Content Areas
Management Development
Organizations rely on people to provide service, create products, invent and innovate, and make quality decisions and plans. To keep all these people and functions working at peak capacity, managers need to continually learn new skills and update existing ones. Cornell ILR provides the training in key management skills that managers need to keep their staffs and organizations successful.
Human Resources Management
HR professionals are faced with unprecedented business challenges requiring immediate action and results. Our newly re-designed portfolio enhances a greater likelihood of success in the next level. Interactive and practical offerings enable you to apply learning back to the workplace. Focus on advanced HR strategies and practices in organizational restructuring and design, M7A’s, compensation, globalization and knowledge management, hone your consulting and coaching skills or learn the fundamentals of HR. Explore these exciting opportunities with us today.
Labor Relations
Whether readying the bargaining team for the next round of negotiations or enhancing the knowledge and skills of professional responsible for day-to-day union relations and contract administration, organizations from throughout the world turn to Cornell ILR for professional development and consultation in labor relations. Our unique, highly specialized curriculum comprises the most comprehensive array of professional education offerings in labor relations studies in the world.
Diversity Management
Are you a diversity professional? Cornell ILR can guide you in all aspects of diversity and inclusion including workshops, on-site training, advanced forums, and the country's first Certified Diversity Professional program.
EEO
Are you a novice, senior EEO executive, or a professional at any level in between? Cornell ILR develops your awareness and knowledge about EEO laws and procedures while developing key interpersonal skills that allow you to handle these issues with more authority.
Organizational Change
Many organizations are facing major change – some strategic and intentional, some imposed by their markets. Steering an organization through the uncertainties and difficulties of significant change requires knowledge of organization and individual behaviors during times of transition, and the skills to manage those reactions while maintaining productivity. Prepare your change leaders with the tools they’ll need to make your organizational change initiative successful by including change skills training at Cornell ILR.
Health & Safety
The Workplace Health and Safety Program provides training and technical assistance on chemicals, biological agents, ergonomics, confined space entry, occupational stress, shift-work and long hours of work, crisis and violence prevention, hazard analysis techniques, training techniques, and indoor air quality to put scientific and technical information to practical use in resolving work environment problems.
Technical assistance includes: on-site hazard evaluation including job hazard analysis, process failure analysis, overall workplace vulnerability assessments, and indoor air investigations, as well as product or process substitution (toxics use reduction) to reduce workplace hazards and make your workplace more “green.”
Certificate Programs for initial licenses and license renewal are available for lead inspector, lead risk assessor, lead abatement supervisor/contractor, and lead abatement worker; as well as for license maintenance for water and wastewater treatment plant operators. The Program publishes health hazard manuals, fact sheets, and technical articles, and delivers workshops and papers at conferences.