PHR/SPHR Essentials

Human Resources professionals wear many hats in an organization. Among their most important duties are communicating an organization’s policies and procedures to employees, evaluating employee performance, and overseeing the organization’s compliance with anti-discrimination and employee privacy laws.

This suite of courses covers topics that are essential for HR professionals, who receive training in securing the private information of the organization and its employees, communicating with employees in a variety of contexts, promoting diversity, and administering lie detector tests properly.

COURSES

• Information Risk Management: Strategies for Preventing and Mitigating Information Security Breaches
• Discrimination and Harassment Prevention: Promoting Workplace Diversity without Conflict
• Improving Employee Performance: Instituting a 360-Degree Performance Evaluation System Ed.1
• Ethics for Managers: Establishing an Ethical Culture within your Organization
• HIPAA: Applying Standards for Securing Electronic Protected Health Information
• Communicating Cross-Culturally: Improving Communications in Culturally Diverse Workplaces Ed. 1
• Communicating Interpersonally: Mastering the Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication Ed.1
• Communicating Negative Messages: Delivering Bad News Skillfully
• Communication: Effective Workplace Skills
• Communication: Understanding Team Dynamics
• Lie Detector Tests in the Workplace

TIME TO COMPLETE
Each course is between 60 and 250 minutes.

ACCREDITATION
HR Certification Institute
This program has been approved for 16.0 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.  For more information about certification or recertification, visit the HR Certification Institute homepage at www.hrci.org.

(The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of this program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.)

THE FLORIDA BAR
The Florida Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization and Education has accredited this course for 8.0 hour of General Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit, including 1.00 Ethics credit. For more information about credit hours, visit the Florida Bar homepage at www.flabar.org.

THE STATE BAR OF GEORGIA
The State Bar of Georgia has accredited this course for 2.0 hour of Regular CLE credit, including 1.0 Ethics credit.  For more information about CLE credits, visit The State Bar of Georgia homepage at www.gabar.org.