Advanced HRM Skills for Challenging Times

£5250.00£4800.00

INTRODUCTION

The overall aim of this highly interactive HRM training course is to help you develop your approach, methods, and skills for the new workplace design. It will equip you with the latest HRM practices for managing remote working, pressure, stress, and uncertainty.

In addition to learning from others in the course, you will discover ideas based on the latest research on workplace stress, Work From Home (WFH) working, and other factors facing modern organisations.

By applying these ideas and skills to the tasks and challenges you face in your work, you will experience breakthroughs you never thought possible.

This training course will feature:

  • Enhanced HRM knowledge and skills for handling increased uncertainty, pressure, and stress.

  • Enhancing communication skills in a remote and virtual workforce.

  • Guiding others on leading with confidence during challenging times.

  • Improving your HR management support in managing crises and implementing new HR practices.

  • Developing your team to handle remote working, uncertainty, pressure, and stress.

The workplace today is undergoing major changes, including changes to the physical environment and work routines. Facing crisis situations has become a regular part of work life. This requires a revised understanding of Human Resource Management best practices to thrive in this new reality.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

Participants will develop a range of competencies, including:

  • Best practices for enabling HR policies and practices for managing stress and different working patterns.

  • Imagining the future for the HR professional: Recruitment, reviews, retention, and remote working.

  • How to support managers who are losing daily control of staff.

  • Best practices in creating a ‘wellness culture’ in your organisation.

  • Understanding stress and its effects on the body, mind, and spirit; noticing the signals.

  • What is safe-working and what is not, how to develop HRM policies to meet this challenge.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This training course is ideal for:

  • Individuals with HRM responsibilities.

  • Individuals working as HR assistants, coaching, or mentoring staff.

  • Individuals who have HRM leadership abilities.

  • Anyone actively involved in interacting within an HRM department involved in supporting staff and managers.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This training course is designed to be highly interactive, challenging, and stimulating. Delegates will learn through active participation using training course materials, case study reviews, discussions, syndicate group work, skills practice exercises, training videos, and exploration of relevant best practices.

It will be an interactive opportunity to share best practices, bringing a consistency and value-driven approach to HRM in times of crisis. Participants will have the opportunity to learn or refresh the essential skills to build successful teams, driving an aspirational performance culture.

TRAINING SUMMARY

This Advanced HRM Skills for Challenging Times course is designed for today’s HRM leaders and professionals. It will provide the opportunity to examine and explore revised and redesigned People HR Management best practices, enabling delegates to lead their staff more effectively. This training course also uses a highly practical approach to enable participants to focus on issues that impact them and their respective organisations the most.

TRAINING OUTLINE

Day 1: The Manager’s New HR Responsibilities and Roles in the New Reality

  • The effect of crisis situations on working routines, organisation, and society.

  • How HR managers can lead the organisation to deal with challenges, change, and rebuilding.

  • The impact of home working (WFH) for both managers and staff.

  • Enabling HR policies and practices for managing stress and different working patterns.

  • Imagining the future for the HR professional: Recruitment, reviews, retention, and remote working.

  • Adapting to the new reality.

Day 2: HR Management in a World with Remote Team Working

  • How managers and supervisors must change their communication patterns.

  • Productivity, goal setting, motivation in the new reality.

  • Supporting managers who are losing daily control of staff.

  • Creating a ‘wellness culture’ in your organisation.

  • Technology tools and new ways of working for the future.

Day 3: HRM Leadership Skills for Handling Pressure and Stress

  • Stress and its effects on the body, mind, and spirit; noticing the signals.

  • Implementing appraisals and performance reviews in crisis situations.

  • Turning challenges into opportunities using wellness tools.

  • Motivating yourself and others under pressure; the new psychology.

  • Creating ways to improve mental and physical health.

Day 4: Enhancing Communication Skills in Times of Remote Working and Increased Stress

  • Passive and aggressive responses and their effect on stressed staff.

  • Assertive communication during stressful times.

  • Mental health issues; what are the signs, what can you do.

  • Giving and receiving criticisms in the work environment.

  • Using mentors and coaches to support staff.

  • Creative solutions in times of stress – empathy, positive evaluation, and easing off.

Day 5: Developing & Training Others to Handle Pressure, Stress, and Crisis

  • Training and developing employees to handle stress and pressure.

  • Helping people to see the positive side of challenges in the workplace.

  • Implementing creative problem-solving skills for your team when facing a crisis.

  • Recognising the symptoms of short-term and long-term effects of stress.

  • Training managers and staff on remote management and meetings.

  • Developing a personal action plan.

Language(s): English and Arabic 

Duration: One Week

Certificate of Completion: Upon successful completion of the program, participants will receive an Al-Majd Pathways Centre (APC) Certificate of Completion.