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Staff Development

In a competitive marketplace, keeping the best staff on board and on target is essential to improving your market presence and bottom line.

However, recent surveys* have shown that:

• Just under a quarter of employees expect to leave within the year, each departure costing an average of £7,750
• Over 40% of employees feel they are not kept well informed about what is going on their organisation and 25% don't believe their senior managers have a clear vision of where their organisation is going
• A third say their line manager rarely or never discussions their training and development needs with them
• Just under a quarter are unhappy with their work-life balance
• Almost a fifth have experienced bullying and harassment and stress is the number one cause of long term absence among non manual workers
• The average cost associated with employment tribunal claims is around £20,000.

So, if you want to ensure that you:

• Retain your best performers and reap the rewards of higher performance and productivity across your team as a whole
• Convey your business vision clearly and constructively to all members of staff
• Deal with specific issues and legislation – eg. absence, stress, bullying and harassment, equal opportunities
• Have up to date Human Resource and Health & Safety policies and processes in place
• Offer the best training and development, including use of psychometric tools
• Get publicity for the good things in life rather than unwelcome employment tribunals and court cases

then contact us today.

We and our Specialist Partners can help you with:

• Analysing, implementing and improving performance management systems
• Carrying out staff attitude or opinion surveys
• Analysing and improving communication structures, including designing and implementing intranets
• Ensuring the appropriate ‘HR groundwork’, such as Employee Handbooks, key policies (eg. bullying and harassment, equal ops etc), absence monitoring and headcount procedures, are in place
• Implementing stress management measures
• Developing management and leadership skills, including executive coaching
• Identifying and implementing staff training programmes, from technical training (eg. IT) to personal development, client facing, recruitment, performance management and health and safety training
• Using psychometric testing as a development tool for your company
• Facilitating team building and offsites
• Taking care of day to day HR admin.

As with all our services, you can utilise our expertise on a project by project basis or, like some of our longer established clients, consider us to be your HR team with a dedicated person allocated to your organisation.

For further information, please contact us today.

* Sources
CIPD Working Life – Employee Attitudes and Engagement 2006
CIPD – Overview of CIPD Surveys – A Barometer of HR Trends and Prospects 2008
CIPD – Managing Conflict at Work 2007
CIPD – Absence Management – Annual Survey Report 2008