Resources and Other Results:
Ways Soft Skills Training Supports Company Core Values [+ Examples]
How can companies instill their core values into the soul of their organization? The simple answer is through soft skills... More →
Benefits of Fostering a Growth Mindset Culture [+ How to Begin]
Is a growth mindset culture one of your company’s core values? Do your employees have a willingness to continually learn... More →
How to Build Authentic Leadership Through Storytelling
Why build authentic leadership through storytelling? Think about the impact Pixar movies have not only on kids but adults, too... More →
Anti-Racism in the Workplace: Start a Conversation
As someone who is actively trying to understand my privilege, while learning how to address anti-racism in the workplace, I... More →
Allegations of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: No, HR Didn’t Fail. WE did!
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, in the News and in Hollywood Right now, leaders are in a unique position to... More →
Ghosting: We Don’t Do This
By Rachael Hammer, Senior Account Executive and Todd Courtney, Senior Account Executive, at HSI Learning Systems. What is communication worth... More →
Notes from SHRM21: Mental Wellness and Inclusion
SHRM21 in Las Vegas delivered a great live event! Thousands of people donned their masks and attended in person. As... More →
How Off-the-Shelf Training Content Can Support Your Employee Onboarding
When onboarding new employees, there is a lot of “showing them the ropes.” They need to learn about your organization’s... More →
Tips on Internal Organizational Communication Best Practices
Optimizing organizational communication can powerfully impact an organization's efficacy and success. For years, poor communication has been a concern for... More →
Tips for Cultivating Gratitude in the Workplace
“Thank you.” Isn’t that nice to hear? Would you like to work for a company that makes cultivating gratitude in... More →
What Does Authentic Leadership Mean?
“Authentic leadership is the full expression of “me” for the benefit of “we.” - Henna Inam, author of Wired for... More →
What is a Customer Success Manager?
If you are in the process of hiring a vendor, technology provider, or business service partner, your comparison should go... More →
HSI July Newsletter
Your monthly digest of EHS, Compliance, and Professional Development resources & news for you and your business, with something for everyone.... More →
7 Steps to Kick-Start Your Yearly Safety Training Plan
So it’s time for you to plan out your safety goals and training for the year. But with so many... More →
What Makes a Good Incentive Plan?
Employees are paid a salary and benefits for doing their job. Incentives are designed for incremental effort and stretch goals... More →
How to Motivate Employees: Leadership vs. Impedership
Ever wonder how to motivate employees so they are more engaged with their work, and better at it? Of course... More →
Competency-Based Learning: Values Differences
Values Differences is one of the 38 Korn Ferry competencies that HSI maps our video-based learning to in order to... More →
Why Is Management Buy-in Essential for Workplace Health and Safety?
For many of the world's leading organizations, health and safety is a core value that shapes every business decision. For... More →
Leading the Way to a Learning Culture
Culture happens. I know, it sounds like a bad bumper sticker from the ’90s, but it’s true: Your organization has... More →
Modernizing EHS Beyond Compliance: Embracing a Holistic Approach
Struggling to keep up with Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) regulations and feeling overwhelmed by the risks and complexities of... More →
11 Benefits of Sustainability in the Workplace
Nowadays, sustainability in the workplace is a strategic necessity. And the return on investment is well worth the time and... More →
10 Ways You Can Foster Better Compliance in the Workplace
When I tell people what I do and I mention compliance training, the typical response is a groan, an... More →
The Human Side of Safety
The knock on the front door was much harder and faster than typical for a visitor. “I think your garage... More →
OSHA's Leading Indicators
*Note: This content is republished from OSHA’s 2019 publication Using Leading Indicators to Improve Safety and Health Outcomes found here... More →
Culture in the Workplace
Most everyone agrees that a high-performance culture leads to a high-performance business. But finding agreement on what culture really means... More →
A Guide to Creating an Employee Training and Development Program
Creating an employee training and development program from scratch is a challenge. Do it right, and you’ll give your organization... More →
ESG: Environmental, Social, Governance... What is it? Why should companies care? And how do you begin?
What is ESG? (And what it's not.)... More →
What Does OSHA Say About Online Safety Training? - Part 3
Before deciding to invest in online safety training, management types often ask a similar question… “Is this stuff OSHA certified?”... More →
Measuring Safety Attitudes
Want to know how management really feels about safety? Or how about your employees? Join us as we launch Vivid’s... More →
Employee Empowerment: Building Confidence and Initiative with Training
Nothing builds employee empowerment and boosts confidence and initiative like effective training!... More →
STOP Discrimination and Harassment in the Workplace NOW!
Companies need senior management and HR to lead the way to prevent workplace discrimination and harassment. Discrimination quickly breeds a... More →
Helping Employees with Disabilities Advance in the Workplace
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives call for fairness for all employees including employees with disabilities in the workplace. One... More →
Manufacturing Safety: Learning from Expensive Lessons in American Industry
An examination of recent OSHA violations at three American manufacturing facilities, with recommendations for improving safety conditions in your organization... More →
Embracing Workplace Diversity
Of all the challenges an HR department runs into, diversity tops the list as one of the most discussed and... More →
10 Signs of a Toxic Workplace: A Checklist for Managers
With today’s labor shortage, organizations can’t afford to ignore the signs of a toxic workplace. This might be company-wide, or... More →
Building a Behavior Based Safety Program by Establishing Safety as a Core Value
Behavior Based Safety is a program designed to influence employee actions toward safer outcomes, ideally by preventing an accident or... More →
8 Strategies to Secure EHS Executive Buy-In
For safety professionals navigating the complex landscape of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) initiatives, the road to success often begins... More →
Custom In-House vs. Off-the-Shelf eLearning Content
Many organizations create their own training content in-house, rather than using off-the-shelf eLearning content. Our sales team hears from prospects... More →
Improve Employee Social Awareness Through Workplace Empathy
People appreciate when you show care and concern Empathy is defined as “the ability to understand and share the feelings... More →
Learning Culture or Cancel Culture: You Decide
When an employee acts in a way that goes against your company’s values, the results can be costly. With the... More →
Q & A: So You Want to Be a Safety Professional...
Question: “How can I break into the safety field with my certifications and construction experience, but zero actual experience as... More →
Elements of a Whole-Person Approach to Employee Training
If you think of your learners as human beings with a life outside of your organization, you may approach... More →
HSI Acquires Vivid Learning Systems
HSI is proud to welcome Vivid Learning Systems, one of the nation's fastest-growing providers of online safety training, to our... More →
How Workplaces Can Fight Human Trafficking
I imagine most of us do not give human trafficking a second thought, until we travel through an airport and... More →
Actively Listening? [Say Whaaaaat?]
Of course, you’re actively listening!!! Right? Perhaps and perhaps not! What does it mean to be an active listener, and... More →
7-Step Plan to Increase Safety Training Engagement
When 75% of safety professionals identify “employee indifference” as the top barrier to excellence safety training, it’s a cry for... More →
Bullying at Work: EEOC Won’t Take It Anymore
The term “workplace harassment” often conjures images of 1950s-style gender-based pestering where men made women feel uncomfortable and powerless through... More →
Health & Safety Institute Acquires Vivid Learning Systems
The leader in workplace safety, compliance and emergency training has acquired one of the leading sources for safety training online... More →
Leadership Lessons from 2020
They say hindsight is 20/20, and looking back on the last year, we’ve learned a few leadership lessons. We... More →
What is the cost of not training your employees?
The business world has come a long way. Employee training—once considered an optional benefit employers provided to the most promising... More →