Americans with Disabilities Act Essentials

The ADA is one of the most challenging laws an HR professional encounters, while at the same time being one of the most common. Understanding the fundamentals of the ADA is therefore a prerequisite to being considered a competent HR professional.

Are You Prepared for the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act

Beginning in January, the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act will go into effect in Colorado. What do you need to know, and what can you do now to make sure you’re prepared for the new regulations?

Arizona Cultivating Organizational Excellence Conference

This full-day conference covers aspects of the employee value proposition you may not have considered.

Assertiveness Training for Managers

This class focuses on examining different styles of communication, and appropriate applications of those styles.

Assertiveness Training for Support Staff

Participants gain the skills to face problems directly and resolve them quickly, handle stressful interpersonal situations effectively, and gain the confidence needed to make difficult decisions.

Benefit Administration: Retirement Plans—A Comprehensive Overview

This class provides information for both ERISA governed [401(k), Pension, 403(b), etc.] and non-ERISA governmental retirement plans.

Benefit Administration: The Basics from A to Z

This class covers the basic concepts of employer-sponsored benefits including health and welfare, retirement, and medical reimbursement plans.

Benefits Roundtable

This class teaches supervisors two essential people skills: how to be emotionally intelligent and how to create a culture that fosters employee accountabilty.

Brand You: Invigorate Your Career and Your Life

Utilizing a variety of explorations, exercises and group discussions, you will identify and articulate your unique value at work. You will define your passion and purpose as you identify what makes you feel vital.

Brush-Up English

This class provides an overview of grammar, including the problems and pitfalls of modern language usage.

Business Essentials

This class covers organizational strategy, structure, functions, systems, and how people work together to create value in response to customer needs.

Business Writing

Business Writing for Managers

In this class, participants develop skills in planning, writing, and reviewing a variety of writing projects from email to short reports.

Business Writing for Support Staff

This class shows how to develop writing skills from preparation to proofreading.

Change Management Essentials

Learn what is important in remaining a resilient, effective employee even in the face of constant change and we can take steps toward building those capacities

Change Management: Building Resiliency

In this class, participants learn to differentiate between change and transition, use a three-phase transition model, and learn the action steps accompanying each phase of the model.

Coaching Employees: A Step-by-Step Process

This class explores supervision from the mindset of a coach, where the focus is on developing a partnership to work with and support the employee’s development.

Coaching Essentials: Partnering for Excellence

This class explores supervision from the mind-set of a coach, where employee development is the focus, and where a partnership supportive of employee development is desired.

Coaching: Partnering for Performance

This class explores supervision from the mind-set of a coach, where employee development is the focus, and where a partnership supportive of employee development is desired.

COBRA Workshop

This class provides a strong working knowledge of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) to satisfy your compliance obligations.

Collaboration Skills: A Radical Approach to Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution

Radical Collaboration® is a powerful interactive experience that guides participants in building effective partnerships. Participants learn how to use these skills in this class.

Colorado Compensation Survey Briefing Session

This free briefing session shows how to use our survey data in your compensation plans.

Communicating Effectively in Difficult Situations for Managers and Supervisors

Participants learn the principles and choices for handling difficult situations and how people signal issues and resolve conflicts.

Communicating Effectively in Difficult Situations for Non-Management Personnel

This class helps non-management and support staff personnel who are frequently faced with difficult people and situations.

Communication Feedback: Know Thyself

In this class, participants learn how others perceive you and learn how to effectively adapt your communication.

Communication Skills for the Workplace

The session includes practical tools and insights that participants can immediately use to sharpen their delivery, as well as their impact.

Communication Tools for Maximizing Performance

In this class, participants improve their ability to understand people better, turn on or off emotions in different circumstances, and develop and maintain trust, rapport, and influence with others.

Communication: A Solution-Focused Approach

This class uses the Solution Focused Method to quickly define the desired outcome, detailing what will be happening when the agreed upon goal is complete.

Compensation Administration I: Base Pay Design and Development

This class shows how to develop a Total Rewards philosophy and work with a compensation model.

Compensation Administration II: Advanced Concepts

Through discussion and hands-on exercises, this class provides participants with additional practical and in-depth knowledge.

Compensation Administration: Designing Incentive Plans

This course is ideal for the human resources professional responsible for designing, assessing and maintaining variable pay plans. In the course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of variable pay programs.

Compensation: Are Your Jobs Priced Right?

This class gives you the confidence and skills needed to articulate key compensation factors, assess compensation needs, align those needs with your organizational strategy and goals, and attract and retain top talent.

Confidentiality and Privacy Rights in the Workplace: Briefing for Managers and Supervisors

In this briefing, front-line leaders will explore this line and learn key information about how to successfully navigate their obligations surrounding confidentiality and privacy rights in the workplace.

Conflict Strategies: Navigating Others Through Workplace Difficulties

This class uses critical conflict management tools to successfully navigate through conflict.

Conflict: Recognizing and Navigating Workplace Differences

This class provides the skills needed to recognize when conflicts are escalating.

Conflict: Self-Management

This class shows how to build skills for constructive resolution by creating an effective environment and developing compromises for mutual benefit.

Crisis Leadership Series

These 2 Hour Tune-Up sessions will address a variety of topics related to COVID-19 and other crises that can impact on your business.

