Human Resources Management for Modern Leaders and Professionals

INTRODUCTION

In a challenging and competitive global market, employee engagement is absolutely paramount to retain the talent within the organisation. It follows that anyone with a responsibility for managing staff requires an understanding of Human Resource Management best practices in order to extract the very best out of their team.

This Strategic People Management for Modern Leaders and Professionals training course provides the essential practical knowledge and processes enabling leaders to skilfully address HR Management issues and opportunities for themselves.

Participants in this training course will develop the following competencies:

• Building excellent working relationships with others

• Leading, listening, challenging, communicating, being fair, responding to suggestions, and dealing with problems

• Helping and supporting employees to take more responsibility

• Building highly-effective and productive teams

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

This training course aims to enable participants to achieve the following objectives:

• Implement critical areas of HR Management

• Build good working relationships with their staff

• Help and support their employees

• Drive individual and team performance

• Motivate and inspire their team

• Build effective and productive teams

• Select the right person for the job

• Specify training and development needs

• Implement procedures that will retain talented people

• Assess and appraise performance

• Develop an action plan to improve performance

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals, but it is most relevant to:

• All levels of Management who need to gain a better understanding of the implications that People Management practices have on their day-to-day decisions

• HR professionals and equally the line management

• Any other professionals who have an interest in HR processes

TRAINING APPROACH

There will be inputs from a highly-experienced facilitator together with case studies, discussions, worked examples, and the use of videos to further enhance learning. This will allow delegates to get fully engaged with the practical implications of the training.

TRAINING OUTLINE

Day 1: Managers HR Responsibilities

• Traditional management responsibilities

• Relationship between HR and the line and devolving responsibility down the line

• The impact of HR outsourcing and working with an HR business partner

• Enabling HR policies and practices

• Directing and guiding the work of others

• Dealing with conflicting priorities and role overload

Day 2: People Management – Talent and Succession Planning

• An overview of traditional HRM activities

• Successful Change Management

• Human Resource Planning – securing the people resources

• Talent recognition and succession planning

• The critical issue of employee engagement

• Communications and employee voice

Day 3: Recruiting – Use of Competencies and Rewarding Employees

• Job descriptions and person specifications

• Pay and reward, compensation and benefits

• Best Practice for recruitment and selection

• Understanding competencies and behavioral interviewing

• The new employee – induction planning and getting up to performance

• Retaining talented staff

Day 4: Performance Management – Creating Employee Engagement

• The essential stages of Performance Management

• Setting objectives and evaluating performance

• Effective Performance Appraisals– making them work for all

• Building employee engagement, motivation, and loyalty

• The use of assessment and development centers

• Managing absence effectively and managing discipline and grievance

Day 5: Coaching – Methods of Learning for Current and Future Roles

• Training Needs Analysis- collection of data and identification of needs

• Team Development – Coaching and Feedback

• Training for current job needs and development for future challenges

• Methods of Adult Learning – not just training courses

• Identifying and Developing a Successor

• Personal Action Planning

Certificate of Completion: Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from Al-Majd Pathways Centre (APC).