In house training

In House Training Course Profiles (click image to download)

Ageing at Work

The aim of this short course is to inform participants of the potential age-related changes that occur in relation to work and how the impact of these can be assessed and reduced in the workplace.

Alcohol and Drugs: The Management of Workplace Problems

The aim of the day is to provide participants with a greater understanding of the difficulties that arise from alcohol and drug use and the problem solving approaches to the management of these issues in workplace settings.

Brand Strategy and Human Resources – Building the Employer Brand

When employees do not understand the brand proposition, or their responsibility in delivering the brand promise, it compromises the brands value and will have a negative impact on the organisation.

When employees do not understand the brand proposition, or their responsibility in delivering the brand promise, it compromises the brands value and will have a negative impact on the organisation.

Brand Touchpoints

This course examines how each interaction between brand and audience is a test of the brands strength. Learn through exercises and examples, how to communicate the brand idea at every touchpoint. Consider how each touchpoint is a realization of the brand. The course includes: culture, values, senses, environment and social events.

Business and HR Process Design

This seminar provides a methodology for business process design and gives participants experience in applying the methodology to one or more of their organisations.

Conducting Difficult Conversations

The course is designed to help attendees (managers, team leaders, HR professionals, etc) understand: a) the benefits of conducting the conversation early; b) how to prepare for and structure the discussion; c) the skills which can be employed, and d) bringing closure to the discussion.

Core Values and Human Resources

This course will help you communicate values that are clear and relevant to each employee at every stage of their relationship with the organisation.

Developing Resilience

Our programme is designed to create a pause in what is happening to talented individuals, and offer an integrated approach to challenging a unsustainable situation with creativity, support and insight.

Enhancing Organisational Capability through Learning & Development

Attend this seminar to learn more about how learning works, in theory and in practice. Understand the approaches your organisation can implement to increase both the rate and amount that people learn, and ensure the effective learning of your organisation as a whole.

Getting to Grips with HR Business Partnering

Attend this seminar to catch-up with the latest thinking on HR business partnering and to fully understand what the role can look like, the skills and behaviours involved, and how existing HR generalists can be transformed into effective business partners.

HR & Innovation

Innovation is an increasingly important capability for all organisations and will be even more important once the economy improves to help businesses capture new market opportunities.

Through leveraging these opportunities, HR can substantially increase its credibility and contribution, and the impact it has on the organisations it works within.

HR in Business Acquisitions

The course will cover: the initial due diligence needed by the acquiring business; what the legal implications are for staff; whether the TUPE regulations will apply and if so how to consult with staff; how to manage the transfer of staff to a new employer; and how to harmonise terms and conditions of employment.

Investigation Skills Training

The Investigation Skills Training programme is designed to provide attendees with an understanding, process, framework, and tool set to enable Managers to undertake such an investigation working with a proven methodology.

Making Strategic Decisions about People

Attend this course to find out how to improve decision making within your business and improve the decisions you and your team are making about your people and organisational effectiveness.

Managing Dismissals

The seminar will cover: When an unfair dismissal claim can be brought; The procedure to adopt before and after dismissal; Practical tips for dealing with conduct, capability, redundancy, retirement; How to defend an unfair dismissal claim

Managing Musculoskeletal Disorders at Work

This course will explain what MSDs are, helping to clear the jargon (RSI, WRULDs, CTDs, etc) and explain what is known about what causes them and how work can play a part. Whether a condition has been caused by work or not, it is important to understand how work can at least provoke symptoms and to have some idea of how to change workplaces to avoid this. Both industrial and office workplaces will be considered.

Managing Stress in the Workplace

This course will outline what we understand by stress; what factors at work (and outside) can contribute to it; and what the potential consequences are for the individual or an employer.

The presentation will then focus on appropriate courses of action for employers.

Making Strategic Decisions about People

Attend this course to find out how to improve decision making within your business and improve the decisions you and your team are making about your people and organisational effectiveness.

Mental Health Awareness

This course raises awareness of the most common mental health disorders, enabling attendees to recognise some of the associated signs, symptoms and behaviours and learn the most effective ways of managing a member of staff with either a suspected or diagnosed mental health condition.

Mediation Skills

The course will help participants understand the nature of conflict, the process of mediation and the skills needed to successfully mediate. Participants will learn, observe and practice the techniques of mediation.

Mock Employment Tribunal

The course will help you to understand the Tribunal process, the procedures that you will need to undertake to successful defend a claim, what happens on the day of a hearing and how a Tribunal hearing operates.

Moving from Recruitment to Strategic Talent Acquisition

This seminar will review the major inputs to the shift in recruitment, using research, case examples, and the trainer’s and participants’ own experiences. In addition, the course will consider the impacts of the shift on participants’ recruitment activities, recruiter capabilities and their recruitment functions.

Re-eningeering Performance Management

Attend this workshop to understand how performance management can be ‘enhanced’ – perhaps better phrased as ‘re-engineered’ – to have a true and significant impact on business performance.

Successful Change Management

Attend this seminar to learn about, and discuss, what really makes change work. We will review Kotter, then discuss other perspectives and participants’ experiences. In fact, we will do as much as it is possible to do in one day to maximise the odds of participants’ own change programmes being successful.

Social Media Skills for HR Professionals

The combination of new technology and new behaviours is leading to rapid changes within the ways that organisations work. HR needs to understand and intervene within these changes, as they involve people at least as much as they do technology, and also because of the people challenges involved in managing change.

Social Media and Recruitment

This seminar will give you the skills to increase your direct sourcing. You will learn how to find, contact and recruit from a wide range of social networks, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and more. You will learn how to present yourself and your company online to attract talent and how to use your employees, followers and fans to increase referrals.

Stress Awareness Leading to Personal & Organisation Wellbeing and Resilience

This practical, interactive course will help HR professionals and line managers understand stress, improve wellbeing and build resilience based on HSE Management Standards approach.

Talent Management, Employee Engagement and Organisation Performance

Attending this executive workshop will ensure that, when it comes to employee engagement, you and your organisation can avoid the ‘showstoppers’ and instead embed successful employee engagement practice leading to improved organisation performance.

Transforming the Organisation: Organisation Design and Development – Day One

The seminar will review techniques, tools and experiences for developing effective organisation structures, designing business processes, managing culture change and leveraging organisational knowledge, to ensure that organisations can implement their strategies and provide a conducive environment for employees and teams.

Transforming the Organisation: Organisation Design and Development – Day Two

Whistle Blowing

The seminar will help you develop a whistle blowing policy for your organisation and provide practical tips on how to manage and deal with whistle blowers in order to reduce the risk of claims.

Workforce Planning, Measurement and Analysis – Day One

Learn how measures and metrics can be developed to drive the success of your HR strategy, your people and the organisation. Learn why an HR strategy map and scorecard provide the most effective framework to develop and manage measurement within your own organisation and roll out this approach for your whole organisation.

Workforce Planning, Measurement and Analysis – Day Two