Cultivating Kindness in the Workplace

This class explores ways to implement tools and tactics to promote kindness in the workplace through building and maintaining compassion, transparency, and inspiration.

Customer Relations: Making the Connection

This class provides practical, ready-to-use ideas for various phases of customer interaction.

Cyber Smart! What HR Needs to Know

Learn about the cyber threat landscape, grasp the key threat vectors through which cyber-attacks are delivered, and learn best practices.

Dare to Lead

The Dare To Lead workshop was created from the bestselling book by Brené Brown. The program draws on over seven years of empirically based research with over 150 leaders from various organizations- nonprofits, for profit and the military to name a few

Delegation: A Strategy for Empowerment

This one-day course helps managers become master delegators — and avoid being perceived as micro-managers,

Developing and Maintaining Trust in the Workplace

This class helps participants understand how to build trust and how that impacts relationships with co-workers, managers, and customers.

Developing Interpersonal Communication Skills

This class examines the essentials of the communication process.

Digital Marketing: Google Analytics and ROI

This class teaches the basics strategies for evaluating ROI (the return on investment) on your digital marketing efforts.

Digital Marketing: Overview and Strategy

This class is designed to give you the big picture and prepare you for the next step: creating a digital marketing strategy that fits your budget and advances your business goals.

Discrimination in the Workplace: The Law of EEO

This class provides an overview of federal and state civil rights laws, along with practical tips employers can implement to reduce exposure for discrimination charges.

Diversity and Inclusion: A Key to Innovative and Effective Teams

This class discusse the concept of diversity through a cultural pursuit activity.

Drug and Alcohol: DOT/FMC Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulations

This class certifies supervisors for Department of Transportation (DOT) mandated drug and alcohol testing procedures

Email Chaos Ended! Time Regained

This class builds on the GOAL! Get Organized At Last! techniques, and helps participants organize email.

Email: Write for Results

This class teaches participants how to write emails and other web content that are easy to understand.

Emergenetics: Amplifying Performance

Expand your skills to enhance communication, build on your leadership capacities and improve both individual and team performance.

Emerging Leader Program

This rigorous and result-oriented program prepares high-potential leaders to embrace increasing levels of responsibility and handle both challenges and opportunities inherent in future leadership roles within their organizations.

Emotional Intelligence at Work

This class shows how to raise your Emotional Quotient at work.

Emotional Intelligence, Optimism, and Resilience

In this class, we explore the four key skills of EI and how they can be used to create more effective workplace relationships. We also focus on a related and important skill: Optimism.

Emotional Intelligence: Advanced Skills

Join us for this practical, results-oriented workshop that links the neuroscience of EQ to personal and business applications

Emotional Intelligence: An Introduction

This popular class offers participants the opportunity to learn about the essential elements that lead to the building of or erosion of effective relationships and subsequent outcomes.

Emotional Intelligence: Creating High Performing Teams

This workshop builds the skills you learned in Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace to utilize EQ.

Employee Handbooks: Revising or Developing

This class helps to develop a handbook reflective of an organization

Employer Insights

To help members understand many of the complex challenges they face, Employers Council proudly present the Employer Insights series of live classes and webinars.

Employer’s Guide to Pandemics: 2020 and Beyond (Virtual Conference Recording)

This recorded conference provides updates on lessons employers learned from COVID-19, insights into unexpected opportunities for workers and employers, and the tools businesses needed to rebuild workplaces and how to prepare for a post-pandemic future.

Employers Summit 2020: Achieving Equilibrium

To help you navigate this rapidly changing landscape, join Employers Council for our first ever 2-day virtual Employers Summit where the focus will be on helping attendees achieve equilibrium in their organizations amongst all the competing regulations, r

Employment Law Essentials for Supervisors and Managers

This concentrated class will provide attendees with a practical and actionable understanding of the most important employment law issues they will likely face.

Employment Law Update Conference

The Employment Law Update Conference covers the most significant employment law updates of the year.

Employment Rules: Key Utah Laws Employers Must Know

This class discusses key employment law issues in Utah.

Employment-Based Immigration Briefing Sessions

These briefing sessions provide participants with a basic understanding of the complex set of employment-based immigration benefits that can provide temporary or permanent work authorization.

Enneagram: Leveraging the Power of Personality for Communication

This class helps those who want to understand personality styles and manage differences more effectively in the workplace.

Ethics for Business: People, Performance, and Principles . . .

This session discusses the importance of developing ethics awareness programs to create and reinforce a culture that encourages and rewards responsible and ethical decision making.

Excel Advanced

This class focuses on formulas, specifically functions, and how to nest them with other functions for more advanced automation.

Excel Basic

This class provides a basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel and confidence to build simple worksheets that use the basic functionality of the program.

Excel Intermediate

This class provides a solid foundation in Microsoft Excel and an ability to use common features to build worksheets with formulas, functions, charts, and other automation tools.

Executive Breakfast Briefing Sessions

The session outlines the progress for setting goals, designing a plan to meet those goals and the important but often forgotten administration of an array of incentive compensation programs.

Fair Labor Standards Act Advanced Practice

Gain insight to handle challenging situations and questions relating to the payment of wages

Fair Labor Standards Act Essentials

This concentrated course focuses on FLSA essentials you must know to protect your company from liability.

Family and Medical Leave Act Advanced Practice

This advanced seminar highlights key pain points and provides practical guidance on how to handle them in your workplace

Family and Medical Leave Act Essentials

This concentrated course provides attendees with a step-by-step guide to simplify FMLA administration. Attendees will then apply this guide to resolve real-life FMLA scenarios.

Family and Medical Leave Act: A Guide for Human Resources

This class provides information on how to comply with FMLA law including the definition of “serious health condition,” employee notice requirements, and managing intermittent leaves.

Family and Medical Leave Act: Advanced Workshop

This class helps you handle the trickiest FMLA situations.

Financial Acumen for Entrepreneurs

This class covers the basics of accounting and finance for the small business owner. Learn about the basics of business structure, bookkeeping and taxes.

Financial Acumen for HR Professionals

This class increases the financial intelligence of human resources professionals.

Financial Acumen: Accounting for Non-Accountants

This class helps anyone who seeks a more solid foundation in accounting principles as they relate to business operations.

Financial Acumen: Accounting for Non-Profits

Learn how to read and understand the financial reports for your nonprofit. Use the results of past management decisions, as reflected in the reports, to make better decisions in the future.

Financial Acumen: Taxes for Small Business

Learn how the choice of entity (Sole Proprietor, Partnership, Corporation) impacts your income taxes as a small business.

Five Languages of Leadership

In this class you will learn how to inspire and influence others through consistency, recognition and appreciation.

Free IT Workshop

Bring your own projects and get hands-on help and guidance from our professional instructors. We offer an open format of collaboration between students and the instructor.

Fundamentals of Human Resource Management: Key Steps in Getting Started

This class is for those solely responsible for the operations of Human Resources, or as a refresher for professionals wanting to expand their knowledge.

Garnishments and Income Withholding Orders

This class teaches what a valid garnishment is and what types of garnishments attach to employee wages

Generations: Working Together

This class shows how to recognize the unique needs of different generations in the workforce.

Generations: Working Together Essentials

This class helps you recognize and gain a greater understanding of the unique needs of different generations in the workforce.

Getting Strategic with Technology

In this session, we’ll hear from our partners, Paylocity and Fall River Benefits, regarding the effective use of technology to streamline transactional processes and free up time for strategic initiatives

GOAL! Get Organized At Last!

This class provides simple, easy-to-implement solutions to help you get organized.

Graphic Recording and Facilitation

Gain confidence in your drawing and visual presentation with this hands-on workshop. Understand what working visually is all about and have your eyes opened to the MANY ways these skills can be applied.

Group Facilitation Skills

This class provides observation and intervention techniques that make an effective facilitator.

Harassment Prevention for Managers and Supervisors

This class discusses the term “hostile work environment,” and the difference between inappropriate conduct and illegal harassment, along with how to respond properly and prevent retaliation claims.

Harvard Business Series: Real-World Case Studies

These case studies explore issues and solutions experienced by high-profile organizations.

HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

This class is an overview of the privacy rules and portability requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the HITECH Act from a Human Resource perspective.

How to Navigate the Workplace When Nothing is Normal

How can a company effectively evaluate the right strategy for a return, and how can they prepare for being back at work while mitigating potential risks?

HR eXplorations Roundtable

Join other emerging HR practitioners or those driving HR solutions off the 'side of the desk' within the scope of other role responsibilities to explore how the HR professional contributes to the organization.

HR Management Program: Advanced HR Competencies

This class teaches advanced-level information, guidance and best practice tips on topics every experienced human resources professional should know.

HR Management Program: Introduction to Core HR Functions

This program provides participants with a broad-based overview of critical HR functions, updates on the latest HR trends and legal developments, and best practice tips.

HR Metrics and Analytics: Focusing on What is Important

This class shows how to enhance HR’s value using data, statistics and analytics.

HR Strategic Planning: Building Organizational Capability

This class shows participants how to create an HR strategic plan.

Human Resource Business Partner Program

Through Employers Council's HR Business Partner Program, participants will design and implement a project aligned with a business initiative. In an applied learning environment, participants will develop a proactive business mindset.

I-9: Advanced Practice

This class provides participants already familiar with I-9 practices with additional skills related to worksite compliance.

I-9: Basic Compliance

This class provides participants with improved knowledge of I-9 requirements and related E-Verify laws.

I-9: Self-Audit Workshop

This workshop provides hands-on instruction and examples of how to audit Form I-9s to ensure compliance with USCIS regulations, as well as make corrections the right way.

Innovation and Creativity

This class teaches the four dimensions of creativity: fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality.

Innovative Organization

Learn how to foster and sustain an innovative workplace.

Interpersonal Mastery: The Human Element®

This class discusses the Human Element and shows particpants how to increase success at the workplace.

Interviewing and Hiring I

This class teaches a step-by-step approach for planning, conducting, and evaluating a structured, behavioral interview.

Interviewing and Hiring II

This class teaches participants to master their interviewing skills with useful tools and practical application.

Interviewing and Selection Essentials: A Strategic Approach to Hiring

This half-day class provides the essentials of planning and conducting a structured behavior-based interviewing and selection process designed to predict future performance.

Interviewing: How to Gain a Competitive Edge (Utah)

This class provides a practical plan for creating a professional interview experience that will impress your candidates and enhance your organization’s reputation.

Investigations in the Workplace

This class guides participants through the entire workplace investigation process.

Job Analysis and Effective Job Descriptions

Be able to differentiate between the various approaches to job analysis, learn best practices for collecting job information and data, and more.

