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Top 5 March 2025 Completed LocalGovU Courses

Want to know what other North Dakota local governments learned about this past March? Check out the March top 5 most frequently completed LocalGovU courses below:
*Course names and descriptions by LocalGovU (accessed April 1, 2025, from www.LocalGovU.com/NDIRF).

1. Mental Health in Jails

Inmates are twice as likely as the general adult population to experience mental illness. Managing these inmates safely and securely is an important skill for correctional officers. In this course, we will review the symptoms and warning signs of common mental illnesses and discuss strategies and best practices for managing inmates who are mentally unstable.

2. Dealing With Stress

This one-hour course aims to prepare you with the necessary tools to pick up on the cues indicating that things may be more stressful than just the normal, everyday triggers that ebb and flow in all of our lives.

3. Enhancing Work Relationships

The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime. This means that the relationships we build with our co-workers play a significant role in our lives. In this course, learners will explore a variety of tips and techniques for engendering and enriching relationships at work such as building trust and respect, focusing on listening, assertiveness, and conflict resolution.

4. Maintaining Boundaries for Corrections Staff

This course is designed to inform anyone that deals with or has contact with incarcerated inmates about manipulation. Inmates will go to great lengths to convince staff to abandon professionalism, common sense and their better judgment in order to violate professional boundaries. This course will discuss these main topics: knowing where you are, knowing who you are dealing with, knowing how inmates target and manipulate staff and learning safeguards and methods to resist the inmate manipulator.

5. Advanced Defensive Driving Techniques

This course concentrates primarily on advanced defensive driving techniques. You will be given instruction on how to drive defensively in adverse conditions including heavy rain, snow, and ice. We will further discuss how to share the roadways with other motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians.

Register Today!

Your entity gains free access to LocalGovU’s more than 1,000 professional development and safety courses through its NDIRF membership, enabling every employee within your organization to browse and complete relevant trainings per your entity as well as their specific role.

If your entity is interested in learning how the NDIRF’s LocalGovU online training platform can support employee training initiatives, reach out to our Director of Member Services Corey Olson at Corey.Olson@ndirf.com. LocalGovU is offered free to NDIRF members.

Register today to start your LocalGovU professional development journey at www.NDIRF.com>Member Benefits>Online Training.

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