Digital Course Descriptions

Emotions & Teamwork: Who Is Pushing Your Buttons? This course is designed to help anyone to evaluate when an interaction moves from rational discourse to emotional responses, recognize keys that trigger amygdala hijacking, and select strategies that can then re-establish productive dialogue.

Security Level 1: Standard (Workday Learning)* This Level 1 security course is for anyone who lives outside of their home country or travels outside their home country as part of their work responsibilities. Lessons in this course include: Basic Security Principles, Strategic Intercultural Relations, Hostile Surveillance Detection, Cyber Security, Individual Risk and Contingency Planning, Responding to Security Incidents, Responding to Kidnapping, and Post Incident Care.

Security Level 1: Domestic (Workday Learning)* This Level 1 security course is designed for those in the organization who work in their home country and the level of security risk in that country is considered low. If a staff member travels to other countries for work responsibilities, they should take the standard course described above. The content of this course addresses risk associated with crime and natural disasters.

Data Protection Training. This course created by GTIS explains the importance and responsibility we all have to protect each other’s personal data. Lessons include: the mandate to never disclose personal information, what to do if you accidentally do, how to protect personal data, knowing your rights, and only collecting what you need.

Towards Better Decisions. This course will explore some of the rich meaning behind the truth that is summarized in Proverbs 3:5,6. Prayer and trust in our Gentle Shepherd are to be woven throughout our decision making. God has gifted some folks with great understanding, and we can learn from their decision making processes. This course explores ways to be good stewards of our opportunities to make decisions.  

Letting Someone Go Be Amazing Somewhere Else. Job fit makes a world of difference. A great person in the wrong position is a disaster waiting to happen. This course provides guidance for how a line manager can have a conversation with a team member who needs to “Go Be Amazing Somewhere Else”. While the final conversation comes after a series of coaching conversations, there are times that a change must be made. While HR has experts who can help, there are also some things that you as the line manager need to know and do in order to minimize the possibility that this situation comes back to bite you or the organization.

Staff Engagement. Gallup’s recent research says it’s all about the manager. How leaders support and supervise their team affects everyone in the organization, but not all of us in leadership roles have had the education, mentoring, or even good modeling in leading and managing a team. This course attempts to address some of the gap. Lessons address a biblical perspective on leading people, working with staff to set work goals and individual development plans (IDPs), improving focused conversation skills, having regular check-ins and quarterly conversations, and summarizing it all an annual record. The outline of this course is set around supporting line mangers to meet SIL’s Staff Engagement Policy and Standards.

Workplace Behavior – Line Managers. Following completion of the Workplace Behavior course, line managers (anyone who supervises others) should take this course to consider their own responsibilities in creating a work environment that is free of bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, and discrimination.

Workplace Behavior – HR Staff. This third course in the series is designed to help HR staff when dealing with breaches in the policies, standards, and expectations regarding workplace behavior.