Strike Out Harassment

Manage Lawfully

Wage/Hour Primer

Employee Relations

The Ethical Workplace

Workplace Violence

A SAMPLE FROM OUR SUITE OF COURSES

• Strike Out Harassment: Stay In Fair Territory
  This highly interactive course, based on a powerful baseball metaphor, helps participants develop a clear understanding of your company’s workplace harassment policy, which is then reinforced through a variety of compelling hypothetical situations “testing” their understanding. Participants also learn a non-threatening “script” for dealing with uncomfortable workplace encounters. This course can be delivered in a variety of ways to meet your particular needs, including leader-led presentations and web-based training, all using the same themes, graphics and hypotheticals.
   

• Manage Lawfully/Manage Well
  Too often employers recognize that their front-line managers are ill-prepared to deal with the myriad legal issues that impact their supervisory activities. This full-day leader-led course gives managers the tools and confidence they need to do their jobs effectively, by covering the major areas of employment law they must understand: Discrimination 101 — the basics of equal opportunity law; Interviewing Lawfully; Understanding and Addressing Harassment; Dealing with Performance Issues, including an understanding of the ADA and FMLA; and Effective Performance Documentation. All course segments use interactive exercises, role playing and other group exercises to involve participants in an active learning process.
   

• Wage/Hour Primer
  Wage/hour collective actions are the fastest growing litigation challenge to employers nationwide. The costs of non-compliance can be enormous, but the complexity of federal and state wage and hour laws makes it difficult for companies to meet all of the legal requirements. This full day course uses interactive techniques and hands-on problem solving to teach HR personnel, managers and other employees how to comply with the diverse aspects of wage and hour law. A particular focus is developing a working understanding of the Department of Labor’s Exempt Status Regulations. Participants will gain powerful tools to help them understand job classification issues and pay practices compliance, as well as help them conduct thorough self-audits of their organizations.
   

• Employee Relations 101
  Good employee relations is every employer’s goal, but what makes employees supportive of their organization? How can supervisors create an environment in which employees feel secure enough to turn inward to solve problems, rather than turning to external entities such as unions? This course focuses on front-line supervisors and managers — the people who create good labor relations, but may also undermine them. We explain the choices employees have to select or reject unions, techniques unions utilize to organize, and managers’ rights to speak up on behalf of their companies. The course empowers and inspires managers to enhance their supervisory skills and foster a climate of positive employee relations.
   

• The Ethical Workplace
  In the Sarbanes-Oxley era, corporate compliance must be a living concept, understood throughout the organization on an operational basis. Using interactive techniques and hypotheticals, we explain your organization’s ethics and corporate compliance policy to your employees in concrete, meaningful ways. The examples and problems addressed in the course are tailored to your particular organization’s needs, so that participants leave with a working understanding of your compliance requirements.
   

• Workplace Violence
  Incidents of workplace violence often happen unexpectedly, sometimes with tragic results. While no workplace is immune from violence, prepared employers are more likely to detect and anticipate brewing problems, and better equipped to defuse them. How ready is your organization? Do your managers know the warning signs to look for — and what to do when they appear? Are you prepared to respond affirmatively and appropriately when an act of violence occurs or is threatened? This interactive course, centered around provocative hypotheticals, is designed to help employers be both vigilant and responsive in dealing with potential workplace violence.