Trainings may be subject to trainer availability. Not all trainings may be delivered on-site. Please contact a MINES Account Manager for scheduling or questions.
Employee Development
Trainings to help support employee-related issues like communication and burnout.
It is essential that organizations provide training for supervisors who are seeking to improve key areas of performance with their supervisees.
Objective: Learn Strategies for motivating and rewarding employees, coaching and mentoring, fostering teamwork, maximizing performance, and exercising influence. Recommended time: 1.5-2 hours
The art of negotiation takes skill, practice, and attitude.
Objective: The art of negotiation takes skill, practice, and attitude. Recommended time: 2 hours
Many on-the-job trainers are frustrated when they encounter a trainee who seems to have hit a barrier in learning their new job. The training is developed specifically for individuals who have already taken a basic train-the-trainer course and should be considered advanced.
Objective: This will provide tools to the on-the-job trainer to help diagnose and resolve the performance issues of trainees. Recommended time: 1 hour
This training is for supervisors, managers, team leaders, and anyone who has contact with employees experiencing difficulties and work performance shortcomings.
Objective: To train supervisors how to recognize problems in the workplace, document work performance issues, address issues with employees and make an appropriate referral to the EAP/MAP. In addition, how to incorporate the help of the EAP/MAP for management consults, conflict resolution services, and organizational development interventions will be discussed. Recommended time: 1-1.5 hours
Employees with high morale have less absenteeism, turnover, and errors, and are more productive. We all want an engaged and productive staff…and neuroscience explains why certain strategies are more adept at fostering a sense of belonging, safety, commitment, and cooperation. This program will discuss low-cost and no-cost strategies and techniques to help your library team feel recognized, appreciated, understood, and supported. Both the how and why will be explained.
Objective: Describe 4 foundations of strong functioning teams and provide 2 examples of how to employ each idea. Recommended Time: 1 hour
Many work teams struggle with cohesive team dynamics, inconsistent productivity, and employee longevity. While leaders may feel stressed and frustrated about this issue, their team members might feel misunderstood and undervalued at the same time. Most teams are missing a critical key to creating a healthy, thriving team culture – understanding and embracing hidden differences.
Objective: In this workshop, you’ll learn how being aware of neurodiversity, invisible disabilities, and chronic illnesses in your team can help you create a more harmonious team culture, improve motivation, and foster loyalty to the mission. Recommended time: 1.5 hours
We all want to be successful, yet sometimes we jump into a project without clearly defining what success looks like. Because we often assume we know what success means we don’t give it much thought, which leads to less success! People have different definitions of success and various situations require different definitions.
Objective: Discover how to create success for yourself and others; there are specific things you should and should not do. Identify traits of successful people, compare various definitions of success, and name 4 steps in creating success. Recommended Time: 1 hour
This training will give an overview of the necessary traits of a successful coach in an organization.
Objective: Participants will learn to differentiate between counseling and coaching and discover how to include growth-oriented coaching in their management role. Topics covered will include how to build a coaching relationship, how to identify and capitalize upon each member’s potential and motivation, deal with conflicts, give effective feedback, and improve communication skills. Recommended time: 2 hours
Emotional intelligence (EQ) – our ability to manage both ourselves and others – is the single greatest contributor to personal excellence and leadership. Increased EQ can move individuals and organizations to higher performance and greater personal leadership.
Objective: This training will explore the personal and social domains of leadership and offer specific, actionable steps to drive personal leadership including: managing strong emotions, working with difficult people, and dealing with the fear of giving real-time feedback to move communication from breakdown to breakthrough, and living a life of purpose and deep meaning. Recommended time: 2 hours
As Baby Boomers start to age out of the workplace, there is a greater responsibility on employers to meet the needs of this aging workforce. Providing resources and education on Social Security and Medicare benefits is just one way to help this group transition successfully out of the workplace.
Objective: Assist employers with an understanding of Social Security and Medicare including rules for coverage for older employees, including traditional health insurance plans as well as HSA plans. Recommended time: 1-1.5 hours
Although most organizations value feedback, there is not often a cultural norm for giving and receiving feedback.
Objective: Participants will be invited to explore the value of feedback as well as myths and realities around feedback in the workplace. This training will allow participants a chance to practice giving and receiving constructive feedback in a safe environment. Recommended time: 1 hour
Managing a team takes skilled leadership. Managing a virtual team requires some different strategies since virtual teams have unique challenges and characteristics.
Objective: Participants will learn the key success factors that create high-functioning virtual teams. This training will review the potential pitfalls that can compromise virtual teams and highlight key performance challenges that impact virtual teams. Recommended time: 1-1.5 hours
Today’s challenging times demand specific skill sets to ensure our workplaces allow all thoughts and actions to be voiced without fear.
Objective: Attendees will learn best practices and the class will give leaders a chance to self-assess where they are vs. where they should be. Recommended time: 1 hour
Transitioning from a peer to a supervisor can be a difficult transition.
Objective: Newly transitioned supervisors will learn the essential components of shifting roles and relationships from being a peer to being a supervisor. Supervisors will explore how to address the concerns of peers and create a new relationships in order to bring success to their new role as a leader. Recommended time: 1 hour
