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New series of booklets helps supervisors make the right call. Get all 17 or pick the topics that are right for you.

Now it's easy to train your supervisors to spot and correct legally risky situations. Just get them each a copy of any Basic Training for Supervisors booklet.

Each title in the series is around 20 pages and features plain-English, popular vernacular, lots of lists and pictures, and an easy-reading style.

And when you have them complete the included quiz, you can be sure they both read and retain the guidance. Remember - when a workplace problem leads to a lawsuit - judges will expect you to have trained your team. Basic Training for Supervisors booklets are a great way to do just that.

NEW HIRES - NEW
WELCOME ABOARD, NOW WHAT?

What's the secret to keeping your new hires past the first 90 days? Making a great first impression! Your supervisors will wow your new talent with Basic Training for Supervisors: New Hires. They'll get step-by-step instructions for your new hire's first day, including tips for managing all the necessary paperwork and hands-on advice for effective performance evaluations. Your managers will learn how to keep new workers fully engaged from the get-go.

BECOMING A SUPERVISOR - NEW
WHAT TO KNOW NOW THAT YOU'RE IN CHARGE

Whether she's a new hire or recently promoted, your new supervisor can use all the help she can get to get off on the right foot. Arm your new managers with the skills they need to lead your team to productivity. Basic Training for Supervisors: Becoming a Supervisor will give them the key legal principles necessary for every day management, from how to avoid discrimination, retaliation, and harassment suits to the fundamentals of protected employee leave. Your supervisors will quickly learn how to avoid killer overtime and breaktime mistakes plaguing other new leaders.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE - NEW
STAMPING OUT THIS PRODUCTIVITY KILLER

Ignoring substance abuse can cost your organization's bottom line. Show your supervisors how to spot and address this productivity killer with Basic Training for Supervisors: Substance Abuse. Your leaders will learn how to keep substance abuse from increasing absenteeism, theft, injuries, conflict, and even violence. This easy-to-follow booklet offers critical guidance for before, during, and after the confrontation, as well as policy and investigation essentials, warning signs, testing, and treatment options.

DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS - NEW
DON'T CRINGE, CONFRONT!

No supervisor is excited about confronting a problem worker. Help your managers overcome this difficult task with tact and confidence. Basic Training for Supervisors: Difficult Conversations offers a 6-step checklist for what managers must do before initiating the conversation -- plus 6 actions they must avoid in order to prevent placing your organization at legal risk.

ELECTRONIC ISSUES IN THE WORKPLACE - NEW
KEEPING CONTROL OF THE TECHNOLOGY BEAST

Today's high-tech tools can enhance your workforce's performance. But in the wrong hands, technology can place your company at tremendous legal risk. Basic Training for Supervisors: Electronic Issues in the Workplace will help your supervisors counter the risks that arise from Internet porn, rampant blogging, viruses, release of confidential information, and much more -- without violating employee privacy rights.

HIRING
FINDING THE RIGHT PERSON THE RIGHT WAY

Unwary supervisors easily can end up in a legal quagmire just by asking the wrong question during the interview process. Do your supervisors know what to ask to find the best person for the job without making rejected applicants claim discrimination? Basic Training for Supervisors: Hiring delivers a quick but thorough review of hiring legalities and marks the territories to avoid when screening potential employees.

FIRING
WHEN IT’S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE

Supervisors can do more to create or reduce the risk of a lawsuit at the time of an employee’s termination than at any other point in the employment relationship. Within its short 20-pages, Basic Training for Supervisors: Firing reminds managers to avoid basing decisions on factors such as race, gender or age or the fact that the employee may have exercised one of his legal rights. Supervisors must avoid even the appearance of an improper motive at times like these, and Basic Training for Supervisors: Firing helps your managers back a firing decision with careful documentation, company procedure and diplomacy.

DISCIPLINE
IN DEFENSE OF DISCIPLINE

Done right, discipline helps to guide, grow and enhance an employee’s
behavior and job performance. Discipline is NOT the same as punishment, but it does address an employee’s problem areas so supervisors have a tendency to avoid the entire subject. Basic Training for Supervisors: Discipline emphasizes the importance of imposing timely and appropriate disciplinary procedures; gives tips for making the process easier and more effective; and offers some protection from potential future legal troubles.

