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SmartPolicies - CD

This comprehensive collection of over 350 prewritten personnel policies makes creating a human resource policy manual easy and foolproof. It’s the ideal way to set workplace standards and develop a policy manual that promotes fairness, prevents disputes, and preserves employer and employee rights.

The prewritten HR policies you get will save an incredible amount of time. Choose from a variety of policies on each critical topic - from dress code... to cell phone use... to weather closings (choose between strict, standard, or progressive to match your company’s style). All you have to do is customize, save, and print from your own computer.

SmartPolicies gives you:

  • Over 350 prewritten samples of HR policies in over 100 crucial HR subject areas
    Presented in three categories - strict, standard, and progressive - so you can match your company’s style
  • Extensive indexing
    Search alphabetically, by topics, or keywords, and find what you’re looking for quickly
  • Ability to adapt and customize your policies
    Revise, save, and print right from your own PC
  • Quarterly updates
    Keep you up-to-date with constantly changing government regulations

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The Diversity Series: 4 DVD Program Set

Customer Favorite!

This four-part series 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.

The Diversity Training Series includes the following video modules:

Module I: On the Threshold of Change.
In this overview, you begin by exploring the broad definitions of human diversity: age, race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, physical status, economic class, education, religion, political ideology and more. Viewers learn how to manage the fear and bias that can be caused by these generalizations. (Length 20 minutes)

Module II: Gender and Sexual Orientation Workplace Issues.
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. (Length 20 minutes)

Module III: Race, Ethnicity, Language and Religion Workplace Issues.
Now viewers see the often hurtful stereotypes, which have divided people along racial, ethnic and religious lines for centuries. A team of nationally recognized attorneys addresses the EEO issues. This video a very powerful dramatization. (Length 20 minutes)

Module IV: Age and Physical Ability Workplace Issues.
Real people share their experiences and perspectives on the key issues surrounding age and physical ability. A panel of legal experts clarifies the intent and principal provisions of the ADA. (Length 20 minutes)

Participants will learn about racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, and religious concerns, physical ability, age, and language attitudes, legal, EEO and ADA issues and more.

  • Includes: Four DVDs or VHS videos, Leader's Guide and 10 Handouts. With the purchase of this series, you may make as many copies of the Facilitator's Guide or the handout / transparency pages as you need for your organization.

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.

Streamed Video Pricing:

  • 1 to 1000 $6 per person
  • 1001 to 3000 $5 per person
  • More than 3000 users contact Business Training Media
  • * Minimum order for any one program $395.00

Learn more about our streamed video training over the web.

  • The Diversity Series: 4 VHS Program Set $1,875.00 [Add to Cart]
  • The Diversity Series: 4 DVD Program Set $1,875.00 [Add to Cart]
  • The Diversity Series: 4 Program Set - Online Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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What to Do about Personnel Problems in [Your State] Binder

For over 20 years, human resource managers have relied on this practical state labor laws resource to understand and stay on top of ever-changing employment regulations in their states. No wonder we’ve heard so many nice names for What to Do About Personnel Problems – we’ve even been called the “HR Bible”!

The HR Red Book® 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 – whether you're in California, New York, or North Dakota.

What to Do About Personnel Problems has everything you need for effortless compliance with state and federal employment regulations:

  • Plain-English explanations of all key labor laws - by state and by topic
    Learn how your state laws differ from federal law on over 200 key topics. Available for 49 states plus Washington D.C.
  • Easy-to-use topic lists speed you to fast answers
    Fully indexed, cross-referenced, with full legal citations without having to know which laws apply. Full regulatory citations if you need them.
  • Checklists and HR forms
    You get sample personnel forms, personnel policies, and practical advice to make state compliance and training easier.
  • State and regional salary surveys improve your compensation administration
    Exclusive state-specific salary and benefit surveys help you pay fairly.
  • Free updates and two monthly newsletters
    Includes monthly National News and State News to keep you updated on human resources current issues and all aspects of employment law.
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
  • Independent contractor agreement
  • Job Descriptions
  • Labor unions
  • Sexual harassment
  • Social Security
  • Workers' compensation

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

  • What to Do about Personnel Problems in [Your State] Binder $399.99 [Add to Cart]
  • What to Do about Personnel Problems in [Your State] on CD-ROM $399.00 [Add to Cart]
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What to Do about Personnel Problems in [Your State] on CD-ROM

Binder / Newsletter

Get the solutions to personnel problems in YOUR state with this outstanding state-specific resource. This product covers over 100 key personnel areas--indexed by HR topic and includes two monthly newsletters. Free updates 6 times per year.

