LatitudeU Newsletter: SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources) Training and More!

SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources) Training in LatitudeU

LatitudeU offers all SPHR traning courses from the industry leading training provider - SkillSoft.

HRCI/SPHR Certification Program
SkillSoft has developed 7 courses that focus on HRCI's SPHR exam preparation.

What is HRCI?
The Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) is the credentialing affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world's largest association devoted to professional human resource management. HRCI works to define and maintain the HR body of knowledge, and offers assessments and certification of this knowledge. Human Resource certification demonstrates mastery of the HR body of knowledge and is widely accepted as a symbol of professional achievement.

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Save $10 on the Recruiting Successfully course

Offer Expires Midnight (USA Eastern Time) May 10, 2010.

Course Overview: The most significant challenge to the growth and survival of any business is finding and retaining qualified workers. With today's unemployment rate at such low levels, to say recruiting top talent is simply a "challenge" is an understatement. Most people charged with staffing their organizations feel as if they're in a knockdown battle for employees. The job of the recruiter is shifting from bringing job candidates and employers together into a sales and marketing function; the recruiter has to sell the company and the position. The successful recruiter is adapting to the new market and to the new ways of recruiting. In this course, you'll learn what it takes to be a successful recruiter in today's tight labor market.

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Courses You Might Be Interested In

1. Recruiting for the 21st Century: The Market
2. Recruiting for the 21st Century: Strategies
3. Recruiting Successfully
4. Online Recruiting
5. Facilitating Effective Hiring
6. Retention

New Training Companies
Please join me in welcoming the following companies to the Training Company Directory:

1. Glass Bead Consulting
2. Husys Consulting
3. HR Training University
4. HR Anexi Pvt Ltd
5. Corporate Communications

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Legal Compliance Training in LatitudeU

LaitutdeU offers Legal Compliance courses from the industry leading training provider - SkillSoft. SkillSoft has created our Legal Compliance Courseware Collection to address the needs of our clients as they work toward maintaining compliance with legal standards.

SkillSoft’s legal compliance content:

• Focuses on the specific information your employees need in order to meet the intent of applicable statutes, regulations, or case law decisions;
• Addresses best practices with respect to risk reduction and mitigation of liability; and

• Is developed and maintained with legal expertise from our partner law firm subject matter experts.

Content Development—Legal Expertise

SkillSoft has partnered with several nationally-recognized law firms to serve as subject matter experts (SMEs) in the development and maintenance of the Legal Compliance Solution content. Experienced, practicing lawyers have been selected, who are specialists in their fields and who confront challenging compliance issues on a daily basis. SkillSoft believes this is the most effective way to keep current with changes in the law and developments in compliance strategies, all while bringing a real-world, practical approach to compliance training. SkillSoft’s SME attorneys work with instructional designers through every step of the development process to ensure that the content is thorough, current, and legally accurate. SkillSoft’s SMEs are also involved in the ongoing maintenance of the Legal Compliance course content. The SMEs help to identify changes in the law that impact the courses and work with SkillSoft’s instructional designers to update the content as needed so that the content remains up-to-date and consistent with the latest in adult learning methodology.

Presently, the following law firms serve as SkillSoft’s content
development partners and SMEs for the Legal Compliance Solution:
Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.

• Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C.
• Burr & Forman, LLP
• Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green, P.A.

The courses in SkillSoft’s Legal Compliance Solution feature a high level of interactivity and scenario-based content presentation to hold learners’ interest and keep them engaged.

Instructional Design

The courses are designed to be short and to the point, generally running only 60 minutes. Each course is rich in interactivity and includes choice specific feedback, animated graphics, role plays, case studies, serial multi choice, learning aids, job aids, and follow on activities.

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Free Course of the Day: Human Touch Performance Appraisals

This free online course teaches how to implement a performance appraisal system that puts people first.

All Global Mindset free training courses are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts:

Business Training, Performance Appraisal, Human Resources, Management, Employee Performance, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Management >> Performance Appraisal • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Planning Your Job Performance • Performance Management • Performance Appraisal Simulation: Replaced • Continuous Performance Assessment: Replaced • Reviewing Performance: Replaced Click here for the Human Touch Performance Appraisals course

PHR (Professional in Human Resources) Training in LatitudeU

Online certification exam preparation from leading e-learning publishers, such as SkillSoft, is now offered to help you prepare for the Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI's) Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification exam.

