Workshops and Training Tailored to Fit Any Organization

Sound Employment Solutions, LLC has presented workshops and seminars to employers throughout the Northwest since 2001. Each workshop is designed with the adult learner in mind using interactive discussions, lectures, and real-life scenarios. Any workshop may be tailored to incorporate an employer’s policies, procedures, and collective bargaining agreements. For convenience, most workshops and seminars are formatted in three or six hour formats. 

Managing Performance & Discipline

Attendees learn to manage employee performance and discipline.

Coaching: Improving Performance

Techniques for coaching employees in achieving improved performance

Conduct Meaningful Conversations

"We Need to Talk!" How to introduce discussions about uncomfortable situations

Demonstrating Leadership Using Strategic Decision-Making

This workshop is designed for any supervisor responsible for making decisions in the face of conflicting demands, absent guidelines or procedures, and when encountering  resistance from those responsible for achieving results.

Understanding Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation

Whether an employee is making a complaint or a supervisor is responsible for prohibiting discrimination or harassment, this workshop will provide the attendee with a comprehensive framework for legal and ethical standards.

Conquering the Workplace Bully

Workplace bullies create havoc in the work place, oftentimes with no consequences

Minimizing Workplace Gossip

Though office gossip is often viewed as harmless, it is frequently a source of conflict

Ethical Decision Making

Participants will approach ethical challenges using suggested employer policies

Managing the Multi-Generational Workgroup

There are four very different and distinctive generations in the modern day workplace. Supervisors, managers and employee work groups report feeling overwhelmed with the competing needs of these four generations.

Providing A+ Customer Service in a Public Sector Environment

Effective customer service is essential to the sustainability of the public employer, but customer service in the public sector includes a component of information, education, and in some instances, enforcement of laws and rules.

Labor Relations Management

A workshop providing framework for managing or supervising unionized employees

Conducting an Internal Investigation

Investigating allegations & employee complaints? This class is for you

Hiring the Right Candidate

Techniques for how to develop & implement a successful applicant screening process

Effective Team Communications

Effective teamwork is critical to a productive and satisfied workforce

The Ever-Changing Workplace

Working within an environment of constant change is the new norm

Preventing Workplace Violence

Employers are required to provide a workplace that is safe and free of violence

Myers-Briggs® Administrators

The essence of the Myers-Briggs® theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment.

Employment Solutions Customized for Your Organization

The two partners of Sound Employment Solutions, LLC operate on the principle that education is essential to the development of employees and management personal, and through education and training, the supervisor and employee will choose to work cooperatively in developing a productive and effective workplace.