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The workplace is constantly evolving, making skilled managers essential to your organization's success. Best Care EAP has been trusted for over 40 years by our members to help HR teams like yours offer effective training programs to build competent leaders. If your organization contracts with Best Care for EAP services, the Management Excellence Series and other multi-day series we offer, are available at client-preferred rates. If you're not a member of Best Care EAP you can still register at our normal rate and we'd certainly like for you to join in!

NEW for 2025! Management Excellence Series

Whether you're an experienced manager or stepping into a leadership role for the first time, this signature learning opportunity is designed to elevate your managerial capabilities and provide you with the essential tools to lead high-performing teams. Our organizational psychology expert trainer, Dave Dechant, has over 20 years experience and created our Management Excellence Series. It's truly one-of-a-kind! Overview Flyer

2025 Sessions:

 

Cost: $230 for members; $290 for non-members. Sessions are in-person and can be mixed and matched as single registrations, or bundled together for one rate. For more information on a discounted bundled rate to attend the full series, please email april.epley@bestcareeap.org. 

Part One: The Emerging Manager

So, you want to be a manager? In most organizations, managers are working managers who have responsibilities on top of supervising others. This can put significant demands on your time and generate stress if you don't know how to balance the two. The Emerging Manager addresses:

  • What it means to manage employees.
  • What you will actually do on a day-to-day basis.
  • What challenges you are most likely to confront.
  • How your relationship with coworkers will and must change.
  • What skills you need in order to make the transition from line employee to leader.

Best Care EAP's The Emerging Manager training will solidify your confidence and help you set the foundation to successfully take on supervisory responsibilities. Unlock your people potential with this one-of-a-kind training opportunity. Register today!

Cost: $230 for members; $290 for non-members.

Part Two: Developing Successful Employees

Does your organization want to see higher retention and greater employee engagement? Developing key employees is the key. One of the biggest challenges that you, as a manager may face, is fully understanding your impact and influence on your employees' performance management cycle. Developing Successful Employees will teach you the steps in the performance management cycle, which is foundational to developing your employees and building a great team. In addition, you will learn to:

  • Plan and set expectations for key employees.
  • Monitor and develop your key employee's skills and abilities.
  • Review and give constructive feedback.
  • Recognize and appreciate the work being done.

Best Care EAP's Developing Successful Employees training will help you enhance your employees' career tract so your organization retains it's key employees and sees higher engagement. Unlock your people potential with this one-of-a-kind training opportunity. Register today!

Cost: $230 for members; $290 for non-members.

Part Three: People and Conflicts

You manage a workforce that includes a wide variety of talents, perspectives, and personalities making your organization diverse and complex. If there are conflicts between your team members, should you intervene as a leader? The answer is usually yes. But once you intervene, do you know how to successfully resolve conflicts in the workplace? Attend People and Conflicts training, and you will:

  • Learn what ignites conflict in the first place. 
  • Gain the courage to eliminate your fear of confrontation.
  • Identify your natural management style and make it work to help resolve conflicts.
  • Know how to resolve tense situations in a way that leaves all team members feeling heard, respected, and motivated.
  • Learn when to compromise or to collaborate and how to apply either to solve conflicts.
  • Be able to address and resolve petty conflicts that interfere with a team's productivity as well as issues between subordinates.

Best Care EAP's People and Conflicts training will teach you the exact skills necessary to effectively manage and resolve conflicts with confidence. Unlock your people potential with this one-of-a-kind training opportunity. Register today! 

Cost: $230 for members; $290 for non-members.

Part Four: The Human Side of Managing Change

If you're like many leaders, you may worry about how employees will react to change. Will you be able to persuade them to accept new ways of doing business? Research suggests that employees usually welcome change if they understand the reasons and implications, and are involved in the process. The Human Side of Managing Change teaches you to take into account employee emotions and reactions when change disrupts the "but this is how we've always done it" mentality. In addition, you will:

  • Gain a deep understanding of the psychological thought processes employees go through.
  • Learn the specific techniques that help employees navigate and accept change. 
  • Discover which skills are necessary to communicate in a way that turns resistance into trust.
  • Understand the value of a growth mindset and how it can help you succeed when navigating change. 
  • Be introduced to various select techniques in order to respond to any organizational resistance to change.
  • Understand that your team's resistance to change is natural but that it's also manageable in a way that can be positive and productive for both them and your organization.

