Employment & HR
‘Sickness absence costs the economy an annual £12bn’ (Personnel Today, 01/02/06)…..
Welcome to Croner Training's portfolio of employment and personnel conferences and seminars. Our diverse range of HR related events encompasses all aspects of personnel management and administration including personal skills training, structuring your organisation’s pensions, benefits, payroll and strategic HR policies plus a variety of seminars covering the latest employment regulations, legislations and codes of conduct.
For further information on any of our public courses please contact Customer Services on 0845 082 1170 (at local rates) or e-mail services@cronertraining.co.uk
| Absence management | Sickness absence costs the economy an annual £100bn What are you doing about it in your organisation? A concentrated day of practical advice and guidance on how to improve your staff attendance, boost productivity and save the company money. |
| Achieving results through emotional intelligence | This one day interactive seminar will help you to explore and manage your own emotional intelligence, and will provide the tools for enhancing the performance of both yourself and your teams. |
| Advanced employment law update | A comprehensive one-day seminar providing up-to-date information on employment law. If your company is unaware of changes in areas such as data protection law, discrimination, contracts and dismissal, this is a must attend seminar. |
| Advanced payroll | Do you know all there is to know about payroll? Could you explain to an employee how a K code operates and why K codes are issued? Are you up-to-speed with the intricacies of SSP, SMP, AML, SAP, SAL, SPP and SPL? Do you need help with the payroll implications of new legislation? If you want to know more, our Advanced payroll seminar is for you. |
| Basic payroll | This one-day seminar has been designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of payroll calculation. The seminar is ideal for people who are new to payroll or payroll staff requiring a basic introduction to payroll calculations. |
| Benefits and expenses | PSAs and dispensations are best dealt with sooner rather than later – don’t leave it to the end of the tax year before thinking about benefits and expenses! |
| Competency-based recruitment and interviewing | To be effective, competency frameworks must be used consistently. But competency based recruitment is more than simply a case of substituting one list of requirements for another. It is an entirely different way of thinking about recruitment. |
| Croner Training's 10th Annual Update on Fitness for Work 2008 | Now in its 10th year, this intensive one-day seminar will provide updates on legislation, case law and occupational health. This seminar will benefit all HR Managers and occupational health practitioners. |
| Croner's - Results focused time management | The time management seminar with a difference! |
| Croner's 6th Annual Health and Safety Conference 2010 | Now in its sixth year, this extremely popular conference will take a very close look at the major health and safety topics and help you move ahead to face the health and safety challenges in your organisation in these austere times. It will give guidance and advice on what will constitute a successful occupational safety and health year in 2011. |
| Croner's HR Annual Conference | Now in its 7th successful year, this conference aims to cover every area of employment law and also gives you clear practical advice on everyday issues. With employment law constantly changing and a new Government in place, there is likely to be a variety of challenges facing HR Directors over the next twelve months. Understanding new developments is key and not keeping up-to-date could incur costs for your business. |
| Dealing with sensitive issues in employment | This one-day seminar will give you practical advice and guidance to help you deal with the most sensitive and emotive personnel issues in the workplace |
| Designing and implementing competency-based frameworks | Competencies are now part of the standard toolkit for all HR professionals. This one-day seminar will help you learn how to design and review a competency based framework to suit your organisation. |
| Effective HR assistant | This popular one-day seminar is an ideal introduction to the main issues which would face an HR professional. Whilst it is designed for those with little or no knowledge of the HR function, this seminar will also serve as a useful update for those more experienced in the field. |
| Effective HR officer | HR policies and procedures have to move with the times. To keep them up-to-date and effective, you need to know the very latest developments in employment law and best practice. This very popular, practical, one-day seminar has been designed specifically to help you bring your knowledge completely up-to-date and show you how to apply it to best effect. |
| Employee handbooks - the policies and the practice | A highly interactive, one-day course providing you with all the advice and guidance required to make sure your employee handbook is up-to-date and in line with the law. |
| Employing overseas nationals | An intensive one-day programme on an increasingly contentious issue designed for in-house lawyers and HR professionals, including a half-day practical workshop on making work permit and HSMP applications. |
| Employment law and good personnel practice in care homes | This comprehensive one-day semiar has been designed specifically to meet the challenge of managing care home staff within the law |
| Finance skills for HR professionals | A unique one-day programme designed specifically to make finance accessible and relevant to human resources specialists from all sectors. There is no other seminar currently available in the UK offering a similar service to the HR professional. Croner Training brings to this seminar the same authoritative content and attention to detail that characterises its published materials. |
| Handling disciplinary and capability issues effectively | An invaluable day of practical advice and guidance on how to conduct disciplinary and capability issues effectively without falling foul of the law. This one day seminar will help you understand the policies and procedures involved in disciplinary, conduct and capability issues. |
| Introduction to pensions | This introductory seminar will cover up-to-the minute information on how pensions work, particularly in the light of the fundamental obligations laid on them by the Pensions Acts 1995 and 2004 and other recent legislation. The seminar will also explore where the government is going with its latest reform proposals and April 2006's radical tax approval simplification. |
| Making HR a strategic business partner - the masterclass | This intensive one-day masterclass will help you adopt a business partnership approach and make it easier to align HR with business strategy. Through the use of case studies, this masterclass will focus on what successful business partnerships looks like. |
| Managing discipline, dismissal and grievances | Given the ever increasing number of Employment Tribunal cases in the UK each year, and with compensation uplifts of up to 25%, getting it right is critically important. This workshop offers practical and informative solutions to common issues with a high degree of personalisation and involvement so you get what you want from the day. |
| Managing people effectively | Based upon sound people management principles, subjects covered include motivational strategies, team building, delegation and communication. The programme is intensive and uses case studies, practical exercises and discussion. |
| Maximising value from internal communication channels | An intensely practical one-day workshop to give you new ideas and inspiration for re-energising your internal communications. |
| Office health and safety | Under the Health and Safety at Work Act employers have a legal responsibility to provide a safe and healthy workplace. This dynamic and stimulating training course covers all the common health and safety hazards encountered in an office environment and how you can identify the appropriate ways to reduce these risks in your office. |
| Payroll update | The contents of the seminar may vary where new legislation is introduced or proposed by the Government or new consultative documents are issued by the Inland Revenue or Contributions Agency. |
| Planning and managing special events | This is a highly practical workshop and provides you with an A to Z for the successful PR, marketing and management of events. |
| The effective training administrator | Efficient administration is critical to the success of your training function and ultimately your business. This one-day practical programme will help you to develop the key knowledge and skills required to be an effective training administrator. Includes real-life case study exercise and personal action planning sessions |
| The effective training and development manager | A two-day practical seminar to help you develop key competencies to meet the challenges of successfully running a training and development function. |
| Train the trainer | For training to be successful it needs to be business focused and deliver real results back to the organisation. It also needs to be designed with learning in mind. This two-day seminar will cover the fundamentals of training design and delivery, will help you strengthen your skills as a training facilitator and will focus on building your confidence as a trainer. |
| TUPE law and practice | This one-day seminar will discuss the key elements of TUPE 2006, and will help you avoid potential liability for unfair dismissal and redundancy payments, as well as claims for breach of contract and unlawful deductions. |
| Workplace mediation | This practical and participative workshop will equip you to undertake 'pre-emptive conflict management' with confidence in your workplace. |
