Meetings are an important tool for communicating in the workplace. When managed effectively, they provide opportunities for building relationships, solving problems, sharing ideas, making plans, and discussing progress.

In this course, you will learn about some common types of meetings, along with best practices for scheduling, planning, and leading them. We will describe how to create an agenda, take minutes, and use different types of materials. You will also learn how to address some of the common challenges associated with meetings. Finally, we will provide some tips for hosting virtual meetings and describe some key elements of policies related to meetings in the workplace.

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Exit interviews are a powerful tool for organizations to reduce harmful turnover and strengthen their operations, but many organizations fail to use them to their fullest potential. The solution lies in training interviewers to ask the right questions and leaders to recognize the value of exit interview data.

In this course, you will explore the purpose and goals of an effective exit interview process, the merits of various interview formats and styles, what to ask (and what not to), and how to advocate for the proper use of exit interview feedback within your organization.

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HR professionals perform a wide variety of tasks within an organization. However, regardless of their role or function area, all HR managers at some point have to engage in difficult conversations. While these conversations are not easy to have, there are ways to make them less difficult.

In this course, we will define difficult conversations as those involving sensitive or contentious matters that often trigger strong emotions that can prove challenging to handle for the participants. We'll discuss how preparing for these conversations, focusing on employee behavior, engaging in active listening, and encouraging back-and-forth discussion can make them more productive. Armed with the right tools and techniques, you can handle difficult conversations and steer them to a successful conclusion.

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Professionals in all areas of an organization turn to data to aid in their decision-making process, and human resource managers are no exception. By including data in your decision-making process, you can remove some of the guesswork that comes from relying solely on instincts and experience.

This course focuses on what happens after analyzing the data. You will learn about the methods for extracting insights from different types of data. You will also learn tips on how to use data to develop a strategic plan and present your findings to relevant stakeholders. Through practice, you will develop your data interpretation skills and become a more effective HR professional.

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The job interview is one of the most popular means of distinguishing among applicants for an open position. However, research has shown interviews can lead to biased and poor hiring decisions. This course will guide you through how to construct a fair and effective interview process that will lead you to a quality hire. It will give you information on different types of interviews, practice in designing effective interview questions, and tips for how to respond to unexpected situations.

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Inclusive HR leaders foster more innovative and productive work environments. HR leaders play a key role in developing, changing, and reinforcing an organization's culture. They also assess and analyze the organization's current workforce diversity and set goals for overcoming challenges to inclusion. Perhaps most importantly, these HR professionals help other leaders develop inclusive competencies and strategies to improve performance and decision-making among teams.

This course explores inclusive leadership competencies for HR professionals, the application of these competencies within different business structures, the roles HR leaders play in developing inclusive organizational leaders, and the characteristics and benefits of inclusive leadership programs.

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This intermediate-level course is designed to help Agile practitioners recognize and resolve many of the common issues that emerge when Agile concepts are introduced into Waterfall organizations. The course begins with 24 video segments from seasoned Agile trainers and practitioners who provide tips and best practices for addressing integration obstacles. The course then presents 20 short case studies that simulate the communication and interchanges that can occur as Agile and Waterfall practitioners work to resolve differences in the ways that they see and execute tasks. As students evaluate these case studies, they'll learn to deconstruct and diagnose any underlying problems that need to be resolved, just as they would in everyday practice. While they work to decode and correct these issues, they'll begin to recognize the common pitfalls that can happen as project teams collaborate and interact.

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This course explores the requirements for internal and external equity in the workplace. In this course, learners will read about the gender wage gap, federal laws regarding compensation, pay transparency, and other components of the deeply nuanced subject. Pay equity has a long history that can be seen through the progression of laws, as well as the social acceptance of pay transparency. The course includes two case studies that will put the learner in a "hands-on" situation regarding pay equity through a pay audit.

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