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.

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.

Communicating Assertively: Finding Balance

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.

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: 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.

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.

Customer Relations: Making the Connection

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

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 Interpersonal Communication Skills

This class examines the essentials of the communication process.

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.

Effective Business Writing

Participants will learn how to maximize the writing process, from planning to proof-reading.

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.

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 Update Conference

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

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: Accounting for Non-Accountants

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

Five Languages of Leadership

Foundations for Emotional Intelligence at Work

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

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.

GOAL! Get Organized At Last!

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

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.

HR Metrics and Analytics: Focusing on What is Important

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

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.

Identifying, Documenting, and Managing Marijuana Impairment for HR Professionals

Interviewing and Hiring I

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

Investigations in the Workplace

This class guides participants through the entire workplace investigation process.

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 Through Influence

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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: 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: Emotional Intelligence

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

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: 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: 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: 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 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: Project Management

This class provides an overview on Project Management.

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: 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.

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.

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 Documentation Skills

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

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.

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.

Problem Solving Skills

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

Project Management Foundations

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

Public Employers HR Conference

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

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.

SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP Examination Study Program

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

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: 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: The Transition into Leadership

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Workers’ Compensation Basics

In this class, participants are introduced to the basic provisions and procedures 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.

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.

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.