Legal and Effective Employment Series

Key Features

Available in VHS video format. Three of the four modules in this series are now available in DVD format, as well.

Purchase includes a comprehensive Leader's Guide and ten employee handbooks.

Interviews, performance evaluations, progressive discipline and terminations are all part of doing business. Conducting them is a legal and effective fashion is crucial in today’s world of increasing competition and ever-present lawsuits. The Legal and Effective Employment Series covers all of these important areas and helps protect managers and supervisors from potentially damaging and expensive legal action.

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To view a "preview" clip of the Legal and Effective Progressive Discipline video program, click here: legal and effective progressive discipline preview.

Legal and Effective Employment Video Series:

Legal and Effective Interviewing (23 minutes ) $595 (VHS only) for individual purchase
Knowing your legal boundaries is one of the most important facets of the interviewing process. This video program provides you with a through, practical approach to training supervisors in this vital aspect of employment and covers such topics as setting the interview tone, the general interview format, listening techniques and more.

• Preparing for the interview
• Avoiding discrimination and lawsuits
• Gathering information
• Closing and documenting the interview

Legal and Effective Interviewing: 23 minutes; includes ten desk references and comprehensive leader’s guide. CD-ROM also available.

Legal and Effective Interviewing II (updated version) is also available.  See the link at the bottom of this page for complete details about this program.  This updated interviewing program is available for $695 in DVD, or $645 in VHS format.

Legal and Effective Performance Appraisals (30 minutes) $595 VHS/$645 DVD for individual purchase. The DVD  is multilingual and includes English and Spanish versions on one DVD.
Performance appraisals provide and ideal opportunity for collaborative, two-way communication between supervisors and their employees. Yet, they also carry and incredible legal responsibility: the right to a fair appraisal of job performance starts with the actual job description itself. This video program discusses protection from legal problems, how to conduct an appraisal, the interview format and goal setting.

• Documenting evaluations
• Communicating performance expectations
• Employee involvement in the evaluation

New DVD version available of Legal and Effective Performance Appraisals:
This program features the training content of the Legal and Effective Performance Appraisals video -- a program which discusses protection from legal problems, how to conduct an appraisal, the interview format and goal setting.

Legal and Effective Progressive Discipline (23 minutes) $595 VHS/$645 DVD  for individual purchase. The DVD  is multilingual and includes English and Spanish versions on one DVD.
A system of progressive discipline is the best safeguard against charges of discrimination and wrongful discharge. In this video program, the steps of progressive discipline are clearly explained and the results of proper implementation are demonstrated. A "must see" for all supervisors and managers in your organization.

• How to verbally counsel and employee
• Issuing a written warning
• Placing an employee on suspension
• Termination an employee

To view a "preview" clip of the Legal and Effective Progressive Discipline video program, click here: legal and effective progressive discipline preview.

Legal and Effective Employment Terminations (30 minutes) $595 (VHS) or $645 (DVD) for individual purchase. The DVD  is multilingual and includes English and Spanish versions on one DVD.
The statistics are simply staggering more than eight times out of ten a judge will rule for an employee suing your organization for wrongful termination. This vital video program will provide your supervisors with a step-by-step approach to protecting your organization from these costly lawsuits. It takes a glimpse at both sides of termination employer and employee and will teach your managers, how to prepare for and conduct a successful termination meeting.

• Progressive discipline
• The termination meeting
• Conducting exit interviews
• Avoiding the legal firing line

Legal and Effective Employment Manual
(With purchase of video series, this manual is only $95; $135 if purchased separately.

Protect your organization from potentially damaging and expensive legal actions with this important new manual. It will provide your supervisors with guidance to successfully select, develop and terminate employees. All in a legal fashion.

Legal and Effective Interviewing for Healthcare video

Finding the high performance winners for healthcare positions has never been more important. This video program discusses the keys to a successful interview.

• How to prepare for an interview
• How to review before you interview
• The interview format
• Legal interview guidelines
• Closing the interview

19 minutes

Interviewing for Industry video

This blue-collar counterpart to the award-winning Legal and Effective Interviewing video program lets your managers learn along with Jake, a plant foreman in a large manufacturing facility, the importance of following a legal and effective interview process.

• Setting the interview tone
• Legal and illegal questions

18 minutes; includes ten desk references and comprehensive leader’s guide

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