Discrimination

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Who said you shouldn’t sweat the small stuff? What if those small things undermined morale and reduced productivity? This diversity program, Drop by Drop, demonstrates how the small slights, subtle discriminations and tiny injustices can add up to big problems in your workplace! These little negative gestures are called “micro-inequities” and they occur in organizations every day. These small communications of disrespect, prejudice and inequality aren’t overt, but they can be incredibly destructive. A poison in the workplace that isn’t delivered in a bucket, but takes its toll drop by drop.

The program opens with an unhappy ending – the resignation of a frustrated employee. We then explore the workplace responsible for creating this situation. The program’s host engages and challenges the viewer with his strange perspective on our insensitive behaviors. He walks us through several examples of micro-inequities that could easily be avoided and then shares the key concepts for creating an inclusive and productive work environment: Put a stop to the disrespectful little “paper cuts” co-workers unknowingly inflict upon each other. Raise awareness and emphasize the importance of maintaining a thoughtful and respectful workplace with Drop by Drop.

Key Learning Points:

• CONSIDER: Listen, empathize, and follow the “platinum rule” by treating others as they’d like to be treated.
• RESPECT: Show regard for all races, religions, cultures and ages and value the talents each person brings to the workplace.
• LEARN: Be open to information about different cultures, customs and perspectives of your co-workers. Learn to communicate with kindness and clarity.

Includes: A 19 minute DVD (English and Spanish versions – many also include Portuguese), comprehensive leader’s guide, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM and Drop by Drop Handbook

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A single legal claim arising out of employment issues can cost an employer $750,000. That "price tag" includes the average recovery of the successful plaintiff, attorneys' fees awarded by law to successful plaintiff's attorneys, and attorneys' fees paid to defend the claim.

Developed by experienced employment attorneys and trainers, Creating the Respect Effect is a cost-effective and results-oriented video-based training program for employers seeking to improve and enhance work environments and reduce the risk of legal claims arising from employment issues. This distinctive classroom course educates your managers and employees about the characteristics and the benefits of a respectful work environment.

The Course Package includes: DVD with 5 vignettes, CD containing AB 1825 Compliant Management Version Facilitator's Guide and Participant Workbook, Employee Version Facilitator's Guide and Participant Workbook, PowerPoint Presentations, Post Test, and Training Acknowledgement Form.

Select the PDF Downloads to the right to view the complete guides and PowerPoint Presentations.

Program Benefits

• Offers different workshops for managers and employees to increase their understanding of company policies and legal obligations
• Trains managers and employees to understand and demonstrate the building blocks of a respectful workplace
• Includes five DVD-based vignettes showing what discrimination and other work issues look and sound like today - harassment, national origin mistreatment, disability and religious accommodations issues, retaliation, and age bias

This "plain-English" state-specific reference guide makes complying with employment laws easy. The 2010 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

Produced - 2008

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DVD-Based training program that teaches strategies you can use to eliminate microinequities and promote inclusion.

The "little things" are behaviors we all use, intentionally and unintentionally. They can make our organizations highly productive or erode their power, innovation and productivity. Designed by a pioneer in the field of diversity and inclusion, Little Things Mean A Lot™ shows how the ways we value and devalue our colleagues impact our workplace and its effectiveness.

This program combines a compelling business case with practical strategies individuals, teams and leaders can use to counter microinequities while building high performance work environments.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize that the way we treat each other at work - the little things we do - has a big impact.
• Learn to respond effectively to negative messages (microinequities) that can undermine our success.
• Equip yourself with simple tools and strategies to make the workplace more inclusive.

Program includes:

• 22-minute DVD designed for flexible use
• Leader's Guide: agendas for 3-hour and 1-hour workshops, detailed notes for facilitating intact and executive work teams
• Participant Handouts
• PowerPoint Presentations
• 10 Desk Reminder Cards

Brigid Moynahan, founder of The Next Level, Inc., has designed and delivered more than 800 corporate programs in the US and internationally. A pioneer in addressing inclusion issues in organizations, her work has been profiled in Working Woman Magazine, Chief Learning Officer, Diversity, Inc., the Wall Street Journal, the Catalyst Awards and the Conference Board.

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Bias costs organizations billions in lost productivity, high turnover, and low morale, not to mention the risk of expensive litigation.

Getting rid of bias is within our control. It is not a mystery. It is a choice and we each have the power to make that choice.

This DVD-based course, featuring Dr. Sondra Thiederman, targets the more subtle forms of bias that insidiously undermine our ability to build truly inclusive workplaces.

Is It Bias? Making Diversity Work can become the cornerstone for new training initiatives in diversity and inclusion or to enhance your existing curriculum.

The course is designed to provide:

• Skills for identifying bias in oneself and others.
• Immediately applicable tools for both reducing biases and controlling their impact on how we treat people who are different from ourselves.
• Practical strategies to help managers deal with subtle and unconscious bias in the workplace.
• Awareness that we each have the power and the responsibility to spot biases in our thinking and, in turn, to control the inappropriate behaviors that those biased attitudes create.

Course Package includes:

• DVD:
  • Is It Bias? Making Diversity Work (17-minute video)
  • Bias Reduction: Taking It to the Next Step (4 commentaries, 17 minutes)
  • How to Deal with Bias as a Manager (2 vignettes)
• CD:
  • Comprehensive 76-page leader's guide with training designs for a 2½ hour or a 1½ hour Is It Bias? Workshop
  • 45-minute Bias Reduction Lunch and Learn
  • 20-minute module on How to Deal with Bias as a Manager
  • PowerPoint Presentation is included for each session.
• Book:
  • One copy of Sondra Thiederman's book Making Diversity Work (additional copies available).

Discrimination means low morale, damages to productivity, high turnover, and devastating lawsuits. This colorful 16 page booklet is the ready-to-use employee training tool to help prevent discrimination in the workplace. Use as a stand-alone handout or as part of a training class to reinforce your company's zero tolerance policy. Includes helpful training quiz.

For just pennies you can customize booklets with your company name and give tangible proof you are an EEO.

Topics coved in this booklet include:

• Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEO)
• What actions are discriminatory
• Definitions of discrimination
• Types of discrimination based on: race/color-- nationality--religion--age-- disabilities--sex
• What equal opportunity opportunity really means for you
• Your responsibilities if you witness an incident

  Booklets features:

• 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

Produced - 2009

Learn more about Ouch! Your Silence Hurts Online Course

Ouch! Your Silence Hurts challenges viewers by asking, "How will you personally respond next time you witness somebody being treated with disrespect? You have a choice: Passive Bystander or Pro-active Ally." In a powerful and compelling way, this 9-minute video motivates bystanders to use their voice to speak up for respect on behalf of someone else.

Ouch! Your Silence Hurts will continue the conversation that OUCH! That Stereotype Hurts started. Ouch! Your Silence Hurts goes more deeply into the impact of the silent bystander.

Here's a few of our first reviews:
"Quadruple the impact of OUCH!"
"Hits you at a GUT level!"
"I felt the stories of this video."

"I have one word, FABULOUS!!! This video gives real, gut-wrenching examples of individuals and situations. Most mportant, it challenges people and gives them the idea that they have the ability to confront stereotypes by showing them how. Ouch! will be so helpful because most people want to do something but don’t know what or how."
– Anita Rowe, Ph.D.
Partner Gardenswartz & Rowe
co-author, Emotional Intelligence for Managing Results in a Diverse World

Includes:

• DVD which consists of: Ouch! Your Silence Hurts..... 9 min.
• Skill Builder stories from the video.... 3 min.
• A CD-ROM with Leader's Guide for 1-hour and 30-minute presentations, Powerpoint presentation, mini-poster 
• Leader's guide and other materials

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The A.D.A. Amendments Act (A.D.A.A.A.) was signed into law in 2008 and is now in effect! The Americans with Disabilities Act now has been clarified and significantly expanded. As a result, many more people will fall under the coverage of this important law. This is good news to many people, but it raises some concerns for supervisors and managers. This program will cover the fundamentals of the original A.D.A. and explain the changes that are now in effect because of the new Act. Managers and supervisors will get answers to the following:

• Who is covered under the new A.D.A.A.A.?
• How has the definition of "disability" been clarified?
• What are "major life activities"?
• How are the needed "reasonable accommodations" determined?
• How should disabilities be handled during job interviews?
• What are "essential functions" in a job description?

Length: 16 minutes

This program is also available for online training. See details below.

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This is part II of a four-part of the Diversity Series that uses dramatizations, workforce interviews, and discussions with experts to provide a broad-based look at diversity from a wide range of perspectives. This is perhaps the most comprehensive training available on this subject.

In this video your audience confronts stereotypical definitions of gays, lesbians, men and women. Real people share their values, perspectives and workplace experiences relating to gender and sexual orientation.

Includes 20 minute video or DVD, reproducible leader's guide and participant workbook.

Streamed Online Video Training Optional:

This program is also available over the web or over your company’s network. This option makes it is easy for you to deliver video to any employee’s desktop at any location with web access.

Online Training Option:

This program is also available over the web or over your company’s network. This option makes it is easy for you to deliver video to any employee’s desktop at any location with web access. The online program includes:

• Post training test and reporting results 24/7
• Certificates of completion
• Digital copies of the support materials 

  Online Training Pricing:

  • 1 to 1000 $6 per person
  • 1001 to 3000 $5 per person
  • Minimum order for any one program $395.00

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Updated best-seller that will teach you legal interviewing skills to avoid a discrimination lawsuit!

For Your Business Issues On Hiring, Legal Issues, Personnel Staffing, Recruiting, Retention, Selection Interviewing, Turnover

How-To Training Points:

• How to ask legal interview questions
• How to take objective, job-related notes that won’t get you into legal trouble
• How to avoid discrimination during the interviewing process
• How to hire on the basis of job-related issues only
• How to avoid questions of age, race, sex, religion and national origin
• How to use a structured interview plan

Managers within your organization may well understand the importance of avoiding obvious discriminatory interview questions based on age, race, sex, religion and national origin. But, what if a manager asks a discriminatory question— unintentionally?

The updated training program You Be the Judge II provides managers with expert advice about why they must be aware of their legal limitations before conducting a job interview. This includes knowing which questions are legal and illegal, and following a structured interview plan that directly relates to the job requirements. In addition, by avoiding spontaneous comments or questions that aren’t included in the interview plan, managers are less likely to let the interview steer off track to the job applicant’s personal life. In short, managers will walk away from this video knowing the important rule of thumb: if the interview question does not relate to the job, don’t ask it!

Viewers will learn how interviewing questions concerning age, race and religion can be legally rephrased to ask specific questions about job related issues.

Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

• English and Spanish versions – many also include Portuguese
• A customizable PowerPoint™ presentation
• Informative training points and bonus material for refresher or training talks
• Video-enriched training organized by learning objectives that facilitates discussion
• A printable Leader's Guide
• Resourceful web links to organizations such as OSHA, FEMA, NSC and the CDC, where viewers can download and print information on regulatory standards

Length: 22 minutes

• You Be the Judge II - DVD $845.00 [Add to Cart]
• You Be the Judge II - DVD Rental $225.00 [Add to Cart]

Don't let Prejudice disrupt your company!

We're not supposed to talk about certain sensitive subjects on the job--race, religion, sex, age, physical appearance, physical limitations and ethnicity. But in the 21st century almost every workplace has a diverse workforce so the risk of narrow mindedness can occur.

It's your responsibility to be certain your workplace is free of prejudice and is in compliance with regulations under the Civil Rights Act, Equal Pay Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Talking about respect is the way you can make sure it exists in your workplace.

With this Booklet/PowerPoint kit your employees will get facts in friendly terms. Topics covered:

• Why we need respect in the workplace
• Where does respect come from
• It's the LAW
• Types of discrimination
• How to avoid discrimination & display respect

• It's All About Respect: Avoid Discrimination in Your Workplace PowerPoint Kit $99.99 [Add to Cart]

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Equal opportunity is an important part of business, and the Americans with Disabilities Act is designed to eliminate workplace discrimination against handicapped individuals. This program explains how employers can keep themselves legally protected during the interviewing and hiring process, how to write job descriptions that outline the specific functions of the job, and how your workplace can better accommodate employees with disabilities. Learn the law and discover the benefits of hiring without discrimination.

