Staff retention is a growing concern, but by having a proper staff retention strategy in place you’ll be able to keep your top employees. Recruiting and training a new employee is time-consuming and costs a great deal of revenue – it’s much more beneficial to the business to keep current employees satisfied in their job.

A recent study of UK workplaces found that over 50% of all women have been sexually harassed at some point in their careers. Numbers like these paint an unpleasant image of workplaces across the country. Sexual harassment at work can lead to several negative consequences, including low productivity, loss of interest in work and even the development of depression and anxiety. Understanding your role as an employee in preventing sexual harassment at work always leads to healthier working environments.

An effective human resource professional knows that managing employee performance is more than responding to problems, conducting performance reviews, or hiring staff. Performance management begins with an orientation to the organization and the job, and continues on a daily basis as employees are trained and coached. A thoughtful new employee orientation program, coupled with an employee handbook (or website) that communicates workplace policies, can reduce turnover and those reductions save your organization money.

Violence of any sort has many roots. Sometimes there are warning signs of workplace violence, but this is not always the case. It is up to us to learn whatever we can to prevent, identify, and mitigate any threats, and this comprehensive workshop includes everything a workplace leader needs to get started. This course will help you teach participants how to:

We have so many interactions in the run of a day, it’s reasonable to expect that some of them are going to be difficult. Whether these are conversations that you have in person, or you manage a virtual team and need to speak with someone in another city, there are things that you can do to make these conversations go smoothly. This course will give you the tools to manage difficult conversations and get the best results possible out of them.

This will help you learn how to: