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Access Advanced

This class teaches advanced features in Microsoft Access.

Access Basic

This class teaches basic features in Microsoft Access.

Access Boot Camp

This class teaches how to create a new database or edit an exisiting one.

Access Intermediate

This class teaches skills in more advanced Access databases.

Accountability in Human Resource Management: Connecting HR to Business Results

This class teaches the HR function how to show the value of various HR programs and initiatives.

Accounting for Managers

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

Accounting for Non-Accountants

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

Accounting: Understanding Financial Statements

This class is for managers and investors who want to analyze information available in published financial statements.

ADA and FMLA for Managers and Supervisors: Stop, Look and Listen

This class provides a practical application of the ADA and FMLA for front line managers and supervisors.

ADA: Managing Disabilities in the Workplace

This class helps employers better manage disabilities in the workplace by exploring who is disabled under the Americans with Disablities Act.

Adobe Acrobat - Tempe

This class teaches the functionality and features available in Acrobat. Learn how to create, edit, secure and mange pdf documents.

Advanced Human Resource Management Program

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

Advanced I-9 Practice

This class assumes knowledge of basic I-9 completion, and drills down to more specialized information, including: audits and corrections; practices related to foreign nationals; and, re-verifications.

Advanced Practicum for Experienced Trainers

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

Affirmative Action and Recruiters: What Recruiters Need to Know

This class covers the essential aspects of Affirmative Action for recruiters and includes regulations, plan contents, statistical reports and narratives, and data collection and management.

Affirmative Action Workshop: An Introduction

This class teaches participants how to interpret and maintain a compliant Affirmative Action Program.

Affordable Care Act: A Guide for Human Resources

This class gives participants the tools to determine obligations and compliance with the Affordable Care Act.

aPHR

This class helps those who want to obtain their aPHR certification prepare for the exam.

Art of Blinders: Maximizing your Communication through Principles from the Sightless

This class addresses four of the most common communication issues in corporate America: Distractions; Ambiguity; Obstacles; and, Competition.

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.

Attraction and Retention of the Best Employees

Successful organizations hire and keep great employees to help their customers. How do you become attractive to these great employees, and once you have them, how do you keep them engaged in your workplace? Attend this free session to find out how.

Basic I-9 Compliance

This class covers the I-9 process including initial verification of work authorization, re-verification, correcting errors on I-9s, and conducting internal audits.

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.

Brush-Up English

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

Business Analysis: Real-World Case Studies

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

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 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.

Buy More Health not Healthcare: What Every Employer Should Know When Purhasing Health Benefits

Employer sponsored health insurance provides coverage for more than 50% of the population in the US. This class helps employers take a proactive approach to purchasing healthcare services, which improve the quality of care for employees, increase producti

California Legal Webinars

This webinar series discusses important HR issues that California employers face.

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: 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 in 2017 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.

Colorado Culture of Health Conference

The Colorado Culture of Health conference is designed for employers, wellness managers, and other health professionals who work to improve all facets of employee health.

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

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 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.

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: A Day in the Life of a Comp Professional

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

Conflict Strategies: Navigating Others Through Workplace Difficulties

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

Conflict: Self-Management

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

Creating a Sticky Organization

Employees are motivated by salary and benefits, but that is not what causes an employee to stay at an organization. How do you become a “sticky” organization for your employee, so they will want to continue to not only work for you, but put forth their b

Creating Organizational Alignment and Engagement

This class guides participants through the process of gaining buy-in to the organization’s purpose.

Creating Training Materials

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

Cultivating Organizational Excellence: A Best Practices Summit for Successful Employers

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

Cultivating Your Listening Skills: Listening to Understand

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

Customer Relations: Making the Connection

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

CyberSAFE: Securing Assets For End-users

This course helps identify many of the common risks involved in using conventional end-user technology, as well as ways to use it safely.

Daring Way™

The Daring Way™ is a highly experiential methodology based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown.

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.

Discipline Without Punishment

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

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 in the Workplace

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.

Emotional Intelligence at Work

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

Employee Handbooks: Revising or Developing

This class helps to develop a handbook reflective of an organization

Employers Compliance Boundaries

Employers are free to run their business, hire and fire, and make rules so long as they operate within legal boundaries. In this free session, we discuss the four main areas of employment law so that you know how to operate within the boundaries.

Employers Summit 2017: Beyond Traditional Benefits

Go beyond traditional benefits and find out why employees work at your organization.

Employment at Will

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

Employment Law Essentials Certificate Program

This one-week training program in employment law provides human resources professionals with confidence in their ability to manage employment law issues and recognize legal pitfalls in the workplace.

Employment Law Update Conference

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

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 Boot Camp

This boot camp shows you everything you can do in Excel.

Excel Charts and Pivot Tables

This class shows how to use PivotTables and Charts in spreadsheets and a great understanding of how data in Excel can be displaying in a visual way.

Excel Dashboards - Tempe

This class shows how to extract actionable organizational intelligence from raw data, and present it in a visual format that enables decision makers to view key trends and conclusions at a glance.

Excel Formulas & Functions

This class shows complex Functions and Formulas to automate Excel workbooks.

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.

Excel Macros - Tempe

This class covers the steps necessary to create macros, recording macros, your personal macro workbook and a brief introduction to the VBA Editor that will allow you to edit existing macros.

Excel PowerPivot - Tempe

Students leave this class with more confidence in using PivotTables and Charts in spreadsheets and a great understanding of how data in Excel can be displaying in a visual way.

Excel Pros: Managing Databases

This class shows how to get the most out of databases, and large amounts of data stored in Excel.

Family and Medical Leave Act: Advanced

This class helps you handle the trickiest FMLA situations.

Family and Medical Leave Act:A Guide for Human Resources

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

Financial Foundations for HR

This class provides a foundation for understanding the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements and how human capital and business decisions affect those statements.

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.

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 to 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.

GOAL! Get Organized At Last!

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

Great Leader Series

Learn leadership skills to help you succeed in this series of classes.

Great Leader Series: How Great Leaders Motivate and Engage Today's Employees

This class challenges your assumptions about what motivates employees and give you new, vibrant and practical solutions for enhancing employee engagement and stimulating peak performance.

Great Leaders Series:How Great Leaders Build Trust

This class shows how to build high-trust organizations, teams, and relationships by exploring the “vital few” behaviors that build trust, deepening your awareness of how your leading impacts trust, and developing skills to enhance a climate of trust.

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.

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.

Hot Topics in Employment Law, HR, Surveys, and Development in 2017

What is trending in 2017? If you manage people or HR at your workplace, you will want to attend this session. Learn about the latest regulations in employment law, what are some new HR best practices, what our compensation and benefit surveys are indica

How Great Leaders Manage their Emotions, Attitude

This class helps you manage your emotions and thoughts, increase your energy level, and respond intentionally and positively when faced with leadership challenges.

How Great Leaders Build High Performance Teams

This class shows leaders how to build high performance issues.

How Great Leaders Think Strategically and Lead Change

This class shows you how to think strategically—all the time—using different modes of thinking. It will help you learn how to involve your teams in strategic thinking.

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.

HR Webinar Series! Important Issues in Human Resources – Managing Employee Performance - You’re Fired: Terminating Employees - Practical Tools for Handling the Process

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

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.

Illustrator 1 - Tempe

This class shows how use Adobe Illustrator by drawing and manipulating simple shapes to create logos.

Illustrator 2 - Tempe

This class teaches more advanced skills to use in Illustrator.

InDesign 1 - Tempe

This class shows how to use InDesign tools and features to create eye-catching printed documents.

InDesign 2 - Tempe

This class teahes advanced InDesign techniques to enhance the look and functionality of documents.

Innovation in the Workplace

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

Intentional Leader: An Executive Leadership Program

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

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.

Introduction to Organizational Development: a Comsultative Approach

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

Introduction to Human Resource Management Program

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.

Investigations in the Workplace

This class guides participants through the entire workplace investigation process.

Investigations in the Workplace: Two-Day Workshop

This class shows particpants how to follow clear practices to successfully conduct investigations.

Key Utah Employment Rules

This class discusses key employment law issues in Utah.

Knowledge Management: Transferring Critical Knowledge Across Generations

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

Layoffs

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

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 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.

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.

Lean Basics

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 - Effective and Enforceable Severance and Release Agreements

This class shows how to use severance and release agreements.

Legal Breakfast Briefing Series: Training Your Employees to Prevent Legal Problems

The legal breakfast briefing series are taught by expert attorneys who show practical application and real-world solutions.

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.

LinkedIn for Sales and Marketing

This class shows how to build an attention-getting profile on LinkedIn, strategically develop and communicate with a network of connections, and enhance sales and marketing reach.

Lunch & Learn: Excel - The 10 simple things in Excel that can make your life easier and save you time

Learn 10 tricks and tips to use in Excel to help you create spreadsheets easier.

Lunch & Learn: PowerPoint - Dynamic Design Tricks

This class teaches tricks in PowerPoint to help you create dynamic presentations.

Lunch & Learn: Word - Why Word is Driving you Crazy

This class shows how to master frustrating items in Word and to make it behave the way you want.

Lunch and Learn: Employee Relations Opportunities

Join us for lunch and learn how to create new employee relations opportunities.

Management Back to Basics

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

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 Multiple Priorities

This class helps participants prepare for change in managing tasks.

Managing Remote Employees

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

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.

Matrix Team Leadership: A Systems Approach

This class shows how to matrix the team into a “living system” of relationships that encourages interconnected communication and interdependent leadership.

Mediation Certificate Program

After completing this 40 hour mediation course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from Employers Council. This Certificate will satisfy the entry-level training requirements of a Professional Mediator as defined by the MAC, the Mediati

Mindfulness in Leadership

This class shows how mindfulness can enhance leadership capabilities and improve your organization.

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- Developing the Next Generation

This class provides current data and practical activities a non-profit organization can apply to manage their changing talent pipeline.

Office Training Basic

This class provides a basic knowledge of the primary Microsoft Office applications and a strong foundation for future training and skill growth.

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: A Changing Nation (pre-recorded webinar)

This class teaches HR professionals about rights and legal compliance obligations for LGBT employees.

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's New Pregnancy Accomodation Law What to Expect When You're Expecting

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 Service Skills

This program will address various skills, concepts and considerations in providing excellent customer service.

Online Learning Center: Customer Service Skills for Retail

This program will discuss those five things while identifying skills and practices for enhancing the retail sales experience.

Online Learning Center: Diversity

This program explores topics including: identifying what diversity is, a continuum of understanding diversity, the challenges of stereotyping, the power of inclusion, as well as how diversity can lead to greatness in any organization.

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: Healthy Communication

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: You're Fired (Pre-recorded Webinar)

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

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.

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: Managing Employee Development

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 Management: Setting the Stage for Success (Half Day)

This class teaches supervisors and managers learn to manage employee performance and development as an ongoing process and to tie the supervisory role to employee and organizational success.

Photoshop 1 - Tempe

This class shows the different tools and features available in Photoshop to help you maximize your creative potential.

Photoshop 2 - Tempe

This class shows how to enhance images and work with video, and how to work with the advanced tools and features available in Photoshop.

PHR/SPHR/GPHR and California State 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.

PowerPoint Advanced

This class shows how to build effective, interesting PowerPoint presentations that use the advanced features of the program.

PowerPoint Basic

This class shows how tobuild a simple PowerPoint presentation using graphics, text, and other engaging elements.

PowerPoint Intermediate

This class teaches skills for designing interesting PowerPoint presentations, using many of the more advanced features of the program.

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: 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.

Project Advanced

This class teaches skills using advanced Project features to design complex and extensive Microsoft Project plans.

Project Basic

This class provides skills for developing a project plan in Microsoft Project.