• ADA & Disability Law - DVD $149.99 [Add to Cart]

The HR Manager's Legal Reporter brings you the practical policies, programs, and advice you need to stay in compliance and avoid human resource-related lawsuits. Tens of thousands of HR managers have relied on this unique resource for over 25 years to find out what's new, what's changed, what works, and, most important, what to do about it. The Reporter delivers clearly written, practical advice on:

• Step-by-step lawsuit prevention
• Policy and program recommendations
• Court decisions
• Federal and state legal developments

• You Be the Judge
  A mini-training session that presents a case where you guess what the court says. Then read the answer with insightful comments.
• Washington Roundup
  What's going on in Washington, in Congress, and the agencies that affects HR managers and employment law.
• Briefs
  Summaries of interesting or significant cases with commentary on how the lessons of the case apply to you.

Created specifically with the new "Preventing Discrimination in the Workplace" booklet, this PowerPoint kit gives you an out of the box training class that is completely done for you.

Explains to all employees the zero tolerance policy concerning all forms of discrimination-sexual, religious, race, age, disability, or national origin. You get 20 employee booklets and a voucher to purchase unlimited copies at an additional 10% savings off the regular discount booklet price. This product can also help to ensure that your company is in compliance with title VII, EPA, and ADEA.

• Kit includes a 30 slide PPT presentation
• Comprehensive speaker notes
• Certificate form that you can customize, print, and personalize with your company's specific requirements.

• Preventing Discrimination in the Workplace PowerPoint Kit $299.99 [Add to Cart]
• Preventing Discrimination in the Workplace (25 Pack of Handbooks) $49.99 [Add to Cart]

This practical human resources handbook for the solo practitioner gives you the guidance and tools to run your HR department effectively and efficiently. Whether you're the person new to HR or an HR manager in a solo environment, it will help you perform your HR function with the best of the them.

Includes how to align HR with your company's goals, build credibility and influence, understand HR ethics, cope with management expectations, learn effective staffing strategies, and use HR metrics to prove your contributions.

Practical chapters show you how to get big HR performance with a limited staff:

• Align HR's goals with the company objectives
• Keys to building credibility and influence
• Overview of compliance, federal and state issues, and best practices
• The strategic HR planning process
• Training for organizational excellence
• Prewritten forms, policies, and HR checklists

• Managing an HR Department of One - Binder Version $299.99 [Add to Cart]

Focuses on the importance of diversity and avoiding discrimination.

Winning Workforce: Raising Your Employees' Awareness DVD Series helps you train your employees on sensitive issues that may affect productivity, create a hostile work environment, or pose a legal threat to your organization.

As part of the Winning Workforce series, Diversity and Discrimination focuses on different forms of discrimination and how to avoid it. Employees will also learn how to work with different people and why a diverse work environment is important.

This training program includes the following components:

• (1) Closed-captioned video - Available on DVD (with extra bonus features), the program combines engaging video and editing technology with expertise from industry professionals at all levels.
• (1) Trainer's Guide - Provides a portable, plain-English reference to be used during and after training. Gives the answers to video challenges and provides background information and training tips to make the most of each training session.
• (10) Skill Cards - Review key points and guidelines covered in training.

$299.00 [Add to Cart]

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This program is a 2 DVD set that includes the following programs: 

Harassment & Diversity: Respecting Differences — Manager Version (20 minutes)
As a manager, you have a responsibility to keep your workplace free of any form of harassment. In this popular program, an office “comedian” uses his coworkers’ race, religion, and age as the basis of snide comments that no one else finds particularly funny. An emphasis is placed on the various types of harassment—other than sexual harassment—that can violate company policy. Learn how to investigate when discrimination occurs, and how to protect the rights of all involved.

Harassment & Diversity: Respecting Differences — Employee Version(16 minutes)
Your employees need to know that they are just as responsible for maintaining a harassment-free office as you are. Things like inappropriate pictures, jokes, emails, gestures, and touching can create a hostile environment where protected characteristics become targets. Get employees to see that certain behaviors can be interpreted as offensive. Once they know exactly what will and will not be tolerated, everyone can work together to ensure that your diverse workplace operates on a level of respect and understanding.

4-DVD Set!

Winning Workforce: Raising Your Employees' Awareness DVD Series employees on sensitive issues and give them a complete orientation ... in 30 minutes or less!

