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Enterprise and Team Training
The following courses may be purchased in any quantity and combination. Volume pricing and other incentives are available. All courses are customizable (logo, colors, personal welcome messages, terminology, pictures, case studies, etc. to make the training more pertinent for your employees.Courses may also be purchased for delivery through your LMS - or we will provide you with an exclusive, branded eLearning center with a personalized welcome page and social networking/collaborative learning for all learners. More about your own branded eLearning center for managing all training from assigning and tracking, to report writing!
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The Basics of Effective and Cooperative Communication – For Leaders Communication is an interpersonal process. This course uncovers opportunities to improve the way leaders relate to each other and to their employee teams. Even the best leaders find it difficult to break from their routines to review performance, monitor progress towards goals, and provide effective feedback. Upon completion of this course, leaders will know:
Bloodborne Pathogen Awareness Bloodborne Pathogen Awareness training has been developed to achieve an increase in awareness and personal protection from contracting bloodborne disease. Bloodborne Pathogen Awareness best serves those with a reasonable probability of being exposed to blood and other potentially infectious materials, including body fluids. With this course we can help stop the spread of disease in public spaces, workplaces, and homes.
Delegation – For Leaders Delegating can be a valuable win-win tool. When done correctly, it empowers employees, encourages innovation and leadership and develops high contributors throughout the organization. In this course, you will learn the art of successful delegation including assigning, coaching, feedback, and follow through.
DOT Drug Free Workplace Training – For Supervisors of Covered Employees
Drug Free Workplace Awareness – For Frontline Employees The abuse of drugs and alcohol permeates and impacts every level of today’s workplace. Each year, substance abuse will cost employers in this country over $150 billion in terms of absenteeism, accidents, turnover, waste, healthcare expenses, low workplace morale, and lost productivity. This course will give your employees knowledge about chemical dependency, how it affects job performance, how it affects the body, and what resources are available to combat substance abuse.
Finance Basics This course provides a basic understanding of financial management. It demonstrates how to read and understand and interpret the critical areas of financial statements and other reports. Balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements will be reviewed, and participants learn how to apply basic finance and accounting principles to budget preparation and analysis.
Leading and Motivating The opportunity to increase your value to your organization has never been better. Rapid changes in the business climate of today’s economy and the prediction of uncertain economic times ahead make your leadership skills and the initiatives you put in place even more important. To be a successful leader in today’s work environment, you have to be creative, innovative and passionate with the capability to inspire and motivate teams to work together, plan ahead, solve problems, measure results, and achieve amazing increases in productivity. This course will outline methods and techniques that others have used successfully and you can also.
Managing the Only Time You Have
Workplace Negotiation In successful negotiation, parties must begin with their interests rather than their positions and they must neither give in nor insist on their own way. They must learn about each other. They must seek mutual gain solutions that as far as possible satisfy all interests. They must persist in both competing and cooperating to make negotiations produce durable results. This course will teach how to maintain the balance of tension between cooperation and competition and between advocacy and inquiry – for this is the essence of collaboration that will lead to successful negotiation!
The Power of Teams – For Frontline Employees Each team member is vital to the success of a team. Participating on a team takes time and commitment and the ability to encourage difference of opinion – in a way that leaves everyone feeling good. Teams have common goals that all team members clearly accept and there is a real need to work together to accomplish them. This course is designed to teach employees how the team philosophy can be used as a vehicle to succeed in meeting the challenges of today’s constantly changing workplace. It covers the stages of team development, the benefits of working together as a team, and team member roles and responsibilities.
The Power of Teams – For Leaders As organizations continue towards a “competitive service strategy,” there is an increased demand for higher levels of employee commitment to quality, internal and external customer satisfaction, teamwork, and cooperation among diverse employees. Leading teams successfully requires the skill to create an environment where others will take action. Team leaders must understand the importance of collaboration, be willing to let go of power - and respect trust as a core issue. This course will focus new and seasoned leaders on how to build and maintain high performance teams; how to leverage team member strengths and empower team members to gain commitment.
Project Management – For Leaders Intended for entry level and mid-level managers and team leaders, this course provides information on how to successfully plan, manage and deliver projects. You'll learn to organize your project, by establishing baselines, requirements, the work plan, and budget. And you'll learn to evaluate the results on an ongoing basis and address problems as they arise in order to assess and adjust performance throughout the project period.