John Maxwell: Developing the Leader Within You 2.0

Do you want to impact and influence others? Would you like to take a significant step in your leadership journey? That’s why Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 is for you.

John Maxwell: Good Leaders Ask Great Questions

We will work though why questions are so important, what questions we should ask ourselves, and what questions we should ask our teams. Asking great questions is a life changer for those that want to influence and impact others well.

John Maxwell: The Fifteen Invaluable Laws of Growth

Learn the 15 guiding principles that help you lead yourself better.

Lead Worker Training

This class focuses on the changing relationships for leads and group or team leaders, the expectations and limitations of the position, and the communication demands from employees and management.

Leadership and the Power of Narrative

This session focuses on harnessing the power of narrative. Emphasis is on techniques and exercises that participants can use in their day-to-day work life.

Leadership Skills and Strategies for Administrative Assistants

This class explores the leadership skills needed to be successful in the workplace.

Leadership Through Influence

This class shows participants how to effectively utilize personal power to influence others.

Leadership: Neuroscience Behind Leading

This class explores how to apply neuroscience findings and practices in your organization to improve your workplace.

Leadership: Why Would Anyone Want to Follow You?

This class combines the best of behavioral and neurological science and experiential learning to help individuals become socially and emotionally smarter.

LEAN Tools: Creating a Culture of Excellence

This class is designed to build or rebuild the foundational knowledge needed to meet the challenges of a Lean work environment.

Legal Breakfast Briefing Series (Utah Offering)

This five-briefing series helps company leaders face today’s developing and pressing legal challenges with confidence​.

Legal Issues for Human Resources Professionals

This class offers an overview of the complex legal issues associated with day-to-day employment decisions and actions.

Legal Issues for Supervisors and Managers

This class reviews key federal and state laws affecting the employment decisions that managers and supervisors make.

Legal Issues in Managing Employees for Governments and Special Districts

This class reviews key federal and state laws affecting employment decisions of local government, special districts, and quasi-governmental agencies.

LGBTQ Basics: Understanding Transgender and Gender Diverse Communities at Work

Whether you’re in the corporate, non-profit, or public sector, LGBTQ diversity and inclusion and legal compliance protocol training will improve the workplace for LGBTQ employees and customers.

Listening to Understand

Use the power of listening to become more effective and productive.

Management Back to Basics

This class  covers the supervisory role, viewed from a results-driven approach.

Managing Effective Meetings

This class shows how to structure, design, and hold effective meetings.

Managing Excellence: It Begins with You

This class shows participants how to assess behavior to gain an awareness of impact, increasing the capacity to lead and motivate others.

Managing in a Multi-Cultural Environment

This class identifies some significant cultural differences, which can challenge the current way of management.

Managing the Ill or Injured Worker Under the ADA, FMLA, and Workers' Compensation

This advanced class provides a roadmap to guide employers through the intricate compliance issues involved in managing an employee with a medical condition.

Maximizing Membership: Online Resources

Learn how to use the Employers Council website better and learn how toimprove access to online, self-serve resources.

Membership Orientation

Learn all the different ways you can maximize your membership.

Memory Improvement: Total Recall

In this class, participants learn how to remember what they hear, recall foreign languages, technical data, scripts, and presentations, improve long-term, and short-term name recall.

Mindfulness in Leadership

Join us for an immersed experience at one of our retreat locations where we will explore what mindfulness is, why mindfulness is relevant to the work environment and to leaders, and how we may practice and integrate mindfulness into the workplace.

Motivating Employees from the Inside Out

This class provides new insights and tools to identify what motivates participants, and assess their motivation skills, and then determine what motivates employees.

Myers-Briggs: An Interpretation of Personal Style

This class shows how to understand and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI.

Myers-Briggs: MBTI and Stress

This class uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) to describe how someone is likely to experience and react to stress in this session.

Myers-Briggs: Understanding and Using Your Step II Results

This class provides a deeper understanding of Myers-Briggs and shows participants how to work more effectively with others.

Negotiation for Win/Win Results

This class explores all phases of the negotiation process.

Non-Profit Roundtable Virtual Session: Job Description Workshop

This practical hands-on session will guide you through creating effective job descriptions that are both dynamic and legally compliant.

Online Learning Center: aPHR Test Preparation Program

Our aPHR online study course is designed to help anyone prepare for the exam. It includes best practices on how to take the test, comprehensive study materials, eight web-based learning modules, and sample quizzes.

Online Learning Center: Becoming a Great Leader

This program will provide even the most seasoned leaders with new ways to think about their role as a leader in their organization.

Online Learning Center: Building a Business Case

This webinar will cover the origins of a new business initiative from “great idea” through generating buy-in.

Online Learning Center: Colorado Data Privacy for Human Resources

This webinar explains the requirements of the law in no uncertain terms, including what organizational best practices may be adopted or considered in order to facilitate compliance.

Online Learning Center: Colorado's New Pregnancy Accommodation Law What to Expect When You're Expecting (pre-recorded webinar)

This class will review employer obligations under the new Colorado law as well best practices to navigate the complex patchwork of federal and state laws impacting pregnant employees.

Online Learning Center: Creativity

This class explores opportunities for creativity in the workplace, understanding how the brain works to facilitate creativity, as well as approaches for generating and evaluating ideas during the creative process.

