Professional Training and Developement

Training and development opportunities are offered to employees as a means to enrich individual learning and to help create a safer and more inclusive workplace. 

As part of the College's onboarding process, new hires are expected to complete designated professional development training workshops within 45 days of their hire date. On an ongoing basis, employees are expected to participate in training opportunities as determined by the College.

Traliant Learning Management System

In an effort to effectively deliver development and training opportunities to employees, select workshops are housed within the Traliant learning management system. 

Getting Started

Once a new employee is active in ADP (the College's HR, Payroll system), they will automatically be enrolled in Traliant. Once enrolled, employees will receive a welcome email from Traliant to access all available and assigned courses. Log in using Single Sign-On (SSO), which will access the platform through your Bennington College credentials.

How do employees know which courses are required?

Once you log into the Traliant learning management system, you will note that select diversity and safety training programs are assigned (mandatory) while others are denoted as electives (voluntary). Specific course headers are noted below.

Employees will continue to receive system reminders as the deadline approaches and following the deadline if past due.

Helpful Notes

• Traliant courses are only accessible with a Bennington Google account. If you need assistance with accessing your Bennington account, please contact Helpdesk directly. Please be sure any personal Google accounts are logged out first otherwise an Error message will occur.
• A headset or speakers are required in order to hear the audio portion of the training.
• You may start, stop, and resume a training course at any point during the training.  
• After your session (course completion or stopping to resume at a later time), please exit the course and log out of the system. Log out by selecting  the drop down menu beneath your name in the upper right hand corner of your screen and select “log out".

Diversity and Inclusion Professional Development 

We offer the following professional development opportunities through Traliant, designed to build trust, mutual respect, and a shared vision for Bennington College as an inclusive community. Each employee is required to participate in the following training at the time of hire. 

• Workplace Diversity, Inclusion, and Sensitivity 
• Unconscious Bias 
• Microaggressions in the Workplace 

Safety Training

The College provides employees with a range of safety training offerings through Traliant that are designed to foster a culture of health, safety, and well-being. Through participation in safety training programs, together we can realize a reduction in workplace injuries and change the habits and behaviors that may result in workplace accidents.

The College's Chemical Hygiene Officer works in collaboration with Human Resources and, as appropriate, employees’ supervisor to review the safety training offerings to determine applicable training based on an employee’s role/responsibilities. Employees are required to complete all training that is deemed mandatory per OSHA/VOSHA.

Select safety training programs must be completed each year if required for your position, while others are available for employees’ general interest and are considered voluntary. We encourage employees to explore all available training programs offered. 

Safety Training Offerings

Annual renewal cadence if assigned as mandatory training:

• Bloodborne Pathogens
• Confined Spaces
• Fire Safety
• Hand and Power Tool Safety
• Hazardous Communications/Right to Know/Safety Data Sheets (HazCom)
• Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HazWoper)
• Ladder Safety
• Lifting for Material Handlers/Back Injury Prevention
• Lockout Tagout
• Respirator
• Silica
• Slip, Trip and Fall Prevention

Three (3) year renewal cadence if assigned as mandatory training:

• Aerial Lift 
• Defensive Driving Course (DDC)
• Forklift Safety

Sustainability Training

We strive to foster a community that not only cares about global problems, but does something about them. Both in the classroom and in our daily lives, we make sure that environmental, economic, and social issues hold a focal point in our designs, our questions, and our work. Each employee is required to participate in this Sustainability training at the time of hire, accessible through the Bennington Google Drive. 

If you need assistance with accessing your Bennington account, please contact Helpdesk directly.

Learn more here: Sustainability at Bennington

More Information

For questions about training and development opportunities, contact Human Resources.