The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI's) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including those affecting employee rights, such as equal employment opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action (AA).

The HRCI certification examinations are widely recognized as the industry standard for evaluating Human Resource professional's competencies. HRCI is an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and provides testing and certification services. As a human resources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employment practices are fair and equitable, and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. Toward that end, these courses will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations.

All the topics in these courses are based on the Workforce Planning and Employment functional area of the HR Body of Knowledge recommended by SHRM.

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Free Course of the Day: Office Safety/The Safety Secret

This free online course presents the fundamental office safety information that employees and managers need to ensure a safe work environment. The learning path uses workplace examples to introduce common areas of concern in office safety. These areas of concern include slips and falls, fire hazards, and workstation posture. Office safety isn't just a legal issue but a productivity and morale issue as well. This course also offers simple and effective ways in which all members of an office can prevent office accidents.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced free training courses that are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts:

Office Safety, Human Resources, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Environmental, Safety and Health, and Transportation >> Environmental, Safety & Health, and Transportation >> Safety and Health • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Office Safety/The Safety Secret • Safe Food Service • Basic Immunology • Mold Awareness • Lead and Cadmium • Chlorine Safety • Cryogenic Safety • Food Safety and Handling • NFPA 70E Electrical Safety in the Workplace • Electrostatic Discharge Safety Training • Lockout/Tagout for Authorized Persons Click here for the Office Safety/The Safety Secret course

HRCI (Human Resource Certification Institute) Training in LatitudeU

LatitudeU offers SkillSoft HRCI courses - a 16 course series that maps to the six functional areas and is an excellent tool for helping learners refresh for the PHR exam.

What is HR Certification Institute?
The HR Certification Institute is the credentialing affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest association devoted to professional human resource management. HR Certification Institute works to define and maintain the HR body of knowledge, and offers assessments and certification of this knowledge. Human Resource certification demonstrates mastery of the HR body of knowledge and is widely accepted as a symbol of professional achievement.

The Human Resource Body of Knowledge
The HR body of knowledge is a recognized standard set by individuals working in the human resource profession. It is designed to answer the question, “What should a human resource practitioner know and be able to apply to be considered a competent HR generalist?” The body of knowledge is defined by six functional areas that are associated with nearly 80 responsibilities and more than 80 knowledge statements. The following functional areas are what HRCI bases its certification exams on. The percentages that follow each functional area are the PHR and SPHR percentages the test focuses on respectively.

• Strategic Management (12%, 29%)
• Work Force Planning and Employment (26%, 17%)
• Human Resource Development (17%, 17%)
• Total Rewards (16%, 12%)
• Employee and Labor Relations (22%, 18%)
• Risk Management (7%, 7%)

Certification
HR Certification Institute offers three certifications: PHR (Professional in Human Resources), SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources) and GPHR (Global Professional in Human Resources). To obtain certification, candidates must have at least two years of exempt level HR work experience, as well as demonstrate mastery of the HR body of knowledge by passing a certification exam. To learn more about the certification requirements, please visit http://www.hrci.org/Certification/OV/

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Free Course of the Day: Ethics in the Workplace

This free online course demonstrates the principles of business ethics and how they apply to a variety of situations in the workplace. Proper ethics aren't JUST something organizations should foster for legal reasons but for pragmatic reasons as well. Ethics sits as the foundation of everything that happens by and to an organization and is ultimately a key determinant of success.