Online Learning Center: Crisis Management

This class covers key aspects of crisis communication in emergency and disaster situations.

Online Learning Center: Customer Relations: Making the Connection

In this course, you will discover how to create customer service experiences that ensure that people leave as “satisfied customers" and “loyal customers."

Online Learning Center: Discipline Without Punishment (pre-recorded webinar)

This webinar provides a framework to empower supervisors and managers to address performance issues with greater confidence.

Online Learning Center: Dressing for Success in the Modern Workplace (pre-recorded webinar)

Learn how to legally address workplace dress codes in the era of piercings, tattoos and other provocactive attire

Online Learning Center: Emotional Intelligence

This program focuses on building the competencies of self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness, empathy, and relationship building.

Online Learning Center: Employment at Will (pre-recorded webinar)

This webinar examines the scope of employment at will and its exceptions, which constitute the law of wrongful discharge.

Online Learning Center: Harassment Prevention

Employees must know what behavior constitutes illegal harassment and how to use their employer's complaint procedure. This self-paced, online program overviews the fundamentals every employee needs to know about maintaining a harassment-free workplace.

Online Learning Center: Healthy Communication

This program explores a variety of the dynamics, mindsets, and roadblocks influencing healthy vs. unhealthy communication.

Online Learning Center: Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in the Workplace

In this course, we will look at the challenge of promoting inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace.

Online Learning Center: Interview & Hiring I

In this interactive course, members learn to recognize the critical factors that predict performance and how to assess candidates using a variety of questioning techniques to make hiring decisions that are both legal and effective.

Online Learning Center: Layoffs (pre-recorded webinar)

This webinar provides answers to basic layoff questions and offer guidance on implementation and steps to move forward.

Online Learning Center: Legal Pittfalls in the Hiring Onboarding Process (Pre-recorded Webinar)

This webinar explores the myriad of legal issues that can arise in the hiring process.

Online Learning Center: Managing Remote Workers – Challenges and Solutions

Join us for a brief discussion of the practical and legal challenges of remote work and how you can best avoid them with your workforce.

Online Learning Center: Mentoring

This program provides a variety of ideas and insights in order to help you apply the mentoring process in your organization.

Online Learning Center: Mistakes Leaders Make

This class explores some of the most common mistakes leaders make, including: six wrong ways to manage, how leaders impede the progress of their teams, eight signs of a dysfunctional organization and strategies for fixing the dysfunction.

Online Learning Center: Negotiation Skills

This class will not only address the skills of good negotiation, but also the right mindset for negotiations to be successful.

Online Learning Center: Notes Minute Taking

This program provides tips, skills, and consideration to make your notes above the average.

Online Learning Center: Overtime Pay: Proposed Regulatory Changes

On March 29, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a proposal to update its regulations regarding which payments must be considered in determining the “regular rate” that serves as the basis for calculating overtime pay.

Online Learning Center: Performance Documentation

The course focuses on how the current legal climate affects private sector employers, as well as highlights the “how-tos” of documenting employee actions.

Online Learning Center: Performance Excellence

This class is designed to build or rebuild the foundational knowledge your people need to meet the challenges of Lean initiatives and Performance Excellence.

Online Learning Center: Performance Management: Setting the Stage for Success

Effective performance management is an on-going process that focuses on aligning your workforce, building competencies, improving employee performance and development, and driving better business results.

Online Learning Center: Personality and the DISC Assessment

This course introduces the DISC styles. Understanding these styles will help across the variety of your workplace relationships.

Online Learning Center: Prescription Drug Abuse (Pre-recorded Webinar)

This webinar explores the issues involved in prescription drug abuse and what employers need to do.

Online Learning Center: Presentation Skills

This course will support you with ideas and tips to enhance not only your skills, but confidence as well in public speaking settings.

Online Learning Center: Problem Solving Skills

This class will walk you through a series of steps to best define, document, explore, and evaluate the problem in front of you.

Online Learning Center: Professional Productivity

This class explores a variety of topics all impacting our ability to be at our best and our most personally productive.

Online Learning Center: Project Management

This class provides an overview on Project Management.

Online Learning Center: PTO (Pre-recorded Webinar)

This webinar explores the advantages and disadvantages of PTO, how to convert from traditional vacation and sick leave plans, and legal compliance.

Online Learning Center: Reasonable Suspicion: Detecting Drug and Alcohol Use in the Workplace (pre-recorded webinar)

This webinar teaches you what to look for and what to document to reduce your legal liability and protect your workforce.

Online Learning Center: Record Keeping for HR (pre-recorded webinar)

This class provides essential information, practical tips, an action plan, and resources to improve HR recordkeeping practice.

Online Learning Center: Revamping Your Performance Management System

Discover what researchers are learning about “cutting edge" practices being implemented by some employers in an attempt to revamp their performance management processes

Online Learning Center: Telecommuting (pre-recorded webinar)

This webinar makes you aware of trends in remote work, the different ways different generations view remote work, and the legal considerations of a remote work program.

Online Learning Center: The Law of Equal Pay (pre-recorded webinar)

This webinar reviews the history of the law of equal pay, the current state of the law, and the application of that law to your workforce.

Online Learning Center: Tough Decisions for Tough Times: From Reducing Your Workforce to Rebuilding

The COVID-19 crisis forced many employers to close temporarily and to make quick, and in many cases, interim decisions about their workforce. Now, organizations are reopening and making strategic decisions about their future workforce needs.

