Employment Law Essentials

The last few years have seen significant developments in employment law affecting businesses of all sizes. This workshop will provide you with a comprehensive grounding and practical guidance to help your business through the minefield of employment legislation. It reviews the important recent developments and discusses future changes in a friendly and easy to understand way which will ensure you protect yourself and stay within the law.

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Finance Essentials for Non-Financial Managers

The course is designed to help you to understand financial jargon and financial records. You will be able to describe the flow of accounting information, the purpose and content of key accounting reports and understand their inter-relationships. You will learn about the meaning of accrual accounting, the importance of working capital and cash and the use of financial information to measure performance.

The objective is to remove the mystery surrounding commercial financial information so that you can make a stronger contribution to the operation of companies, departments, projects or teams.

No matter what your technical background and skills, you need an appreciation of the essentials of finance in today’s difficult business environment. This course will help to give you the basic understanding of financial principles and terminology that every manager needs. The aim is to build confidence in working with accounting information as an essential management tool.

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Finance for Directors and Senior Managers

Senior non-financial executives need to have an understanding of the role of the finance function and the operation of sound financial controls to ensure the integrity of accounts. It is essential for them to understand the management of cash and profitability and the use of accounting reports and financial data to support the achievement of strategic business objectives and manage day–to-day operations.

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Financial Planning and Budgeting

Financial planning and the preparation of budgets are essential skills for anyone in a position of responsibility. Many budget holders are also responsible for setting selling prices and controlling costs and this course will help you to understand the language and processes of budgeting, costing and pricing. Those who do not plan run a very high risk of failure. If you do not know where you are going there is very little chance you will arrive.

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HR Essentials

This 2-day course provides the core knowledge to deal with HR issues for those who have limited knowledge in the fundamentals of HR management: recruitment, employee relations, discipline and legislation. You will learn how to recruit new staff effectively, how to produce appropriate (and legal) policies and procedures, and how to understand key employment laws.

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Performance Management and Appraisal

An appraisal should be mutually profitable for both the appraiser and the appraisee. It should enhance communications and improve working relationships. This workshop will discuss how to prepare for an appraisal, and different appraisal styles. It will give you a number of templates that you can adopt into your business, to undertake successful appraisal interviews.

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Recruitment interviewing - not getting it wrong

This highly practical workshop will help you reduce the risk of recruiting an unsuitable applicant by learning the skills required to undertake a successful recruitment process. It covers the key requirements: the current legislation affecting recruitment; avoiding discrimination; getting the person specification right; advertising the post; short-listing; and conducting the interview.

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Train the Trainer

Managers and supervisors are increasingly required to undertake training in group situations. This course will show you how to adapt training to suit different learning processes so that you motivate, inspire, energise and stimulate the group. You will learn how to structure a training programme with well defined objectives, identify appropriate training processes, deliver with confidence and evaluate effectively.

Delegates will be given an insight into what motivates trainees to learn, about different learning styles and how to tailor course material to meet the needs of the delegates. Entertaining an audience is essential for effective learning to occur, and delegates will be shown how dynamic presentation skills, effective use of body language and assertiveness techniques will help with this process.

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Training your Staff On-the-Job

How much more could your business benefit through the development of your staff? Your staff are probably your most expensive resource but often are not developed to their full potential. This course gives you the tools to help you understand how people learn, along with development techniques, how to identify training needs and templates for recording your training plans. It focuses on one-to-one, on-the-job training.

Understand how to get the best out of your staff through training them effectively.

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Working in a Diverse Workforce

This workshop will help you to recognise how essential it is to ensure you “respect” all your work colleagues and customers and work with them positively. It will be a highly practical session covering the meaning of equality and diversity, the importance of equality and diversity, an overview of the relevant legislation and will provide an opportunity for you to review your behaviour and that of your colleagues to ensure that you all work effectively together.

Who should attend: All managers who are responsible for equality and diversity issues and all staff working in a diverse workforce.

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