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10-Minute HR Trainer

Book/Binder

Here's the system that provides targeted training for your HR supervisors in just 10 minutes per session. You get prewritten trainer outlines, and reproducible handouts on 50 essential HR topics, plus case studies and quizzes. Free quarterly updates.

  • Deliver human resource management training quickly on HR topics like wrongful termination, interview techniques, employee motivation, FMLA, sexual harassment, Americans with Disabilities Act, and diversity in the workplace.
  • The 10-Minute HR Trainer is designed to provide training for your HR supervisors on how to develop safe and legal personnel policies and practices in key HR areas.
  • 50 prewritten human resource management training sessions on "hot topics" including sexual harassment, hiring, leave, and employee discharge.
  • Deliver high-impact HR training with just one resource. This book combines many human resource books into one!

Train your supervisors on critical topics such as:

  • Legal issues in hiring
  • Wrongful termination
  • Discrimination
  • Sexual harassment
  • FMLA
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Workers' compensation
  • Interview techniques
  • Writing job descriptions
  • Building your listening skills
  • Effective presentation skills
  • Performance goals and criteria
  • Documenting performance
  • Workplace violence and warning signs
  • Discipline policies
  • Employee motivation
  • Delegating
  • Employment at will

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2008 Employment Law Guide

This "plain-English" state-specific reference guide makes complying with employment laws easy. The 2008 Employment Law Guide delivers clear, straightforward answers to the state labor and HR laws that apply to your organization. It will tell you what all critical human resources regulations mean, what you need to do to comply, and how federal labor laws differ from those in your state.

This guide will provide you with the latest state and federal employment laws and regulations necessary to ensure that you are in compliance. Knowing the proper way to handle HR issues is the only way to protect your organization.

Covers more than 200 topics, including:

  • Affirmative Action laws
  • Age discrimination
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
  • Background checks
  • Child labor
  • Civil rights
  • Employee benefits
  • ERISA
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
  • FMLA
  • Hiring

Note:This program is available for all 50 states. Please select your specific state when placing the order online.

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Sexual Harassment: What You Need to Know (Booklets/40 pack)

Sexual harassment is an expensive problem but stopping it is as simple as putting a copy of this NEW employee booklet in your employees' hands. With this booklet employees get examples, interactive exercises and case studies so your message is driven home and your training is done. In clear easy-to-understand language your employees will learn:

  • The effects of sexual harassment on the workplace
  • How to avoid harassing behavior
  • Factors used to determine offensive behavior
  • The legal definition and types of sexual harassment
  • How investigations work
  • All Booklets feature:

  • Full-color illustrations to capture attention
  • Simple, easy-to-read text for comprehension
  • 16 pages for fast, effective training
  • Carefully researched and reviewed content
  • Quiz and acknowledgment form to document training
  • Option to personalize covers with your company logo
    • Sexual Harassment: What You Need to Know (Booklets/40 pack) $59.99 [Add to Cart]
    • Sexual Harassment: What You Need to Know PowerPoint Kit $299.99 [Add to Cart]
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    7-Minute Safety Trainer - Binder

    This prewritten modular safety training system gives you everything you need to conduct solid safety training--in just 7 minutes! Includes reproducible employee handouts, quizzes and checklists along with recordkeeping and attendance sheets.

    Key Topices Include:

    • Confined Spaces
    • Electrical Safety
    • Fire Safety and Emergency Response
    • HAZCOM
    • Machine Safety and Other Equipment
    • Material Handling Safety
    • Personal Protective Equipment
    • Personal Safety
    • Safety Awareness
    • Safety and Security Measurest
    • Workplace Hazards

    Free quarterly updates first year.

    • This safety guide encompasses 50 occupational health and safety training topics.
    • When it's time to schedule your next safety meeting, use the resource that's done all the work for you! With 7-Minute Safety Trainer, you have everything you need.
    • Select from over 50 key safety topics, then copy the prewritten training materials and you're ready to go! It's short, to-the-point, and effective.
    • Each trainer outline has a targeted goal to comply with specific OSHA safety regulations. The sessions are organized into logical and concise steps that contribute to cutting down on training time.

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    The Manager's Pocket Guide to Diversity Management (10 book package)

    This pocket guide will teach you the skills required to effectively manage a diverse workplace not because its the right thing to do or your organization requires it. But because it is good for business.

    Gain diversity awareness, tools, knowledge and techniques necessary to lift morale, improve processes, bring access to new segments of the marketplace, enhance productivity and improve your bottom line.

    • Step-by-step, this interactive workbook will help you:
    • Test your skills in managing diversity
    • Save management time
    • Navigate difficult situations
    • Build teamwork
    • Improve your interpersonal effectiveness

    Complete the Managing Diversity Profile to examine your current level of skill and get feedback on six key competencies for managing diversity.

