Restructuring: the people issues NEW

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Maximum 20 participants Half day workshop
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London £349 + VAT

In brief:

Faced with economic pressures, developing a proactive strategy for change that is responsive, efficient and effective is now essential for organisations to maintain a competitive edge and achieve long term success.

Redundancies are one of the most impactful changes a business and its workforce can undergo. As well as getting to grips with the legal aspects of restructures, it is equally critical for HR to understand and be able to manage and facilitate the whole process in such a way as to ensure more than just legal compliance. Organisational reputation, staff morale and motivation, productivity and performance, manager and leader impact – as well as ensuring project management of the redundancy process itself. HR professionals need the skills and knowledge to successfully manage the full impact of redundancy reorganisations.

This event is CPD accredited.

Designed for:

HR Directors, HR Managers, Employee Relations Specialists, Trade Union Representatives, Personnel Professionals, In-House Legal Advisers, Anyone with staff management responsibility

Training highlights:

  • Examine the people challenges and issues during an organisational restructure
  • Hear how to manage redundancy selection and redeployment beyond legal compliance
  • Minimise the impact on the individual and the organisation
  • Understand the importance of tackling the
  • Preparing and involving your managers and leaders
  • The importance of communication

The Programme

14:00
Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives
14:30
Examining common people challenges and issues during an organisational restructure
  • Understanding the change process and the psychological impact of change: what you can do to manage reactions and resistance to change
  • Assessing readiness to change in your organisation and likely resistance: diagnostic tools and approaches to manage through the barriers
15:45
Managing redundancy: options to minimise the impact on the individual and the organisation
  • Handling the meetings: skills sets to do it well, possible reactions from people, selecting who to conduct the meetings and skilling up your managers
  • What to do during the consultation process: how to handle the period of unknown for people

 
16:45
Maximising team dynamics pre and post restructure
  • Understanding teams and the process of team development:
  • What happens to a team during fragmentation and change
17:30
Close of workshop

Venue details

Venue details will be confirmed shortly.

For further information on the training facilities we use, please call us on +44 (0)20 8371 7010

Trainers

Our People

Angela Qureshi

Angela Qureshi, Director - heads JSB’s Education sector and Strategic HR faculty. As an HR strategist and an experienced management consultant, trainer and coach, she has extensive experience at blue chip consulting firms; Ernst & Young and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and as Head of HR at a large University.

 

Angela’s current work includes: Delivery of a leadership development programme for senior managers, currently broadening to support a wider cultural change programme (ongoing); Supporting an HR department with a process of change to move towards a more strategically focused, business partnering approach to HR provision, encompassed by the whole function (ongoing).  Angela brings useful experience and latest thinking from her work in an extensive range of sectors including professional services and finance.

Angela holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from Birkbeck College, University of London and a BSc Honours degree in Management Sciences from Warwick University.  Angela is a Level A and Level B British Psychological Society qualified Occupational Tester, and is licensed in the OPQ and MBTI instruments.  She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

 

Key areas of expertise:

  • HR and organisation strategy
  • Business strategy development facilitation
  • Leadership, change management and organisation development
  • Management development skills
  • Performance management including objective setting, performance appraisal, training and development, motivation and reward
  • Operational HR including capability, discipline and grievance, sickness absence, case work, employment law for managers, recruitment and selection, role design and competency development

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