DOCUMENTATION AND EVALUATIONS
IF IT’S NOT ON PAPER, IT NEVER HAPPENED

In a battle of he said/she said, the better documentation often determines the winner. While time consuming to create, an accurate paper trail provides valuable defense against litigious action and helps to effectively deal with poorly performing employees. Basic Training for Supervisors: Documentation and Evaluation provides guidelines for what to write down and how to present it. It details the importance of the evaluation process and reminds managers of the necessity for thorough, accurate and timely assessments. The bottom line for this booklet is if it’s not in writing, it didn’t happen.

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EMPLOYEE RIGHTS
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO...

Sure, your supervisors and managers have heard of employee rights, but do
they know what they are? Can they give you a list or briefly describe the
entitlements of those they manage? Basic Training for Supervisors:
Employee Rights gives a quick overview of this employee Bill of Rights and
outlines a supervisor’s obligations. Arming managers with this information
will keep them from either violating an employee’s rights or honoring demands
for rights that don‘t exist.

EMPLOYEE HEALTH
TAKING THE TEMPERATURE OF EMPLOYEE HEALTH

Supervisors go into triage mode whenever an employee requests leave
under FMLA. They have to inform HR of the qualifying conditions and then determine how to handle manpower shortages within their departments. If an employee requests special accommodations under the ADA, HR oversees, but managers take responsibility for the actual implementation of any special accommodations. The confusing wilderness of dos and don’ts can have costly consequences if supervisors handle situations badly. Basic Training for Supervisors: Employee Health provides a 20-page compass that guides managers through the thorny issues related to FMLA, ADA and employee confidentiality.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT
NO JOKING MATTER

Managers groan at the topic of sexual harassment. Most think they know all there is to know, but every boss needs to realize that if harassment occurs, courts might automatically hold the company liable. Basic Training for Supervisors: Sexual Harassment provides a common sense approach to dealing with this sensitive issue and its lesser-known counterparts like same-sex harassment, genderbased hostility and stereotyping, harassment of homosexuals or harassment by a customer.

OTHER HARASSMENT
SOME THINGS JUST SHOULDN’T BE SAID

While sexual harassment gets most of the publicity, supervisors must continually guard against harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, disability or age. And, determining the appropriateness of various circumstances can seem like walking through a minefield. With so many potentially hurtful situations, managers need Basic Training for Supervisors: Other Harassment. It presents plausible solutions and provides supervisors with the know-how to take a proactive approach in the creation of a high functioning diversified workplace.

DISCRIMINATION
IT’S ALL IN HOW THE DECISION IS MADE

Anyone can harass, but only supervisors can discriminate. Therefore, they need to stay especially vigilant to make sure they don’t base their actions on gender, race, color, religion, national origin, disability or age. Basic Training for Supervisors: Discrimination provides guidance and not only warns managers against overt discrimination, but also helps to uncover and correct problems of a subtle, subconscious or misguided nature.

SAFETY AND WORKERS’ COMP
PROTECT YOUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET

Unless they regularly work in hazardous conditions, supervisors probably haven’t paid much attention to issues of safety and workers’ comp. But carpal tunnel syndrome and other repetitive motion disorders have brought safety to the forefront of every workplace environment. Since companies expect managers to protect their most valuable asset - their employees - supervisors need to know how to identify, report and correct unsafe conditions. Basic Training for Supervisors: Safety and Workers’ Comp quickly takes a supervisor through an office - pointing out potential hazards and suggesting corrective actions. It provides guidance in case of an accident - from getting injured workers to medical attention to transitioning them back into the workplace following recovery.

WAGE AND HOUR LAW
AN HONEST DAY’S PAY FOR AN HONEST DAY’S WORK

Wage and hour violations are resulting in greater and greater penalties, awards, and fines. Although supervisors don’t need to learn the entire labyrinth of the FLSA, they do need to know enough to spot problems on their watch. Basic Training for Supervisors: Wage and Hour Law helps managers troubleshoot payroll issues and provides real-world explanations of working off the clock, taking work home, and putting on equipment before clocking in. This easy-reading informative booklet also benefits managers who supervise exempt employees, helping them spot a different set of red flags - like employees who don’t work 40 hours or who run out of leave. Armed with the tips and techniques in Basic Training for Supervisors: Wage and Hour Law, your supervisors can recognize violations and alert HR or the payroll department.

WORKPLACE VIOLENCE
WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN

Employees generally feel safe going to work. Yet, violence can and does erupt. Basic Training for Supervisors: Workplace Violence provides managers with a list of simple steps to reduce risk and workplace vulnerability. It looks at common triggers and warning signs of employee violence and offers suggestions about when and how to step in to diffuse a situation.

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