Employment Law Training For Business
Dealing with Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Due to the chnages to the law in this area from October 2024, this can have massive repercussions for employers is they have not taken any reasonable steps to prevent it.Ā it is placing the onus on employers to take intentional and deliverate steps to stamp out harassment at work.Ā Ā
Managing Underperformance
We teach you how to work in a positive way to support individuals to improve their progress in a way that is structured and meets legal obligations. You will learn how to produce an improvement plan, have effective conversations and manage the process confidently.
Absence Management
We show you how to manage staff absence, covering the legal areas, return to work meetings and tricky employee situations. This is co-delivered with an employment lawyer so you can get first hand knowledge of the legal essentials that cover absence.
Flexible approaches to Performance Management
Rev up your skills to bring life and results to your 121's. Performance Reviews have had a bad reputation for a long time. This workshop will show you how to make them work well for you and your team.
Managing Underperformance
Managing underperformance is a key skill for managers and HR. It can start with nipping things in the bud all the way though to disciplinary and termination and contentious legal implications if executed poorly.
When conducted with skill, structure and quality conversations, managing underperformance doesn't have to be a chore.
We teach the following areas:
- identifying poor performance
- informal vs formal process
- preparing the ground for potential disciplinary proceedings
- developing an improvement plan
- elements of a quality conversation
- importance of follow up
- Pitfalls to avoid
Absence Management
Absence management often goes wrong because processes are missed or not followed through as well as a lack of skill in communication and interventions. Absence is becoming more challenging for managers pre and post pandemic.
The training includes:
- Causes of absence
- Managing absence data for your team/department
- How to have effective absence and return to work meetings
- The legal requirements
- case studies and dealing with tricky situations
We work with:
- Discussion of points of principle and practice
- Demonstrations of cases
- Unscripted Role play of return to work meetings
Delegates leave with a new skillset, feeling boosted and able to handle absence with confidence.
Flexible Approaches to Performance Management
We use tools from coaching and NLP to teach you how to have effective conversations about different areas of performance.
Participants learn to create and take advantage of coachable moments, to have more efficient and constructive performance conversations that lead to action. This enables them to identify goals, build on existing achievements and take progressive steps to improved performance and results.
- Develop a curiosity mindset and skills including listening and asking powerful questions
- Have ‘courageous conversations’ with staff, leading to improved performance
- Focus on strengthening capability through creative forms of learning and development
- Learn how to have effective career conversations and plan for success
- Handle more challenging performance issues with tips and techniquesā€‹
- Practice skills across typical workplace scenarios
- Take away instantly usable tools that can be used in day-to-day conversations as part of your coaching skills toolkit
This workshop is suitable for managers who already conduct performance reviews and who want more skill and flexible approaches on managing employee performance.
