Training Modules
To discuss how any of these modules or other customized trainings can be deployed to help your organization achieve its highest potential, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Creating Respectful Workplaces
- Gain a solid understanding of discrimination, harassment, bullying, and hazing and how they create problems with safety, productivity, and legal liability
- Take a deep dive into real-life cases, including information about the financial outcomes of litigated harassment and discrimination cases
- Learn how to recognize and address unconscious bias
- Work through several real-life scenarios to learn how to use self-advocacy and bystander intervention techniques to address negative workplace behaviors
This course is designed to help apprenticeship programs comply with their requirement under the 29 CFR 30 to provide interactive anti-harassment training.
Unconscious Bias
- Define unconscious bias and point out that we all have it and it doesn’t make us bad people
- Discuss the science behind unconscious bias
- Define microaggressions
- Walk through real-life examples of how unconscious bias and microaggressions show up on construction jobsites
- Connect the dots regarding how unconscious bias and microaggressions can lead to discrimination and harassment
- Cover tips to overcome unconscious bias and microaggressions in everyday interactions and decision-making
Self-Advocacy and Bystander Intervention
- Define self-advocacy and bystander intervention and why they are important in daily life and on construction jobsites
- Explain why self-advocacy and bystander intervention are so challenging
- Explain that self-advocacy and bystander intervention are skills that can be developed and cover tips to build those muscles
- Work through real-life scenarios of harassment, bullying, and other problematic behaviors to explain how self-advocacy and bystander intervention can be used to address them
Leadership Foundations
- Discuss the difference between a leader and a manager
- Learn the importance of knowing your company policies and processes and following them to ensure fairness and equity
- Explore differences between bargaining and non-bargaining employees
- Discuss why what happens on social media can have an impact in the workplace
EEO Laws, Employment Discrimination and Harassment
- Explore the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws, including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and applicable state laws
- Take a deep dive into employment discrimination and harassment, including real-life scenarios
- Discuss the process for investigating complaints
- Discuss the ADA interactive process for reasonable accommodations
Setting Expectations, Managing Performance, and Best Practices for Hiring and Firing
- Learn how to help the people you supervise know what is expected of them
- Explore “situational management,” understanding that not everyone has the same skillset or level of experience
- Discuss how to provide constructive feedback, both positive and negative, and how to engage in difficult workplace conversations
- Learn tips on how to conduct a legally defensible and effective hiring and firing process
Working with Multi-Generational Teams
- Review demographics of today’s workforce
- Emphasize that a multigenerational workforce will be the reality for the foreseeable future
- Stress that adaptive leadership helps navigate changing norms
- Take a deep dive into communication skills that can help bridge the gaps across generations and defuse conflict
Conflict Resolution
- Define conflict resolution and why it is important in daily life and on construction jobsites
- Explain the difference between constructive and destructive conflict and how to address each
- Learn the basic skills of conflict resolution
- Explain that conflict resolution skills can be developed and cover tips to build those muscles
- Work through real-life scenarios of jobsite conflict and how to address them
Negotiation Skills
- Define negotiation and why it is important in daily life and on the job
- Understand the social and psychological forces behind gender differences in the way men and women negotiate
- Discuss how to set goals for negotiation
- Learn how to prepare for negotiations
- Develop your negotiating skills
- Explore how to use your natural strengths to your advantage in negotiations
Supporting Neurodivergent Workers
- Define neurodiversity
- Learn how neurodiverse individuals bring to the jobsite unique perspectives, skills, increased innovation, problem-solving, and creativity
- Discuss accommodations for neurodiversity
- Discussed other ways to support neurodivergent employees
What Our Customers Are Saying
Working with Lauri has been an incredible experience. She leads a dynamic “train the trainer” course, where our instructors come to truly understand the transformative impact of creating a supportive work environment. Lauri instills them with the confidence to teach these valuable lessons at the local level.
The positive reviews speak for themselves, and it’s clear that Lauri’s personal touch makes all the difference. I highly recommend her work—she is truly a pleasure to collaborate with on every level.
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada
Lauri Rollings presentation of a Respectful Workplace was a huge success with our teams, totaling close to 200 attendees. She was very flexible and willing to travel to three of our sites throughout the state for a personal presentation. Lauri delivered in a well-organized, meaningful, and authentic way. She was very engaging and her understanding of our industry made her very relatable and our employees were much more willing to open up and discuss topics. She was able to create some insightful dialogue which really helped to drive home the lessons. Her session provided us with new tools that we can use in the workplace as well as personal life. It was so valuable that she tailored her presentation to our group, asked for feedback, and adjusted following presentations to include some ideas specific to our needs. I still have employees commenting to me about how much they enjoyed Lauri and her presentation. I will not hesitate to have Lauri speak to our group again!
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