Essential Components of HR for Managers

Managing employees effectively to reach best results

 

This highly interactive programme will provide delegates with the essential competences found in delivering change as well as implementing HR strategy. The program will identify the crucial processes involved in implementing this strategy and look at how to become an ‘employer of choice’. This programme introduces the practical essentials of how to create a high performance work system that motivates and empowers all in the organisation to work together so that everyone benefits. Implementing people strategies is not something to be done and then it’s done - it is an enduring way of running your business...a journey, not a destination. Whilst it is a journey, you will know you have made significant progress when you observe the outcomes detailed in this program. These outcomes will help to prioritize your efforts in building the foundations and also to develop the skills to manage this process.

 

Aims and Objectives

By the end of this program delegates will be able to:

 

§   Proactively realise high level performance from employees

§   How to conduct performance appraisal and handle the most common grievance/discipline issues

§   Explain the key principles and practices involved in implementing HR strategy

§   Know the crucial HR processes/policies and their relationship with business results

§   How to start the journey to becoming an “employer of choice"

§   How to attract staff, implement career development and talent/succession planning

§   Be proactive in employee relations

§   Know the essentials of compensation and benefits management (during appraisals)

§   Know the latest thinking in work/life balance

§   Manage this change implementation process

 

Key Benefits and Organizational Impact

This program will help to realise HR and performance goals by accomplishing the following:

 

§   Embed the foundations for people performance in your organisation

§   Establish the scope of management’s HR role and responsibilities to enhance the

§   effectiveness of employees in their care

§   Understand how to effectively deal with grievances and all typical performance

§   issues

§   Implement the vision for putting people performance at the heart of everything done;

§   Build awareness and the processes of what it means to positively control managing high performance; and

§   Make real progress in achieving performance by building capabilities

 

Competencies Emphasized

§   Providing Direction

§   Problem Solving

§   People Development

§   Performance and Change Management

§   Interpersonal Skills

§   Achieving Results

 

Training Methodology

This programme will use a range of interactive activities - group and individual role-pay exercises, case studies and discussions. There will also be formal inputs of theory and practical models. The programme is geared towards effective application of what is learned in order to maximize the value to individual delegates and their organisation.

 

Program Outline

 

Day 1 - ‘Employer of Choice’ Latest Thinking

 

Day 2 - Recruitment, Motivation, Compensation and Benefits

 

Day 3 Strategic vs. Operational HR  

 

Day 4 - Building Process

 

Day 5 - Employer of Choice