Best Care EAP's The Human Side of Managing Change training will solidify your confidence and help you successfully implement a change management process that can improve your business while retaining your key employees. Unlock your people potential with this one-of-a-kind training opportunity. Register today! 

Cost: $230 for members; $290 for non-members.

Additional Series Available

  • Research shows when companies invest in their employees’ wellbeing, it increases their engagement, productivity, resilience and retention. With this progressive format, each week’s material builds on the last so that participants can gain a deeper understanding of their personal strengths, priorities and values.

    Week 1: Healthy Mind & Body Take a look at how to manage your reactions to stress that will allow you to realistically assess threats and in turn give you control over the stress you experience.

    Week 2: Develop Your Personal Mission Statement and Goals Identify and develop focus through value clarification and the development of a Personal Mission Statement.

    Week 3: Resilience & Attitude Discover how an optimistic attitude can help eliminate stressors and enhance your career.

    Week 4: Resilience: Adapting to Change Learn to deal with imposed change that happens to you when you have no or little control. Learn how to put your resilience to work to effectively manage your reactions to change by learning the stages of transition.

    Week 5: Managing Your Social Community Explore ways to limit your social media access and balance your community commitments in order to manage stress.

    Week 6: Managing Financial Stress Significant numbers of Americans are living beyond their means and don’t have a clear plan for addressing the consequences of doing so. Research has linked the fear, stress, and conflict associated with money worries to significant health and social problems.

    For more specifics on this program and pricing, fill out our training request form or call (800) 801-4182 or (402) 354-8000.

    Money is the biggest stressor in most people’s lives. Wallet Wellbeing is a four-part progressive learning series that will inspire you to take control of your finances and your life. It does so by blending sound money management principles and techniques with opportunities for personal growth.

    Your Relationship with Money: Your relationship with money drives financial decisions which, in turn, determines quality of life. Assess the health of your current relationship with money and review a proven process for improving it.

    Making Friends with Your Money: Uncover attitudes developed in childhood that affect your current relationship with money. Identify new outlooks that will motivate you to learn from the past, plan for the future, and enjoy the present.

    Getting Out of Debt: Confront the reality of consumer debt and how drastically it limits your choices. You’ll begin freeing yourself from debt by reviewing the “3 Steps to Financial Security.”

    Planning for Stability: Take the next step to long-term financial and emotional wellbeing by developing a Personal Saving and Spending Plan (PSSP). PSSPs are customized financial tools that engage us and help prevent the worrying about finances, and start managing money proactively.

    For more specifics on this program and pricing, fill out our training request form or call (800) 801-4182 or (402) 354-8000.

    This progressive resiliency training series will inform and train your staff to embrace challenges and teach them the skills to overcome bumps. This series will help employees develop resiliency skills they can use in stressful circumstances.

    Session 1: What’s it gonna take? Each participant will take a variety of assessments based on what research has shown to be underlying factors in resilient people.

    Session 2: Do you have a growth mindset? How does a growth mindset alter the way we take on everyday challenges? Participants will be exploring Carol Dwieck’s Growth Mindset, and achieve an understanding on how to reframe thinking.

    Session 3: Positive Connectedness. Take a deeper look into the power of a positive mental attitude and the role social support plays in all this.

    Session 4: Got grit? While resiliency is all about bouncing back, grit helps us power through an issue and gets us back to some kind of “norm”.

    Session 5: The big picture. A sense of purpose helps us realize we are part of something larger than ourselves. Resiliency is within each of us. We would struggle in our daily lives without it. The trick is to be able to expand our resiliency capabilities in order to be prepare us for the challenges of tomorrow.

    For more specifics on this program and pricing, fill out our training request form or call (800) 801-4182 or (402) 354-8000.

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