Private team training

Private workplace law training for teams that need consistent judgment.

Bring IAML's attorney-led programs to HR, employee relations, legal, compliance, and manager groups, with training adapted to your audience, policies, and workplace issues.

Use private training when your team needs shared issue-spotting, documentation habits, escalation discipline, and practical workplace-law judgment.

Not sure whether private training, reserved seats, or a public program is the better fit? IAML can help you compare options.

Is this the right fit

A best fit when your team needs shared workplace law judgment

Private training builds consistent issue-spotting and response practices across a group, not a credential for a single seat.

Best for

  • Training a group of managers or supervisors
  • Preparing HR or employee-relations teams for recurring legal issues
  • Creating consistent responses across locations or departments
  • Addressing industry-specific compliance concerns

Maybe not the best fit if

  • You only need one or two individual seats
  • You want a fully self-paced online course
  • You need legal advice on a specific active matter

Not sure which route fits?If you are comparing private training, reserved seats, or a public IAML program, share your audience and goal and IAML can recommend a path.

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What we can train on

Programs can be built around the workplace issues your team actually faces

Start with the workplace decisions that create the most risk: complaints, documentation, leave, investigations, retaliation, and manager escalation.
Manager training

Manager and supervisor essentials

Complaint response, documentation, discipline, retaliation awareness, leave/accommodation issue spotting, and when to involve HR.

Discuss manager training →
HR teams

Employment law for HR professionals

Hiring, termination, discrimination, wage and hour, workplace investigations, ADA/FMLA, and current compliance developments.

Discuss HR team training →
ER / investigations

Employee relations and investigations

Intake, credibility, documentation, investigation planning, interviews, findings, confidentiality, and communication.

Discuss investigations training →
Prevention

Harassment, discrimination, and respectful workplace

Prevention, response duties, manager conduct, bystander issues, state/local requirements, and practical workplace scenarios.

Discuss prevention training →
Leave / ADA

Leave, accommodation, and return-to-work issues

FMLA, ADA, pregnancy accommodation, workers' compensation intersections, documentation, and escalation practices.

Discuss leave / ADA training →
Specific risk

Industry or location-specific compliance

Public sector, healthcare, higher education, multi-state employers, union/non-union environments, and state-specific requirements.

Discuss compliance training →

Don't see the issue you need?Additional workplace law and HR compliance topics can be discussed during the planning conversation.

Need training on one of these issues?Tell us the audience, workplace concerns, timing, and preferred format. IAML will recommend a practical structure for your team.

Discuss Your Team's Training Needs
Outcomes

What your team leaves with

The goal is not to turn every participant into a lawyer. It is to give HR, managers, legal-adjacent teams, and operations leaders a more consistent way to recognize and respond to workplace issues.
Shared judgment

A common language for workplace risk

Participants leave with clearer signals for when an issue needs documentation, escalation, HR involvement, or legal review.

Manager habits

More consistent documentation and response

Training can reinforce practical habits around complaints, discipline, retaliation awareness, leave issues, and respectful workplace concerns.

Practical tools

Scenarios and materials teams can use

Programs can include participant materials, discussion prompts, and examples adapted to your audience, industry, policies, and recurring workplace challenges.

Process

How private training works

You do not need a finished agenda before reaching out. A short planning conversation is enough for IAML to recommend topic scope, format, audience, and timing.
01

Tell us what your team needs

A short conversation about audience, goals, current workplace issues, preferred format, timing, and whether private training or a public program is the better fit.

02

Receive a recommended format

IAML recommends a half-day, full-day, multi-session, or certificate-style structure, with topics, audience, delivery format, and pricing.

03

Customize the content

Examples, scenarios, policy references, and discussion prompts can be adapted to your workplace, industry, and participant group.

04

Deliver the program

Training is delivered by qualified faculty with participant materials and practical Q&A.

The first step can be a simple discussion of audience, topics,format, timing, and whether private training is the right route.

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Delivery formats

Choose the format that fits your team

Private training should match the audience, the amount of interaction needed, and whether the goal is issue-spotting, skill practice, or leadership alignment.

Private workshop

Best for

  • Manager groups
  • HR or employee-relations teams
  • Leadership meetings
  • Issue-specific training

Includes

  • Faculty-led instruction
  • Participant materials
  • Customized examples
  • Live Q&A

Virtual private training

Best for

  • Distributed teams
  • Multi-location employers
  • Shorter focused sessions
  • Faster scheduling needs

Includes

  • Live instruction over Zoom or Teams
  • Interactive discussion
  • Digital materials
  • Practical workplace scenarios

Multi-session series

Best for

  • Deeper skill-building
  • Large HR or manager populations
  • Certificate-style private programs
  • Training over multiple dates

Includes

  • Sequenced sessions
  • Applied scenarios
  • Materials across modules
  • Format recommendations

Reserved seats or public program path

Best for

  • Smaller teams
  • Individuals needing an existing IAML program
  • Groups comparing private and public options
  • Fastest available route

Includes

  • Program-path recommendation
  • Schedule comparison
  • Seat planning
  • Guidance on best fit
Social proof

Trusted by employers that need practical workplace law training.

