FREE TO USE – Practical business and workplace reference papers, guides, templates and documents from Concrew Training
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Employee Representation Reference Guides
These guides are provided free of charge to help make your employee representation forum more effective. Our Employee Representation training courses explore and build on these to help you improve quality and effective even further.
Employee Representation Models
When introducing Employee Representation, the first thing that needs to be considered is the scope and structure that best meets the needs of the business. This guide explores 4 typical structures.
Employee Representation Forum Constitutions
This reference document outlines typical rules & arrangements for effective Employee Representation Forums. It includes hints and tips on employee representation forum structures rules and boundaries
Employee Representation Advocacy Model
In non-unionised organisations employee representatives are often tasked with providing advocacy and mentoring support. This short article provides some useful hints and tips on process
What Makes an Employee Representative Effective?
Employee Representatives are usually elected by the people they represent, the workforce. They are often elected on willingness to stand or popularity. What can the employer do to help them perform well in role and help develop business success. This guides provides some ideas.
Employee Representative Role Descriptor
An Employee Representative Role Descriptor Template. To maximise the effectiveness of any Employee Representative it is important that those standing, voting and appointing representatives understand the role and what it involves. The Role Descriptor play a critical part in achieving this.
Redundancy and Tupe Reference Guides
Concrew Training’s papers and guides on Redundancy and TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations, are designed to help you get process right. They highlight good practice as well as the common errors employers make. Our redundancy and TUPE training courses build on these help make the process smooth and effective for all parties.
Redundancy 12 Common Employers Errors
This free reference guide highlights the common errors and mistakes employers make in redundancy situations. It raises awareness and in turn helps employers implement the correct redundancy process
PDF – The Redundancy Process Explained
The redundancy process is complex. Don’t get caught out. This free reference guide explains the steps and stages in an easy to understand way.
Individual Consultation Explained
Collective consultation is required by law, but so is individual consultation. Each and every employee who is affected by the changes needs to be consulted in a meaningful way. This demands several meetings. Our free resource document explains.
Redundancy Meetings – making them easier and more effective
Seven short tips to help ease anxieties and move conversations along at different parts of the individual consultation process. These approaches transferable to most meetings.
Preventing Sexual Harassment at Work Reference Guides
Concrew Training provide practical support and training, to help employers meet the demands of the Worker Protection Act and Prevent Sexual Harassment at Work. These free of charge reference papers are designed to help you get your basic process right.
What does taking all reasonable, steps to prevent sexual harassment at work, mean?
The Employment Rights Act requires take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace and to prevent harassment of employees by third parties on the basis of any of the protected characteristics. This document explores what this means in terms of sexual harassment. It is transferable to all the protected characteristics
10 Steps to Prevent Sexual Harassment at Work
Employers have a duty to take proactive action to prevent the sexual harassment of their employers at work. What should you be doing – this guidance document explains the 10 key steps.
Parties and Celebrations – Reducing Sexual Harassment Risk – 10 Tips
Parties and Celebrations, especially when they involve alcohol are high risk areas in terms of sexual harassment and abuse. Even if the event is not work organised the employer could still be at risk of litigation. Employers need to follow these 10 points
Beyond Banter – When does banter become bullying and harassment?
The grey line between workplace banter and harassment is easily overstepped. This guide provides 10 easy to follow steps to help the whole workforce get it right. It also contains case law to help contextualise and understand the risks.
Dealing with Bulling and Harassment – hints and tips for the abused.
When you are being bullied, harassed or abused at work it is difficult to know what to do and where to turn for help. Identifying that there is a problem and its impact on you is the first step. There are several solutions you may wish to consider. This easy to read document is for anyone who is being abused at work.
Sexual Harassment Investigations – guidance on sanctions, escalation and formal reporting
Sexual Harassment at Work – Guidance on investigation outcome options, sanctions and escalation. Including reporting to police & official bodies such as CQC and DBS.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion Reference Guides
A robust approach to equality, diversity and inclusion improves staff performance, helps avoid conflict and employment tribunals and brings significant benefits in terms of public image and customer goodwill. Our EDI training courses explain all, these reference guides provide an introduction.
The Equality Act 2010 made simple
An easy way to understand the key points of the Equality Act 2010.
Beyond Banter – When does banter become bullying and harassment?
The grey line between workplace banter and harassment is easily overstepped. This guide provides 10 easy to follow steps to help the whole workforce get it right. It also contains case law to help contextualise and understand the risks.
PDF – DiversityinDiction – use of language
A pdf guide on the appropriate use of language produced by the TUC
This easy to read, non technical guide explains the Female Menopause, the employment law around it and some reasonable adjustments employers may wish to consider
PDF – Management Styles and How they Impact on Equality
There are a range of generic skills that should come into play when managing the equality agenda and
its detrimental components of bullying, discrimination and harassment. Managers have different styles
when engaging with these issues, often only one prevails The five styles that are profiled here can all have adverse impacts if there is not balance and a tailored response that is reasonable, practical and proportionate.
Data Protection, GDPR, PECR and DUAA Reference Guides
Data protection is the process of safeguarding important information from corruption, compromise, or loss, while ensuring personal data is handled lawfully, transparently, and securely. The legislation is complex and the protentional fines for breaches huge. our Data Protection, GDPR and PECR training courses bring you up to date with the latest developments and help you make sure you are 100% compliant. Our reference documents provide outline guidance.
Data Protection Complaints Policy Template & Guidance
All organisations are required to publish their policy and procedure for make a complaint about the organisations data protection. This free to use reference document and template is free to download and use
GDPR Necessary, Fair and Transparent Explained
Before an organisation or business processed any personal data it has to ensure there is a legal basis for processing. It has to be necessary, fair and transparent. Many organisations fail to meet these requirements are put themselves at risk. Find out more about good process in this reference document
How frequent should GDPR Data Protection Training be?
This a frequently asked question and one we attempt to answer. The one over-arching answer is to risk assess, many find this too vague so we try to be more helpful in this guide
The ICO guide to the PECR – PDF
The ICO is responsible for overseeing adherence to the PECR. This PDF document summarises all, alternatively see the ICO website
Business Skills
Concrew Training offer a range of business skills development courses. Most of our reference documents used within them are not in the public domain. What that is, and is in high demand is:
Email Etiquette – hints tips and advice for emails
16 email etiquette tips that are applicable for most workplace situations. The hints, tips and guidance below should be read in conjunction with your workplace policies that relate to the use of email.
More Effective Meetings
It has been estimated that up to four million working hours a day are spent in meetings in the UK alone. Senior managers can spend up to 60% of their time behind closed doors. What is more thought provoking is just how much is wasted through ineffective and poorly managed meetings. All too often meetings drift along with too little focus, purpose or outcomes, indeed virtually everyone will at some point have come out of a meeting feeling, that was a waste of time. Our training helps improve the effective of meetings
Most people at sometime or other will need to chair a meeting. This guide provides some helpful tips and advice to make it go smoothly.
Online Meeting Checklist Template – PDF
A 28 point checklist to help you make online meetings more effective and more robust. Includes, before, during and after guidance
Protocols for Virtual Meetings
Hints and tips to make online meetings and virtual conferencing more effective
Working With Volunteers Reference Guides
Concrew Training’s working volunteer training courses are for all those that have volunteer workers, work with volunteers or offer volunteer programmes. The guides below are provided free of charge resource for you.
Volunteer Role Descriptor Template – PDF
Volunteers and “employers” alike need to understand the role and duties. Having a role descriptor for each position is recommended.