training & workshops

Our experienced consultants provide bespoke training programmes or workshops designed around our clients particular business needs. We currently offer the following programmes; Selecting for Success Interview Training, assessor training workshop, Vision & Values Work Shop, Objective Setting & Performance Review Work Shop, Management & Supervisors Workshop, Disciplinary Workshop & Equal Opportunities Work Shop. Please contact our office for prices & bespoke programmes.

selecting for success interview training

This workshop is designed using the behavioural description interviewing technique & contains the following modules;

• Understand the purpose & content of an ideal hiring system.
• Effective use of pre-screen interview forms.
• Distinguish between behaviour description (bd) & traditional hiring strategies.
• Understand why behaviour description (bd) is more effective.
• Differentiate between bd & traditional interview questions & responses.
• Use the interview guide to conduct effective bd interviews.
• Demonstrate effective & appropriate probing techniques.
• Learn to capture bd responses in the star format.
• Take effective & defensible bd notes.
• Tate candidates using a systematic method.
• Consistently open & close interviews effectively.
• Effectively establish rapport.
• Understand the legal issues around recruitment.

1 day workshop up to 15 people.

assessor training workshop

This half day workshop trains selected individuals to be able to assess candidates at a structured assessment/development centre or skills matching day. the objectives of the workshop are;

• Make accurate, informed, objective assessments.
• Use & apply a generic model of assessment during the assessment centre.
• Assess the range of exercises used on the assessment centre.
• Integrate information from more than one exercise.
• Make a fair & objective final decision on the selection of candidates.

½ day workshop up to 12 people.

vision & values workshop

This workshop, which should be attended by the key players in your business, will facilitate the identification of the company's mission statement, vision & values & what the key performance indicators are that would make a potential or existing employee successful within the business. The identification of these KPI's allows the business to create structured interviews, an objective setting & review process & assessment centres.

1 day workshop for up to 12 people.

objective setting & performance review workshop

All businesses need a robust performance review process which starts with the identification of the factors that make the company & its employees successful. our workshop is specifically designed to;

• Communicate to employees the benefits of objective setting & a review process.
• Advise employees of the process, procedures & competencies being used.
• What their responsibilities are.
• What they can expect from the process/company.
• How to get the most out of it.

In addition the management & supervisors workshop includes specific modules on how to give feedback, how to prepare for a review meeting, what to look out for.

½ day workshop for up to 20 people.

disciplinary workshop

This workshop is designed to increase managers & supervisors' understanding of the disciplinary process & procedures, to increase their confidence when holding disciplinary meetings & dealing with disciplinary issues & to increase their understanding of what tribunals consider when hearing cases. This workshop is ideal for those company's wishing to make the accountability for disciplinaries a shared one between operations & human resources. The workshop contains the following modules;

• Disciplinary categories, steps & administration.
• Preparing for a disciplinary meeting.
• Misconduct/gross misconduct.
• Conducting a disciplinary meeting.
• Approval levels.
• Role plays.
• The role of employment tribunals.
• Appeals.

½ day workshop up to 15 people.

equal opportunities/harassment workshop

With no ceiling on the amount of compensation that tribunals are able to award for discrimination & harassment cases, communicating & training employees in equal opportunities legislation & procedures has never been more pressing. This workshop contains the following modules;

• What does equal opportunities mean in practice?
• The impact of not adopting an equal opportunities policy.
• Who is responsible for equal opps?
• What is discrimination.
• What is the procedure that will be followed for discrimination cases?
• What is harassment.
• What is the procedure that will be followed for harassment cases?

½ day workshop up to 15 people.