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Instructor-led Human Resources Training Courses

Some workplace challenges require real-time discussion, not just self-paced learning. 

SHIFT’s offering includes instructor-led training delivered by experienced employment law attorneys, designed to build on your existing compliance and culture programming. These interactive workshops reinforce and extend online learning by providing targeted support where deeper discussion, clarification, and alignment are needed. 

The result is a more complete approach to compliance — one that strengthens both understanding and real-world decision-making.

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Audience

Tailored for employees, supervisors, managers, and executive leadership teams

Format

In-person, virtual, or hybrid delivery options

Compliance scope

Customized to reflect applicable legal requirements, workplace standards, and organizational policies

Duration

Adapted to fit scope, audience, and objectives

Extending your training
beyond online learning 

Online learning creates consistency and scale. Instructor-led training adds depth and context where it matters most. 

Together, they create a more effective compliance strategy by reinforcing expectations, addressing real-world challenges, and giving employees and managers the opportunity to engage directly with legal experts. 

Organizations often use live training to: 

  • Reinforce expectations for managers and leadership teams  
  • Address sensitive or complex workplace dynamics  
  • Support organizational change or culture initiatives  
  • Provide space for discussion, clarification, and alignment  

The feedback that we received about the live training from our senior leaders was very positive.

SHIFT took the time to understand our culture and were very responsive and flexible to make sure that the training met the needs of our organization.

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Rob Doodian
Executive Vice President & Chief Human Resource Officer

Interactive, real-world learning

Live sessions are designed to be engaging, practical, and grounded in real workplace scenarios. 

As reflected in Nukk-Freeman & Cerra’s training approach, sessions incorporate interactive elements such as scenarios, role plays, and guided discussion to help participants build applied understanding. 

  • Scenario-based discussions grounded in real workplace issues  
  • Opportunities for Q&A and guided conversation  
  • Practical strategies to prevent issues before they escalate  
  • Content tailored to your organization’s policies and environment  
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Topics that reflect real workplace risk

Training programs span a wide range of legal and workplace topics, including: 

  • Harassment and discrimination prevention  
  • Manager responsibilities and accountability  
  • Hiring, performance management, and termination practices  
  • Workplace investigations and documentation  
  • Inclusion, communication, and workplace culture  
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Customized to your organization

Customization ensures relevance while maintaining legal accuracy and consistency with your broader compliance program. Every session is tailored to reflect your organization’s policies, structure, and risk areas. Training can be aligned to: 

Internal policies and reporting procedures

Industry-specific challenges

Workforce dynamics and organizational structure

Current workplace trends and risks

Flexible training formats

Instructor-led training can be delivered in formats that match your organization’s needs: 

In-person or virtual 

Sessions can be facilitated on-site at your location or delivered live via video — same content, same engagement, wherever your teams are.

Half-day or full-day 

Choose the depth that fits your schedule, from focused half-day sessions to comprehensive full-day programs.

Standalone or series 

Run a single session on a targeted topic or build a multi-session series for deeper skill development over time.

Group sessions

Interactive sessions for employees, managers, or leadership teams designed for smaller groups (40 or fewer) that encourage open discussion, real questions, and shared learning.

One-on-one coaching

Targeted support for individuals who need focused guidance, skill development, or behavior alignment.

Team workshops

Facilitated sessions designed to strengthen communication, collaboration, and workplace culture.

What this means for you

You gain access to experienced employment law attorneys who can engage your team directly, answer complex questions, and guide meaningful conversations — without having to source, vet, or manage separate providers. 

And because our instructor-led training is designed by the same attorneys behind our online learning, your people get consistent messaging no matter how they learn. 

Training programs

The programs below represent some of our most frequently delivered training sessions and include sample topics and recommended session lengths. Each training engagement is customized to reflect your organization’s workplace realities, audience needs, and compliance considerations. Because legal requirements and workplace expectations vary across jurisdictions and evolve over time, certain programs may require additional tailoring to ensure accuracy, relevance, and alignment with organizational goals.

