Concrew Training

Workplace Employment disputes grievances & tribunals claims are expensive. They need to be avoided. This training reduces problems & helps evidence the employers adherence to good practice. #Employment #workplace #disputes #grievances and #tribunals usually arise due to a lack of clarity or understanding of employment law, policies and procedures or just unreasonable behaviour. Ensuring Managers are properly trained helps significantly Unreasonable behaviour may be on the part of the employer or employee or sometimes both. Much of employment law is underpinned by the principles of ‘fairness‘ and ‘reasonableness‘ and the question “what is reasonable, practical and proportionate?” is threaded into our training course as profiled below. Individual employment rights have really increased in recent years and likely to increase still further; with these increases comes the associated increase in risk that employers will need to deal with an increase in grievanc

On 30 May 2019 The #ICO published a report on their reflections and learning since the #GDPR was introduced in May 2018 and what their outlines plans are for the future.  Since 25 May 2018 more than 40,000 data protection complaints were received and over 14,000 personal #databreaches reported.  The ICO says the responsibility for compliance lies with organisations and for those organisations who do not take this responsibility seriously or those who break the #law, they will act “swiftly and effectively” Data Protection investigations take time to complete and investigations commenced under the GDPR are now nearing completion with the issues, penalties and fines becoming apparent. The ICO are looking for Data Protection Officers ( #DPO ) to be embedded and supported in their respective organisations by senior management. They expect organisations need to shift their focus to “accountability with a real evidenced understanding of the risks to individuals in the way t

The effectiveness of any meeting is dependent on the  quality of participation and involvement of those present.  The #Chair and/or #Facilitator plays a key role in encouraging and managing the contributions of all participants with  significant   improvements  in the effectiveness  of the #meeting being when the Chair is well trained in role. The task of the Chair is to utilise the talents of the group and move them towards the #meetings objectives or expected outcomes. This is often difficult to achieve The Chair may need to exert more control at the beginning of a meeting when a group is newly formed, or when the meeting is particularly large.  Being over controlling, however, will inhibit debate and may reduce participants’ sense of ownership of the tasks. The trick is to strike a balance between control and participation:  Our one-day workshop on Being a more effective Chair  equips participants with theory and skills for effective group chairing and facili