Creating opportunities for connection, growth and transformation to strengthen individuals, Hilltop, and our community.
Hilltop U is Hilltop’s dedicated learning hub, designed to support the personal and professional growth of every Hilltopper. Through a variety of courses, workshops, and an extensive eLearning library, employees can develop new skills, strengthen leadership abilities, and gain valuable knowledge on Hilltop-specific platforms. Whether you’re looking to advance in your career or explore new topics, Hilltop U makes learning accessible, flexible, and relevant. This is just one of the many ways we invest in our team—because when our people grow, our community thrives.
Welcome to the Hilltop U Course Library!
At Hilltop, we believe that growth and learning are essential to building a community where everyone belongs. Hilltop U is here to help you thrive—whether you’re a supervisor looking to lead and develop your team, an individual ready to build new skills for personal and professional growth, or someone completing compliance and certification training.
The Hilltop U Course Library offers a range of opportunities, including:
- Supervisory Development: Equip leaders with tools and insights to empower their teams.
- Skill-Building Courses: Develop new abilities to support your career goals and enhance your everyday life.
- Compliance & Certification Training: Stay up to date and meet essential requirements for your role.
Looking for more? Explore our eLearning Library, featuring engaging video content, and browse the Resource Guide for additional learning and growth opportunities beyond Hilltop U.
Hilltop U is your partner in growth—because when you grow, we all grow.
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Supervisor Courses
New Supervisor Series: Recruiting Basics
Instructor: Hilltop Recruiter
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: Learn all the tips and tricks for effective interviewing and hiring.
New Supervisor Series: Difficult Conversations
Instructor: PeopleOps Business Partners
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: Having difficult conversations is part of being a supervisor. Luckily it doesn’t have to be…well, difficult. Learn how to have hard conversations.
New Supervisor Series: Onboarding New Hires
Instructor: Amy Payne & Rochelle Gudder
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: Learn why it is so important to onboard effectively and use tips and tricks to improve your onboarding process.
New Supervisor Series: People Development
Instructor: Ali Weatherby
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: Creating relationships and completing a job simultaneously can be easier than you think. Join the conversation to hear why Hilltop has committed to kicking “performance management” out and bringing People Development in.
New Supervisor Series: Workers Comp and Leaves
Instructor: Workers Comp & Leave Adminstrator
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: Learn why it is so important to understand how to manage the ill or injured worker. Learn how Workers Comp, FMLA, and ADA effectively and use tips and tricks to improve your process.
Supervisor Series: Ethics in Action
Instructor: Ali Weatherby
Course Length: 45 Minutes
Description: Learn what ethics are, why we should care, and common ethical traps we can all fall into. Learn about the steps to good decision-making and what to do when something doesn’t feel right.
Supervisor Series: Showing Appreciation
Instructor: Tom Smith
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: Learn how to show and give recognition using people’s appreciation language.
Supervisor Series: Generational Differences
Instructor: Ali Weatherby
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: Learn about generational differences that you face at work. Whether it is with your team, other supervisors, or the people we serve, learn information and tips on how to navigate these relationships
Supervisor Series: Unlocking Employee Wellbeing
Instructor: PeopleOps Business Partners
Course Length: 30 Minutes
Description: Understand the ways in which the health and well-being of our workforce impact us all. Learn about your role in employee wellbeing and identify ways to promote a culture of well-being.
Supervisor Series: Hiring for Culture Add
Instructor: Monica Garcia
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: Take a look at interviewing through an Inclusivity+ lens to understand that individuals should add to our culture instead of just fit in. Learn how to break down your personal biases and appreciate the unique qualities someone different will bring to your team.
TEAM LEARNING
DISC
Instructor: Amy Payne
Course Length: 2 Hours
Description: Learn to better understand yourself and others by understanding behavioral tendencies and their effect on others.
Finding Your Team Why
Instructor: Rebecca Weitzel
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: Purpose is a core human need. Through a collaborative process, collective storytelling, and sharing, discover your team’s core contributions and the impact you seek to make. In the end, you have a team WHY statement that can be used to connect your team’s mission to Hilltop’s mission and promote purpose-drive work.
Strength Finder Team Workshop
Instructor: Ali Weatherby
Course Length: 1.5-2 Hours
Description: Understand your own and your teammates strengths through the Gallup Strength Finders test and identify ways you can work together utilizing natural talents and themes in a team environment.
Leading Our Values Everyday
Instructor: Ali Weatherby
Course Length: (6 Week Cohort) 2 Hours
Description: Are you looking for a way to connect to other leaders across the organization? Join Ali Weatherby in a 6-week discussion and tool development workshop focused on Hilltop Values.
