Training
2024 MCIT Training Events Preview
MCIT’s training events are specifically developed to assist members in managing and reducing the operational risks they face. Each session delivers practical ideas members can apply immediately.
As event dates approach, more details about each training session will be provided at MCIT.org/events and sent directly to members, including when registration opens. Events are subject to change.
January-March, No Cost
This series of webinars offers hiring process risk management best practices for those involved in hiring, such as human resources staff, department heads, managers, etc.
Each of the below topics is a stand-alone webinar, but they are developed to be attended in series:
- Job applications, advertising and job descriptions
- Veterans Preference Act and candidate screening
- Interviewing
- Reference checks, background checks and pre-employment testing
April 17-18
In person, Park Event Center, Waite Park, Minn., $150 per person for MCIT members
Allegations of employee misconduct can run the gamut from an inappropriate comment to the exceptionally serious and require the employer to respond appropriately. The investigation must be fair, thorough and comply with the law.
This fast-paced, two-day seminar helps investigators meet these requirements. This seminar is designed for the human resources professional who wants to conduct his or her own investigations and is limited to 35 participants.
May-June, No Cost
This series of webinars reviews best practices for managing employee performance to maximize the talents and skills of current employees and identifies common traps that snare managers while offering strategies to sidestep them. These webinars are designed for those who are responsible for managing employee performance.
Each of the below topics is a stand-alone webinar, but they are developed to be attended in series:
- Performance management basics, such as coaching throughout the year, documentation and formal annual performance evaluations
- Employee discipline and performance improvement plans
- Substance use and addiction and how to manage it in the workplace relative to performance management
- Strategies for effective difficult conversations
July-August, No Cost
Employers are responsible for providing an environment in which employees can work free of harassment and discrimination. This series of webinars explains the legal standards relative to these issues and how employees and managers can comply. The series also addresses how to manage other bad behaviors that can contribute to a toxic work environment.
The series includes the following sessions, but they are developed to be attended in series:*
- Identifying, preventing and correcting discrimination in the workplace
- What sexual harassment is and what supervisors and staff can do to create a workplace culture of respect and accountability
- Factors that contribute to a toxic work environment and strategies to prevent or turnaround a toxic environment
*The topics of discrimination and harassment prevention may be combined into one webinar as the sessions are developed if deemed appropriate.
Aug. 28
In person, Park Event Center, Waite Park, Minn., $75 per person for MCIT members
This seminar offers information about many of the most pressing land use concerns for Minnesota counties and related governmental organizations.
This training is suggested for planning and zoning employees, county commissioners, boards of adjustment members, planning commission members and county attorneys.