Find out: Register today for the Employment Law & Workforce Seminar.

Feb. 7-8, Phoenix, AZ. Hotel discount cut-off date:1/24/06

In today’s workplace, all managers, not just  HR staff and lawyers, have to pay attention to employment law issues. This seminar, led by employment attorney Jathan W. Janove, Esq., author of Managing to Stay out of Court. How to Avoid the 8 Deadly Sins of Mismanagement, (and the popular speaker from OES and BAC) provides mid- and senior-level managers with tools and information to help protect their employers, their employees and themselves against costly employment pitfalls... including uncontrolled anger.

Read this important endorsement, check out the course topics below and hurry and enroll today. Register online or complete the attached registration form and fax it  to (301) 565-8200. For program information, contact Robert Sullivan at 1-888-846-7622, x1148 or at sullivan@nrmca.org. For registration information, contact Jessica Moore, 240-485-1152, email.

Topics you must know: 

Hiring

  • Legal dos and don’ts

  • Performing background and reference checks

  • Creating a Performance Profile and using it to distinguish people good at getting jobs from people good at doing jobs

Communication Skills

  • Communicating the manager’s “ERA” –  Expectations, Responsibility and Accountability

  • How to delegate effectively

  • 2-for-1, the EAR and other listening skills

Performance Evaluations

  • The way to “DIS” an employee (Direct, Immediate, Specific)

  • The payoff of praising employees

  • A “no surprises” performance evaluation system

Documentation

  • A tool to protect you from employment litigation

  • A tool to make you a better communicator

  • The three step, “LMW” method (List, Meet, Write)

  • Forms for particular  circumstances

Discipline & Discharge

  • When to discipline

  • How to discipline

  • When to discharge

  • How to discharge

Diversity

  • Benefits of a diverse  workforce

  • Strategies for developing a diverse workforce

  • Making diversity a source of strength, not conflict

Conflict Resolution

  • Controlling your own anger

  • Controlling the anger  of others

  • Mediating and resolving disputes

Discipline & Discharge

  • When to discipline

  • How to discipline

  • When to discharge

  • How to discharge

Sexual and Other  Harassment

  • What to teach employees regarding “The Slippery Slope”

  • What your policies should say

  • Responding to an internal sexual complaint or other harassment

  • Conducting an internal investigation

Employee Health Issues

  • Why managers get in trouble

  • How to stay out of trouble

Workplace Violence

  • Identifying danger signs in employees

  • What to do once a danger has been identified

Identifying the Big Picture

  • Identify & communicate company mission, vision,  values & goals

  • Employee relations and the “Big Picture” frame

Transfer of Training

  • What it takes to move training lessons into actual workplace behavior and practice

  • Specific steps and strategies for achieving  positive change