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We are please to announce that our "Employee Rep" Training workshops can be customised to most situations. Our generic introductory workshop on the typical responsibilities and the skills needed to do be effective in role remains very popular and we have a pre-developed workshop available on the employee reps' role in redundancy situations. We can also re-focus these workshops to cover any of the key duties in more detail, workshops could focus,for example, on: The Employee Representative and Pay Negotiation The Employee Representative and Disciplinary Meetings The Employee Representative and Grievance Hearings The Employee Representative and Contract Changes The Employee Representative and Short Time Working The Employee Representative and Lay-offs The Employee Representative and Redundancies The Employee Representative - a general introduction to role For a no-obligation discussion on Employee Rep training in the UK please contact Ian Hirst at Concrew

Concrew Training has been approached by an East Midlands based private provider who is looking to identify potential budget holders who could benefit from an established quality assured programme that will deliver guaranteed level 1 outputs throughout 2015/2016 with the minimum of burden to the funding provider. We are told that: The programme provides support, guidance and qualifications that assist learners in setting up their own businesses. All the courses delivered appear on the 2015/2016 SFA funding register Historically the programme was funded through local authority adult learning and skills budgets where more than 1000 accredited outputs were achieved by non-employed learners in 3 years.  Drastic reductions in ALS budgets means the programme is no longer supported which leaves significant numbers   of learners, interesting in self employment without initial support and guidance. The programme has grown year on year. The provider has the p

Revisiting RARPA RARPA - Recognising & Recording Progress & Achievement “RARPA” (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement) was developed many years ago, as a set of tools and approaches to validate learning within programmes that did not lead to accredited qualification outcome. For many “RARPA” seems to have been largely forgotten or overlooked This is unfortunate because the principles of RARPA and its approaches to measuring, tracking and evidencing progress and achievement still hold good today.  Not only do they provide immense value within non accredited programmes they also offer significant scope for enhancing learning and quality assurance within accredited programmes too.  Modern day RARPA allows tutors and students to agree targets, milestones and how robust evidence can be gathered. In doing so evidence of starting points, progress and competence is collected and by using evidence that relates closely to assessment criteria accredited programme

Anti Bullying week 2015 runs from 16th to 20th November 2015. Now is the perfect time to provide refresher training to management and staff on what bullying looks like and how they can help identify and prevent it. Concrew Training's one day course on Combating Bullying and Harassment is designed to meet these needs Course Overview - Combating Bullying and Harrassment Understand the issues better:

Concrew Training has been highlighting the need for equal pay audits for some time now and the deadline is drawing close. Despite the voluntary reporting initiative being introduced in 2011 less than half a dozen companies have actually published details of their pay gender gap. On 6th March the Government announced that they would move towards introducing mandatory reporting; these new measures will be introduced in 2016. today 14 July 2015 saw the launch of a consultation on and around the details.   More information here   The consultation closes in 06 September so interested parties need to respond quickly.  Introducing Equal Pay auditing and reporting can be complex and those organisations affected, ie with more than 250 employees, need to start planning now.   Concrew Training are pleased to be able to offer high value training and consultancy in this area.   Please contact us for more information #hr #humanresources #unions #equalpay #gender

Despite unemployment rates showing ongoing improvements cut backs and redundancies are still commonplace.   A walk down the high street shows how many retail operations have been affected with many well known names now gone but its far more than the high street that is affected, redundancies are taking place across most sectors, news, banking, media, education, gas and oil. The laws that impact on and around consultation on redundancy can be complex to understand and interpret especially in real workplace situations. Most redundancy situations require effective consultation with employees and/or their representatives, there are clear benefits to be had from having an effective employee representative team in place before redundancies are needed. Concrew Training offers generic training for Employee Representatives as well as training related more closely to redundancy situations The Effective Employee Representative Redundancy Training for Employee Representatives #hr #hum

Concrew Training is pleased to announce a new one-day workshop on Facilitating Training Groups. In this one-day fast paced workshop delegates learn the who what why, when and where of effective f ocus groups and leave feeling better able and equipped to deliver highly effective focus group meetings – whatever their sector. More information >>>> #hr #fe #gov #humanresources #furthereducation #research #marketing