HR Training
The aim of the training workshop is to provide a safe and challenging environment for HR professionals to enhance their capacity to deal effectively with complex, sensitive and emotive situations involving staff with health issues.
Programme Objectives
The programme provides an opportunity for HR professionals to:
- Develop practical skills in how to coach and support line managers to deal effectively with staff who have health issues.
- Enhance their confidence and ability to deal directly with a staff member who has a physical or mental health condition, particularly in a complex and sensitive situations.
- Improve self awareness about the impact that dealing with health issues has on them personally.
- Learn how to manage their own emotions while dealing with the health issues of a staff member or supporting a line manager.
- Develop their ability to manage the interaction with someone with a health issue so that the emotions of that person do not stop them doing what they need to do.
- Improve their mediation skills to deal with health issues that could or have become an employee relations issue.
- Increase awareness and effectively manage appropriate boundaries in complex health situations.
Benefits
This HR Professional Training can deliver:
- increased confidence and competence of the HR function to deal with complex, sensitive and emotive health issues in future
- HR Professionals enabling and building confidence of line managers to deal effectively with health issues of staff
- reduced stress levels within the HR department
- enhanced co-ordination and co-operation between HR function, line managers and other allied health professionals