System Integration: Board Policy Development, Strategic Planning and Performance Management: Government Version
System Integration: Board Policy Development, Strategic Planning and Performance Management: Private Sector Version
Understanding, Preventing and Responding to Workplace Harassment – For Leaders The Supreme Court has turned up the heat on employers who fail to take precautions against harassment on the job. In addition, courts are holding employers who fail to conduct harassment prevention training to greater liability than those who do provide training. This informative course explains different kinds of harassment, defines for employees what steps to take if they feel they are being harassed and provides supervisors with specific techniques for responding to harassment in the workplace.
Essential Skills for First Time Leaders - 3 Part Course Often, promoting from within is a great strategy for getting even more value out of proven company assets. However, without the proper leadership and management tools, companies run the risk of promoting star employees into difficult, if even no-win, scenarios. This leadership 101 course is designed to give new managers tools to begin their new roles with confidence, competence, and commitment. This course focuses on 20 important leadership skills including effective listening and communication, collaboration and team building, self-awareness and perception, leading by example, the role of respect and fairness, recognition and talent management, conflict resolution, and how to build a solid and successful relationship with peers and management alike.
Sustainable Productivity – For Leaders Successful productivity results depend on a sophisticated integration of many organizational systems. This training module addresses the changes organizational leaders can make today to gain measurable results towards their bottom line in a way that contributes to employee development, organizational productivity, and overall goal achievement.
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Managing the Only Time You Have - For Frontline Employees At the end of each day, when you stop to reflect on what got accomplished, how often do you see a trail of unfinished tasks: unfinished letters, uncalled customers, unwritten articles, undone “priority pile” projects, and so on. Have you ever wished for a 30-hour day? Surely this extra time would relieve the tremendous pressure under which you live! But would a 30-hour day really solve the problem or would you soon find yourself just as frustrated with the 30-hour day as you are with your 24-hour allotment. This course will provide practical tips that you can apply immediately to get instant relief from the time pressures in your busy schedules.
Conducting Successful Performance Reviews for City/District/County Administrators – For Elected Officials The governing body's challenge to say what they expect regarding city performance and then hold the City Manager or Administrator accountable is frequently the cause for mis-communication that leads to relationship, role and responsibility breakdown. This webinar will provide you with a successful three part program to build a productive working relationship with your City Manager. The program provides methods to measure city-wide accomplishments, to measure the City Manager's adherence to policy and to review the City Manager's leadership abilities in 10 core competencies areas.
Customer Service in an Anti-Government Age In this era of tax reform and anti-government sentiment, public employees are constantly faced with the challenge to improve their service image. Shrinking budgets and increasing citizen demands can make this a seemingly impossible task. Using a little humor, this presentation will point out how to turn "Moments of Misery" into "Moments of Magic" while dealing with internal and external customers professionally and positively. Achieving these guiding customer service principles will be your post conference target:
Strategic Planning For many years, local government leaders have searched for the right tools and techniques to help them create high-performing departments and organizations. This presentation will provide you with proven techniques and tools for developing a strategic plan that will take your city to the next level and in a direction that will improve future capability and your local government image. Using examples from other cities you will learn how to:
Discrimination and Harassment Awareness – For Frontline Employees Harassment, sexual harassment, and discrimination create unhealthy and unproductive work environments. This course covers the following:
System Integration: Board Policy Development, Strategic Planning and Performance Management: Government Version Click here to see a short presentation on System Integration™. This training module is for elected officials and other top government leaders who are interested in rigorous and continual improvement of their capacity to govern and lead effectively using policies that define vision and insure results. Sample governance policies will be provided along with specific instructions for developing policies for both council and staff. Presenter will discuss how to utilize the strengths of fellow elected officials and how to produce measurable results while working effectively with citizens, professional staff, and other boards and agencies. Other topics that will be touched on include improved council member interaction, executive staff accountability, effective two way communication with citizens, and how to improve public image.
Calming an Unhappy Customer – For Frontline Employees All customer interactions (internal and external) – whether in person, on the phone or online - have components that can either raise or lower the customer’s image of your organization and the service you provide. Employees will learn to balance three things at once: this issue at hand, the emotion of the unhappy customer, and their own response to the customer. They will learn why customers get upset and what they really want – customers want to be understood. Customer service is transactional – it is the basics. Customer empathy is demonstrated when the person providing the service is able to make emotional contact with the customer.
Conflict Resolution - For Leaders People are hired and placed together on teams based on their skills and knowledge and not on individual personality types and value systems. As a result, people with different perspectives have to interact to fulfill job roles and responsibilities. Disagreements caused by lack of interpersonal communication skills or differences about how work gets done often focus on winning rather than problem solving. This course provides guidelines and personal strategies for settling disagreements, resolving issues with others, working together to solve problems, and for communicating cooperatively in the workplace including words to eliminate, phrases to avoid, and the use of positive language.
