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Successful Hire Seminar

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Successful Hire SeminarThe Successful HIre Seminar has begun. With two locations under our belt, we are encouraged by the response of our attendees. Some have come to learn about EEOC compliance part of the background check. Others to see, just how our Electronic I-9 system actually works and to ask questions about I-9 audits. Drug Testing and how to implement a Drug-Free Workplace has been another big pull to the Successful HIre seminar as well. It’s a common thing for employers out there, even today, to not have a drug-free workplace in place. This may shock you! It has shocked some of our attendees. But it’s true. We see it everyday. Other topics also include HR Strategies and Development. This category is mainly focused on NATSB’s HR training courses. Our lead instructor, Dan Oblinger, briefly walks attendees through a few of our courses. Many attendees have already booked Dan to come onsite for training this fall. Our Successful Hire seminar is extending into the workplace of our attendees. The Successful Hire seminar was designed to help human resource professionals: maintain compliance in doing background checks; know the implications of not having a full drug-free workplace program; save time by implementing an electronic I-9 system with auditing; continue learning through NATSB training courses. Come to the Successful Hire seminar and learn more about these different topics and ask questions about the human resources industry. We look forward to having you at the Successful Hire seminar in one of the following cities. So come see us in Topeka, Salina, Manhattan, Lawrence, Emporia, Hutchinson or Wichita.

Dan to Speak at KS SHRM State Conference

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Six stories up on a warm Kansas evening. I was an inexperienced patrolman. She was a young drug addict, suicidal, and dangling off the edge of the guardrail. That was my definitive high risk listening situation. Many years have passed, but I will always remember how emotionally draining it was to try to carry on a compelling conversation with an emotionally compromised stranger for 45 minutes.

My name is Dan Oblinger. Now I’m a trained and experienced hostage negotiator. The role of a negotiator is to listen. The risk of negotiating is always life or death. The reward is the ability to bring order from chaos, to aid the vulnerable, and to have those bent upon violence turn back from the brink. In a similar way, human resource professionals make workplaces orderly, just, and safe using highly refined communications strategies.

Listening is a perishable skill, requiring empathy and attentiveness. There are basic techniques that enhance the listening process and influence our communications partners. As the lead trainer for the National Screening Bureau (NATSB), I work with business leaders and HR professionals to promote excellence in a wide variety of industries. They realize that listening is the “forgotten skill”, the key to unlocking their potential as leaders and lovers, and a task that demands formal training to achieve excellence – formal training that less than 5% of the population will ever receive.

  • Do you desire formal training in listening, THE foundational organizational leadership skill?
  • Do you catch yourself interrupting those speaking with you?
  • Do you want to know the secrets of the listening universe?
  • Do you wish you had a grab bag of tactics to use in unpleasant and challenging interactions with colleagues, superiors, and loved ones?
  • Do you know the 7 active listening techniques used by crisis negotiators all over the globe?
  • How good a listener do you want to be?
If so, then plan on attending my presentation, “Listen Like a Negotiator” during the Kansas SHRM Conference. I have been training folks just like yourself to build more richly rewarding careers and personal relationships using the same principles that I use to defuse armed barricades and dissuade suicidal jumpers.
The Kansas SHRM Conference runs September 25-27, 2013 in Overland Park, Kansas. Register today at this LINK. While you’re there, swing by the NATSB booth to meet me and the NATSB crew, learn about our innovative pre-employment screening and training services! You will pick up more listening tips, see live demonstration of “state of the industry” tools, and even get a chance to put on headphones and take the “Listen Like a Negotiator Challenge”! Stay safe, and keep listening!
To see a preview, visit NATSB’s Speakers Bureau website.
Dan Oblinger, Director of Training, NATSB
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