Project Concepts and Theory - Tempe

This class provides an overview of project management. It discusses the theory and core methodology you will need to manage projects or participate on project teams.

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.

Public Employers Human Resource Conference

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

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.

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.

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.

Return On Investment Certification Program

Delivered by internationally recognized ROI experts Dr. Jack and Patti Phillips, this is the most comprehensive program for gaining the knowledge, skills, and resources to evaluate programs of all types.

Rising Strong: Leaning into Leadership

This classs was originally from the works of Brene Brown, and helps participant gain greater self- awareness.

Salary Survey Data: Making Sense of the Numbers

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

SEO and Digital Marketing

This class shows how to gain more leads from your website, create brand awareness, and ultimately increase sales from online marketing efforts.

Seven Essential Steps for Determining and Defending Employee Discipline

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

SharePoint 2013 Designer

This class shows how to use SharePoint Designer to edit pages and accomplish basic tasks using the ribbon.

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.

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.

SKILLSCOPE: A Multi-Rater Assessment Tool for Supervisors and Managers

This class includes the comprehensive instrument, called SKILLSCOPE, which assesses participants’ strengths and developmental needs.

Solution Focused Communication: Getting to What Works

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

Spotlight on Surveys 2017

This class provides information on Employers Council Surveys.

SQL Level 1 Querying - Tempe

This class shows how to use Structured Query Language (SQL) as a tool to implement logic and define instructions.

SQL Level 2 Advanced Querying - Tempe

This class shows how to create advanced SQL queries to manipulate and index tables.

Strategic View of Performance

Managing performance only makes sense when you know what performance you need. That starts with understanding the strategic goals in your organization and how to achieve them through the performance of all employees. This free session provides tips for cr

Strategies for Managing Arizona Paid Sick Leave

This class provides managers and supervisors with the knowledge they need to understand their obligations and limitations under the paid sick leave law, through a practical hands-on application of the law's requirements to workplace situations.

Stress Management in the Work Environment

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

Succession Planning: Are You Prepared?

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

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: Core Competencies

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

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: The Art of Managing Up

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

Supervision: Your First 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.

Supervisory Skills: Taking it to the Next Level

This class helps supervisors expand their supervisory skills.

Technical Writing for the Real World

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

Telecommuting

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.

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 Accountability Experience

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

The Complete Supervisor Program

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

Time Management for Managers: Creating Balance at Work and Home

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 for Support Staff: Creating Balance in Today’s Workplace

This class provides tools to help manage activities and priorities in a busy office.

Time Management with Outlook

This class helps you turn Outlook into a personal assistant that gets things done. This program is one of the very best productivity improvement options.

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.

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.

Training Activities

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

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.

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.

Unemployment Insurance: Appeal Hearing Workshop

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

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.

Utah Employers Summit: Beyond Traditional Benefits

This brand new full-day conference covers aspects of the employee value proposition you may not have considered. Workshops and breakout sessions are designed to help you attract and retain the most talented employees.

VBA Basic Programming

This class provides the foundation for exploring and programming the objects, methods, properties and events of Office applications.

Violence at Work: Increasing Your Awareness

This class focuses on the prevention cycle of workplace violence, which includes awareness, planning, and action.

Visio Basic

This class teaches the skills to develop a Visio diagram using graphics, text, and other elements.

Wage and Hour Exemption Workshop

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

Wage and Hour Workshop

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

Webinar: Critical Issues in Employment Law - Legal

This six-part webinar series addressing the critical compliance points that every human resources professional must understand in order to effectively shield their organization from potential employment law claims.

Webinar: Harassment Prevention in California—Managers and Supervisors

Supervisor sexual harassment training is mandatory in California for organizations with 50 or more employees. This webinar provides harassment prevention training.

What You Really Need to Know About Posters and Recordkeeping

While it may not be fun, understand compliance postings and required records is a basic skill required to run HR successfully in your workplace. In this session learn the basics of good recordkeeping practices, including how to be certain your posters are

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