Over 700 individuals participated in the HR Daily Advisor’s April 2013 Training and Development Survey. Read on to see how the training programs your company offers stack up against those of other successful companies.
Training Topics
The leading topics for compliance training for employees are:
- New hire orientation (79%)
- Sexual harassment (75%)
- Discrimination (69%)
Other compliance training topics for employees mentioned by survey participants include Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance, code of conduct, confidentiality, diversity, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), security, wage/labor, workers’ compensation, and workplace violence.
The leading compliance topics for training supervisors are:
- Discipline/documentation (75%)
- Sexual harassment (74%)
- Performance evaluations (70%)
- Discrimination (68%)
Yes, you do have the budget and time to train managers and supervisors with BLR’s® 10-Minute HR Trainer. Try it at no cost or risk. Get details.
Compliance topics for training HR staff were:
- Sexual harassment (66%)
- Discipline (64%)
- Performance evaluations (62%)
- Discrimination (61%)
- Documentation (61%)
- ADA (60%)
- Employee handbooks (59%)
- Firing/termination (59%)
- Recruiting/hiring/interviewing (59%)
Professional Development Training for Employees
Provided by 73%, job-related skills leads the list of professional development training for employees. Communication and customer service skills, at 66% and 59%, respectively, come in second and third in our survey. Teambuilding (49%), computer skills (46%), and time management (36%) round out the field.
Other professional development training offered by survey participants includes:
- Business/e-mail etiquette
- Change management
- Conflict resolution
- Cultural competence
- Emotional intelligence
- Ethics
- Good manners and behavior
- Leadership/supervision
- Performance assessment/management
- Presentation
- Professional certification
Supervisor Training
Leadership/management is the professional development topic covered most (75%) when training supervisors, with communication and dealing with problem employees, both at 72%, following closely. Coming in next is teambuilding at 58%, and mentoring/coaching is right on its heels at 57%. Employee retention and motivation is a must-have for 51%. Other professional training topics for supervisors include:
- Change management
- Conflict management
- Critical thinking
- Delegation
- Decision making
- Documentation
- E-mail and teleconference etiquette
- Emotional intelligence
- Interviewing skills
- Performance assessment/management
- Problem solving
- Strategic thinking and planning
- Time management
- Understanding your leadership style
See more results in tomorrow’s Advisor.
Train your line managers with BLR’s 10-Minute HR Trainer. There won’t be time for classroom boredom. Try it for free.
To train effectively, you need a program that’s easy for trainers to deliver and that requires little time from busy schedules. Also, if you’re like most companies in these tight budget days, you need a program that’s reasonable in cost.
We asked our editors what they recommend for training supervisors in a minimum amount of time with maximum effect. They came back with BLR’s unique 10-Minute HR Trainer.
With this training resource, we’ve provided an easy-to-manage program that lets you train in discrete, 10-minute chunks. It’s a program that’s easy for you to deliver and that requires little time from busy schedules. And it’s remarkably affordable.
As its name implies, this product trains managers and supervisors in critical HR skills in as little as 10 minutes for each topic. 10-Minute HR Trainer offers these features:
Trains in 50 key HR topics under all major employment laws, including manager and supervisor responsibilities, and how to legally carry out managerial actions from hiring to termination. (See a complete list of topics below.)
Uses the same teaching sequence master teachers use. Every training unit includes an overview, bullet points on key lessons, a quiz, and a handout to reinforce the lesson later.
Completely prewritten and self-contained. Each unit comes as a set of reproducible documents. Just make copies or turn them into overheads, and you’re done. (Take a look at a sample lesson below.)
Updated continually. As laws change, your training needs do so as well. 10-Minute HR Trainer provides new lessons and updated information every 90 days, along with a monthly Training Forum newsletter, for as long as you are in the program.
Works fast. Each session is so focused that there’s not a second’s waste of time. Your managers are in and out almost before they can look at the clock, yet they remember small details even months later.
Evaluate It at No Cost for 30 Days.
We’ve arranged to make 10-Minute HR Trainer available to our readers for a 30-day, in-office, no-cost trial. Review it at your own pace and try some lessons with your colleagues. If it’s not for you, return it at our expense. Click here, and we’ll set you up with our 10-Minute HR Trainer.
Download newsletter sample.
Download product sample.
Download table of contents.