The Effective HR Advisor
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The Effective HR Advisor Course
Introduction:
In addition to fulfilling their day-to-day responsibilities within the Human Resources team, an HR advisor frequently serves as a liaison between various business departments and the HR team. They often act as the initial point of contact for line managers and middle managers across the company.
Consequently, while an advisor plays a crucial role within the HR department, they often collaborate closely with other teams throughout the organization, including commercial, operations, procurement, and others.
Course Objectives:
At the end of The Effective HR Advisor training course, you will be able to :
- Develop and action effective HR policies and procedures
- Examine and implement recruitment procedures to create high levels of return on investment
- Establish strong bonds of commitment with new staff to reduce attrition rates
- Identify organizational learning needs and how these impact the bottom line
- Understand the importance of having the right staff, with the right skills, in the right roles
- Guide managers in the practical application of performance reviews and understand the links to overall organization performance
- Support line managers in the handling of formal disciplinary procedures protecting both them and your organization from legal challenges
- Enhance your people skills to work with HR administrative staff and processes to achieve a one-stop shop approach to transactional HR
Who Should Attend?
The Effective HR Advisor training course, is ideal for:
- HR advisors
- New and existing HR staff
- HR officers and coordinators
- HR assistants and administrators aspiring to the role of an HR advisor
Course Outlines:
The role of the HR advisor
- Key responsibilities of an effective HR advisor
- Working collaboratively with line managers
- Working with and reporting to key stakeholders
- Promoting equality and diversity within the organization
- Developing effective job descriptions and competencies
- Managing employee welfare services, including health and safety
- Managing and implementing organizational change
- Quantifying evidence indicators for effective HR
Recruiting and selecting talent
- Recruitment campaigns
- Best practices for effective hiring
- Preparing job advertisements
- Working with agencies
- Dealing effectively with applicants
- Drawing up a shortlist
- Interviewing skills and techniques
- Selecting fairly
- Reference checking
- Issuing contracts
- Managing and implementing an effective induction process
Remuneration and rewards
- Advising on remuneration and pay issues
- Payroll
- Pensions
- Benefits
- Annual salary reviews
- Benchmarking and reporting
- Linking pay and performance
Managing staff performance
- Performance reviews and why they are not an HR tool
- Working with line managers to manage performance
- Tracking and managing sickness and attendance
- Short-term sickness
- Long-term sickness
- Return-to-work procedures
- Managing and advising on disciplinary and grievance procedures
- Staff counselling
- Career development and progression
- Producing stats and data which add value and impact on the organization
Identifying, planning and implementing training needs
- Performing Training Needs Analysis (TNA) reviews
- Handling learning and development requests
- Identifying development opportunities
- Measuring and reporting the return on investment (ROI)
- Succession planning and talent management
Reviewing, updating and implementing policies
- Developing and implementing formal policies and procedures
- Anti-discrimination
- Equal opportunity
- Health and safety
- Maternity, paternity and parental
- Leave of absence
- Flexible working
- Other time-off rights
- Disciplinary and grievance
- Codes of conduct
- Staff handbooks
- Giving constructive advice and guidance and working with line managers
- Communicating standards of performance and best practice to key stakeholders
Managing and working with others – both internal and external
- Overseeing junior administrators
- Getting the best out of the team
- Performance management as a line manager of