Winning Workforce: Raising Your Employees' Awareness packs vital information into five attention-grabbing videos ... each covering a sensitive training topic in just 10 minutes or less. These hard-hitting videos will help provide understanding and awareness on sensitive issues and help employees understand how they can make a difference. Employee Training Smart-Value Pack - 4-DVD series includes ...

• Diversity and Discrimination - Discusses different forms of discrimination and the benefits of diversity.
• Substance Abuse in the Workplace - Describes how drugs and alcohol affect the work environment, warning signs of drug use, how drug abusers can get help, and the benefits of an alcohol and drug-free workplace.
• Sexual Harassment - Defines sexual harassments, what constitutes it, and the laws involved. Discusses how sexual harassment can be avoided and the benefits of doing so.
• Violence in the Workplace - Covers the different forms of violence, warning signs of potential violence, how to handle potentially violent situations, and the benefits of a non-hostile work environment.

Released - 2005

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Office, Industrial, Hospitality, Government, Healthcare & Retail Versions Available!Harassment represents one of the most destructive workplace issues faced by public and private employers today. Now more than ever, it's important to train all personnel to recognize the various forms that harassment may take and implement measures to prevent it in your organization!

Harassment Is offers realistic scenarios representing many different forms of harassment based on sex, age, race, disability, religion, and sexual orientation. Each harassment situation is presented by an on-camera host who adds additional content and insights to enhance the comprehension and retention of this critical information.

Harassment Is will raise awareness regarding harassment and explain the do's and don'ts of creating a respectful work environment for everyone.

Harassment Is will help employees learn how to...

• Define harassment
• Identify the various types and forms of harassment
• Understand the negative impact of harassment
• Follow practical guidelines to prevent harassment
• Respond if they witness or become victims to harassment

Program includes: A 22 minute DVD or video, 10 Harassment Is Employee handbooks, leader's guide with customizable Harassment Is PowerPoint

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When it comes to sexual harassment, California has specific laws that employers must follow. This popular video features the same scenarios (hostile work environment and quid pro quo harassment) as the manager and employee versions. In addition, it provides an explanation of California AB 1825, including ongoing training requirements and what topics that training must cover. Find out how to keep your managers informed about California law and how they, in turn, can keep sexual harassment out of your workplace.

Duration: 35 Minutes

Designed to help supervisors recognize and respond to potential problems with employee relations, the Ready Response: A Supervisor Training Series explores key HR issues.

Each program takes a unique, interactive approach to training. Supervisors will be put to the test after viewing real-world HR situations ... they'll be challenged to identify the right and wrong ways to respond to each one.

Diversity and Discrimination focuses on the integral role supervisors have in embracing diversity and preventing discrimination among employees. It looks at ways supervisors can help avoid discrimination, intervene when problems occur, and deal with claims relating to discrimination.

This supervisor training includes these valuable extras:

• (1) 16-Minute, Closed-Captioned Video - Available on DVD (with extra bonus features) or VHS, the program combines engaging video and editing technology with expertise from industry professionals at all levels.
• (1) Trainer's Guide - Provides a portable, plain-English reference to be used during and after training. Gives the answers to video challenges and provides background information and training tips to make the most of each training session.
• (10) Video Scenario Review Blanks - Make it easy for trainees to fill in their answers to the video challenges.
• (10) Supervisor Fact Sheets - Focus on key points from the video and serve as take-along reminders.

Produced - 2009

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Harassment Hurts: It's Personal explores the pain and cost of harassment, covering such topics as age, race, sexual orientation, political affiliation, pregnancy, ethnicity, sexual harassment and much more. This program explains harassment and uses personalized stories and detailed legal and policy definitions to cover all types of harassment in organizations and workplaces. Harassment hurts us all--from individuals to entire companies--and Harassment Hurts: It's Personal is a comprehensive program under twenty minutes that explores issues of harassment, their ramifications and their remedies.

Key Learning Points: 

• Understand and learn what harassment is and isn't.
• Learn the different types of harassment and their negative ramifications.
• Through individual narratives, learn the negative consequences of various types of harassment.
• Explore sexual as well as other types of harassment.
• For example, discrimination based on any differences such as sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation and much more.
• See how statistics demonstrate the prevalence of harassment in the workplace.
• Learn how to speak up about harassment and where to turn if you are harassed.