Online Learning Center: Understanding the DOL’s Proposed Salary Level Rule

This session discusses of the new proposal, what might change, and what you can expect in the months ahead.

Online Learning Center: Workplace Respect

Based on our popular Instructor-led offering, this self-paced online course offers you an opportunity to uncover some causes of disrespect and to identify various strategies for observing personal boundaries.

Online Learning Center: You're Fired (Pre-recorded Webinar)

This webinar provides tips on preparing and conducting the termination process both fairly and legally.

Organizational Development: An Introduction

This class provides an overview of organizational development (OD) and the role of the OD practitioner

Organizational Development: Entry, Contracting, and Assessment

This session focuses on the role of the OD practitioner in educating the client system on how to improve their awareness and functionality.

Orientation/Onboarding Essentials: Accelerating Competence, Connection, and Commitment

In this half-day class you will learn the essentials for developing an effective program to accelerate job performance, assimilation, and commitment.

Orientation/Onboarding: Building a Positive Connection From Day One

In this class participants learn how to design an onboarding program that can en­gage new employees, increase job satisfaction, improve productivity and morale, and reduce turnover.

OSHA: Recordkeeping Requirements—How Do They Affect You?

This class covers proper recording of injuries and illnesses and reviews the major recordkeeping requirements.

OSHA: Compliance and Enforcement—What You Need to Know

This class covers the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and who is affected

Payroll Administration: The Ins and Outs

This class covers the basic concepts of the payroll field, including administration, new employee on-boarding, and recordkeeping.

Performance Appraisal Design: A Strategic Approach for Improving Results

This class provides the tools needed to define, develop, and implement a customized performance appraisal program.

Performance Documentation Skills

This class teaches a simple performance documentation process and understand its importance in preventing legal claims.

Performance Management Essentials

Learn how an effective performance management process strategically aligns employee performance with organizational objectives and creates the conditions where employees can perform their best.

Performance Management: Managing Employee Development - Half Day

This class gives managers the skills to prepare for and conduct employee development discussions as part of the performance management process.

Performance Management: Setting the Stage for Success

This class provides the skills to manage employee performance as an ongoing process and ties the supervisory role to employee and organizational success.

Performance Without Appraisals

This content-rich class will help you decide if the latest trends on how your organization manages performance and what is right for your organization.

PHR/SPHR Study Programs

These interactive study courses assist in preparing for the exam. The employment attorneys and HR professionals are subject matter experts and use an assortment of teaching techniques.

Practical Problem Solving for Support Staff

In this class, participants assess their problem-solving style and choose the mode most appropriate to the problem.

Presentation Skills: Fundamentals

This class will develop basic skills to deliver effective presentations in a professional setting.

Presentation Skills: Talk Like TED

This class shows how to apply principles and techniques of Ted Talks to to business presentations.

Presentation Skills: The Art of Visual Design

This class discusses the six universal design principles can be applied immediately to existing decks or on new presentations.

Problem Solving Skills

This class explores a four-part problem-solving model to help generate alternatives and implement the best soution.

Project Management “Lite”

This class is a combination of lecture and numerous group exercises using project management tools and techniques.

Project Management Foundations

This Project Management class use a realistic case study and exercises to provide hands-on use of the tools and techniques.

Project Management Intermediate

This class is designed to provide tools and techniques to help participants with Project Mangament.

Project Management Soft Skills

This class provides focused time to learn and apply basic human-side skills to projects of all shapes and sizes. This class incorporates multiple exercises and provides hands-on use of the various approaches and techniques.

Project Management Using Agile Methods

This class provides an overview of Agile project management principles and includes basic tools to help you apply basic Agile practices to projects.

Public Employers HR Conference

This annual conference addresses unique issues HR professionals face who work for government or quasi-government agencies.

Public Sector Huddle Series

Public employers, join us for three free huddle series. The sessions are Special Concerns of First Responders, Worker Resiliency & Compassion Fatigue, and Diversity, Inclusion & Culture in the Public Sector.

Reasonable Suspicion: Briefing for Managers and Supervisors

In this briefing, front-line leaders will learn key information to help them successfully recognize such signs and symptoms and then take appropriate follow-up steps.

Reasonable Suspicion: Detecting Drug and Alcohol Use in the Workplace

This class trains employers to recognize the signs and symptoms of on-the- job impairment by drugs or alcohol.

Recorded Webinar: Understanding the DOL’s New Salary Rules for Exempt Workers

This webinar provides a discussion of the new rule, what it changes, what it doesn't, along with strategies and options for coming into compliance by January 1, 2020.

Recordkeeping for Human Resources

This class shows why records are kept, what is kept, and for how long.

Recruiting: The Strategy and the Tactics

In this class, participants develop of a strategy, learn how to target and evaluate effective internal and external sources, and create an employee referral program.

Recruitment Strategies: Win the War for Talent

This class helps you understand and explore new and innovative approaches to implementing a strategy that successfully attracts and retains the most qualified applicants as well as directly aligns with your company’s business objectives and goals.

Resiliency Reboot: Conquering Compassion Fatigue

Learn about compassion fatigue and how being resilient is the key to conquering it.

Retaining and Engaging Employees: What Employees Really Care About

This class shows how to build effective programs and create an environment that values employees by exploring the many factors involved in an employee’s decision to stay or leave.

