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Addressing Sensitive Issues With Employees Webinar

This LIVE, virtual course focuses on the laws at play, employees’ privacy rights and what you need to include in your policies and procedures to protect your company.

Course Description/Agenda

HRCI and SHRM Certified

Discretion is one of your core skills. You handle employees’ sensitive personal information daily, and maintaining their privacy is an ethical and legal priority. But some personnel issues go beyond ordinary, everyday interactions.

Whether you’re part of an HR team or you deal with your employees directly as a small business owner, talking about tricky, touchy or highly personal topics is never easy. Do you know how you would address an employee’s hygiene? Or what you should do if one employee accuses another of salacious behavior — can you monitor the accused employee to find out if it’s true? Or what if someone on your team is transitioning and wants to be known as they throughout the company going forward?

Balancing the organization’s needs with employees’ needs and rights is complicated. This LIVE, virtual course focuses on the laws at play, employees’ privacy rights and what you need to include in your policies and procedures to protect your company. You’ll discover tried-and-proven ways to address a number of sensitive topics with discretion, tact, and professionalism. And you’ll learn how to support employees without jeopardizing your organization.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Learn how to discuss delicate topics tactfully
Review key laws at play, including FMLA, ADA, HIPAA and more
Protect your company by strengthening policies and procedures
Explore best practices for addressing several sensitive personnel issues
Find ways to support employees without jeopardizing your organization

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Program time: 3 hours

Session 1: Legal Considerations Surrounding Sensitive Issues

Discuss key laws at play with common sensitive personnel issues
Describe the ethical and legal considerations surrounding employee privacy
Understand the importance of clear company policy and procedures
Learn how to protect your company by strengthening policies and procedures
Explain how you can support employees while keep your company’s best interests at heart

Session 2: How to Address Sensitive Issues

Discuss the most common personnel issues typically deemed as sensitive
Describe the risks involved when addressing personal matters with employees
Explore best practices for talking about sensitive issues
Explain when its appropriate to discuss personal issues on an organizational and public level

Session 3: Guide Employees Through Sensitive Issues

Learn how to balance an employee’s privacy with the organization’s business needs
Understand why it’s important to put the organization’s best interests first
Describe how to offer employees reasonable assistance and ongoing support
Examine several case studies regarding sensitive issues and discuss ways to resolve each

More Webinar Information

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Course Summary	This LIVE, virtual course focuses on the laws at play, employees’ privacy rights and what you need to include in your policies and procedures to protect your company.
Delivery Method	Virtual Classroom (Live)
Who Should Attend	HR personnel, managers, supervisors