    The book also contains workplace applications for weaving diversity into recruitment and selection, employee retention and development, team building, customer service, market share improvement throughout your organization.
    Topics include:

    • Differences between EEO, Affirmative Action and managing diversity
    • Barriers to diversity: Prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination and non-verbal communication
    • Diversity and organizational change
    • Working together productively
    • Management action plan

    Whether you're ready to launch a new diversity initiative, build a diverse work team or plan a new and innovative product launch, this pocket guide will be an invaluable tool for developing managers and leaders.

    • The Manager's Pocket Guide to Diversity Management (10 book package) $139.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Diversity in the Workplace: Challenge and Opportunity (booklets/40 pack)

    This helpful and easy-to-read Diversity training booklet illustrates for your employees important topics such as: diversity, the importance of accepting differences, and the challenges and benefits of a diverse workforce.

    This booklet helps you get each individual in your organization to understand that diversity in the workplace is an opportunity to capitalize on the strengths of a diverse workforce. Your employees will understand not only why diversity is essential in your organization but also the challenges it can create.

    Diversity in the Workplace: Challenge and Opportunity will help your employees:

  • Understand how diversity can help your organization
  • Realize challenges diversity can create, and how to overcome them
  • Improve teamwork
  • How employees benefit from a successful diversity program
  • Avoid lawsuits
  • Steer clear of Affirmative Action problems
  • All Booklets Feature:

  • Full color illustrations to capture attention
  • Simple, easy-to-read text for comprehension
  • 16 pages for fast, effective training
  • Carefully researched and reviewed content
  • Quiz and acknowledgement form to document training
  • Affordable pricing
    • Diversity in the Workplace: Challenge and Opportunity (booklets/40 pack) $59.99 [Add to Cart]
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    QuikStep Guide to Hiring, Firing, Appraisal, and Discipline

    QuikStep guides tell you what to do, how to do it, what to say, when to say it. All QuikStep guides feature a simple step-by-step solution with detailed instructions, samples, tips, and checklists. This bundle offer allows you to receive all 4 titles to help deliver top HR performance.

    With one low price you will receive:

    QuikStep Guide to Hiring
    Learn how to attract, identify, and select the right person. Special sections detail the interview process, how to perform effective reference checks, and how to make an offer your top candidate can't refuse.

    QuikStep Guide to Firing
    This guide will help you plan and carry out the actual termination meeting, wtih sample scripts. Also provides you with key questions to ask before you take action so that you avoid legal problems.

    QuikStep Guide to Appraisal
    A step-by-step system that makes appraisals an effective motivating tool for every employee.

    QuikStep Guide to Discipline
    This guide takes you step-by-step through publizing expectations, how to conduct face-to-face sessions, and how to document to avoid future lawsuits.

    • QuikStep Guide to Hiring, Firing, Appraisal, and Discipline $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Social Security 2008 - Booklet (Pack of 40)

    Here's an effective and easy way to help all your employees understand the latest changes to social security. Completely revised employee booklet explains Social Security benefits, reassures employees, and reduces the time you spend answering individual questions. It's surprisingly inexpensive to give every employee their own copy - with a big payoff in morale and improved communication.

    Simplified for 2008 with the latest annual congressional changes including the complicated prescription plan!

    Distribute a copy to all your employees to reassure them about their potential retirement, disability and survivor death benefits, as well as your organization's important contributions to the program

    Every copy includes an earning/benefit statement request form that makes it easy for your employees verify their personal contribution and benefit amounts

    • Social Security 2008 - Booklet (Pack of 40) $59.99 [Add to Cart]
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    50 Activities for Diversity Training

    The 50 activities in this resource book has been tested with hundreds of participants to ensure their appropriateness and effectiveness for a variety of diversity training needs. Employees at all levels will be stimulated by interactively learning about cultural and gender differences and mastering new skills for communicating more effectively in our diverse workplaces. INCLUDES: 300 Pages, 3-Ring Binder

    Activities Cover

    • Diversity icebreakers
    • Change
    • Communication
    • Conflict resolution
    • Gender at work
    • Culture and career transitions

    Training Objectives

    • Illustrate how cultural differences may impact behavior
    • Increase awareness of the impact of culture in the workplace
    • Demonstrate skills for managing a culturally diverse work force
    • Address issues of gender in the workplace

    Training Methods

    • Ice breakers
    • Participative exercises
    • Role-plays
    • Mini case studies

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    Learning Profile Sample Pack (Assessments)

    All assessments are self scoring and are suitable for self development or group facilitated training: Leadership Effectiveness Profile, Coaching Effectiveness Profile, Change Management Effectiveness Profile, Communication Effectiveness Profile, Listening Effectiveness Profile, Teambuilding Effectiveness Profile, Creativity/Innovation Effectiveness Profile, Sales Effectiveness Profile, Goal/Objective Setting Profile, Customer Commitment Profile, Personal Stress & Well Being Assessment, Diversity and Cultural Awareness Profile, Time Management Effectiveness Profile, Problem Solving and Decision-Making Profile, Management Effectiveness Profile, Networking and Relationship Building Profile, Emotional Intelligence Profile, Learning Styles Questionnaire, Negotiation Style Instrument, Assertiveness Profile, Influence Style Profile, Management Styles Questionnaire.

