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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.

New Micro-Learning! In order to properly evaluate a candidate for an open position, it is important that you maintain control of the job interview. Establishing and maintaining control requires, in addition to good questioning techniques, effective listening skills to know when to redirect the conversation. This is an important component of behavior-based interviewing.

New Micro-Learning! Bias refers to the persistent, harmful and unequal treatment of someone based solely on some characteristic they possess or their apparent membership in or identification with a particular group. By being self-aware and willing to engage with others when bias is unintentionally implied or expressed, we can better resolve problems and promote more effective working relationships.

New Micro-Learning! Past behavior is the best indicator of future performance! This means asking focused questions that prompt the candidate to talk about past job experiences in very specific detail. Asking the right questions is your single best way to get the right kinds of information during the interview—the kinds of information that will lead you to the best hiring decision.

New Micro-Learning! Effective behavior-based interviewing is all about creating a process. Probing questions are the ones to ask when you need more specific information or more focused information. Always keep in mind that your probing questions need to be directly related to the technical and performance skills you previously identified in the interview.

New Micro-Learning! What many successful interviewers have found is that the way in which a person handled a specific situation in the past gives you valid information about how that person will approach a similar situation in the future. This is the foundation for behavior-based interviewing. Once you understand this concept, you can plan to ask the kinds of questions that will give you the information you need to make good hiring decisions.

New Micro-Learning! Hiring the right person the first time takes more than a gut feeling. It takes planning and preparation. The result? You will be able to interview and evaluate candidates in such a way that you get the information you need to identify the right person for the job.

Keeping interviewers up to date on legal interviewing practices is invaluable to your organization. Court costs and legal fees as well as time off the job can cost your organization both money and bad publicity. This course is designed to educate you on how to create and ask legally defensible pre-employment questions based upon a structured behavioral based interview that will help you hire the right person and stay out of court.

New Micro-Learning! Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organization to give their best each day, commit to their organization’s goals and values and achieve motivation to contribute to organizational success - with an enhanced sense of their own well-being.

Stereotypes about what physical jobs women can or cannot do may create illegal gender-based discrimination situations. In some very specific cases, a job could have legitimate lifting requirements that could exclude some women. However, every employee or applicant should be given an opportunity to prove that they can do the required job duties.

Hiring employees can be an expensive and lengthy process. Managers are often in a hurry to fill vacant positions in order to maintain the productivity of their departments. They are usually so focused on getting the position filled, they may not realize they have asked an inappropriate interviewing question. Keeping interviewers up to date on legal interviewing practices is invaluable to your organization. Court costs and legal fees as well as time off the job can cost your organization both money and bad publicity.