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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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2010 Pay Budget Survey - Book

The results of 2010 Pay Budget Survey are in and employers are indicating slightly higher increases in merit and general pay next year. Results were compiled from over 1,600 organizations who responded to this year's survey.

This concise report quickly identifies trends in employment compensation and will equip you with the data necessary to remain competitive in the employment market.

The 2010 Pay Buget Survey report includes:

  • Merit increases planned for 2010
  • General increases in 2010
  • Planning increases, by region, industry, and nationwide
  • Documents 2009 Actual merit/general increases
  • Information defined by level -- exempt, nonexempt, union and nonunion employees

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HR Training to Avoid Lawsuits, Audits, and Fines-Print Version

Human Resources (HR) training is a major responsibility. Whether you’re a training professional, a veteran of company training, or have just been asked to take over or start up a training program, you have a lot riding on your shoulders.

Effective training enables your organization to comply with all legal requirements, thereby avoiding costly lawsuits, audits, and fines. Training also enables your employees to make the most of their investments.

This special report shows you how to accomplish several objectives in order to plan a customized training program that will keep your company out of court:

Objective 1: Develop a training plan for legal compliance
Objective 2: Choose the most effective training techniques
Objective 3: Conduct an effective training session

  • HR Training to Avoid Lawsuits, Audits, and Fines-Print Version $39.99 [Add to Cart]
Managing Safety from The HR Desk - Binder

This practical safety handbook designed for the HR manager with safety responsibilities gives you the guidance and tools to develop and implement a successful workplace safety and health program.

Includes the role of the safety manager, how to obtain management support, the differences between safety law and employment law, how to identify hazards and neutralize their dangers, and OSHA and state safety regulations and the tools for achieving compliance.

Practical chapters show you how to keep your employees safe and keep OSHA away from your door:

  • Set the stage for safety success
  • Get familiar with OSHA
  • Meet your legal obligations
  • Identify, eliminate, and control hazards
  • Model safety programs and policies
  • Model safety checklists and training guides
  • Managing Safety from The HR Desk - Binder $299.99 [Add to Cart]
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Crisis Management: A Guide for Businesses

This report gives HR managers an overview of a crisis management plan including creating a crisis management team, preparing for an emergency and recovery, and gives you ideas for dealing with a crisis.

  • Don't grapple with the difficult task of considering what you should do in case of a crisis.
  • This comprehensive look at crisis management will help you create a crisis management team (CMT), develop preventive measures, prepare to meet a crisis head-on, and help you prepare for any emergency.
  • This 26-page BLR special report will help you understand what you should do in the event of a crisis and how to prepare for it.

Format: Binder

  • Crisis Management: A Guide for Businesses $149.99 [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]
   
5background.jpg 5 Steps to Legal Background Checks That Really Work

Hiring new employees is expensive and time-consuming—and if you hire the wrong person, the trouble and expense can be endless. Whether handled by supervisors and managers or assigned to a centralized human resources (HR) department, hiring decisions are among the most important decisions made in any company. Good hiring practices can eliminate or reduce many legal risks, reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve morale. Ill-advised hiring decisions, on the other hand, can result in turnover, duplicative training, missed opportunities, and lost customers. In addition, an ill-advised hire might well necessitate a subsequent termination, and every termination (no matter how justified and well documented) exposes the company to the risk of a wrongful termination/discrimination claim from the disgruntled former employee. For all these reasons, it pays to take the time to find the right person for the job the first time around.

This special report describes five steps for conducting legal background checks that really work—so you hire the right people in the first place! In addition, we will provide you with several forms that will be useful in setting up a background check policy.


5 Steps to Legal Background Checks That Really Work $39.99 [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

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HR Training Repros - The Employment Process - Book

Train your supervisors to avoid critical mistakes in day-to-day activities that could result in litigation and have serious impact on productivity, morale, turnover—and the bottom line. Common problem human resource functions covered are hiring and performance evaluation.

The illustrated, reproducible handouts bring your training to life and ensure retention. Plus, all the step-by-step human resource training tips and materials will make preparation simple and training effective.

