Restructuring and Redundancy
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This half-day course will be delivered online via Zoom. It is limited to 25 registrations to ensure you get the most out of this session.
Economic upheaval is expected in New Zealand within the next couple of years. Many employers are facing the difficult and challenging position of potential restructuring that may lead to redundancies.
This half day course provides a step-by-step guide to initiating a restructure and following a proper process that complies with legal obligations.
We will consider what constitutes “genuine reasons” for restructuring and redundancy decisions. Find out what is required to justify a decision for restructuring and redundancies, and alternatives to such proposals, such as through Government assistance.
Learn how to navigate through a restructuring process that requires a full understanding of your legal responsibilities.
We will take you through the necessary steps to restructure your business, including considering options such as redeployment. We will Consider relevant case law decisions and current issues relating to the economic downturn and other genuine reasons for redundancy.
Discover how to help staff affected by restructuring, such as through career transitioning.
If you want to find out how to navigate restructuring in your organisation, join presenter and employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass on this interactive half day course.
Attendees will receive a workbook including activities and can ask questions virtually during the live seminar.
Negotiating Exits For Problem Employees
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Perhaps your staff member is the wrong fit for the job, a poor performer, bully, or damaging your company’s reputation.
Most employers will need to exit employees at some stage but are unsure how to do it properly. Many employers avoid negotiating exits for fear facing a personal grievance.
In this course, find out how to and manage the exit of problem employees with less stress, by negotiating an exit settlement.
Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive guide for HR and managers to exiting problem employees through negotiation or mediation.
Our employment lawyer will discuss why you should consider exit settlements for problem employees, with guidance on how to reduce the risk of a personal grievance.
Participants will find out how to prepare for negotiation and mediation and conduct a risk assessment of both parties’ positions.
We will focus on how to resolve matters by way of a record of settlement for a successful outcome. Consider terms of settlement that protect your company and ensure the exit agreement is full and final.
This course gives practical guidance to address issues that commonly arise during negotiation and mediation.
Consider practical ways to protect confidential information, company property, and reputation when a problem employee leaves your organisation.
What To Expect
Join employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass on this virtual half day course. We will explore case law and case studies to show you how to properly exit problem employees.
Concepts and case law will be introduced by the presenter and applied through case studies and discussion. Attendees will receive a digital workbook including activities and can ask questions virtually during the live seminar. This course involves Q&A and activities for you to discuss in small groups.
This course complements our Managing Poor Performers course which focuses on the performance review process.
Managing Poor Performers
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This virtual half-day course is practical and designed to assist you with performance improvement plans and performance management meetings.
This half-day course will be delivered online via Zoom. It is limited to 25 registrations to ensure you get the most out of this session.
Poorly performing employees will consistently make mistakes, miss deadlines, or lack appropriate skills to properly perform their jobs.
Most Kiwi employers will have poor performers at some stage but avoid performance management for fear of getting the process wrong.
Delays in performance management affect team performance and productivity. Managers fed up with poor performers may dismiss them without proper process, causing costly unfair dismissals.
This live and virtual course is a comprehensive overview of the performance management framework. Find out how to avoid poor performance in the first place, and informally address performance issues through coaching staff for improved performance.
This course is practical and designed to assist you in assisting managers write performance improvement plans and attend performance management meetings.
We will discuss practical options for continued non-performance, including performance improvement plans and issuing warnings, ending employment, and negotiating settlement agreements.
We will answer your questions about formal performance management, such as: What should you do to improve staff performance? What is an appropriate timeline for following a performance management process? How can you avoid common legal pitfalls?
What To Expect
Our employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass will help you meet your legal obligations to reduce the risk of personal grievances. We will explain the law on performance management, including what is good faith and how to act fairly and reasonably. We will explore case law and case studies to help you deal with performance issues.
Attendees will receive a digital workbook including activities and can ask questions virtually during the live seminar. This course involves Q&A and activities for you to discuss in small groups.
All personal development events are subject to HRNZ Terms and Conditions.
Interviewing Skills and Selecting Talent
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Do you want to hire the right candidate for your organisation? Are your interviews failing to produce enough reliable information to pick the right person?
Selecting staff with the right skills, knowledge, and attitude is important for building the best and brightest teams.
Explore how to select the right staff in this HR and manager’s guide to interviewing skills and selection.
Course Overview
This virtual course explores how to assess a candidate’s suitability for a role, with a focus on interviewing skills in person, by phone, or online.
Participants will practise asking the right questions to deduct a candidate’s skill level and assess attitudes and values. Identify three types of interview questions – situational, competency-based and behavioural questions.
Prepare for selection using competency mapping to identify the skills, knowledge and attitudes required, and set up a process to validate the selection decision.