    • Learning Profile Sample Pack (Assessments) $159.99 [Add to Cart]
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    1910 OSHA Guide

    Using this convenient reference, you'll have quick access to OSHA's word-for-word Part 1910 workplace safety regulations.

    The 1910 OSHA Guide is tab-divided for easy searching ... it's designed to help you find key OSHA requirements and make sure you're complying with them.

    Some of the workplace safety topics covered include:

    • hazard communication
    • forklift safety
    • machine guarding
    • electrical safety
    • personal protective equipment

    A detailed subject index will simplify your searches for Part 1910 regs and large type makes for easy reading. Part 1903 and 1904 regs are also included.

    Loose-leaf, 3-ring bound, 1,039 pages.

    ISBN 0-934674-70-1

    Because regulations and best practices change frequently, keeping this guide current is essential. The Update Service is the easiest, most economical way! Plus, save big when you subscribe for more than 1 year ... 3- and 5-year subscriptions available at discounted prices!

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    Manager's Pocket Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment (10 pack/books)

    Learn how to protect your employees as well as your company from sexual harassment. The Manager's Pocket Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment approaches the issue globally, from creating policy statements on sexual harassment and conducting employee audits to determine vulnerabilities (and appropriate cures), to the five A's of understanding, to handling and dealing with stereotypes and biases. The pocket guide also covers the investigation process and how to properly document incidents; it also includes exercises to instill ownership and facilitate understanding among employees to generate commitment to harassment prevention.

    Includes: 10 books

    • Manager's Pocket Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment (10 pack/books) $139.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Encyclopedia of Prewritten Personnel Policies - Binder

    Why reinvent the wheel when you can have over 350 expertly written sample personnel policies on 100 HR subjects at your fingertips?

    Writing your HR policies couldn't be easier - you simply pick the subject, select the policy that matches your company’s style (from conservative to progressive), modify the policy to meet your organization's needs, and you're ready to go. We've done the research; we've done the writing; and you’re sure your policies meet strict legal requirements.

    Prewritten Personnel Policies includes:

    • Over 350 customizable policies on over 100 HR topics
      Whatever the topic area, you have sample policies to choose from or adapt
    • Choose your options – strict to progressive
      Select the policy version that works best in your work environment - from conservative to progressive
    • Easy-to-use looseleaf format
      Three volumes, precisely indexed, so you can find the topic you want quickly and easily
    • Avoid legal problems
      Use these carefully reviewed prewritten human resource policies and avoid unexpected legal surprises
    • Write your policy manual
      Bonus section shows you step-by-step how to put together an effective policy manual
    • Bimonthly updates
      Keeps your policies current with new and revised language

    • Encyclopedia of Prewritten Personnel Policies - Binder $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Valuing Diversity Training System (3 Manual Set)

    The Valuing Diversity® Training System consists of 3 parts, each with 10 modules contained in a user friendly manual. All parts are designed to make the facilitator and participants jobs easier. The material is composed of various parts functioning together to achieve your diversity objectives. All parts of the system contain essential steps in the diversity competency process.

    The Valuing Diversity Training System includes the following three, 3-ring binders:

    • Facilitator's Resource Guide - This Resource Guide is a complete reference guide that provides you with full understanding of complex diversity issues and a secure knowledge base to develop and deliver effective training. Critical to the successful diversity process in any organization, this guide offers essential diversity learning concepts for the beginner and thought-provoking reading for the experienced trainer. It provides essential information in the form of key diversity questions, learning points, and notes which correspond to each module and block on the map. (275 pages)
    • This Facilitator's Handbook - provides you with instructions for how to use the training system: how to get started, how to develop a diversity strategy, how to develop a diversity training program, and how to conduct activities related to each of ten modules shown on the map. (500 pages)
    • Participant Workbook - This easy-to-use workbook cuts the facilitator's preparation time in half by providing over 200 prepared handouts, exercises, checklists, worksheets and assessment tools. All materials correspond directly to the learning blocks in the Facilitator's Handbook. These highly interactive materials are specifically designed to increase awareness, provide current diversity information, facilitate skills acquisition and provide participants with invaluable experiential learning. (260 pages)

    Valuing Diversity Training System also includes: A Diversity Journey Learning Map which maps out a complete diversity training strategy in a style which enables internal managers and trainers to complement whatever is already being done and 'take what you can use and leave the rest'.

    • Valuing Diversity Training System (3 Manual Set) $500.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Employee Survey Question Guidebook

    Make the most of your survey efforts using the Employee Survey Question Guidebook. The Employee Survey book covers survey goals, the process, planning your reports, writing the questionnaire, and many other topics to help you develop an effective, relevant survey. The Survey Question Guidebook contains hundreds of tried-and-true employee survey questions that have been used by hundreds of companies.