Management Essentials Training

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Course Summary

You’ve probably heard it before: people don’t quit jobs; they quit managers. Managers play a key role in building your team’s culture, so having solid training for your frontline management team is crucial to nurturing and retaining high performers.

Ethena’s Management Essentials course is one of the few on the market that covers both soft skills and the law, spanning topics from reasonable accommodations and leaves of absence to performance management and providing effective feedback.

Included Modules:

Introduction to Management Essentials

An introduction to the Management Essentials course, including why it’s important and what we’ll cover.

Performance Management

Performance management is a vital piece of any manager’s responsibilities, so this module will explore best practices to get the most out of your team.

Performance Reviews

A guide to preparing equitable and accurate performance reviews. Tips for both written assessments and performance improvement meetings.

Reporting Harassment as a Manager

Managers play a vital role in helping to prevent harassment as well as reporting incidents. This module outlines ways to mitigate harassment and best practices.

Reasonable Accommodations and Disabilities

Explore reasonable accommodations for employees and job applicants with disabilities according to ADA standards.

Terminations

Defining “at-will” employment as it applies to U.S. workplaces as well as the most common reasons and best practices around the process of termination.

Leaves of Absence

A guide to preparing equitable and accurate performance reviews, with tips for both written assessments and performance improvement meetings.

Included Mini-Courses:

Leaves of Absence Training

Reasonable Accommodations and Disabilities Training

Performance Management Training

Solution-Oriented Coaching Training

Giving Effective Feedback Training

Why is this training important?

Strong people-management skills keep new and seasoned managers from stumbling into the situations that turn into HR complaints, turnover, and legal exposure, like giving vague feedback, mishandling a leave request, or letting a small conflict fester. When managers know how to set expectations, run honest performance conversations, and respond the right way when an employee raises a concern, teams stay engaged and the company avoids costly missteps. This training gives managers the practical habits they need to lead fairly, support their people, and protect the business at the same time.

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