Benefits of Effective Employee Representation

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Most successful business have robust employee representation processes place.

Senior management know that effective employee representation helps deliver their mission and ongoing business success.

They know that the time and money spent electing and training employee representatives delivers exponential returns.

They know that effective employee representation:

  1. Enables employers and employees to communicate, consult and negotiate effectively with each other. Having representatives can encourage employees to voice their views frankly and freely.

  2. Can nurture good employment relations: employee representatives can act as a useful sounding board for management on plans they have for the organisation.

  3. Can be particularly effective identifying problems in the workplace and helping to diffuse potential conflict at an early stage.

  4. Makes negotiations more effective: representatives can make well thought out recommendations that have the backing of the employees they represent and reflect the wider company interests.

  5. Raises creativity: effective representation can help employers tap into the expertise and creativity of their employees.

  6. Promotes employee health and wellbeing: research has shown that one of the main causes of stress at work is a lack of control over how employees do their job. Having a say in decision making is especially important during periods of instability or rapid change.

Concrew Training specialise in the delivery of training, both online and face-to-face, that helps and supports employee representatives be more effective in role.

We help those new to role understand their duties better. Our refresher training helps those with more experience understand how they can be more effective and our specialist knowledge training helps Reps prepare to carry out additional legal duties, should the need ever occur.

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