Research shows that interviews are often no more reliable than tossing a coin. Find out how to identify and manage unconscious biases, which can lead to the wrong hiring decisions.
Detect possible deception and toxic behaviours in interviews and reference checking. Explore other reliable selection methods – ask the candidate to perform tasks or engage in a pre-employment trial.
Our employment lawyer presenter will show you to comply with the law when conducting pre-employment checks. Avoid costly mistakes that can lead to unlawful discrimination and privacy breaches.
What To Expect
This virtual course is an interactive seminar with Q&A and case scenarios. Attending this course will give you a comprehensive overview on how to select talent and improve your interviewing skills.
Concepts and theories will be explained by your presenter Julia Shallcrass, then applied in case scenarios and group activities. Attendees can ask questions in our Q&A and connect with other attendees in activities. Attendees will receive a digital workbook, which sets out activities and guidance on selection processes and interviewing techniques.
Holidays and Leave Entitlements
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Many New Zealand employers are confused about how to calculate holiday and leave entitlements resulting in underpaying in excess of 700,000 employees.
Avoid repayments and penalties for payroll blunders by paying your employees correctly every time they take paid leave.
Course Overview
If you manage staff leave entitlements or oversee the payroll in your organisation, this is your guide to the Holidays Act 2003.
Co-presented by an Employment Lawyer and Payroll Specialist, this practical course provides a comprehensive overview of holidays and leave entitlements.
Participants will gain an understanding of how to comply with Holidays Act 2003 to be a best practice employer.
Find out how to manage entitlements, including annual and public holidays, sick leave, family violence leave, bereavement leave, and alternative holidays.
Our Employment Lawyer will discuss how to manage staff requests for leave. Explore ways to budget for annual holidays to reduce leave liability.
Our Payroll Specialist will show you how to correctly calculate annual holidays and public holidays. Avoid payroll blunders with 5 tips for managing common payroll issues.
Participants will have questions answered, and will find out: When will staff be entitled to the new public holiday for Matariki? What is ‘otherwise a working day’ for public holidays? When can you “Pay as you go”?
This course will guide you on best practice, with case law updates on how to calculate annual holidays when staff receive commission, or public holidays when their pay varies.
We will consider the Taskforce Recommendations, so you can prepare for the upcoming overhaul of the Holidays Act.
What To Expect
This virtual course is an interactive seminar with questions and answers and case scenarios.
Join Employment Lawyer Julia Shallcrass and Payroll Specialist Kerryn Douglas on this live and virtual half day course. Concepts and case law will be introduced and explained, then applied through scenarios and discussions, so you can confidently manage staff requests and comply with holidays legislation.
Attendees will receive a digital workbook with activities and guidance on holidays legislation. Attendees can ask questions in our Q&A and connect with other attendees in group activities.
Engaging a Multi-Generational Workforce
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Engage and motivate staff from different generations. Manage the challenges and reap the benefits of working with millennials through to mature workers.
This virtual half-day course sets out strategies to engage and motivate a multi-generational workforce and overcome the challenges of generational diversity.
Find out how you can manage opportunities and overcome the challenges of generational diversity – including exceptionally high levels of staff over 60 and the struggle to retain younger workers.
In this course, participants will recognise the need to retain and value our mature workforce and millennials, or else face a decreased labour supply and a skill shortage.
Course Overview
If you are facing challenges managing or motivating a multi-generational workforce, this course is your guide to effectively engage different generations at work.
In this course, participants will identify and compare key characteristics of the five different generations in the workplace.
Find out how to motivate, retain and value our mature workforce and millennials, or else face a decreased labour supply and a skill shortage.
Through discussion and case scenarios, course participants will explore how to manage the challenge of generational diversity in your workplace for better working relationships and productivity.
What To Expect
This virtual course is an interactive seminar with questions and answers and case scenarios.
Join Employment Lawyer and HR facilitator Julia Shallcrass on this live and virtual half day course. Concepts and theories will be introduced and explained, then applied through scenarios and discussions.
Attendees will receive a digital workbook with activities and guidance on engaging a multi-generational workforce. Attendees can ask questions in our Q&A and connect with other attendees in polls and group activities.
Effective Performance Reviews and Giving Feedback
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This virtual half-day course focuses on improving performance review processes and giving feedback that motivates staff for success.
Performance development is one of the most effective ways to improve productivity and a company’s profitability.
Yet many managers feel uncertain about conducting performance reviews and avoid giving constructive feedback for fear of getting it wrong.
Course Overview
This half-day virtual course provides a guide for HR and managers to create high-performing teams through effective feedback and performance reviews.
The course will focus on giving managers a performance development framework for frequent feedback and catch ups with staff.
Participants will learn how to give feedback for improvement and conduct performance reviews with ease. Consider checklists and templates that you can apply in your organisation.
