Training & Professional Development

Cypress Ridge Solutions designs and delivers highly effective, focused half- and full-day staff development programs to meet the critical performance needs of our clients. Development is an investment in your employees, your most valuable assets, with direct impact on your bottom line.

We deliver timely, practical, and cost-effective programs, specifically tailored to your unique requirements and objectives. Highly participative, these sessions are fun and informative with high take-away value. Not only do we keep participants awake, they put into practice what we have presented.

Programs include a pre-training needs assessment with clients to identify specific educational goals, define unique industry and/or organizational characteristics, design customized materials and evaluations, and identify follow up programs to support and encourage the on-going effectiveness of the education programs.

Management and Employee Development Programs

Managing to Stay Legal - Two 3-hour sessions

• Part 1: Maneuvers managers through the legal mine field, introducing legal concepts and their impact on the manager’s role.
• Part 2: Emphasizes the application of legal issues upon the employment cycle, from interviewing, and performance management through termination. Includes why managers should not date their employees and nine other common legal pitfalls. Raises the level of managers’ professionalism, addresses legal issues, best practices and responsibilities of the manager in your organization. Excellent for first-time managers or those new to your organization!

High Impact Hiring - 5 Hours

A “How-To” on hiring high impact talent. Interactive workshop to significantly improve manager’s hiring decisions, retain top employees, and reduce the cost of turnover.

Compensation Strategies for management - 4 Hours

Helps managers answer the question, “How did you come up with this raise?” Seminar with relevant case studies, applying & demonstrating compensation planning tools for managers to implement pay programs to reward performance objectives.

Leading Good People to do Great Things - 3 Hours

Performance Management Workshop
Know when to hold’em… know when to fold’em.
Interactive workshop to develop managers’ skills to maximize employee performance, set clear, relevant objectives, focus performance, and discuss performance at year end.

Sexual Harassment Training for Supervisors & Managers - 2 Hours

Designed for managers and supervisors to meet California Law AB 1825, enacted in 2005. Participants will clearly understand what constitutes sexual harassment and how to prevent sexual and unlawful harassment in the workplace.

Leading Your Team Through Change - 4 Hours

Focuses on strategies & issues of change. Participant’s assessment to identify individual’s strengths in 5 key areas to critical change. Customized to address key change issues in the organization. Excellent during mergers, high growth, or workforce reductions.

Building Communication & Team Performance - 3 Hours

Learn to recognize and utilize Behavioral Styles in work and in personal life. Prior to the workshop, participants take an online assessment and receive a personal report of their own style. This workshop is powerful for teams, to enhance communication, reduce conflict, and improve relationships.

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Serving clients in San Jose, Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area & Nationwide