Strategic HR

New and updated

• Type:

  Training

  Onboarding a new employee - line manager training

  Enhanced with the addition of a PowerPoint presentation for training purposes.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Managing long-term sickness absence: The importance of effective policies and practices

  Enhanced by creating three separate guides on managing long-term sickness absence, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide focuses on the measures employers can adopt to manage long-term sickness absence effectively and the importance of doing so.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Managing long-term sickness absence: Contacting the employee and obtaining medical evidence/information

  Leading practice guidance discussing the importance of establishing regular contact with an employee on long-term sickness absence and obtaining medical information.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Managing long-term sickness absence: Return to work and alternative outcomes

  Leading practice guide discussing how to organise an employee's return to work following long-term sickness absence, including any workplace adjustments required, as well as alternative options if the employee is unable to return.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Flexible working: Measuring the impact on your organisation

  In this fourth guide, we examine the importance of evaluating flexible working; the timetable for evaluation; which HR metrics to focus on; and how to measure the impact of flexible working in eight key areas.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting lesbian, gay and bisexual employees: Inclusive employment

  Leading practice guide discussing the steps employers can take to engage and support LGB employees so that they feel able to bring their whole self to work.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting lesbian, gay and bisexual employees: Dealing with challenges

  Leading practice guide discussing the challenges LGB employees can experience at work and how employers can help to address and overcome them.

• Date:

  13 September 2023

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: Making AI a success - the pivotal role of HR

  In this edition of the podcast we are joined by Kate Redshaw to discuss the future role of AI in the workplace, and the pivotal role that HR professionals can play in terms of how their organisations can best unlock its potential.

• Date:

  4 September 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Flexible working request reforms: A guide to updating your policy

  Forthcoming changes to the law on the right to request flexible working mean that employers will have to amend their flexible working requests policy. We set out nine steps for HR professionals to follow when faced with updating their organisation's policy.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Equality impact assessment form

  A model form to conduct an equality impact assessment on a workplace policy, provision, criterion, practice or activity. The form uses the example of a regular review of an organisation's flexible working requests policy.