Our employment lawyer will provide practical guidance on how to prepare for and conduct performance reviews, with reduced risk of any legal claims.
We will answer questions like: What should you discuss in regular catch ups with staff? How can you assess staff performance fairly by reducing manager biases?
Find out how to manage underperformance and motivate high performers by setting performance and learning goals.
Join our experienced employment law presenter Julia Shallcrass on this half day course that focuses on how to improve staff performance through continuous performance development and giving effective feedback.
Participants will receive a digital workbook, which includes checklists and performance review templates. Attendees can ask questions virtually and complete activities during the live seminar. This course involves Q&A and activities for you to discuss in small groups.
Managing Mental Illness at Work
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This virtual half-day course will help you reduce the risk of mental health issues at work and support struggling staff.
This half-day course will be delivered online via Zoom. It is limited to 25 registrations to ensure you get the most out of this session.
Most employees will experience mental illness within their lifetime. Mental health concerns are becoming increasingly more prevalent in the workplace, with many employers unsure as to how to proceed if performance or productivity is affected.
Unmanaged mental illness is now the leading cause of productivity loss worldwide – and impacts on sick leave and absenteeism.
This course is essential if you want to effectively manage mental health issues at work, improve productivity, and meet your employer obligations to reduce the risk of breaching the law.
We will provide an overview of mental illness based on the latest scientific studies. We will focus on how to manage common and complex issues relating to mental illness at work.
Detect early warning signs of mental illness, including depression, anxiety and PTSD, so you can assist staff. Discover how to approach a colleague who you suspect may have a mental illness.
Discuss what to do if your staff member has a mental health crisis or is experiencing suicidal thoughts. Find out what you can manage yourself and when to call professionals.
Find out how to reduce the risk of mental illness and support struggling staff. Discover how to avoid discrimination, reasonably accommodate staff needs, and comply with health and safety laws.
What To Expect
Consider the impact of unwell staff at work, including on sick leave and mental incapacity. Find out how to manage poor performance when the staff member is mentally unwell.
Attendees will receive a digital workbook including activities and can ask questions virtually during the live seminar. We will explore case studies to show you how to deal with real issues. This course involves Q&A and activities for you to discuss in small groups.
All personal development events are subject to HRNZ Terms and Conditions.
Managing Sick Leave and Reducing Absenteeism
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Do you want to learn how to manage long term sick leave and reduce absenteeism?
Difficult situations can arise where employees are unable to work due to illness or injury.
Frequent or extended periods of absence can disrupt the workplace, and it may not be possible to hold a job open indefinitely.
High rates of sick leave and absenteeism are some of the most expensive and disruptive problems facing New Zealand employers.
In this course, discover your obligations around employee sick leave, including long term illness and injury. Find out how you can support your employees in their return to work. Discuss when and how you can terminate employment for medical incapacity.
Find out how to manage high rates of sick leave by identifying and managing factors that lead to sick leave, such as workplace stress.
Leader's Guide to Performance Management - Coaching Programme
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Transform from a technical expert into a high-performing manager in our comprehensive Leader's Guide to Performance Management.
Course Overview
Learn how to motivate staff and improve staff performance, conduct performance reviews with confidence, and build better teams.
Through four incredible modules, you will learn how to:
- Motivate staff to succeed
- Effectively delegate and supervise
- Give feedback and performance reviews
- Manage poor performers
In instructional videos, activity sessions, and workbooks, Julia Shallcrass, an expert employment lawyer will guide you on how to comply with employment law obligations, while improving team performance and results.
What to Expect
Unlock your Leadership potential with this comprehensive coaching programme Leader's Guide to Performance Management:
- 4 dynamic modules delivered in bite-sized videos - with guaranteed viewing for at least 3 years, to be viewed at your own pace (estimated completion time: 4 hours).
- Comprehensive workbooks with engaging activities, templates, checklists, and case studies.
- Live group coaching (1.5 hours per week) at 11 am on Wednesdays in June or Thursdays in August. (Attendance at live group coaching is recommended but not compulsory).
- Pre-recorded webinars (1 hour duration) for each module, can be viewed any time.
This course is designed for active participation with fellow people managers and team leaders.
If you would prefer our Lite option without the group coaching sessions, please book onto our Leader’s Guide to Performance Management – Lite.
Start dates for 4-week Public
12th June 2024 (@ 11am), with 4 Activity sessions on consecutive Wednesdays
22nd August 2024 (@ 11am), with 4 Activity sessions on consecutive Thursdays
Time: Live Activity sessions @ 11am once a week for 4 weeks
Investment (all prices include GST):
$1,290 incl GST
Group discounts apply:
$3,800 for 3, $6,100 for 5.