 

Legal training

  • This training program provides an overview of harassment and discrimination laws and best practices in order to promote a healthy and productive working environment, with an emphasis on supervisory responsibilities
  • 1.5 – 2 hours
  • Can be modified to be compliant with state and/or city sexual harassment training requirements

  • This training program provides an overview of harassment and discrimination laws and best practices in order to promote a healthy and productive working environment for all employees
  • 1 – 1.5 hours
  • Can be modified to be compliant with state and/or city sexual harassment training requirements

  • This training program conducts a step-by-step review of the best practices in the hiring process and an in-depth explanation of the legal scope of hiring
  • 1.5 – 2 hours
  • Training for Human Resources Professionals, Supervisors, and/or Senior Management Teams

  • This training program provides a step-by-step analysis of key factors in successful performance management, focusing on “at-will” employment, formal and informal performance feedback, fair and consistent evaluations and discipline, and effective documentation practices
  • 1.5 – 2 hours
  • Training for Supervisors

  • This training program is specifically designed for supervisors with hiring and performance management authority. It provides guidance on how to effectively hire candidates, provide performance management to employees and carry out terminations that were necessary, highlighting how to avoid legal risks and unconscious bias.
  • 2 hours
  • Training for Supervisors

  • This training program provides an overview of the legal challenges that DEI initiatives face and provides strategies for mitigating legal risk and improving the effectiveness of such initiatives.
  • 1- 1.5 hours
  • Training for Legal Teams, Human Resources, and DEI Stakeholders.

  • This training program covers the step-by-step process designed to train individuals responsible for ensuring compliance with the ADA and other federal and state disability laws on legal standards and best practices, such as reasonable accommodations, engaging in the interactive process, and medical documentation
  • 1.5 – 2 hours
  • Training for Human Resources Professionals and/or Supervisors

*Requires significant customization

  • This training program provides an overview of federal and state-specific family leave laws and commonly asked questions regarding eligibility, waivers, benefits, submitting claims, avoiding penalties and required documentation
  • 1.5- 2 hours
  • Training for Human Resources Professionals and/or Supervisors
  • Can be combined with disability course

*Requires significant customization

  • This training program focuses on improving understanding of employment laws, “issue spotting” in HR, understanding legal risks, and best practices in employment law
  • 2 – 3 hours
  • Training for Human Resources Professionals, Legal Teams and/or Compliance

*Requires significant customization

  • This training program provides an explanation of state-specific wage and hour laws with a focus on audits, employee classification, exemptions, calculation of overtime, and issue spotting
  • 2 hours
  • Training for Human Resources Professionals, Legal Teams, and/or Senior Management Teams

*Requires significant customization

  • This training program provides a detailed review of the Form I-9 and E-Verify process for supervisors with background information on The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), best practices for enforcement, and how to avoid risk throughout the process
  • 1 hour
  • Training for Human Resource Professionals and/or Legal Teams

  • This training helps management teams better understand federal wage and hour classification issues and features the tools necessary to help an organization make the most of its diversity by creating an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable culture and work environment
  • 1 hour
  • Training for Human Resources Professionals, Legal Teams, and/or Senior Management Teams

  • This custom-designed training focuses on key policies and managers’ responsibilities, including reporting obligations. Clients can choose to highlight any key policies such as EEO, anti-bullying, drugs and alcohol in the workplace, relationships, and hybrid work. The course uses hypotheticals to help managers think through real-world scenarios. Tailored to the client, this training compliments other trainings like anti-harassment and discrimination.
  • 1 – 2 hours
  • Manager Responsibility Training

  • As workforce reductions continue to make headlines, organizations are re-evaluating how they plan, implement, and communicate these difficult decisions. This training provides a clear, practical framework for navigating the complex legal and practical aspects of a Reduction in Force (RIF) including: potential alternatives to RIFs, developing defensible business cases, identifying and managing litigation risks, complying with notice and disclosure requirements, and creating effective communication plans for internal and external stakeholders.
  • 1.5 hours
  • HR professionals, legal teams, people managers, and leaders involved in organizational planning and/or change management

