Foundations Consulting offers a variety of on-demand, virtual and in-person training for Board members, managers and individual contributor audiences. Each training can be customized to align with your culture, procedures and core values.
Board members and managers benefit by understanding compensation best practices and how compensation decisions are made. The tables below provide an overview of topics that can be customized for your cooperative.
On-Demand Option: Foundational Compensation. Leverage a 5-part on-demand training series to build manager understanding of compensation basics, including insight on how to explain compensation decisions to their team members. (View Preview)
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Manager and Board Member Training Content
Core compensation practices for cooperatives
General Manager/CEO compensation
Variable compensation plans
Marketplace trends
How jobs are matched to market data
Use of market data in determining salary range
Making compensation decisions within best practice and budget parameters
How to explain compensation decision to employees
Managers have the most interaction with your employees and can greatly impact employee engagement and organizational liability.
Live training sessions are customized to your cooperative and give managers and supervisors:
• Practical information on legal requirements and potential liability
• Tips on how to respond to stressful employee touchpoints
• Time to discuss common real life scenarios
On-demand training sessions allow managers to learn important information at a time that works in their schedule. On-demand training can be purchased per user or for upload into your Learning Management System (LMS). Email Consulting for more information.
On-Demand Training Topics for Managers:
Leading with Fairness: Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Laws Simplified (View Preview)
Avoiding Retaliation Claims
Fair Labor Standards Act
Family Medical Leave Act
Leading Generation Z
Respect at Work: Supervisor Expectations
Managers and employees benefit by understanding their role in the performance management process. Our training sessions build skills and engagement into moving performance management from a “need to do” to an ongoing conversation to strengthen performance outcomes.
Training topics can be grouped and tailored to your cooperative’s needs.
Starting the Year: Goal Setting (2.5 hours) – Manager Audience
Clearly articulate expectations
Write SMART goals to motivate desired behaviors
Virtual 90-minute training opportunity available. Learn More
My Role in the Performance Review (2 hours) – Individual Contributor Audience
Building SMART goals
Writing my self-evaluation
Giving and receiving feedback
Mid-Year Conversations: Feedback (2 hours) – Manager Audience
Deliver effective positive and constructive feedback
Learn how to increase receptivity to feedback
Virtual 90-minute training opportunity available. Learn More
Making it Fair: Rating Consistency (1.5 hours) – Manager Audience
Avoid rating bias
Create a shared understanding and agreement of your organization’s rating scale
Preparing for Year-End Performance Review (1.5 hours) – Manager Audience
Clearly document performance discussions
1:1 conversations
Mid-year conversations
Performance reviews
Minimize legal and financial risk to organization
Deliver effective performance reviews to motivate team members
Virtual 90-minute training opportunity available. Learn More
Maintaining a work environment where employees are able to thrive is critical to a cooperative's success. We offer in-person, virtual and on-demand training to help your team work better together.
In-person and on-demand training can be tailored to your audience. Below are on-demand trainings available that can be purchased per person or purchased for upload into your LMS.
On-Demand and Ready-Now Trainings
Respect At Work (3-4 part series) – Individual Contributor and Manager Audience
Bullying
Harassment
Working Together
Supervisor Expectations (Managers Only)
Leading Generation Z – Manager Audience
Events that impacted Generation Z
Ways to communicate and motivate across generations
Gen Z: How to Thrive at Work – Generation Z Team Members
Overview of events that impacted Generation Z
Tips on how to demonstrate reliability, communicate clearly and show professionalism at work
Contact Consulting for more information on any of our in-person, virtual, or on-demand e-learning solutions.
‘Years in the job’ don’t always equate to understanding current best practices in motivating employees to grow themselves and the business.
Services Provided. Through virtual training sessions, managers learned about how to set employee goals that were focused on business deliverables while motivating employees. Participants began creating goals during the training, immediately putting their new skills to use.
