Workplace Training for Executives & Business Owners

A handbook is only useful if managers understand the policies and terms and are armed with strategies for enforcement. This workshop focuses on undertaking a comprehensive review of your employment policies and equipping your managers, who are on the front lines day-to-day, with the tools they need to help ensure the policies are practiced and fairly enforced.

Basic steps in helping cultivate an ideal culture for your business include taking an inventory of the policies and practices that work for your team and using these to create a comprehensive employment policy or handbook. We can help you create the standards for the culture you want to achieve and help make that culture a reality.

Help your employees understand the legal view of workplace discrimination and retaliation, and adopt strategies for avoiding and eliminating discriminatory/retaliatory conduct.

What legally constitutes harassment? Through case studies and interactive demonstrations, this workshop focuses on how to identify, avoid, and rectify sexual harassment in the workplace.

Help ensure that your managers know when an employee might need assistance managing his or her disability in the workplace, understand when and what accommodations must be offered and provided, and what constitutes disability discrimination.

Wage and hour litigation can be costly and catastrophic to businesses. Get compliance right the first time by understanding the basics of FLSA, including employee classification, working time pay requirements, proper deductions and recordkeeping requirements.

Employees should know early and often when they are not meeting the objectives of their positions. Help your managers encourage top-notch performance from their employees and employ practical strategies (that do not lead to company liability) for those employees that cannot meet performance standards.

This training gives your managers and supervisors the tools they need to respond to unacceptable workplace behaviors. Our attorneys can advise your management team on determining whether to handle employee grievances informally versus when to involve Human Resources or legal counsel.

Effective organizational communication is the basis for a thriving business. Understand appropriate communication guidelines, and how and when to communicate with your team in the most effective manner. Avoid pitfalls which can become the basis for legal claims against your organization, and employ strategies to boost employee morale and engagement.

Understand the legal landscape governing harassment and discrimination at federal, state, and local levels. Understand reporting requirements and proper complaint handling procedures.