Coaching to Build Skills, Improve Performance and Develop Others

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.

Communicating Effectively with Email

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

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 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.

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.

Developing Leadership Skills through Mindfulness

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.

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.

Email Chaos Ended! Time Regained

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

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.

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

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.

Improve Team Workflow and Personal Effectiveness

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

Interviewing and Hiring

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.

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 Effective Meetings

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

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.

Membership Orientation

Learn all the different ways you can maximize your membership.

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.

PHR®/SPHR®/SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP 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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

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.

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.