HR Essentials for SMEs
This full day action planning workshop explores common HR headaches across the employee lifecycle and explore the most effective contracts and employment status to engage staff.
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HR Essentials for SMEs
For many owners of growing businesses, hiring employees is a necessity. Arguably it's your employees that are your biggest assets and provide you with a key competitive advantage. Just as valuable as your business name, reputation and the product or service you provide.
Managing people however is an art, as it involves people! In parallel, there is a wealth of ever-shifting employment and case law lurking to trip up unsuspecting employers. The legal pitfalls for employers to navigate, rapidly moving on to the best practices to deliver gold standard HR and place you ahead of your competition.
This workshop will highlight how to build an 'employer barnd' to win the war for talent and will look at the various alternatives to managing performance, before turing to more specific COVID-related HR challenges.
This is a highly interactive workshop so expect lots of discussion and sharing of best practice. There will be an opportunity for a HR clinic where you can discuss a current HR issue for your business, and how to resolve this.
What will be covered?
- Employment contracts and the psychological contract, the legal obligations of the employer
- Understanding employement status, and the best mix for your business
- Winning the war for talent and staying ahead of the competition
- Managing within the Equality Act, and avoiding discrimination claims
- Performance management, what it is, does it work, and what are the alternatives?
- Managing absence on the roadmap to recovery
- The legal lowdown on managing flexible and hybrid working in a post pandemic world
- Parting company and ending the employment relationship amicably
This event is fully funded and FREE for you to attend, in return Business Gateway ask for you to complet an SME enrolment form if your business hasn't already done so.