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OVERVIEW For most managers, the toughest discussions involve providing repeat feedback when conducting annual performance reviews. These conversations can make you feel especially uncomfortable. However, when conducted properly, these sessions provide you with a great opportunity to help your employees focus on their goals and boost their morale—while correcting flaws that can hold them back. We will address proven methods for managing difficult conversations in the workplace in a way that involves both manager and direct report. You will also learn ways to improve communication in an organization and strategies to keep you focused on the goal of the conversation, help your team member improve performance, and improve your working relationship. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND After completing this webinar, you will be able to more effectively: Prepare your team member for managing difficult conversations Prepare yourself for the same Develop plans for more effe

OVERVIEW Excel is a powerful program for managing and analyzing lengthy lists of data. What tips, tricks, and techniques do you need to know to quickly and easily sort and filter a range or table of data? Join this advanced Excel training course to explore the shortcuts and solutions for effectively working with large worksheets of data.With Conditional Formatting, Excel, we’ll show you how massive amounts of data can be analyzed to visually emphasize relationships, find exceptions, and spot trends. By knowing how to use Conditional Formatting in Excel you can change the format of cells based on their values in multiple ways including font style, underline style, font color, fill color and more. Adding your own formula to a conditional formatting rule gives it a power boost to help you do things the built-in rules can’t do. Data bars can be used to show the value of a cell relative to other cells. Data bars can be modified multiple ways. Color scales shows data d

Business leaders need to know how to respond to the threats of workplace violence and the best approach to handling it is forming a Threat Assessment Team. Our upcoming webinar discusses the value and efficacy of these teams and how to create, staff, and train an internal Threat Assessment Team (TAT). The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          The value of staffing a Threat Assessment Team (TAT) and developing a Threat Assessment Program ·          Getting the law enforcement support for workplace violence response ·          Pre and post-response tools LEARNING OBJECTIVES Learn how to create, staff, and train an internal Threat Assessment Team (TAT), to respond to all potential threats of violence to or from current or former employees, or all threats aimed at disrupting the business. WHO WILL BENEFIT All Executives Directors Managers Supervisors especially in HR, Security, Risk Management, Safety, Legal, IT, Facilities Departments Speaker P

Toxic personalities are found in every organization but the leaders are often unaware of how prevalent they are or how much they cost—in terms of money and team performance. Our upcoming webinar discusses how to deal with toxic employees in the workplace and establish cultures of everyday civility that mean business. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          What are the best practices to reduce the severity of these behaviors? ·          How to manage a toxic employee and what are the benchmarked ways for intervention? ·          How can you assess team climate with a simple and innovative assessment tool and how to formulate better strategies for employee performance management? LEARNING OBJECTIVES            With a focus on HR perspectives, Dr. Mitch Kusy shares his extensive 3-year national study that he conducted with over 400 individuals on toxic personalities. Mitch’s heavily researched protocol will demonstrate the top 12 strategies HR professio

In today’s competitive business environment it’s important for the HR to rise above its role as the keeper of short-term, compliance-related duties and begin to intentionally contribute to the overall strategic success of their companies. Our upcoming webinar discusses how to transition from tactical to strategic HR by leveraging everything that HR knows and has to offer. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          Understand the current and future business environment and workforce dynamics that are impacting the need for more strategic HR ·          Clarify the gap in value-added strategic HR vs. short-term, tactical HR ·          Uncover the key obstacle that holds back HR practitioners from being taken seriously as a strategic business partners LEARNING OBJECTIVES The path from tactical to strategic is not an easy one. We as HR practitioners need to get out of our own way, put together a clear vision for where and how we can best contribute, and deliv

What will be discussed? L eaders,managers and facilitators of meetings have different roles and in order to make the meetings productive, it’s important that everyone knows their roles and responsibilities. Our upcoming webinar discusses how each of these three roles affect the manner in which meetings are designed and led, and a comprehensive checklist to help in the preparation of meetings. What you’ll learn? ·          Types of Leaders, Managers and Facilitators and their different roles and needs ·          How to prepare for meetings ·          Types of meetings LEARNING OBJECTIVES We offer a comprehensive checklist to help in the preparation of meetings. Types of meetings, how to be a good meeting facilitator, how to lead a meeting effectively, and how to prepare for meetings are also discussed. The goal of this course is to enable you to go from “oh no, not another boring meeting” to “we get things done quickly and effectively in our meetings.” WHO WILL B