You get everything you need for instant, effective HR training for supervisors:

  • Complete, prewritten lesson plans
  • Reproducible handouts
  • Quizzes
  • Permanent record and attendance sheets
  • Trainer Evaluation questionnaire


Topics covered include:
  • Hiring
  • Performance Appraisals
  • Discipline
  • Termination
  • Compensation
  • Benefits

  • HR Training Repros - The Employment Process - Book $295.00 [Add to Cart]
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H1N1-Swine Flu: How to Prevent and Respond Report

Why do you need this special report? There is an enormous amount of information that the CDC has published to address the threat of H1N1 (Swine) flu, but this report gives you 5 strategic steps to protect your business and your employees. Looking at the potential pandemic from a business standpoint the editors have put together a business plan that will outline your options, includes checklists, sample policies and even posters you can place in your workplace as a constant reminder of good habits.

Pandemics touch every aspect of society, so every part of society must prepare. Begin your business plan using the information detailed under the 5 strategies detailed in this report.

1. Know the Facts about H1N1 (Swine) Flu – differences from seasonal flu

2. Prepare Ahead of Time – organize, modify procedures

3. Educate your Employees – reinforce good hygiene / common sense habits

4. Revise Policies – how to make the adjustments and protect your profits

5. Possible Alternative Working - make sure your productivity is guarded


You also get:

  • 11 Checklists – covering business, family, treatment and more
  • 3 CDC Posters –reminders on what to do or not do
  • 4 Sample Policies –help to customize your own policies

  • H1N1-Swine Flu: How to Prevent and Respond Report $49.99 [Add to Cart]
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2009 - 2010 EHS Salary Guide: Special Report - Print

The environmental, health, and safety fields are in the midst of change. Job responsibilities are shifting and you are being asked to do more with less. As an EHS professional, it's hard to tell if you are being paid competitively.

BLR's 2009 - 2010 EHS Salary Guide will help you evaluate if you are being paid a fair amount for the responsibilities you are shouldering. In addition, EHS managers can find the information to keep their departments competitive and efficient—paying the right amount to retain hard-to-fill positions but not overpaying on others.

This survey includes 2 years' worth of data, for positions specific to the EHS field and allows you to analyze changes in salaries from year to year.

  • 2009 - 2010 EHS Salary Guide: Special Report - Print $79.99 [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.

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The ASTD Reference Guide to Workplace Learning & Performance (3rd Edition)

The ASTD Reference Guide, third edition, is intended to provide a context for the Workplace Learning and Performance (WLP) field, to expand on the roles and competencies described in ASTD Models for Workplace Learning and Performance, and to provide readers with the resources for enacting those roles and demonstrating those competencies. This book provides background information on the WLP field and guides the reader to many references of the literature of the WLP field. Those interested in professional WLP work will find this book both useful as a desk reference and as a broad introduction to the field. While, Academicians will find this book suitable as a textbook for courses in WLP. Selected Contents

  • Part 1: The Context of Workplace Learning and Performance
  • Part 2: The WLP Professional and the Practice of WLP
  • Part 3: Reviewing and Selecting Performance Improvement Strategies
  • Part 4: Managing and Analyzing Workplace Learning and Performance
  • Part 5: Selecting, Designing, Developing, and Implementing Interventions

  • The ASTD Reference Guide to Workplace Learning & Performance (3rd Edition) $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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Family & Medical Leave Act Compliance Guide

A staff of experienced HR professionals has created this essential desk book with a plain-English explanation of every angle of FMLA, ADA, workers' compensation, plus the immediate help you need to ensure compliance. Count on this resource to help you navigate these laws successfully.

Free quarterly updates and quarterly newsletter.

  • Family & Medical Leave Act Compliance Guide $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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HR Management Checklists - Binder

Created by employment law experts, this unique and practical handbook provides prewritten checklists that help spot and correct compliance problems before they become costly lawsuits. You get checklists on HR policies, job descriptions, safety and OSHA, compensation programs, hiring practices, performance measurement, and much, much more.

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25 Role Plays for Interview Training - (3 ring binder)

Training Objectives

  • Provide opportunities for individuals to try out new skills without cost to either the organization or the individual
  • Provide training in areas that can only be developed by practice
  • Obtain feedback from observers to aid personal development
  • Enable participants to test their skills in a variety of real-life situations
  • Enable participants to practice in a risk-free environment

Select role-plays to develop skills in each of the five main interview types:

  • Selection
  • Discipline
  • Appraisal
  • Separation
  • Counseling

Time Guidelines

  • Each role play takes between 11/2 and 2 hours.

  • 25 Role Plays for Interview Training - (3 ring binder) $99.99 [Add to Cart]

 


 

Managing People Who Work Remotely 

7/27/2010 - Live Audio Conference

This training session will teach you to maximize the advantages of employees working remotely to produce excellent and on-time project results!