Your managers are key to delivering results through your people, but how confident are they in dealing with people management issues, particularly when things go wrong in the employment relationship?
Our trainers have significant experience of HR and employment issues in both the public and private sectors – we deliver engaging, interactive sessions with high levels of positive feedback from our clients.
Training sessions are generally run in conjunction with the Employment Law team at Ashtons Legal to provide attendees with the full picture of their chosen topic. We offer a range of programmes to meet your needs.
When providing HR Training for employers and managers, we ensure to take a bespoke approach, looking to understand your goals, your management style, and the issues that you require support with.
Contact our HR Training service today
If you are interested in our HR training service, please get in touch with us at Ashtons HR today. We provide HR Training in Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Ipswich, Norwich and Leeds.
Our HR Training Service
Full-day/half-day workshops
Our workshops for Operational Managers are designed to help them understand the legal background and to give them the confidence to handle people issues effectively, using the appropriate procedures and soft skills.
We offer training and development across various HR topics, such as:
- Sickness absence management including mental health issues in the workplace
- Handling discipline and grievance issues
- Performance management
- Dealing with difficult conversations
- Avoiding unconscious bias in recruitment and selection
- Handling employee investigations
- Basic employment law for managers
- Leadership management and development
Sickness absence management
Sickness absence can result in a significant financial, productivity and morale implications for businesses, and when poorly managed can lead to challenging employee relations issues. We appreciate that this area of HR can be difficult to handle, this workshop is designed to equip managers with the tools they need to manage sickness absence with confidence and compassion.
Specifically, our courses cover matters such as:
- Creating and implementing sickness absence management strategies
- Practical tips for managing short and long-term absence
- Supporting employees with health conditions or disabilities to remain in work
- Creating a healthy, productive workplace culture
- Legal context and potential risks
With the help of our HR Training programs, you’ll learn everything you need to effectively manage sickness and absence, saving your company time and money in the long run.
Handling disciplinary and grievance issues
Employers are required to act reasonably in disciplinary situations and in dealing with grievances. Getting it wrong can lead to unnecessary and costly legal consequences, low morale and productivity and difficulties retaining top people.
Our training will provide the opportunity get to grips with handling allegations of misconduct including how and when to suspend employees and how to run effective investigations, hearings and appeals. You will learn how to overcome common issues that crop up during a disciplinary process too. We’ll also cover the five fair reasons for dismissal giving you practical guidance and examples for each. We will also discuss other ways to end an employment relationship, focusing on ‘without prejudice’ and ‘protected’ conversations.
Our HR Training in this area covers topics such as:
- Informal vs formal processes
- Handling allegations of misconduct including how and when to suspend employees
- How to run effective investigations, hearings and appeals.How to overcome common issues that crop during a disciplinary/grievance process
The five fair reasons for dismissal giving you practical guidance and examples for each.
Performance management
Performance management is one of the core skills required by those with responsibility for managing staff. As part of our HR training for managers, we can help employers with performance management, assisting them to set expectations, provide coaching and feedback, establish training requirements, and carry out performance appraisals.
If you would like more information about how we can help with performance management, please get in contact with our experts at Ashtons HR Consulting.
Dealing with difficult conversations
We can help you learn how to best approach difficult conversations about performance, as well as challenging conversations regarding other subjects. This might include issues with attendance and sickness, disciplinary and grievance matters, and redundancy and restructuring.
With the help of our HR Training and development, you’ll gain the knowledge and approaches you need, to expertly deal with difficult conversations, whilst protecting yourself as a manager and employer.
Difficult conversations & managing personalities workshop
This workshop covers areas such as:
- Identifying personality styles and types
- Identifying your communication style, and the communication style of others
- Applying the above knowledge to difficult conversations, and handling emotional responses
Equality, Diversity and Unconscious Bias
Our equality, diversity and unconscious bias is aimed to provide managers an understanding of the value of equality & diversity in the workplace and how to recognise and deal with unconscious bias.
Managers will learn:
- the benefits of equality and diversity in the workplace
- the law around discrimination
- how to recognise bullying and harassment and how to prevent them
- the impact of unconscious bias in the workplace
- how to recognise your own unconscious biases and deal with them
For more information regarding this area, or general information about HR Training courses, please get in touch.
Handling employee investigations
Employee investigations can be challenging to deal with, and unless these are approached with care, you could risk non-compliance with employment law.
Our training will cover the different scenarios in which investigations are necessary. The do’s and don’ts for interviewing witnesses, how to assess ‘he said, she said’ type evidence and how to write an effective investigation report.
When you choose our HR Training courses, we’ll ensure that you have everything you need to approach employee investigations with confidence, ensuring fairness and following employment laws correctly.
Employment law awareness for managers
Understanding employment law best practices is crucial for managers, and yet the topic is an extensive one.
Rest assured, our team at Ashtons HR Consulting can provide the expert training that you need, making certain that you adhere to employment laws throughout all of your management practices and tasks. This way, you’ll ensure to protect both yourself, and your employees.
To find out more about our HR Training course, you can get in touch using the details below.
Leadership/Management Development
We can offer a range of modular development programmes for new/aspiring team leaders or supervisors.
If you are a team leader, and you require support with employment law and HR related training, please do not hesitate to get in touch. A member of our team will be ready to discuss your needs, and find out how we can help.
Why choose our HR Training Services?
At Ashtons HR Consultancy, we have much experience providing HR Training support to businesses across various industries.
We appreciate that employers and managers may find themselves overwhelmed by HR and employment law matters, and are committed to providing simple solutions to help you support compliance and development.
With an extensive range of support on offer, whatever HR issues that you’re having, no matter how complicated, we can help.
To find out more about our team, and how we can assist you, you can contact us with the details provided.
Contact our HR Training service today
If you are interested in our HR training service, please get in touch with us at Ashtons HR today. We provide HR Training in Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Ipswich, Norwich and Leeds.