Salary Survey Data: Making Sense of the Numbers

This class is particularly helpful to those new to the Employers Council survey process, covers questionnaire and its mechanics, survey methodology, what to look for when using surveys, and a special look at our surveys.

Salary Survey Job Matching Workshop

Learn how to match jobs in your organization using Employers Councils Benchmark Compensation Survey for Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming.

Salary Survey Trends and Colorado Pay Equity for Nonprofits - Free Webinar

This free webinar will cover Employers Council’s 2019 nonprofit survey results and compensation trends, and provide information on the new Colorado Pay Equity regulations.

Sales: The Art of Obtaining Business without Selling

This class was developed and structured for all types of people; they will learn, develop, practice and apply skills that will allow them to be successful salespeople.

Senior HR Executive Roundtable

This roundtable helps participants expand their professional network while exchanging ideas, discussing challenges, and sharing solutions

Servant Leadership: Putting Our Followers First

This interactive class explores the cutting-edge modality of Servant Leadership with the objective of highlighting specific principles, assessing and practicing key skills, and bringing greater meaning, prosperity and joy to the workplace.

Seven Essential Steps for Determining and Defending Employee Discipline and Discharge

This class allows participants to work with and examine the basic principle underlying proper disciplinary procedures.

SharePoint 2016 Level 1

This class shows how to use out-of-the-box SharePoint functionality to develop SharePoint sites after the backend SharePoint structure has been setup.

SharePoint 2016 Level 2

This class provides the skills needed to use more advanced features of SharePoint and develop better organized and effective sites.

SharePoint BootCamp

This SharePoint course is intended for non-technical administrators of sites and pages, and will enable you to be comfortable with SharePoint’s out-of-the-box functionality, after the back-end of the application’s structure has been set up.

SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP Examination Study Program

This class helps HR professionals prepare for the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP exam.

Situational Leadership®: An Introduction to the SLBAII

This class explores a leadership theory offered by Ken Blanchard.

Speaker Series

Our new Speaker Series includes sessions on leadership, cultivating kindness, avoiding liability in holiday planning, and social media.

Strategic Planning: Using SOAR

In this interactive class, participants will learn a framework for strategic planning that answers three fundamental questions.

Strategic Thinking

This course will help you 1) understand the difference between tactical and strategic thinking, 2) understand how to think strategically, and 3) apply strategic thinking in organizational context.

Strategically Managing the Brain Drain

This class provides a practical guide for stopping the brain drain and capturing valuable knowledge, skills, and experience.

Stress Management: Feel Better, Live Longer

This class provides a comprehensive approach to managing stress including lifestyle balance, modifying behavior patterns, and enhanc­ing physical awareness.

Stress Management: Flourishing During the Summer

In this class, participants will discover tactics for effectively managing and navigating challenges…ensuring a fun and stress-free season.

Stress Management: How to Thrive During the Holidays

This class provides effective strategies for thriving—not just surviving—during the holiday season.

Succession Planning: Are You Prepared?

This class addresses some of the most important aspects of succession planning.

Supervision Basics for Emerging Leaders

This course was designed to provide new leaders an overview of the fundamentals of supervision in a “just-in-time” blended learning cohort format.

Supervision Core Competencies: Meeting the Needs of Today's Employees

This class explores leadership styles to better work with subordinates, teams, and peers as well as key aspects of employee engagement.

Supervision: Buddy to Boss

This class show participants how to develop their own management style and create relationships with employees to help guarantee success as a new leader.

Supervision: Is It For Me?

The class highlights changes in types of responsibility, relationships with peers, friends, and management, along with personal challenges that often go along with a promotion to supervision.

Supervision: Managing Remote Employees

This class focuses on skills managers need successfully manage remote workers.

Supervision: The Accountability Experience

In this workshop, participants discover the powerful personal and organizational benefits of individual accountability and the strategies to make it happen.

Supervision: The Art of Managing Up

This class helps participants who are looking to partner more successfully with their boss .

Supervision: Your First 90 Days—How to Survive

This is a great class for those new to supervision. Participants explore the differences between managing and leading.

Supervisory Skills Program

This intensive program provides participants with a foundation of critical skills necessary to become an effective workplace leader.

Team Leadership: Creating Effective Work Groups

This class provides realistic ways to help teams work together.

Team Leadership: Leading Teams

This class outlines how to set a direction for a team by assessing individual needs, recognizing stages of team development, and applying facilitative and directive leadership practices to support teams.

Telephone Imagery: Improving Customer Service Through Excellent Telephone Communication Skill

This class shows how to creata positive impression on the phone by understanding communication styles and enhancing listening skills.

The Complete Supervisor Program

This week-long class takes supervisors through the life cycle of an employee.

The Curiosity of Change

Join us for a special morning program based on the book the Curiosity of Change.

The Employment Law Essentials Certificate Program

The week-long class provides an opportunity to interact with other human resource professionals as you discuss how different laws interact and affect their organization’s employment practices.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

This class provides leaders with an in-depth understanding of the Five Dysfunctions model and tools for applying the theory in order to help their teams become more productive and cooperative.

The Importance of Careful Communication in the Workplace

This class discusses the importance of careful communication skills and how the emerging use of emoticons and emojiis are creating new legal risks for employers.