Program Includes: DVD, Meeting Opener DVD, Leader's Guide, Reproducible Participant Materials & PowerPoint Presentation on CD-Rom. Length: 16 minutes

New 2008 Release!

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Diversity: Face to Face is an innovative and unique training program that explores four main aspects of diversity in the workplace—stereotypes, similarities, unity and benefits—by listening to the stories and thoughts of characters who actually live and work in a diverse world. Through their eyes, we learn why diversity is so important, and are given the definitions and tools to understand more deeply our own roles in diverse workplaces, from smaller organizations to larger corporations. Everyone plays an important part in the complex mosaic that is our diverse world.

Includes 4 minutes opener/closer - Opening Lines: Facing Diversity

Key Learning Points 

• Stereotypes: Fully understand what stereotypes are and are not. Learn how stereotypes affect others and ourselves.
• Learn how to recognize them and stop negative behavior.
• Similarities: What we have in common is often what brings us together. Learn how to search for what we share rather than focus on what we disagree on.
• Unity: Becoming a member of the team is important. Unity is an important goal for any organization. Learn how to “come together” instead of excluding ourselves and others.
• Benefits: Explore the benefits and rewards of a diverse organization in ways you may have never considered! The world has changed, and because of the global marketplace, diversity is even more important than ever.

Program Includes: DVD includes full length program plus OpeningLines: Facing Diversity (opener/closer), Leader's Guide, Reproducible Participant Materials, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-Rom and 25 Pocket Reminder Cards

Length: 18 minutes plus 4 minute opener/closer

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To prevent discrimination, you have to understand the sinister psychology behind it. This program defines discrimination, outlines how its subtle and not-so-subtle forms can destroy relationships and explains how pre-judgment, mistaken assumptions and fear spread malice can lead to damaged camaraderie, lower production and high employee turnover.

• Disabilities
• Sexual orientation
• Stereotypes
• Racial discrimination

Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

• A customizable PowerPoint™ presentation
• Informative training points and bonus material for refresher or training talk

Length: 24 minutes

• Respect in the Workplace: Avoiding Discrimination - DVD $799.00 [Add to Cart]
• Respect in the Workplace: Avoiding Discrimination - Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
• Respect in the Workplace: Avoiding Discrimination - DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]

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What do you do if someone you care about is the target of demeaning stereotypes? What if you are being demeaned or stereotyped? How often do you speak up on behalf of respect? This new program, based on the book by Leslie Aguilar, can be used for training on Diversity & Inclusion, Communication, Teamwork and Leadership.

Why is OUCH! important?

Staying silent in the face of demeaning comments, stereotypes or bias allows these attitudes and behaviors to thrive. This undermines our ability to create an inclusive workplace where all employees are welcomed, treated with respect and able to do their best work. Yet, most employees and leaders who want to speak up don't know how. So, we say nothing.

What Does OUCH! do?

In a unique and powerful way, viewers will experience the impact of stereotypical comments, explore why people don't speak up against stereotypes and other biased behaviors, and learn six techniques for speaking up without blame or guilt.

OUCH! Learning Objectives: 

• Understand the impact of stereotypes and biased statements, even when casually said.
• Identify the most common reasons people sit silent in the face of bias and stereotypes.
• Enhance skills for speaking up against stereotypes without blame or guilt.

Program includes: 12 minute DVD or VHS video, Speaking Up Activity 5 min., OUCH! That Stereotype Hurts with vignettes 13 min., CD-ROM with Leader's Guide, Powerpoint presentation, 1 OUCH! book and 10 OUCH! reminder cards 

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As you know, it's extremely important to recognize the various forms of harassment and train all employees to prevent them in your organization. In addition to sexual harassment, there are liability issues associated with harassment based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, disability, age and other characteristics protected by law. Harassment can take the form of jokes, negative stereotyping, hostile acts or simple thoughtless comments but the ultimate outcome is the same: emotional stress, low employee morale, reduced productivity, and even costly litigation.

The training package covers:

• The various types and forms of harassment
• The financial and hard-to-measure costs of harassment
• Practical guidelines to prevent harassment
• How to respond if you witness or become victim to harassment

Program includes: A 21 Minute Video or DVD, 50 employee handbooks and expanded leader's guide.

