Improving HR Policies, Processes and Procedures (Brisbane)

Course details

This highly interactive program “Improving HR Policies, Procedures and Processes” is specifically tailored to help HR professionals improve HR policies and procedures in their companies based on world-class best practices. As a HR leader, it is crucial for you to equip yourself with fundamental skills of developing clear and effective HR policies and procedures that protect your company's rights as well as techniques to implement and communicate them effectively with transparency to obtain employee buy-in. This executive program will equip you with skills to understand and apply the concepts behind developing HR policies and procedures, which will aid you in improving employee relations, communications and employee performance.

You will go through and understand what are the best practices many leading companies are using today in framing their HR policies and practices. In addition, this program will ensure that your HR policies and employee manuals are aligned with your business needs, whilst attracting, retaining, engaging and motivating employees. With over 20 years of leading HR organizations around the world, our experienced faculty director will introduce to you a framework and guide you through each phase of policy and procedure development. Through interactive discussions with other fellow HR Practitioners, you will learn how to decide whether you need a new policy or policy update, how to develop and write a HR policy, what a policy should contain and the points of considerations when developing your HR policies. Lastly, you will take away with you an implementation plan for your HR policies, procedures and processes which you can put into action immediately after you return to work.

What You Can Expect

• Understand the differences between policies, guidelines and procedures and how to align them with your organization's HR strategies and overall business strategies
• Learn how to identify the needs in your organization to develop sound policies, guidelines and procedures
• Discover how to systematically analyze and identify situations which requires changes to HR policies, processes and procedures, ensure top management commitment and effectively create policies/guidelines/procedures
• Gain top-notch strategies to write and update policies/guidelines/procedures concerning issues such as talent management, grievances and international assignments
• Implement policies/guidelines/procedures effectively through effective conveyance of policies, processes and procedures to employees
• Grasp the global policies affecting employing in other countries for Australia and their impacts on your organization's hiring policies, processes and procedures

Who Will Benefit Most

This program is designed for all mid to senior HR executives with 1-5 years' experience involved in the areas, including but not limited to, HR Generalist, Training and Development, Talent Management, Organizational Development, Employee Relations, Employee Communications, HR Administration, Compensation & Benefit or those who want to refresh their knowledge in this topic.

Program Outline

Day 1

• What are HR Policies ?
• Defining policies & procedures - What's the difference
• Linking HR and Business Strategy to your HR Policy and procedures
• How do you know if your organization's policies are "working"?
• Best Practice or Best Fit ?
• Developing and writing HR Policies and procedures:
• Considerations that will help you shape a policy appropriate to your workplace and organization needs
• When should "unwritten" rules be put in writing?
• How to determine if a policy or procedure is discriminatory
• Policies that encourage accountability instead of control
• Case studies which include developing and writing HR Policies such as Talent Management and Grievance policies

Day 2

• The importance of Effective HR Policies and Procedures
• Who needs to be involved, the role of HR and management
• Communication of HR policies
• Developing a roll out plan and supporting communication policy
• Updating all information regarding the policy within the company
• Announcing a policy or policy change: Making use of information sessions and policy training sessions
• Global Policies for Australia - employing in other countries
• Policy implications for Australia
• What does it mean for HR?
• International Assignments - Best practice considerations
• Case Study which involves drafting an international assignment policy
• Course Review/Wrap Up