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The Human Resources Institute of New Zealand

Refresh HR Programme
Advanced Employment Relations

Presented by The Human Resources Institute of New Zealand
Led by Angela Atkins and/or Lisa Hunter

Introduction

The Refresh HR programme is a series of 3 hour workshops that cover one area of HR. You can attend the whole programme or pick the workshops that best suit your needs. The focus of the programme is to learn how to put HR theory into practice in the real world. The programme also takes you through how to deal effectively with the challenges you will encounter when working with senior leaders, managers and employees.

Course Description

This workshop has been designed to take you through some of the more complex Employment Relations issues you may face in an HR role. It follows on from the ‘Employment Relations’ workshops which covered the key points of the Employment Relations Act and amendments (meal breaks, flexible working, trial periods), good faith, individual and collective employment agreements required clauses and useful clauses and casuals and part timers/fixed terms.

This workshop is interactive, and will include discussions of differing situations.

Subjects Covered

  • How to deal with restraint of trades and what happened in real cases. We will analyse four cases to really understand how to word restraints and enforce them.
  • Useful executive level clauses and how to enforce them. We will look at a case study and see which clauses would apply if a CEO was to be dismissed.
  • Negotiating settlements – what you need to know; including making payments under section 123(1)(c)(i), how 'without prejudice' applies, calderbank offers and key points to include in a settlement.
  • Dealing effectively with union conflicts; including tips and techinques on a range of situations.
  • How to respond to Personal Grievances and prepare for mediation. We will cover what the process is and work through a case study of a personal grievance letter including preparing a response.

Who Should Attend

This programme is for anyone who wants to learn how to make HR work effectively in their workplace. This may be HR Coordinators, Advisors, Officers or Managers in the first few years of their HR career as well as students. Some of the workshops may also be useful for recruiters to attend. Learning and Development professionals who work as part of their company HR team have also found some of the employment law workshops useful.

The Workshop Leaders

Angela Atkins has worked in HR and training for the last 15 years, within retail, local government, financial services and tertiary. Since mid 2007 she has worked for Elephant Training and HR, providing HR support and advice to a number of SME’s and corporates, as well as facilitating in house and public training workshops including Refresh HR and Essential Employment Law. Her whole career has involved communications work and Angela is also the bestselling author of Management Bites and Employment Bites. She believes part of the success of her books is their simple, easy to read style!

Lisa Hunter has over 15 years HR experience and worked in senior HR roles within the tertiary and financial services sectors as well as having significant experience as a coach, mentor and facilitator. She has also worked in the telecommunications, advertising and pharmaceutical industries. For the past 3 years she has worked with Elephant Training and HR, and heads up Elephant’s Business Services division, as well as providing HR and Continuous Improvement (CI) advice and support to clients, project managing a range of initiatives and facilitating training on CI, management and HR topics. While working at BNZ she was introduced to Kaizen and moved into a CI role within the HR team. In this role she found she had a real passion for CI and working to make it part of the culture – the way we do things around here. Lisa has a BA in psychology and a Post Graduate Diploma in HR. Her approach is practical and she is passionate about learning and working with managers and individuals to develop their skills and improve how they work.

Comments from Past Participants

"Easy to understand, factual and concise for the short time period of 2 hours. Great workshop, thank you!" - Delegate 12 October 2011 Wellington workshop

2012 Dates and Venues

Auckland 23 February 2012, 1.00 - 4.00pm
Elephant HR Training Rooms, Level 4, Canterbury Arcade, 166 - 174 Queen Street, Central Auckland (Register Now)

Wellington 12 June 2012, 1.00-4.00pm
HRINZ National Office, Level 1, 11 Chews Lane (Register Now)

2012 Registration Fees

HRINZ Members: $140 + gst per workshop
Non Members: $185 + gst per workshop

Your course fee includes tea and coffee on arrival.

Cancellations

Please see cancellation policy.

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