EDI Discussions
Instructor: Hollie VanRoosendaal
Course Length: 30 Minutes – 1.5 Hours
Description: Intentionally bring Hilltop’s value of inclusivity to your team, through a discussion centered around EDI topics. Not sure where to start? Reach out to Hollie and she can bring ideas to you!
Personal & Professional Development
Behavior Change: How to get anyone to do anything
Instructor: Rebecca Weitzel
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: It’s easier to get people to change their behavior than you think! By understanding the models and methods developed by Dr. BJ Fogg, we can better understand the building blocks of behavior so we can more effectively manage them.
Framing the Issue-Rethink Stress to improve Wellbeing
Instructor: Rebecca Weitzel
Course Length: 1 Hour
Description: How we think about stress matters as much or more than stress itself. Get practical tools to help reduce the negative impacts of stress. Understand how to identify and address unnecessary sources of stress.
Impactful Communication
Instructor: Monica Garcia
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: Discover communication from the perspective of empathy. Truth: 100% of the POWER in communication is in Listening. Truth: 100% of the RESPONSIBILITY in communication is in Speaking.
Professional Behavior
Instructor: Monica Garcia
Course Length: 1 Hour
Description: It is essential to treat each workday as an interview. Learn how to improve your chances for growth by identifying what behaviors are helping and hindering your growth.
Implicit Bias
Instructor: Hollie VanRoosendaal
Course Length: 1 Hour
Description: Learn what implicit bias is, understand how behaviors can be affected by biases and start your journey on minimizing the role of implicit biases in your professional and personal life.
Setting Goals That Stick- Secrets to Success
Instructor: Rebecca Weitzel
Course Length: 1 Hour
Description: Our personal and professional growth can be enhanced by the kinds of goals we set for ourselves. Learn how to turn your ambitions into effective goals that lead to a fulfilling life and successful career.
Radical Candor
Instructor: Timindra Boyer
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: Effective communication is at the heart of everything we do as humans. Speaking from a place of Care with Candor helps in every interaction, both personal and professional.
Balancing Acts are for the Circus
Instructor: Rebecca Weitzel
Course Length: 1 Hour
Description: Learn how to shift your mindset about “work-life balance,” prioritize your wellbeing, and practice practical skills to reduce stress and live with more ease.
The Five Things
Instructor: Jed Balestrieri
Course Length: 2 Hours
Description: “The How” of creating change in others, starts with you. Explore five areas of focus that can create structure and strategy to help you live and lead more effectively.
The Art & Skill of Facilitation Series
Instructor: Rebecca Weitzel
Course Length: (3 Part) 1 Hour
Description: Discover ways to avoid common meeting pitfalls and learn tools to facilitate effective and productive meetings – whether that’s a meeting with your team, a cross-functional committee, or a one-time training group.
Bridges out of Poverty
Instructor: Carter Bair
Course Length: 3 Hours
Description: Understand the dynamics that cause and maintain poverty from the individual to the systemic level. Bridges Out of Poverty uses the lens of economic class and provides concrete tools and strategies for a community to prevent, reduce, and alleviate poverty.
Human Connection-The Key to Becoming Our Best Selves
Instructor: Rebecca Weitzel
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Description: When we are connected to one another, working to help each other, we not only raise the success of the entire group, we exponentially increase our own. Learn to nurture a human connection to improve engagement, culture, and well-being to transform our teams from mediocre to extraordinary.
Compliance & Certification Trainings
Driver/ Transportation Training
Instructor: Transportation/Warehouse Coordinator
1.5 Hours
Before driving one of Hilltop’s fleet vehicles it is mandatory to participate in our driver training. Additional training will be needed to drive a lift/passenger van.
**Reach out to HilltopU@htop.org regarding reserving this training.**
First Aid & CPR
Instructor: American Red Cross Instructor
4 Hour
Prepare for the unexpected with first aid and CPR training from the American Red Cross. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can help save a life during a cardiac or breathing emergency.
QMAP- Qualified Medication Administration Personnel
Instructor: Sara Bair
2 Day Training
QMAP (Qualified Medication Administration Person) Training is 7 hours each day and includes a lunch break. The appointment you choose will be the first day of the class.
Note for Non- Hilltop participants: After registering for QMAP class you receive a confirmation email with payment instruction. Remember – we cannot guarantee a seat until payment is received. Hilltop Employees do not need to pay for the training.