Conflict Resolution - For Frontline Employees People are hired and placed together on teams based on their skills and knowledge and not on individual personality types and value systems. As a result, people with different perspectives have to interact to fulfill job roles and responsibilities. Disagreements caused by lack of interpersonal communication skills or differences about how work gets done often focus on winning rather than problem solving. This course provides guidelines and personal strategies for settling disagreements, resolving issues with others, working together to solve problems, and for communicating cooperatively in the workplace including words to eliminate, phrases to avoid, and the use of positive language.
Creating Performance Measures - For leaders What gets measured gets done! There is a fine line in measuring employee performance between creating meaningless activity traps and creating expectations with meaningful feedback. In this course, leaders will learn how to identify those activities (for each position) that add the most value to the organization and how to develop appropriate standards and performance measures.
Developing Work Improvement Plans – For Leaders A Work Improvement Plan is a tool for leaders who identify individual employee performance areas that need improving. The creation of a Work Improvement Plan is not necessarily a step in the progressive discipline process but rather an intervention strategy to clearly spell out behavior and/or performance improvement expectations and timelines for achieving results. Leaders will learn how to identify performance issues in the early stages, how to work with the employee to develop specific improvement targets, and how to create and monitor a Work Improvement Plan.
Effective Team Meetings – For Leaders Don’t let your meetings be timewasters by always dealing with the urgent rather than the important. This course will cover how to recognize and correct disruptive meeting behavior, increase meeting productivity, encourage participation by all team members, and tips to avoid discussing the same issues next year! Communication guidelines will be discussed and provided as a download and will include writing agendas, recording action plans, communicating openly and honestly, and reaching consensus on sensitive issues.
Performance Coaching and Leadership – For Leaders A big difference between highly effective leaders and just adequate leaders is their ability to develop employees. Effective leaders identify development needs, communicate them to employees, build development plans to address needs and provide on-going feedback that gets results. This course will cover how to coach for commitment by understanding how competence, confidence and commitment contribute to each employee’s ability to become a peak performer. It includes the following:
Re-Engineering Work Processes and Creating Organizational Change – For Leaders Process redesign is a base model for continuous improvement and restructuring the delivery of products, information and services. Your successful efforts will provide the opportunity to create a change culture in which the relationship between your organization and its customers can be enhanced, innovation encouraged and rewarded, and policy and program outcomes valued more than inputs. Learn how to achieve substantial gains in productivity, cost savings, quality, and customer satisfaction by applying the principles of process re-engineering to daily operations. You will receive a four-step plan to build organizational capability for continuous improvement.
A Checklist for Successful Performance Appraisals and Discussions – For Leaders The formal performance appraisal discussion is an integral part of the performance management process. A performance appraisal discussion is the important two-way conversation between the supervisor and the employee regarding:
In addition, regularly scheduled progress discussions can reduce the need for disciplinary action and greatly empower both supervisors and the employees they manage. This course will give supervisors specifics for managing both performance reviews and disciplinary encounters fairly and constructively - from thorough preparation and the discussion itself, to adequate documentation and the all-important follow up.
Recruitment and Hiring – For Leaders The average manager receives little or no training on how to select employees.The promise of new talent and skills versus potential charges of bias and discrimination is one of the dilemmas today’s leaders face when seeking and hiring new personnel. This course will cover the role and importance of job descriptions and position standards, how to solicit applicants, reviewing resumes, interviewing, back ground checks, and the popular topic - the legal side of hiring.
Strategies for Surviving Change – For Frontline Employees Employees at all levels, from frontline staff to managers, are increasingly stressed by growing demands to make "changes" on the job - to work faster, harder, smarter, and to do all this in sync with ever changing technology. This motivational course will provide strategies to become "Change Healthy!" You will explore your own limiting beliefs and discuss ways to develop attitudes of possibility.
Presentations Plus Many studies have found that public speaking is the number one fear amongst most people, outranking flying, snakes, insects, and even death. Whether you are leading a team meeting or presenting to the board, this course will help you create a compelling program and enjoy the delivery! Learn tips, tactics and how to’s for capturing your audience and connecting with them in a way that will motivate and inspire. Learn how to manage the vocal, visual and verbal impact in your presentation, utilize visual aids, and maintain your energy throughout the presentation!
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