  • This human resource management reference is a comprehensive tool for solving HR issues and ensuring compliance with state and federal employment law.
  • Get clear, straightforward answers surrounding the federal and state human resource laws that apply to your organization--find out what they mean and how to comply.
  • You won't find another resource with such a comprehensive collection of state human resource laws along with expert analysis of labor law issues.
  • Our customers find this human resource development tool absolutely essential in keeping up with ever-changing HR regulations.
  • You get sample personnel forms, personnel policies, and human resource articles designed to make compliance and training easier for you!

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

  • What to Do about Personnel Problems in [Your State] on CD-ROM $399.00 [Add to Cart]
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The Diversity Series: Age and Physical Ability Workplace Issues - DVD

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

This program 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.

Real people share their experiences and perspectives on the key issues surrounding age and physical ability. A panel of legal experts clarifies the intent and principal provisions of the ADA.

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

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

    • The Diversity Series: Age and Physical Ability Workplace Issues - DVD $625.00 [Add to Cart]
    • The Diversity Series: Age and Physical Ability Workplace Issues - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Click 'n Train: New Employee Orientation PowerPoint

    "How To" For Supervisors

    The impressions a new employee forms in the first few days on the job can have a big impact on that person’s job performance and satisfaction. This new Click 'n Train PowerPoint® presentation will help to ensure employees are properly informed and trained to do their jobs safely, correctly, and productively. It will teach supervisors and managers to recognize the benefits of new employee orientation as well as learn to plan successful orientations.

    New Employee Orientation includes:

    • A fully prepared PowerPoint® presentation - Fully researched and expertly designed training meeting on this key topic
    • Reproducible handouts, quizzes, and completion certificate - Print and photocopy the handouts for concise, cost-effective tips and reminders. Plus, test for comprehension.
    • Easy-to-customize PowerPoints - Change the meeting outlines and insert your own photographs to meet your own company's policies
    • Interactive exercises -Involving exercises gain buy-in and increase comprehension
    • Trainer's outlines -Useful background and tips save you hours of preparation time

    • Click 'n Train: New Employee Orientation PowerPoint $99.99 [Add to Cart]
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    HR Optimization

    From Personnel Administration to Human and Organizational Capital Development

    Elevate the role of HR to a truly strategic position in your organization Does your organization need more than compliance and reporting from HR? Are you being challenged to add value, act as a strategic partner and develop individual and organizational capabilities? Even if your organization only needs personnel administration, are you optimizing that role?

    Whatever your organizational reality, this book provides a practical blueprint for HR transformation and a framework for ongoing analysis and development. Now you and your colleagues can meet changing demands and grow as HR professionals.

    The book encourages you to:

    • Assess your current situation
    • Think about organizational readiness for change
    • Develop action strategies to elevate your HR function

    No other book takes such a systematic approach to HR optimization. The 14 chapters each discuss one HR function and its components, functions, processes, conditions and standards.

    Each chapter includes a scale for assessing where you are and where you want to be, the reasons you need to look at things differently, critical success factors, and lessons learned.

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    Legal and Effective Performance Appraisals - DVD

    Free Online Preview

    This course is also available for online training, see details below.

    Performance appraisals provide an ideal opportunity for collaborative, two-way communication between supervisors and their employees. Yet, they also carry an incredible legal responsibility: the right to a fair appraisal of job performance starts with the actual job description itself. This program discusses protection from legal problems, how to conduct an appraisal, the interview format and goal setting.

    • Documenting evaluations
    • Communicating performance expectations
    • Employee involvement in the evaluation process

    Program Includes: A 30 minute DVD or video, references books and comprehensive leader's guide.

    Online Training Pricing Option:

  • $5.00 per user
  • One year access to this program
  • Minimum order: $745.00
  • Please contact us by email if you have 250 users or more for special pricing options.
  • *Prices subject to change without notice

    • Legal and Effective Performance Appraisals - DVD $845.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Legal and Effective Performance Appraisals - DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Legal and Effective Performance Appraisals (Online Course) $5.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Hiring The Best - DVD

    Free Online Preview

    The ability to hire the right person for the job--any job--is one of a manager's most valuable skills--but it's also one of the least understood! In Hiring the Best!, take part in a fictional but funny TV talk show and be guided, step-by-step, through the process of a highly successful interview:

    Preparing for the Interview

    • defining the job
    • identifying the job skills needed
    • developing interview questions

    Conducting the Interview

    • putting the candidate at ease
    • effective questioning techniques
    • keeping the interview on track
    • concluding the interview

    The Post Interview

    • summarizing the interview
    • reviewing your interview notes
    • evaluating the candidate
    • rating your own performance

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    Documenting Employee Discipline Workshop

    Documenting Employee Discipline Workshop offers both new and seasoned leaders step-by-step instruction in a process for documenting performance issues – from the identification of the issues all the way through resolution. The workshop comes with the activities, self-profiles, quizzes and other interactive techniques you need to engage participants and ensure learning sticks.

