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How to Manage Employee Absence

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  • How to Manage Employee Absence

    📅 Wednesday 23rd October
    🧑‍🏫 Sarah Loates

Outline

Overview

Did you know – absence costs businesses an estimated £554 per employee, per year. Have you recently found yourself dealing with long-term or complex staff absences? Do you need guidance on absence policies and understanding your legal responsibilities?

Accommodating absences for minor illnesses are a daily occurrence for most businesses, but things can become a little complicated if an absence is unexplained or longer than expected.

This workshop will give you an insight into the most common reasons for absence and what your sickness policies should cover.

We’ll share practical advice on how best to manage your absence challenges, including communicating with staff who are absent, conducting return to work interviews and making reasonable adjustments. We’ll also cover avoiding disability discrimination and discuss ways to support your employees moving forward.

Audience

This course is aimed at people that manage others.

Objectives

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

  • Understand what your absence policies should cover
  • Communicate with staff who are absent from work
  • Obtain relevant medical records and reports
  • Deal with both physical and mental health related absences
  • Make reasonable adjustments for employees
  • Conduct effective return to work interviews

Content

  • Insights into the most common reasons for absence
  • What your sickness policies should cover
  • How best to manage your absence challenges
  • Communicating with staff that are absent
  • Disability discrimination

Resources

We will provide you with a PDF of the workshop slides, copies of relevant handouts and a list of book recommendations discussed during the session!

Testimonials

All the staff involved gave glowing accounts

During post-recession business expansion it was felt that senior managers would benefit from some training in leadership, time management, personal impact and self-awareness skills. Using Sarah’s HR experience and training abilities it was possible to combine this with a search for potential future directors. All the staff involved gave glowing accounts of the way Sarah has improved their management capabilities. Even the management training doubters were won around! Output from the staff exercises and insights from Sarah have been combined with staff performance appraisals to identify directorial talent. We will not hesitate to use Sarah’s services again when we need them.

Sarah helped our senior staff with HR and management training. All feedback from staff was positive and I’m sure it wasn’t just because of the chocolate rewards used in some of the exercises! Her training and insight has aided us in targeting potential future Directors of the company and empowered other staff in their management roles.

Dr Bill Peacock
Director
Burton upon Trent

Annie is a really bubbly character

The webinar was led by Annie from Loates. Annie is a really bubbly character and engaged with the participants in a relaxed and friendly manner.

I found the content of the webinar really helpful in making suggestions to tweak our performance review process. As a business we are in the early implementation stages of carrying out performance reviews so it was a very timely session. Employee engagement is one of the key issues to the business succeeding. The webinar gave us an opportunity to do some little breakout exercises which gave us an opportunity to reflect on how we could help to develop our colleagues. With this being more of a workshop session we also have the opportunity to interact with others on the session. It was interesting to learn of the challenges others had and how they were trying to resolve them.
Annie is clearly a bookworm and made a number of suggestions regards to reading material to consider. My Audible account is now down to zero credit and Amazon have delivered some bedtime reading.

Thanks Annie & Loates for running this session; I found it really helpful.

Carl Singleton
Operations Director
Chesterfield

Thanks Sarah!

Enscite asked Sarah to run a workshop on important HR policies required for Small Businesses so that our clients are better equipped to understand some of the HR requirements in relation to this. The session was really well run and both engaging and informative so that our clients went away with better knowledge and having enjoyed their learning experience.
Great job Sarah!

Dave Lees
Business Development Manager
ihub, Infinity Park, Derby

Informative and interesting course

Sarah provided training to a group of line managers in our business with the aim of giving them more confidence in dealing with everyday situations which they come up against. Sarah delivered the training in an informative and interesting way and engaged the managers which made the day go by in a flash. Sarah was also very flexible with timings in order to accommodate the different shifts. I would recommend Loates Management Training to any business.

Charlotte Wood
HR Manager
Staffordshire

Very interesting and helpful

I found this course to be incredibly valuable in highlighting the significance of knowledge. The content was both engaging and informative, and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Sarah, our instructor, was delightful and effectively communicated complex concepts. I am eager to take more courses offered here in the future.

Alexandra Rotila
Production Manager
Derby

Questions?

Not sure if this is the right course for you?

Just get in touch to arrange an informal chat with the course instructor themselves!

Instructor

Sarah Loates delivering online HR & employment law training

Sarah Loates

I’m a chartered HR professional with more than 20 years of experience in the field. Over my career I’ve provided HR advice, support, and leadership to a wide range of sectors and business types, ranging from family-owned micro-businesses to major multinationals. I’m also an experienced trainer, having delivered, amongst other things, the HR industry’s professional qualification for a number of years. And, as you might have guessed, I’m the founding director of Loates HR Consultancy and Loates Management Training!

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Organiser

Loates HR Consultancy

Loates HR Consultancy

We’re the arm of Loates Business Solutions that’s specifically focussed on HR and employment law support and consultancy. Our aim is to provide everything that you need in order to get the best from your workforce.

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Scheduled Delivery Dates

On-Demand Delivery

In addition to our public scheduled courses, we also offer the option of on-demand private training that’s exclusive to your organisation.

This can provide a particularly convenient and cost-effective solution if you have a large number of staff members to train.

And it’s also tremendously flexible.

Since on-demand courses only have your delegates attending, we can customise them to be specific to the policies and processes of your organisation, and tailor course lengths and depths to suit your particular needs. Likewise, we can combine material from several existing courses, develop fully bespoke content, or combine multiple courses into full programmes of training.

And we can deliver this training whenever and wherever is best for you; in-house at your venue, at one of our training venues, somewhere else entirely, online, or any combination of these.

For an idea of the types of on-demand training that we can provide, just take a look at our on-demand training catalogue.

To find out more about our on-demand delivery options, please contact us to arrange an informal chat with one of our friendly and down-to-earth training instructors.

On-Demand Equivalent

Please see our on-demand training catalogue