​Upcoming Events​

SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition - SHRM21
Chicago, IL
June 20 - 23, 2021
Virtual pass options now available!

2021 IPMA-HR International Training Conference & Expo
Indianapolis, IN
September 18-22, 2021
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The following live events have taken place and are now available in recorded format from the TrainHR web-site:

• TRAINHR Webinar: Conflict Resolution: Effective Workplace Peacekeeping Techniques for Supervisors
  
  
• TRAINHR Webinar: Human Resources Investigations: Strategies for Enhancing Confidence in the Investigative Process 
  
  

​​​Benefits & Employee Wellbeing

• The Changing Nature of Retirement Discussions
  
• Attentiveness & Employee Wellbeing
  
• Keeping it Healthy
  
• Medical Marijuana and Your Drug Free Workplace Policies
  
• New Year New You? Building on New Year Sentiment to Improve Employee Retention and Morale
  
• ​Retirement Process - A Closer Look
  

Engagement

• Employee Engagement - A New Language of Humility for Organizations
• ​Five Easy Steps to Improving Employee Engagement via Social Media
• ​Stay Interviews: The Greatest Tool for Organizational Health
• ​Social Media: Threat or Opportunity?
• ​Enhancing Workforce Motivation During an Economic Downturn
• ​Sustaining Employee Motivation: More Critical Now Than Ever
  

​Organizational Design/Change  

• The 80/20 Rule or How to Change a Dysfunctional Organizational Culture
• Solving Cultural and Climate Chaos in Your Organization
• Is Your Organization Surviving or Thriving?
  
• Virtual Reality
  
• Visioning for the Future
  
• Designing a Logic Model for All Organizational Programs
  
• Moving Beyond the Status Quo
  
• Knowledge Transfer in Spite of Resistance
  
• Succession Planning in the Face of Declining Resources
  
• S.M.A.R.T. Goals + Action Plans = Organizational Satisfaction and Success
  
• Executing Your Organization's Succession Plan
  

​Performance Management

• Three Keys to Performance Management
• Cutting Edge Organizations Sustain Talent Through Commitment to Performance Affirmation
• The Ten Mistakes the Managers Make in the Performance Management Process
• The Ten Most Common Mistakes that Managers Make in Executing Performance Management

Policy and Regulations

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• ​​Policy and Procedural Language Authorship
• ​Federal Update: ADAAA
• Employee Free Choice Act
• ​Case Study Analysis - Testing Your HR Knowledge
  

Recruitment & Retention

• ​Conversations With Our Intern for 2015:  Three Things to Give Millennials
• Blind Screening - An Emerging Recruitment Tool To Overcome The Diversity Challenge
• ​Hiring From a Team Building Perspective
• ​Succession Planning Begins Yesterday
• ​The Impact of Language on Recruitment
• ​Positive Employee Turnover
• ​Hiring for Gold
• Thoughts and Observations for Succession Planning in 2012 and Beyond
• ​Hiring for Experience?
• ​The Single Most Important Interview Question
• ​Retaliation: ERC Reports on the Cost to Companies and Their Employees
• ​Demonstrated Strategies for Successful Recruitment and Retention of High Performing Talent
  

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Employee Relations

• ​Conflict, Creative Solutions and Change
• ​Sustaining Growth through Advanced Conflict
• ​Handling the Ongoing Dysfunctional Employee Relations Issue
• ​Behind the Headlines - Britain on Strike?
• ​Successfully Managing Conflict in Today's Workplace
• ​Conflict vs. Opportunity - Aren't They Really the Same Thing?
• Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right (Webinar Preview Article)
• ​Embracing the New Normal: Living With Your Organization's Anxiety
• ​Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
• If you have no money... Be Polite. Reaching Agreement Without Giving Away Money or Management Rights
• ​Who's In Charge Here? - Labor Insights
  

Leadership 

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• Teams & Decision Architecture
• Designing Your Organization's Leadership Style
• The Role of Meeting Facilitator
• Organizational Climate and Your Role as Leader
• Legacy Work
• Decision Making and Accountability
• ​Incomplete Communication = Incomplete Leadership
• Time, Multitasking and the Race to Failure
• A Time for Reflection
• Power - A Tool or a Weapon
• Accountability and Leadership in Today's Changing Environment
• Inhibiting Success and Guaranteeing Team Failure
• International Municipal Clerk's Institute - Nashville, TN Summary
• The Ten Keys to Sustaining Vital Community and Business Partnerships
• Power, Ethics, and Leadership for Arizona
• ​Mastering Team Accountability
• Leading from the Center
• Using Encore Leaders to Move Your Organization Forward in Today's Marketplace
• Leading and Risk: Balancing Both from the Inside
• The Role of HR in Navigating an Organization Through Unprincipled Leadership
• ​Moving a Team from Static to Excelling - Six Keys to Achievement
• Leadership Communication: Suspending Your Judgment Long Enough to Hear the Noise
• Principled Leadership in Today's Marketplace
• Guiding the Work of High Performers:Creating Your Next Generation of Mentors
• Designing a Leadership Academy That Works
• Professional Relationships Beyond Layoffs and Downsizing
• Coaching the Marginal Performer and the Marginal Organization
• Leading in the Aftermath of a Crisis: The Role of HR in Turning an Organization's Climate Around
• Motivating Employees to Excelling Performance During Economic Adversity
• Why Ethics Based Leadership is Vital to the Foundation of Every Organization - Now More Than Ever
• Compassionate Leadership
• Tackling the Undiscussable: Charting a Leadership Course for the Future
• Recent Doctoral Research: AZ Police Chiefs Determine Framework for Sustained Leadership Inside their Agencies.
• Ethics for Public Elected/Appointed Officials - summary of IAFC Fire Rescue Annual Confrerence Session
• Leading Your Organization's HR Function in the Face of Extreme Narional Economic Strife
• Growing a New Leader
• The Practice of Ethics Based Leadership