Build the core skills needed to thrive in today’s professional environment. This section offers practical articles on communication, teamwork, time management, and problem-solving—key competencies for success in any workplace. Alongside valuable insights, explore interactive workshops designed to enhance your personal development and help you create a productive, collaborative, and positive work culture.
Today’s world is full of the unexpected. System failures, terrorism events, disease outbreaks, and superstorms disrupt businesses every day, sometimes to an unrecoverable point. Despite these challenges, some services (such as power plants, hospitals, and airports) have no choice but to continue operating. This one-day course will explore how these organizations maintain high reliability even in times of serious crisis and stability. We will...
Today's consumers have access to a wider range of information than ever, and they use that information to check up on the companies and organizations that they support. This means that there is more pressure on businesses than ever to be socially responsible. This one-day course covers all the elements of corporate social responsibility, including environmental awareness, human rights, labor standards, ethics, organization governance, and...
An article in the March 11, 2010 edition of TIME magazine purported to explain “why we have entered the post-trust era.” Indeed, we seem to be in a time where people act inappropriately and then refuse to take responsibility for their actions. Who can we blame for the world economic crisis, the issues in the Catholic Church, or the state of the environment? More to the point, why do we spend so much time and energy looking to pin the blame...
In the past ten years, the workforce has changed dramatically. More than ever, a workplace is a diverse collection of individuals proud of who they are: their gender, their sexual orientation, their religion, their ethnic background, and all the other components that make an individual unique. In order for your workplace to succeed, your employees must be able to appreciate and celebrate those differences. Duration: one day. What Will...
People with disabilities represent a significant and largely underutilized resource for businesses. Many disabled persons are underemployed or unemployed. As a result of advocates for diversity, as well as a shrinking labor pool, employers are taking a serious look at hiring and retaining people with disabilities. This two-day workshop will give supervisors, managers, and human resource consultants tools and tips for creating a diverse...
