Creating a ‘Win-Win’ Employee Relations Strategy
Employers across the UK are facing an array of challenges with issues including high inflation driving pay disputes and industrial unrest, a challenging labour market, changes to post-Covid working arrangements and the impact of AI on workforce planning, all dominating the Employee Relations (ER) agenda. These issues are creating tensions within the workplace and an increasing demand on HR professionals operating in the ER space. CRF’s employee relations strategy programme is an essential course designed ensure you have the skills necessary to navigate this complex arena.
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About this Programme
Supported and hosted by legal experts Eversheds-Sutherland, this programme is delivered in person over two days. The learning will be experiential, practitioner based and supportive with a focus on applicable and practical outcomes for the organisation. There will be opportunities for peer networking and time with senior ER practitioners at lunches and dinner.
Participants will benefit from a stimulating programme designed around the principles of adult learning.
Participants will benefit from a stimulating programme designed around the principles of adult learning.
Who Should Attend?
The programme is aimed at Senior HR Generalists and Employee Relations professionals. Either in organisations that have historically had an ER / IR focus or Organisations that have recently become exposed to a challenging ER / IR Environment. The course aims to build on an awareness of the ER / IR world and legislation by adding a more strategic lens to attendees existing skills.
Participants will typically hold a business or HR related qualification and have at least 5-10 years of HR experience to date.
Participants will typically hold a business or HR related qualification and have at least 5-10 years of HR experience to date.
Benefits of Attending
Course directors
Nick Dalton
Nick is a consultant, speaker, author, and advocate. Until end of 2020, he was Executive Vice President H.R. at Unilever.
The last 35 + years, has seen him covering all areas of H.R. ranging from introducing new HR information systems, recruitment, designing new reward systems for sales forces, working with marketing teams to speed up innovation times, through to setting up new Companies and troubleshooting industrial relations ‘crises’ across the globe.
The last 35 + years, has seen him covering all areas of H.R. ranging from introducing new HR information systems, recruitment, designing new reward systems for sales forces, working with marketing teams to speed up innovation times, through to setting up new Companies and troubleshooting industrial relations ‘crises’ across the globe.
His passion is for change management, Organisational development and industrial/ employee relations. He describes his ‘purpose’ as ‘ bringing creativity from conflict’. He is an H.R, professional because he believes that if ‘we change the workplace, we do change the world’.
Patrick Jones - Course author
Emma Humphries
Emma Humphries is a Partner in the HR Practice Group at Eversheds Sutherland in Leeds, specialising in Industrial Relations and Employment Law. As one of the leading labour law lawyers; working on union-related issues and collective disputes, Emma provides advice to businesses to navigate difficult change projects, often in complex industrial relations environments. With experience in high court litigation, interim injunctions within industrial disputes (including the lawfulness of strike action), her experience also extends to the Employment Tribunal.
Patrick Jones - Course author
Clare Ward
Clare Ward is a Partner at Eversheds Sutherland, where she supports all employment matters with a focus on Labour Relations and Employee Wellbeing. She helps employers to define their trade union relationships and provides support if these breakdown. Clare also defends failure to provide information claims, I&C complaints and unlawful inducements claims. Clare advises strategically when employers are faced with industrial action and has obtained industrial action injunctions. Her experience extends to supporting employers in employee wellbeing agendas and presents on this both publicly and in-house.
Patrick Jones - Course author
John Whelan MBE
John Whelan is a Director at Corporate Research Forum. Formerly UK HR Director of BAE Systems, the FTSE 100 defence, security, and aerospace company, John’s experience and strengths lie in business and HR Transformation, Organisation Development and Employee Relations. Prior to joining BAE, he held a variety of HR roles in engineering, technology and manufacturing businesses across the telecommunications and semi-conductor industries including Matra-Marconi Space where he was HR Director for the UK and, latterly, Group HRD.
Patrick Jones - Course author
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