The Intentional Leader: A Multi-Faceted Approach to Leadership Development

The Executive Leadership Program deepens awareness and helps participants develop crucial skills.

The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Goals

This class offers understanding of the workings of the mind, and, more importantly, practical tools and processes that will up-level your performance, leadership skills and fulfillment.

The Team Leadership Certificate

Come spend the week with us for this bundled program that brings together our best team offerings and build the capacity of the teams you lead.

Time Management: Creating Balance in Today's Workplace

Based on the latest concepts from Stephen Covey, David Allen, Donald Whetmore, and Julie Morgenstern, participants explore the connection between leadership, management, and time management.

Time Management: Working Smart + Outlook

Improve performance dramatically by learning how to manage a heavy workload, without feeling overwhelmed, using Outlook. This program is one of our very best productivity improvement options.

Train the Trainer

This class teaches the principles of adult learning and the training cycle. Participants then develop and deliver part of a training program.

Trainers: Advanced Practicum

This class provides experienced trainers with an opportunity to prepare and deliver a practice-training module and receive feedback from peers.

Training Activities

In this class, participants prepare well-developed activities that promote learning to improve training at work.

Training Materials Design

This class focuses on creating the supporting written materials such as notebooks, handouts, and visual aids, as well as other learning aids.

Training Needs Assessment and Evaluation

In this class, participants will explore various methods for creating appropriate training needs assessments and evaluation strategies.

Training Skills for On-the-Job Trainers

This class provides a comprehensive approach to the creation of procedural manuals used in training one-on-one.

Unconscious Bias: Surfacing Hidden Assumptions

This practical and informative session provides an overview of unconscious bias and examples of its impact in the workplace. Participants are encouraged to examine their own biases and assumptions in order to make more considered and consistent decisions.

Understanding the Healthy Families and Workplace Act - Colorado Law Specific

This webinar will explain the requirements of the new Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act recently signed into law. Portions of the Act go into effect immediately, while other aspects of the law go into effect on January 1, 2021.

Unemployment Insurance Essentials - Utah

This class is designed to help Utah employers understand who can receive benefits, the financial impact to the organization, and how to control/minimize unemployment costs.

Unemployment Insurance in Utah: Appeal Hearing Workshop

In this workshop, participants learn how to lower their unemployment insurance tax by properly contesting and defending unemployment claims.

Unemployment Insurance: Appeal Hearing Workshop

This class provides strategies for success at the appeal level and focus on hearing preparation.

Unemployment Insurance: Challenging Claims and Controlling Cost

In this class participants will learn who is covered by unemployment insurance, when benefits are awarded, and strategies for lowering unemployment costs.

Unions: Managing in a Union Environment—How To Manage, Discipline, and Terminate Union Employees

This class helps those who manage in a union enviroment to contend with conflicts between management rights and collective bargaining provisions.

Violence at Work: An Introduction for Supervisors and Managers

This class provides supervisors and managers with practical information for recognizing and addressing threats, domestic violence, bullying, suicide, and the behaviors that generally precede violence in the workplace.

Virtual Recruiting and Optimizing Performance in a Remote World

Join us for this two-part series where we will address best practices of remote recruiting and performance management — what to do, what not to do, and how to effectively adapt to digital channels to optimize performance.

Wage and Hour Exemption Practicum

This class walks participants through a process to help determine whether positions at your company are exempt under the FLSA.

Wage and Hour Law: Avoiding Costly Mistakes

In this class, participants learn what industries are covered by the FLSA , along with recordkeeping requirements and the position exemptions from overtime.

Webinar: Using the Job Description Builder to Comply with Colorado’s Equal Pay Equal Work Act

Colorado employers must comply with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act as of January 1, 2021. This free webinar will demonstrate the use of an interactive online job description builder that can be accessed through the Member Portal.

When It Comes to Workplace Issues, It's Not a Question of If, But When...

Join employment law and HR experts as we walk you through the most common issues we're seeing that will inevitably arise in your workplace – and how to proactively address them before they turn into costly lawsuits.

Workers’ Compensation Basics

In this class, participants are introduced to the basic provisions and procedures of the Colorado Workers’ Compensation Act.

Workers’ Compensation: The Advanced Workshop

This class provides managers and administrators with information to properly manage injured workers in order to maintain productivity within the bounds of the Colorado Workers’ Compensation Act.

Workforce Planning: Your Roadmap to the Future

In this class participants learn how to assess future human capital needs for a workforce plan.

Working Minds: Suicide Prevention in the Workplace

A program designed to help workplaces appreciate the critical need for suicide prevention while creating a forum for dialogue and critical thinking about workplace mental health changes.

Workplace Respect

This class offers an opportunity to investigate some root causes of disrespect and unclear personal boundaries.

Write it Right

This class shows participants how to deliver error-free documents by avoiding common mistakes.

Write It Well: How to Create Shorter and More Positive Messages

This class helps writers at all levels improve the way they write.

Writing Effective Job Descriptions

This practical, hands-on class guides participants from the job analysis process to completed job descriptions.

Writing in Plain Language to Get the Results You Need

This class helps those who want to improve technical writing skills.

Writing Proposals That Win

This class shows participants how to write logical, complete proposals in a time-effective, process-oriented manner.

You’re Fired: Practical Tools for Managing the Termination Process

This class takes participants through the important steps in the process of making the decision to terminate an employee.