The Effective Supervisor – October 23, 2025 (Decatur) 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

 The Effective Supervisor^® Seminar

The key to avoiding employment litigation is simple: training. The best, most-carefully written policies provide no protection to an employer when its supervisors don’t know the policies or don’t understand them. As EEOC’s Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo noted: “We continue to see at the EEOC a failure of companies to train their supervisors in what actions or omissions can expose the company to liability.” Since Mr. Tamayo made that statement, workplace laws and leaves have grown only more complex. It is no longer sufficient to depend on good manners; today’s supervisors need superb training to increase their effectiveness and avoid violating employment laws.

Our information-packed, full-day program provides supervisors with a fundamental understanding of the law and employer rights. We’ll discuss recent changes to workplace laws and focus on the fastest growing areas of employment litigation, like disability claims and medical leave, and the latest policy shifts, including those to curtail employer-DEI programming. We give supervisors the tools to recognize and respond to situations that could develop into administrative or legal claims. We’ll go beyond the legalese and provide effective leadership and communication skills so that supervisors feel comfortable handling difficult situations and can speak confidently and compassionately when addressing tough issues.

Who Should Attend?

Our Effective Supervisor ^® presentations are prepared especially for front-line supervisors and managers, but are also appropriate for HR professionals and small business executives who regularly weigh in on employee relations issues. We cover the full spectrum of the employment relationship: from effective interviewing and hiring, to comprehensive documentation and disciplinary responses, to termination.

We also cover sticky situations – like employee requests for accommodation or complaints about co-workers and management – where the supervisor’s first response can be the key to avoiding litigation or a union campaign. This interactive program will focus on employer rights: what a supervisor can and should do in order to manage their workforce in an effective, positive, and legal manner.

Informative and Relevant Topics

Attendees of the Effective Supervisor® seminar will receive relevant and timely information for all phases of the employment relationship, from hiring to evaluations to discipline to termination. The topics covered include:

• Engaging your workforce
• The employment law basics
• Identifying and partnering with Human Resources or upper-level management to resolve complaints of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation
• Contributing to the implementation of reasonable accommodations while upholding performance standards
• Responding to employee complaints
• Conducting effective interviews and managing an efficient hiring process
• Communicating to build credibility
• Documentation that gets respect and results
• Ending the employment relationship

In addition to our regular revisions and updates to this program, careful attention has been paid to ensure this program complies with recent Executive Orders and other federal guidance concerning the types of training private employers may sponsor.