Online Training Pricing Option:

• $5.00 per user
• One year access to this program
• Minimum order: $845.00
• Please contact us by email if you have 250 users or more for special pricing options.
• *Prices subject to change without notice

   

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]

We now know that organizations with the greatest competitive advantage are those which make the best use of their diverse human resources. Valuing Diversity® helps organizations effectively manage their workforce by exploring issues around race, culture, ethnicity, sexism, ageism, disability, and sexual orientation. It will improve communication, managing and supervising across differences.

This following titles are part of this seven-part, award winning DVD series:

• Managing Differences - illustrate how assumptions, differences, and organizational culture affect the performance of managers, supervisors and administrators and inhibits the potential of employees. (Length: 30 minutes)
• Diversity At Work - Illustrates that employees from "non-dominant" cultures have to take some responsibility for learning how to keep their personal identity and adapt to the organizational culture within which they work. (Length: 30 minutes)
• Communicating Across Cultures - increases awareness of the skills necessary for cross-cultural interaction. (Length: 30 minutes)
• You Make the Difference - Empowers your employees to create a climate that values the contributions of everyone. Helps avoid sabotage, stereotyping and other behaviors that disrupt productivity and causes hostile workplace(Length: 30 minutes)
• Supervising Differences - shows first-line supervisors, plant managers and others how to leverage the potential of their diverse workforce. (Length: 30 minutes)
• Champions of Diversity - this is a documentary about the changing demographics in the labor pool and marketplace. Special emphasis is given to the personal growth involved in valuing diversity. Senior executives share why they are " champions of diversity" and how they personally change their behavior and lead their organizations in change. (Length: 30 minutes)
• Profiles In Change - This is a documentary on organizations that have raised productivity and profitability by implementing programs and processes that value diversity. Targeted toward diversity planners, top executives, administrators, managers, and human resource development professionals. (Length: 30 minutes)

Each program in this series includes a DVD and Facilitator's Guide.

Each title in this series is also sold separately for $500.00 each.

• Valuing Diversity Series (7 DVD Set) $1,750.00 [Add to Cart]
• Valuing Diversity Series: Managing Differences - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Valuing Diversity Series: Diversity At Work - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Valuing Diversity Series: Communicating Across Cultures - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Valuing Diversity Series: You Make The Difference - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Valuing Diversity Series: Supervising Differences - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Valuing Diversity Series: Champions of Diversity - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Valuing Diversity Series: Profiles In Change - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]

(WINNER of the Cindy Award - Best Training Video)

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What distinguishes You Can STOP Harassment is its positive message. The programs in this series are not about pointing fingers and assigning blame. We all share responsibility for stopping workplace harassment. It isn’t easy work. The reasons for harassment are many and the roots run deep. Working together, however, we can make great progress toward creating workplaces where people feel safe, valued and free to do their best work.

Program Objectives

You Can STOP Harassment is intended to encourage employees, supervisors, team leaders and managers in public and private sector organizations to take responsibility to help end all forms of harassment in their workplaces.

After viewing Program 1, Taking Responsibility, and working through the printed support materials, participants should understand… 

• what illegal harassment is and its impact at work
• the need to support our co-workers in facing up to harassment
• how to confront harassment to make it stop
• how to defuse disrespectful or harassing situations
• that not all harassment is intentional
• that it's the impact of our behavior that counts, not our intentions
• the importance of setting appropriate boundaries

In addition to the objectives above, after viewing Program 2, The Responsible Leader, and working through the printed support materials, participants should understand... 

• the importance of modeling appropriate behavior
• the liabilities managers and organizations face
• how to handle a harassment complaint the danger of retaliation

We recommend supervisors and managers view both programs in the series.

Program Contents

You Can STOP Harassment is comprised of short dramatizations that explore harassment issues that are common within organizations. Each scenario is analyzed by a diverse group of legal, human resources and communications experts. These practitioners discuss the significance of the dramatization and suggest guidelines when encountering a similar situation. Several scenarios are "rewound" and played again, modeling appropriate, respectful communication.

