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My New Hire Has a Medical Marijuana Card. Now What?
Medical marijuana legalization is becoming more prevalent, as states continue to legalize marijuana for medical and recreational purposes. This new trend has created legal ramifications for employers,...
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Checklist for Drafting Executives’ Contracts
Yesterday, we looked at the AESC BlueSteps Executive Compensation Report, which revealed that executive compensation is on the rise. Today, we turn to smart drafting of executives’ contracts. The...
View ArticleHow To Draft an Enforceable Arbitration Agreement in California
Yesterday, guest writer Alka Ramchandani introduced us to the case of a former CarMax employee who challenged the validity of the arbitration agreement the company was trying to bind him to. Today, the...
View ArticleModifying an Arbitration Agreement Is No Picnic
The California Court of Appeal recently provided guidance on how to modify employment arbitration agreements. Here’s a takeaway analysis of the court’s decision and what it means for you. Today’s post...
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Build Your Cutting-Edge Talent Development Program
By Sandy Pennington Excellent training programs are pivotal in securing a company’s future. Would you consider your organization’s talent development initiatives to be cutting-edge? To help you begin...
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Follow These 5 Steps for Effective Internal Investigations
Yesterday’s Advisor presented attorney Christine D. Mehfoud’s advice regarding well-executed internal investigations and how they boost compliance programs. Today, Mehfoud’s 5 simple steps to...
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Train for Internal Investigations, Avoid Compliance Issues
It’s tough to train for all HR contingencies—the feds are always keeping an eye out for administrative, civil, and criminal infractions. But attorney Christine D. Mehfoud says an organization need not...
View ArticleTrain Managers to Communicate with Millennials
Like previous generations, Millennials enter the workforce with different assumptions from the generation before them, says Laura Brown, PhD, a communications and writing consultant. However, the...
View ArticleTrain Managers to Follow These 8 Tips to Promote Employee Engagement
When a top performer leaves to go elsewhere and your organization is left with a huge void, says management expert Jeff Cortes, it can negatively affect the performance of the whole organization....
View ArticleTrain Leaders to Maximize Their Resources
Now that you’ve convinced top management that leadership training is worthwhile for your managers, supervisors, and high performers, you need the right content for training. The first skill great...
View ArticleWhole-Person Management Training
[To briefly recap yesterday’s issue: Dr. Martin advises managers to learn how to see employees as whole people by seeing their input and not just their output, and by acknowledging that everyone is...
View ArticleTrain Your Employees in Business Ethics
Here’s a useful training exercise you can use to get your ethics training off to an interactive start. The objective of the exercise is to examine key issues involved in business ethics. Ask trainees...
View ArticleTrain Your Managers to Be Winning Coaches
To recap the coaching training exercise: This exercise is intended for all supervisors. Its objective is to review basic information about coaching. Instruct trainees to complete the work sheet below....
View ArticleTechnology’s Effect on Corporate Training
The training question is: “How is technology changing corporate training, and what do trainers need to keep in mind in light of that?” Here is how an expert responded: The primary way that technology...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Time Management Training
The information in today’s Advisor is adapted from BLR’s 10-Minute HR Trainer session, “Time Management for Supervisors.” One big obstacle to efficient time management is dealing with interruptions,...
View ArticleCreate Future Leaders by Training Employees How to Delegate
Delegation is yet another essential managerial skill. Employees who aspire to leadership positions must begin to acquire this skill now. Teaching delegation means providing opportunities to practice...
View ArticleTrain Managers to Effectively Recognize Employee Success
Derek Irvine, coauthor of the book, Winning with a Culture of Recognition (Globoforce Limited, 2010) and vice president of Global Strategy for Globoforce, suggests that it’s time for employers to take...
View ArticleTrain Leaders to Avoid These ‘Enemies of Success’
Diane Egbers, president of Leadership Excelleration, Inc., (LEI Consulting) (www.lei-consulting.com), warns that “it’s often what leaders don’t know that can harm them.” In The Ascending Leader:...
View ArticleTrain Supervisors to Manage Challenging Employees
To review the four scenarios, click here. Here are the recommendations for dealing with these challenging employees as presented in one of the training exercises in the BLR® PowerPoint® training...
View ArticleCoaching Can Be Effective—But There Are Challenges
In a recent survey of 230 organizations by AMA Enterprise, a division of the American Management Association (www.amnet.org) that offers advisory services and tailored learning programs, executive...
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