Professional Education

This is a practical, how-to-workshop to give union negotiators and bargaining committee members the skills they need to prepare for contract negotiations. This online workshop is part of the four-course Labor Leadership Skills Certificate and participants do not have to be online at a specific time.

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Register for Costing Out a Contract (online)

Ready to make a difference in your union, organization, or company? Earn your certificate and build essential leadership, negotiation and communication skills with convenient and flexible online courses. The Labor Leadership Skills certificate program is an affordable and rapid-results educational experience that provides skills essential to success in your organization.

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Register for Labor Leadership Skills Certificate Program - Online

Recognize demographic, technology and globalization shifts changing business needs. Identify key trends and understand their impact on the workforce, workplace and marketplace. Examine implications for re-energizing, driving and sustaining inclusive initiatives in face of new conversations emerging in today’s workplace. .

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Register for Emerging Trends: Putting Allyship into Action

Learn how to launch and revitalize people and culture committees including councils and ERGs for successful impact in alignment with organizational mission, vision, values and business objectives. Apply inclusion and equity best practices to gain increased effectiveness, performance, contribution and accessibility for all employees within an organization.

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Register for Establishing People and Culture Committees, Councils and ERGs

Learn what is needed to launch, enhance or revitalize people and talent initiatives that build core competencies and drive equitable practices throughout your organization. Explore how to leverage inclusive and diverse strategies as a competitive advantage on multiple fronts for achieving business objectives and sustainability.

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Register for Implementing and Sustaining Inclusive Strategies and Cultures

For anyone who wants to improve oral presentation skills and overcome reluctance to speak in public and gain tools for more effective presentations. This online workshop is part of the four-course Labor Leadership Skills Certificate Program and participants do not have to be online at a specific time.

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Register for Effective Communication (online)

Become the voice of your organization and influence others to do the same. Develop core capabilities to build relationships and consult internal clients. Learn techniques to guide clients in establishing goals, achieving desired outcomes, and managing expectations.

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Register for Consulting Skills for HR Professionals

Learn best practices for understanding, identifying, preventing, and managing employee-related issues that have potential legal concerns. Gain up-to-date information on employment laws and court cases on employment practices. Use case scenarios to apply practical implications of those laws on policies and day-to-day operations.

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Register for Employment and EEO Laws

Learn techniques, tools, processes and skills for facilitating conflict using a collaborative problem solving approach for resolving one-on-one conflicts. Topics and tools focus on problem solving, listening and messaging skills, conflict styles, neutral issue statements, de-escalating emotions, developing options, facilitating and gaining commitment.

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Register for Advanced Facilitating Conflict: Collaborative Problem Solving

Performance enabling organizational design is both an art, and a science. Today’s HR practitioners are expected to hone consulting and analytical skills and strike a balance between a facilitative and expert role to create alignment between components of the organization and the organization’s strategic goals. Change usually has organization design implications, and organization design inevitable results in change.

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Register for Organization Design and Enabling Change

Enhance critical skills for designing and implementing learning and development initiatives to advance an inclusive, equitable and accessible work environment. Acquire knowledge and tools to ensure management and employees understand the value of these initiatives. Gain experience on how to help the workforce deepen their self-awareness, engage in challenging conversations, and invest in the success and support of others. Build on techniques, models and ideas designed to drive messages and sustain key learnings to change behaviors with a more positive impact at work.

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Register for Learning and Development: Strategies for Advancing an Inclusive Work Environment

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to harness emotions in sensing, understanding and responding adeptly to social cues in the surrounding environment. Measure your current EI level and receive coaching to improve it. Learn to use your EI to interact with others, solve problems and achieve higher performance.

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Register for Emotional Intelligence: An Edge for Leaders

A unionizing workplace profoundly impacts managing behavior and performance. Navigate “just cause,” the role of union representation, disciplinary grievances and arbitrations. Simulate the critical breakdowns during workplace conflict and discover steps to a solution.

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Register for Performance Management in a Union Environment

Learn and practice the complete step-by-step internal investigation process. Receive extensive content related to conducting interviews, investigation techniques, determining credibility, managing bias, reaching conclusions, and implementing outcomes. Interact with expert investigators to learn best practices and acquire new skills.

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Register for Advanced Internal Investigations: Process and Application

A full and fair investigation of alleged employee misconduct is a critical component of due process. It is therefore essential that you use the available tools and techniques when conducting an investigation.

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Register for Investigations in a Union Environment