Program 1 Scenarios (26 minutes): 

• 1st Scenario: Sexual & gender harassment
• 2nd Scenario: Racial harassment
• 3rd Scenario: Sexual orientation harassment
• 4th Scenario: Religious harassment & retaliation 

Program 2 Scenarios (25 minutes): 

• 1st Scenario: Racial & sexual harassment
• 2nd Scenario: Ethnic & religious harassment
• 3rd Scenario: Same sex harassment

Support Materials

You Can STOP Harassment comes with a comprehensive Facilitator's Guide which includes handouts. The purchase of this program gives you permission to make as many copies of these printed handouts as you need for your organization.

Online Streamed Video Training Option:

This program is also available over the web or over your company’s network. This option makes it is easy for you to deliver video to any employee’s desktop at any location with web access. The online program includes:

• Post training test and reporting results 24/7
• Certificates of completion
• Digital copies of the support materials 

  Online Training Pricing:

  • 1 to 1000 $6 per person
  • 1001 to 3000 $5 per person
  • Minimum order for any one program $395.00

* Also available in Spanish.

Incorporate the key challenges facing today's workplace. Based on extensive research and interviews with leaders, managers and employees of Fortune 1000 companies as well as government, non-profit and other organizations. It includes video case studies based on real workplace stories, extracts of interviews with leaders in the field, comprehensive guides, presents opportunities for classroom, self-paced, small group and on-line learning.

This series includes the following titles:

• The Bottom Line - This program creates a rationale for why diversity and relationship across differences is a business opportunity. The Bottom Line deals with strategic questions, one at a time, providing useful information, awareness exercises, and the motivation to apply the contents back to your own organization or work team.Help your organization plan and reach its fullest potential with The Bottom Line. Prevent hostile work environments, cultural misunderstandings, discrimination, racism, sexism, harassment and other depleting patterns. (30 minutes)
• Relating Across Differences - This programs examines "moments in the relationship-building process" to help you build authentic relationships that are stable enough to perform at a higher level. Employees can learn how to manage the diversity in the relationship and consciously begin to value it and create the conditions for synergy and breakthrough results. (30 minutes)
• Conflict As Opportunity - Conflict is the most critical phase of building effective relationships.Motivate people in your organization to utilize conflict and manage it as an opportunity for change. Prevent hostile work environments, cultural misunderstandings, discrimination, racism, sexism, harassment and other depleting patterns. (30 minutes)
• Teams In Motion - This program introduces learners to the phases of team development and the skills necessary to build effective relationships at each phase of the team process. It helps team members identify and manage wide-ranging differences (race, gender, cross-functional, thinking style, relationship style, personality, culture, etc.) that can be either an opportunity or barrier to achieving team goals. (30 minutes)
• Global Contrasts - Global Contrasts will help you manage cultural contrasts and build effective cross-cultural relationships. Build global teams and cross-cultural work relationships characterized by trust, cooperation, and synergy.(30 minutes)

• Sexual Dynamics - Sexual Dynamics opens the debate and examines the reality of sexuality in the workplace. This course can help prevent the costly outcomes to depleting symptoms (litigation, stress, fear, anger, control, lying, denial, projection, etc. ) by helping you manage the reality of sexuality in the workplace. Learn to provide a safer, less sexualized workplace and a climate that transforms human energy into higher performance. (30 minutes)

This six-part series will move you to higher performance and productivity by helping you:

• understand the bottom line impact of diversity in the work context
• learn key principles and skills for greater effectiveness
• manage the 5 phases of global, organizational, team, personal and interpersonal relationships
• recognize and manage diversity issues, relationship dynamics, and cultural differences
• relate more effectively across any difference
• prevent the downward slide to toward miscommunication, misunderstanding, miss-attribution, stereotyping, hostile conflict, racism, sexism, discrimination, sexual harassment and hostile work environments
• create awareness, provide useful information, and identify core principles, that will allow you to attain higher performance, creativity and productivity
• make sure that Human Energy at Work? is constructively managed
• start a process of change that you cannot afford to avoid!

Each program includes: DVD and leaders guide.

Each title in this series may be purchased separately for $500.00 each.

• Human Energy At Work Series - (6 DVD Set) $1,500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Human Energy At Work Series: Global Contrasts - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Human Energy At Work Series: Sexual Dynamics - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Human Energy At Work Series: The Bottom Line - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Human Energy At Work Series: Teams In Motion - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Human Energy At Work Series: Conflict As Opportunity - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
• Human Energy At Work Series: Relating Across Differences - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]