As a new employee enters your organization, he or she quickly learns what the true values and expectations are. Orientation is your best opportunity to set out how you expect employees to treat each other, and what behavior is acceptable - and what is not. You cannot overstate your organization's values. If you want them to be lived by everyone in your workplace, you must provide effective training where those values are clearly spelled out from the outset.

QMR offers a novel and entertaining way to explore the behaviors and values you expect from new employees. Succeeding at Work – The Adventure Begins takes new entry-level employees on a ride aboard the Spaceship Success as its crew of humans and aliens explore the values they will need to succeed. From effective communication to customer service, this program introduces all the fundamentals. For more information about this program, click here.

Rights & Responsibilities is a brief introduction to the issue of sexual harassment prevention, intended for new employees. Part of our PATTERNS series, this orientation program describes what sexual harassment is, how it is damaging to the person being harassed, the harasser, the workgroup and the organization, and what an employee's rights and responsibilities are in this area. For more information about this program, click here.

For the newer manager or supervisor, QMR offers the comprehensive and creative series A Manager's Guide. Using a metaphor of the relationship between a theatre director and his cast preparing a production of Hamlet, this 2-program series looks at the skills you need to survive and thrive as a manager. Topics include interviewing, terminations, coaching, time management, conflict management, harassment prevention, and much more. For more information about this program, click here.