This is Anti-Harassment Chapter 5 of 8 by Informed Workplace. Chapter 5 is pretty straight forward.  When is an employer liable for harassment and discrimination and what are their responsibilities to employees once they have knowledge of such speech or conduct?  Knowledge on the part of the employer, as we will discuss, is crucial.  We will also discuss what to do if and when you believe you are the victim of harassment or discrimination, or retaliation; who to complain to, when and how. And, what happens if you don’t complain? 

Whether it's an online meeting, a webinar, or live online training, engagement is on everyone's mind. Will it be worth the time to attend, or will it be an opportunity to check email?

The Role of Environment, Microlearning, and Social Collaborative Tools In a recent session titled HOW TO ENGAGE MODERN LEARNERS: WHEN TO "PUSH' AND WHEN TO "PULL",  we discussed when we should embed "Pull Learning" content into the flow of work. That discussion was grounded in the principles of Modern Workplace Learning, and I suggested that considering the 5 Moments of Learning Need was a good way to determine when pull learning was most appropriate.  While formal ‘push’ training is often best for when people are learning something new, and for when things change, a strong argument can be made that ‘pull’ learning lends itself to the following moments of need: When learners need to build on concepts that they learned in a more formal training environment When they need to apply what they’ve learned When things go wrong

Embracing Change was created to stimulate conversation. Using "person-on-the-street" interviews, you will be introduced to a cast of characters that not only share how we should deal with change, but are required to put their thoughts into action.

A recent study asked sales leaders to name the top challenges holding their organizations back. The number one answer?  An inability to cut the time it takes new salespeople to close their first deals.

Welcome to the Make Change Work™ series, written and presented by business performance veteran and award-winning author, Randy Pennington. This 10-part video series presents real ideas for thriving in a world of constant change. It is a guide to help you design and implement a strategy for leading change and delivering meaningful business results. This is the second video and discusses how those who thrive will prove their value by continually being faster, better, cheaper, and friendlier. The series list is included as a reference to the suggested viewing order.

Welcome to the topic of Mastering Change meant to teach you how to face and embrace change! This video lesson, ‘The Case for Change,’ highlights the pervasiveness of change by describing several changes occurring in the world today. It also explains the three ways to respond to change and how an organization should deal with each type. Ultimately, learners will come to understand that change is neither good nor bad—it just is!

Welcome to the first program in the Get Them Marching ® Persuasive Presentation Skills series, the Go For the Goal session. Do you want to end boring, drag on and data dump presentations? Set a worthy goal. Most presenters have no goal, an anemic goal, or the wrong goal. Learn why overviews and informational presentations are a waste of time and how worthy goals exponentially improve your presentation and your results.

Welcome to the 7th video in our Advanced Train the Trainer series. The series is designed to help experienced trainers improve the impact of their work and is divided into four sets of programs: Training Management, Research, Content Development and Delivering Training. This video is part of the Training Management programs and helps you create compelling content that learners will actually want to take and use.

Welcome to the Effective Online Meeting series, which covers everything you need to know about holding an effective web meeting, online presentation or webinar. Your meeting went off without a hitch and everything worked the way it should. This video goes over some things you need to do after an online presentation to get the most out of it.

As travel costs rise and budgets shrink, conference calls are rapidly replacing face-to-face meetings. Unfortunately, many people have not yet learned the skills needed to make this type of meeting effective. We have all participated in ineffective conference calls, wasting everyone's time and energy. Often participants don't take a conference call as seriously as a regular meeting, but in reality, a conference call is a meeting, a virtual meeting with some very unique challenges.   The Invisible Meeting demonstrates 6 effective techniques for making your conference calls more productive. This engaging program reveals the challenges and the virtual rules that both participants and meeting organizers need to know. The Invisible Meeting will make your conference calls more effective, saving your organization time and money.

This is an educational video about inspirational teaching and motivation in a Latin American Dance setting. Practical applications of this video include "train the trainer" professional development and "feel good" motivational starter for a training session and/or team meeting.This program does not include a quiz. To achieve a completed status in the Learning Management System, you must view the video in its entirety.

The narrator describes the experience of being human contrasted with the inner working visuals of the human body and mind.

Welcome to the Managing Stress series. This is the second video in a series of six and is designed to help you understand stressors and teach you how to approach the different types of stress. No matter what kind of role you play with your organization, stress is inevitable, but it’s not something that has to be put up with. Organizations can reduce the workplace stressors of their employees. You can be in a stressful environment, but you don’t have to be stressed. This six-part series will teach you how to handle the normal stress of daily work and give you tips on how to remove the causes of debilitating stress. The series list is included as a reference to the suggested viewing order.

Jan Durrans shares her strategies for being organized and achieving results in several key ways, including: committing to a regular written plan, chunking down projects, regular review and accountability, discipline and mindset for success and more! This is part of the Powerful Leaders & Positive Culture programs, which includes 8 insightful videos to inspire leaders to achieve best practice with their people. These programs are part of the larger Insights and Strategies Series, in which Psychologist Eve Ash talks with leading business professionals who have learned powerful lessons and share their experiences and strategies to achieve best practice.

Welcome to our Time Management series. This is the fourth video in a series of eight and covers how to prioritize your time by combining the urgency and importance of each individual task. You only have a finite amount of time to spend in your life so you need to ask yourself, how am I going to use the time that I have? This eight-part series will get you to stop procrastinating, help you create plans and inspire you to implement your plans for productivity. So are you going to make things happen, or are you going to watch things happen? The series list is included as a reference to the suggested viewing order.

Welcome to the Time Management Tune-Up series, the Accept the Facts of Time session. This video looks at ways you can relieve your time challenges and has you think carefully about how you really spend the 24 hours of your weekday time. A quiz that covers the entire series is included in the last video: Assessment.

Why should you do post-project evaluations and how do you go about creating them? Jeff Crow provides a step-by-step description of what to include along with tips for making them useful.

How will you manage your workflow and keep the project on task? Jeff Crow explains how to manage a project and its resources on a daily basis. You will also learn some common mistakes and pitfalls that often arise when working on a new project.

How can you get more of what you want?  Seeing Red Cars encourages audiences to focus on what they DO want instead of focusing on what they don't! By having a positive attitude and taking action, viewers will be motivated to move in the right direction for themselves and for their organization.  Hosted by Laura Goodrich, trainer and consultant, this unique and engaging program helps audiences make better decisions, combat negativity, and create a positive environment.

Welcome to our DISC series, the Introduction session. This series is full of helpful information that can help in communicating with other people, leading, building a team, selling, negotiating, servicing your customer, and building relationships with other people.

Welcome to our Advanced Supervisor series on Body Language, which is the process of communicating nonverbally. There are three primary learning objectives in this series: 1) Learn how to better read others using scanning techniques, 2) Eliminate your own negatives and 3) Learn to better control your own body language. This is the fourth video in a series of five and helps you apply what you’ve learned about body language to what you encounter at work. The series list is included as a reference to the suggested viewing order.

Most designers, trainers and leaders are so accustomed to producing highly antiseptic lessons - clean, organized and controlled. However, this kills the fun and relevance of the lessons. Fortunately, they agree that using stories would add context and engage learners. Their difficulty is where and how to find stories that support their content.

Learning-by-doing is the key to technical training.  But, technical training is evolving as there is more demand for modularized content, self-paced labs, and virtual participation.