    This workshop will help participants:

    • Emphasize behavioral modification and corrective action – not punishment
    • Follow a systematic process for documenting performance issues
    • Be consistent when counseling to ensure understanding and acceptance of feedback
    • Identify their leadership style so they can better understand their reactions to various employee situations

    The workshop is packed with tips and strategies for giving feedback, using impact words, coaching for change, writing performance objectives, identifying and dealing with personality types, identifying performance gaps, using the correct language and formats for documentation, documenting expectations of employees, and much more.

    Trainers can easily customize the workshop to fit your organizational culture and environment. An appendix section includes 12 reproducible forms for helping participants evaluate their coaching skills, detail development plans, create a Performance Enhancement Plan (PEP), and more.

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    Click 'n Train: COBRA and HIPAA - PowerPoint

    Complying with benefits laws has never been easy, and COBRA is one of the most complex regulations that organizations have ever had to implement. Although there are no laws that mandate that employers must provide healthcare coverage for their employees, there are an increasing number of laws, including HIPAA, that regulate health insurance if it is offered as an employee benefit.

    The new Click 'n Train PowerPoint® presentation will help your company to be in compliance with COBRA and HIPAA laws by training your supervisors on their responsibilities and the responsibilities of the employer.

    • Click 'n Train: COBRA and HIPAA - PowerPoint $99.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Start Right ...Stay Right: Orientation Basics - DVD

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    Free Online Preview

    An easy-to-use training solution for communicating organizational expectations to new hires.

    What if you could easily show your new hires the kinds of behaviors you expect from them-including everything from basic workplace etiquette (like being aware of personal hygiene & appearance) to more advanced things (like showing appreciation to co-workers and taking initiative)?

    Start Right...Stay Right Orientation Basics leads viewers through vignettes demonstrating 24 success behaviors.

    The program is divided into four sections:

    • You and Your Mindset
    • You and Your Co-Workers
    • You and Your Manager or Supervisor
    • You and The Organization

    Each section runs about 10 minutes long. The segments can be watched back to back in one sitting or viewed in sections.

    Here's the best part of this video product: You can fully facilitate the training or just let the video stand alone. A Leader's Guide containing group exercises, activities and reproducible worksheets is supplied, but the video can also be used effectively without wrap-around discussion or activities.

    Program includes: A VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM and 10 copies of the Start Right...Stay Right book

    • Start Right ...Stay Right: Orientation Basics - DVD $649.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Start Right ...Stay Right: Orientation Basics - DVD Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Start Right ...Stay Right: Orientation Basics - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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    The Diversity Series: Race, Ethnicity, Language and Religion Workplace Issues - DVD

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

    This is part III of a four-part Diversity Training 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. Now viewers see the often hurtful stereotypes, which have divided people along racial, ethnic and religious lines for centuries. A team of nationally recognized attorneys addresses the EEO issues. This video a very powerful dramatization.

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

    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

    • The Diversity Series: Race, Ethnicity, Language and Religion Workplace Issues - DVD $625.00 [Add to Cart]
    • The Diversity Series: Race, Ethnicity, Language and Religion Workplace Issues - Online Training $6.00 [Add to Cart]
    • The Diversity Series: Race, Ethnicity, Language and Religion Workplace Issues - Online Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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    FMLA: What You Need to Know PowerPoint Kit

    FMLA tops the list of confusing regulations, and HR managers and employees both shake their head over it. Here's the easy way to educate your employees about their rights and responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act. You'll find it helps head off repetitive questions about this important benefit, while avoiding unreasonable expectations and misinformation. With this PowerPoint kit it's easy to hold an employee class and let all employees know assistance is there when they need it. Employees will learn about:

    • What FMLA guarantees
    • Types of FMLA leave
    • Eligibility requirements
    • Procedures to apply for leave
    • What are employer's responsibilties
    • Limitations and Reinstatement

    This easy-to-use kit makes training convenient, fast and thorough. It includes everything you need:

    • A fully prepared PowerPoint® presentation
    • Reproducible handouts, quizzes, and completion certificate
    • Easy-to-customize PowerPoints
    • Interactive exercises
    • Trainer's outlines

    • FMLA: What You Need to Know PowerPoint Kit $99.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Encyclopedia of Prewritten Personnel Policies - CD

    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
    • Choose your options – strict to progressive
    • Select the policy version that works best in your work
    • Avoid legal problems
    • Write your policy manual
    • Bimonthly updates
    • Keeps your policies current with new and revised language

    • Encyclopedia of Prewritten Personnel Policies - CD $399.99 [Add to Cart]
    • Encyclopedia of Prewritten Personnel Policies - Binder $399.99 [Add to Cart]