Our Refresh HR webinars are 45 minutes - 1 hour and include quizzes to test your knowledge as well as practical examples and case law of how each area works in real life. How does it work? Click and purchase the topics you want and we will send you through a link to the recording of the webinar and a copy of the slides.  All of this for just $35 per webinar!

Social Media 101 covers:

• LinkedIn: Using this for your own development and networking and as an HR tool
• Facebook: using this to communicate and engage with employees
• Twitter: should you or shouldn’t you? How to get started.
• YouTube: company video channels.
• Blogging: the basics!
• Social Media policies: what to include and what not to do!

Super Recruitment covers:

• What factors to consider when establishing a recruitment strategy
• In house vs outsourcing & negotiating PSA’s
• What steps should you include to make your recruitment process effective: technology, testing, interview questions and more.
• Using social media and HR innovation to build and find talent
• Coaching managers through recruitment issues

Talent Management covers:

• What factors you should consider when looking at Talent Management
• Case study 1: A smaller company with a fairly informal approach
• Case study 2: Large corporate with thousands of employees & large talent programme
• Case study 3: Medium sized business with different business units

Restructuring covers:

• The steps you need to work through when you’re running a restructuring process
• Employment & Case law that applies to each step and what you need to consider
• Tips and techniques for dealing with some of the challenges around restructuring including proposals, meetings, selection criteria and survivor syndrome

Writing Perfect Policies covers:

• Making your policies engaging & adapt to different communication styles
• When you should and shouldn’t introduce a new policy (remembering the 1:100 rule)
• Building your managers engagement and ownership of the policies so they’re not just an HR thing
• Use your policies effectively to address issues and more importantly build the culture that you want!

Clever Communication covers:

• The steps to thinking through how you communicate an HR initiative or project
• An easy to use model to understand the 4 main communication styles - both for yourself and your managers!
• Different ways to adapt your written and verbal communications to the different styles
• How to write effective information to appeal to all your team

Building a Brilliant Culture covers:

• What is culture anyway? Different ways to define it.
• Tools you can use to measure culture (including ones that don’t cost much!)
• Change models you need to decide on up front to build a culture
• Some real case studies of culture change and what companies did from all levels to achieve the outcome planned.

Poor Performance covers:

• Identifying the issue: what factors must you take into account when looking at poor performance or misconduct
• Steps to take: a quick overview of the steps you must take when working through poor performance or misconduct
• Case studies: real cases – what happened? What did the employer do right? What could they have improved? What was the outcome? What learning’s can we as HR take from this?

I’m Warning You covers:

• Employment legislation that applies around good faith and dismissals
• The steps you need to work through during a disciplinary process including letters to write, advice, meetings and outcomes
• How to make an objective decision: what to consider from an HR, company and culture point of view
• Case law: what employers did right and wrong in real situations

Being an HR Consultant is for people who are externally consulting and covers:

• The difference between consulting and contracting - how you’ll need to think and act differently
• Dealing with multiple clients or portfolio’s - tools and techniques you can use!
• Writing up a business case or proposal of how you’ll deliver a project

Remuneration & Reward covers:

• Different models you can use for your remuneration model including job sizing, banding and families
• Case studies of two companies and how they tackled some curly remuneration issues
• Ideas on how you can reward and recognise employees including latest research on how to reinvent recognition to boost productivity!

Elephant News

Our newsletter is loved because we pack it with case law, quizzes & tips - but not too much.

To get a copy each month click here.

Managing Medical Incapacity covers:

• The things that the courts have said you need to consider if you are looking at Medical Incapacity
• How to work through each step the process - what to consider, meetings to have, letters to write, discussions to have and actions to take.
• Some real cases: what did employers get right and wrong.

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