IAML has supported HR, legal, compliance, employee relations, and manager audiences across large employers, public institutions, healthcare, higher education, retail, and technology.
Private training in practice

Attorney-led workplace law training becomes more valuable when managers and HR teams practice the same judgment together.

Built around real decisions, not generic compliance slides.

Examples of private training adapted to different workplace needs.

These examples show the range of teams and topics IAML can support, from manager training to investigations, leave, and HR employment-law programs.

Walmart HR and the Law for Human Resource Professionals

Core employment-law training for HR professionals, focused on the workplace decisions HR makes day to day.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Employment Law Program

Employment law and compliance training adapted to a public-research employer environment.

The Home Depot Managing Employee Leaves

Practical training on FMLA, ADA, and return-to-work decisions for HR and manager audiences.

Rutgers University Conducting Lawful Investigations

Workplace investigations training covering intake, interviews, documentation, and findings.

Intermountain Healthcare Making Employment Workplace Decisions

Decision-focused workplace law training for managers and HR in a healthcare environment.

Dropbox Employment Law Training for Non-HR Supervisors and Managers

Frontline manager training on complaint response, documentation, and HR escalation.

Why IAML

Attorney-led training for the decisions that rarely fit a script.

Private training works when it gives a shared language for spotting issues, documenting decisions, escalating risk, and acting consistently.
Instruction

Attorney-led, practical instruction

Programs are taught by practicing employment-law attorneys and experienced workplace law faculty, not generic compliance trainers.

Practice

Built around real workplace decisions

The training focuses on what participants need to recognize, document, escalate, and decide after the session.

Context

Adapted to your organization

Examples can reflect your industry, policies, workforce, and current training goals.

Experience

Longstanding national experience

IAML has trained HR professionals, managers, and organizational leaders since 1979.

Who it is for

Built for the people responsible for workplace risk

The buyer is usually trying to improve how a group recognizes, documents, escalates, and responds to recurring workplace issues.
For HR and employee relations leaders Build shared issue-spotting and response practices across your HR team or manager population.
For legal and compliance teams Support consistent workplace law understanding without turning internal legal staff into the only training resource.
For operations and people leaders Give managers practical guidance on complaints, documentation, discipline, leave issues, and escalation.
For public-sector and mission-driven employers Adapt training to the realities of public service, healthcare, education, tribal organizations, and regulated environments.
Internal champion support

Need to share this internally?

If you are comparing training options for HR, legal, leadership, or procurement, IAML can provide a concise overview with audience fit, topic options, format choices, and next steps.

  • Use it to brief HR, legal, compliance, operations, or senior leadership.
  • Clarify whether private training, reserved seats, or a public program is the better route.
  • Capture the topic scope, likely format, timing questions, and planning next steps.

Ask for a short overview to share with your team.

Send the audience, issue area, preferred timing, and any internal questions. IAML can respond with a practical summary for your review process.

Quick answers

A few answers before you start a team training conversation.

Use these to decide whether to request a short overview, compare public program paths, or plan a private training format.
Can IAML customize a program for our policies or industry?

Yes. Private programs can incorporate your policies, procedures, industry context, and recurring workplace scenarios.

Can training be delivered virtually?

Yes. Programs can be delivered live virtual or in another private training format depending on your audience, schedule, and goals.

How many people can attend?

IAML can support small leadership groups, HR teams, manager groups, and larger employee populations. The recommended format depends on topic depth and interaction needs.

Do you offer manager and supervisor training?

Yes. Private training can focus on frontline manager responsibilities including complaint response, documentation, retaliation awareness, discipline, leave/accommodation issue spotting, and HR escalation.

Is this legal advice?

No. IAML training is educational and practical. It helps teams understand workplace law principles and risk signals, but it is not legal advice for a specific matter.

How quickly can a program be delivered?

Timing depends on customization, faculty availability, format, and scope. A simple program may move faster; deeper customization or multi-session programs require more planning.

Can this include continuing credit or certificates?

Where applicable, IAML can discuss completion documentation or continuing credit options. Professional credits and specific continuing credit eligibility should be confirmed before relying on them.

What affects private training pricing?

Pricing depends on audience size, delivery format, program length, customization, materials, faculty availability, and whether the program is a single session or multi-session series. IAML can recommend an appropriate format after a short planning conversation.

How far in advance should we plan private training?

Timing depends on topic, customization, faculty availability, and delivery format. Straightforward programs may move faster; customized or multi-session programs require more planning.

Can IAML help us choose between private training and public program seats?

Yes. IAML can compare private training, reserved seats, and public program options based on audience size, timing, format, and training goals.

What happens after we request details?

IAML will ask about audience, topics, timing, format, and goals, then recommend the best structure.

Next step

Start with the team decision you need to improve.

Tell us the audience, issue area, timing, and preferred format. IAML will recommend whether private training, reserved seats, or a public program is the better fit.

No obligation. Start with the question your team is trying to solve, and IAML can recommend the right route.

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