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New Micro-Learning! This course lays out an interviewing strategy best used when you want to clarify or expand something a candidate says or implies by his or her body language. This strategy involves asking follow-up questions based on verbal and non-verbal clues and often requires you to share an observation first.

New Micro-Learning! One of the most common management challenges involves how to effectively manage all kinds of different people, not just people who look and think as we do. With the influx of millions of Millennial and Gen Z employees, understanding the differences across generations in the workplace has become a huge focus for supervisors, managers, and HR professionals.

New Micro-Learning! Individuals make ethical choices, not organizations. In most cases, we are not talking about bad people. Granted, there some out there making conscious unethical choices, but this is the exception, not the rule. It’s usually good people that make bad choices. In this short course, you’ll observe an individual who discovers that her department is under budget. The question is will she make bad choices with this knowledge?

New Micro-Learning! On paper, recruiting a new employee might appear to be a simple process. In reality, it’s an extremely complex process, and in every step of the way you need to be aware of certain legal implications. There are five common pitfalls in the recruiting and hiring process that you need to be mindful of; describing the job, dealing with protected groups, avoiding illegal questions, conducting legal reference check, and avoiding reverse discrimination. In this module, we will explore the topic of avoiding reverse discrimination.

New Micro-Learning! Like it or not, workplace violence is an issue you can't afford to ignore. Obviously, your top priority is making sure the workplace is safe. But there are also some legal liability issues that you need to be aware of. There are a lot of things your organization can and should do to help prevent workplace violence. In this course, we will address the topic of dealing with an ADA-protected employee.

New MicroLearning! Respect is about treating people the way they want to be treated. It means establishing and maintaining a work environment that is free of offensive practices and conditions. If disrespectful conduct and disparaging remarks come up, they are addressed quickly and effectively. Respect is also about speaking positively about the organization, even during times of crisis – focusing on why you originally came to work here and why you are staying.

New Micro-Learning! Inclusion is about recognizing and responding to the needs of all employees. It’s talking about co-workers in a supportive way, rather than criticizing them behind their backs. Most importantly, inclusion is about making sure work assignments and activities, including work-related social events, do not exclude or disadvantage anyone.

New Micro-Learning! Resilient leaders recover quickly from failures and merely look at them as temporary setbacks. They maintain a positive attitude and a strong sense of opportunity during periods of turbulence. When faced with uncertainty, resilient leaders find ways to move forward and avoid getting stuck.

New Micro-Learning! Diversity is a fact of life in today’s workplace. Which means we need to be able to recognize and respond to those similarities and differences and make better decisions based on those understandings. In this short course, we’ll explore the importance of providing accurate feedback to our direct reports - and being open their insights.

New Micro-Learning! You want high performance from your employees. You push them to give you exceptional results. In doing so you often raise stress levels-theirs and yours! This can create a potentially explosive situation. If you want to diffuse that possibility and keep your team motivated, try introducing Planned Spontaneous Recognition.