Workplace Culture training

  • When employees don’t feel safe speaking up, concerns go unaddressed and can escalate into significant organizational risks. This training helps leaders understand and foster psychological safety—empowering employees to raise issues without fear—so organizations can strengthen communication, improve workplace culture, and proactively reduce legal and operational exposure.
  • 1 – 2 hours
  • Training for Senior Management Teams, Supervisors and/or employees

  • This training program is focused on how to create a work environment where all employees feel included, supported and valued to improve the quality of workplace interactions and decisions. Training will also teach employees how to become Upstanders; identify and practice tools to increase team productivity, innovation, and morale; and review an organization’s expectations and policies concerning civility and respect in the workplace and policies related to workplace conduct
  • 1 – 2 hours
  • Training for Senior Management Teams, Supervisors and/or employees

  • This training program provides an overview of how to help promote respectful and considerate behavior on behalf of all members of the workforce, which helps to reduce staff conflicts and prevent bullying in the workplace. This training will give some background to harassment & discrimination, but will focus on how to prevent such conduct in an effort to increase a respectful and inclusive workplace
  • 1 – 2 hours
  • Training for Senior Management Teams, Supervisors and/or employees

  • This training program probes common shortcuts that supervisors/ managers apply when evaluating employees and assigning opportunities (i.e., biases) and provides best practices for avoiding those shortcuts and identifying and developing the strongest team.
  • 1.5 – 2 hours
  • Human Resources, Senior Managers, and DEI Stakeholders

  • This interactive workshop prepares board members and executives to better communicate their vision for increasing employee inclusion and belonging, and to model the leadership behaviors that are effective in achieving lasting improvements within their specific organizational culture.
  • 1.5 – 2 hours
  • Board Members, Executive Leadership Teams, and Senior Managers

  • This training program focuses on the definition of “cultural competency” and why it is crucial to help develop a healthy, diverse and inclusive work environment
  • 2 – 3 hours
  • Training for Senior Management Teams and/or Supervisors

  • This training program begins by probing what identity conversations are and why they are so difficult. The training then offers techniques for having more productive conversations about challenging situations within a team.
  • 1.5 – 2 hours
  • Human Resources, Senior Managers, and DEI Stakeholders

  • This training program provides a step-by-step review of how to manage a multigenerational workforce, and why having multiple generations in the workplace allows for more diverse perspectives and opinions, different problem-solving tactics, and greater potential for innovation
  • 1 hour
  • Training for Senior Management Teams and/or Supervisors

  • This training program provides an overview of strategies that are legally compliant and proven to work most effectively in holding employees accountable for building a more inclusive workplace.
  • 1.5 – 2 hours
  • Training for Legal Teams, Human Resources, Senior Managers, and DEI Stakeholders

Investigations Practice Group training

Our Investigations Practice Group designs and delivers interactive training workshops focused on investigation best practices, with step-by-step guidance on conducting effective internal investigations. Ideal for Human Resource Professionals and/or Legal Teams these trainings can be conducted 1:1 or with groups and cover areas from: initial complaints/outreach, planning, interviewing, documentation best practices, reviewing findings/close-out steps, and following up after the investigation is complete. The below trainings are generally 1 – 3.5 hours in duration and can be completely customizable for a client’s specific needs:

  • Holistic Investigations Seminar
  • Conducting Effective Internal Investigations (Legal Perspective or HR Perspective)
  • Tips for Conducting Effective Remote Investigations
  • Understanding and Reducing Implicit Bias in Workplace Investigations
  • Privilege Issues in Internal Investigations

On-Demand 1:1 training

There may be times when members of an organization require private, one-on-one training to address workplace behaviors. NFC offers one-on-one training and coaching programs designed to intensely educate those within an organization who require concentrated training best delivered directly vs. within a group setting. NFC’s one-on-one courses are often structured to address immediate issues to raise the employees’ awareness and improve conduct moving forward. Each session is delivered in a private, conversational, and engaging format, providing the participant with personalized suggested adjustments necessary to correct any identified issues and actionable tools they can apply immediately to their work environment.

Built on legal expertise. Delivered through live training.

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