This ethics training course describes guidelines for applying these principles in assessing what course of action to take under specific workplace situations. Exercises throughout the learning path provide the learner with the opportunity to practice applying business ethics principles.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced free training courses that are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts:

Business Ethics, Human Resources, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Personal Development >> Ethics in Business • Legal Compliance >> HR Series • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Ethics in Business Simulation: Replaced • Ethical Decision Making: Replaced • Managerial Business Ethics: Replaced • Organizational Ethics: Replaced • Corporate Social Responsibility: Replaced

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Meet an eLearning Publisher: InteractiveLearningConsultants

Interactive Learning Consultants is a full service e-learning provider. We specialize in developing visually appealing, results orientated, E-Learning solutions (Instructional design and custom course development using your content our ours) and provide you an easy affordable method for delivery and tracking with our online library My Interactive Learning Space™. We are a service provider with integrity and a sincere commitment to customer satisfaction and saving our planet using paperless training and documentation! Do you have an idea for a topic you want to make into an online course but don't know how? We can help! Do you have a PowerPoint, or Word document, you want to convert to an online course but don't have the resources? We can help! Do you have employee benefit package materials that you currently distribute via paper and want to convert to an electronic method? We can help! Do you have sales materials you want to provide to your sales people or clients electronically? We can help with that too! Our content can be delivered to you as an exe file-you can place the link on your website, a cd, a scorm compliant zip file to load to an LMS. Office Hours Mon - Fri 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time Phone/Fax (330) 622-8723 Email immediateservice@InteractiveLearningConsultants.com sales@InteractiveLearningConsultants.com

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Meet an eLearning Publisher: Jean Zawlocki

I have over 10 years experience in HR. I'm a proactive change agent with the ability to bring immediate results. I will give you an example of immediate results. Started the infrastructure of the HR department with a company that had 4 acquisitions previous to arrival.

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Meet an eLearning Publisher: Jean Zawlocki

Jean Zawlocki has over 10 years experience in HR. She is a proactive change agent with the ability to bring immediate results. She will give you an example of immediate results. Started the infrastructure of the HR department with a company that had 4 acquisitions previous to her arrival.

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Meet an eLearning Publisher: Global Mindset

In today's global economy, managers and employees need to develop their skills and behaviors to become more effective.

Global Mindset's free online courses are interactive, self-paced learning paths are built with an eye on teaching individuals to maximize their work performance.

All Global Mindset free courses business training are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

We provide free training courses in the following areas:

* Free Training: Business Math Courses
* Free Training: Career Courses
* Free Training: Coaching Skills Courses
* Free Training: Communications Courses
* Free Training: Conflict Management Courses
* Free Training: Contiuous Improvement Courses
* Free Training: Customer Services Courses
* Free Training: Diversity Courses
* Free Training: Entrepreneurial Courses
* Free Training: Feedback Courses
* Free Training: Harassment Courses
* Free Training: Listening Courses
* Free Training: Job Interview Courses
* Free Training: Management Courses
* Free Training: NX5 Courses
* Free Training: Project Management Courses
* Free Training: Retail Math Courses
* Free Training: Sales Courses
* Free Training: Sexual Harassment Courses
* Free Training: Team Building Courses

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Free Course of the Day: The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback

This self-pace interactive free online course helps define useful workplace feedback and advanced feedback strategies. Most people and many managers do NOT know how to provide constructive feedback. Lack of constructive feedback leads to employee morale problems, productivity issues and, eventually, employee turnover.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced interactive free training courses that are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Feedback, Management, Human Resources, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:
Other
Free Courses

Course you might be interested in:
• Listen for Understanding
• Giving an Effective Presentation
• Love ’Em or Lose ’Em - Employee Retention
• Documenting Discipline: Manufacturing / Industrial
• Lockout/Tagout: Lightning in a Bottle
• Driven to Distraction
• The Newcomers
• Safety Orientation: On Alert
• Slips, Trips and Falls: Taking the Right Steps
• Stress: You are In Control
• The Sid Story

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Free Course of the Day: You Be The Judge In Interviewing

This free online course addresses: Staying within the law, How to approach the interview, Interview questions and the law, and Note-taking. All Global Mindset courses are self-paced interactive free training courses that are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

All Global Mindset free online courses are self-paced free training courses that are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. These training courses provide plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Interviewing, law, compliance, human resources, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Other
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Listen for Understanding
• Giving an Effective Presentation
• Communication Fundamentals
• Legal Issues in Management
• Responding to Workplace Harassment (for Managers)
• Quality Service in the Public Sector
• Leading Meetings to Success
• Coaching for Business Success
• Personal Workspace...A Handbook for Entering the Workforce
• Effective Change Management
• Effective Business Meetings


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