.
Dealing with Stressors — Stress results from many different factors. This course addresses the various factors that create stress in the workplace, and provides techniques that help ease individual stressors. Learn how the SBRT (Stop, Breathe, Rewrite, and Take Action) technique will help your employees deal with pressure in the workplace.growth. |
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