Calibre HR Services and HR Consultancy

In this issue

• Making your people’s skills work harder for you
• Cutting wage costs – alternatives to redundancy
• Management skills training – where to start
• Calibre HR & Training news

Summer 2008 Newsletter

Are you doing enough to capitalise on existing training investments? Or if you have training coming up, do you know how to ensure the new skills or knowledge are put to work?

According to research, only 50 per cent of employers ensure training is deployed, developed and shared in the workplace. But if training is not revisited within four months, it is forgotten. This factsheet will show you how to squeeze every last bit of benefit from your training investments and help you identify and capitalise on workplace skills you did not know you had.

Download free Get more from skills training and skills in the business factsheet

In this issue

• Employee consultation regulations extended
• Better briefings – 10 top tips
• Inductions – keep new staff longer
• What’s worrying you?
• Calibre HR & Training at 2020 Business

Spring 2008 Newsletter

In 2002 an EU directive was agreed giving employees the right to know and be consulted about issues that affected their jobs. In 2005, businesses employing 150 people or more had to fall in line with the directive. Two years later those employing 100 staff had to follow suit. As of April 2008, companies who employ more than 50 staff must comply with the regulations.

This factsheet is for those companies.

Download the ICE regulation 2004 Factsheet

Don’t lose them
Check out our essential standards for retaining and motivating key staff in our Winter Newsletter.

Performance management is a strategic development tool that
enables staff and managers to set targets, measure and review
performance and re-define goals. This factsheet will help you understand the benefits of effective performance management and the structures necessary to make it work.

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Performance appraisal is a way of formalising the reviews and assessments of an employee’s performance that take place during the year. It provides the opportunity to review past performance and consider an individual’s potential for development in the organisation. It also encompasses an assessment of what training or development is needed.

Download our free Performance Appraisal Factsheet.

Early intervention by line managers and good communication are probably the most important tools in reducing absence due to sickness. This factsheet covers issues such as encouraging health and wellbeing in the workplace, as well as the more technical areas such as writing an absence policy, arranging sick pay and managing long-term sickness absence.

Download our free Managing Sickness Absence Factsheet

Validation generally seeks to check the success of training output – do people have the specific knowledge, skills or ability to carry out a task that the training set out to develop? Evaluation, on the other hand, takes a wider view of training effectiveness and will usually consider the effect of the training on groups of people or on the entire organisation. This factsheet will show you what to measure when analysing training effectiveness and how to measure.

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Training needs analysis is a systematic approach to identifying any gaps between the skills your people have and those they need to meet your goals. It plays a critical role in planning the use of training and development resources and ensures money is spent on the type of training most likely to drive the organisation forward. It can also help highlight occasions where training might not be appropriate, but where alternative actions are needed such as recruitment, contracting out work or moving a staff member to a more suitable role. This factsheet explains how to conduct and use a training needs analysis.

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