People and Performance Series

When you start a business or seek to move a business to the next level, some clear thinking is required around the direction that the business will take.  It can seem daunting to determine just where to start the process.

Topics covered

•  Determine what business planning is and why it is needed
•  Understand what strategising is and how does this relates to your business
•  Vision, values, mission – creating and committing to these
•  Understand leadership and your role as business owner
•  Understand the role of other shareholders in the business
•  Development of ‘living’ business plans
•  Overview of key business functions
                - Operations
                - Financials
                - Human Resources
                - Sales and Marketing
                - Innovation/Research and Development
                - Technology

Outcomes of the Workshop

This workshop focuses on the key areas you need to consider when undertaking strategic business planning.  It enables you to develop a ‘living’ business plan which will highlight the milestones that you need to reach in order to achieve your business vision in the short, medium and long term.  With clear action plans, you should feel confident that you are taking well considered, progressive steps in order to grow your business.

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Often the most overlooked step in the business process is to create and communicate a vision – an inspirational description of what your business wants to achieve. Without it, businesses often flounder. Our workshop helps participants define, refine and articulate their company’s vision, their goals and aspirations (both personal and business) and their values

Topics Covered

• Defining your vision and values for the business and your personal aspirations
• Defining your mission statement and articulating your business purpose
• Examining the key business drivers for your business success and assessing the competitive environment
• Your commitment to the long term success of the business and that of other key stakeholders
• Creating a workforce plan through determining your current and future staffing needs to help you achieve your goals and realise your vision
• Communicating your vision and strategic objectives
• Defining your priorities on your first steps to achieving your visions for you personally and for your business

Outcomes of the Workshop

• Provides the high level view of the critical functions of your business
• Provides the foundations of your HR strategy and enables you to align this with your overall business plan
• Gives you renewed focus and approach to your business and your people
• Helps you to communicate a clear message to your team through clear focus on the vision, values and purpose of your business
• Helps you to get buy-in from your team and provides you with the means to re-engage a disenchanted team
• Enables you set goals and objectives to turn your vision into action

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Hiring an employee is easy, but hiring the right employee takes more effort. An effective selection and recruitment process generates a pool of talent that’s right for the job. Our workshop takes the guesswork out of hiring and replaces it with a structured, step-by-step process that leads to the identification and recruitment of the best candidates.

Topics Covered

• Workforce planning – determining current and future needs of the business, and identifying any gaps in terms of skills, abilities, knowledge and experience 
• Recruitment strategies – planning and managing the recruitment process 
• Job analysis – determining what an employee actually does ... this may differ from what you actually want them to do
• Job design – making the job work for employee and employer alike
• Job descriptions – a well written job description is an effective communication tool for businesses, outlining key accountabilities as well as identifying how performance is aligned to strategic business goals
• Writing person specifications – defining the skills, behaviours and attitudes that employees need to perform their jobs effectively and efficiently
• Writing a job advert and advertising your role
• Screening candidates and creating short lists
• Effective interview techniques and questions – asking structured, competency-based behavioural questions to evaluate a candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, experience and behaviours
• What can/can’t be asked at interviews
• Psychometric assessments – getting to grips with personality and ability assessments
• Workplace simulations – setting up mock assignments to assess a candidate’s potential
• Reference checking – questions to ask referees to determine candidate suitability
• Choosing the ‘right’ employment agreement for your new recruit

Outcomes of the Workshop

• Provides a clear view of the critical functions of your business
• Provides an overview of the options available to you when recruiting staff
• Increases the effectiveness of your recruitment process
• Helps you attract the right kind of employees, with the right skills, abilities and knowledge
• Sharpens your interview skills – helps you ask the ‘right’ questions to optimise the time you have to interview candidates
• Addresses how to carry out effective background and reference checks
• Helps you determine the correct employment agreement, with the appropriate and relevant content

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A good workplace orientation programme provides the necessary information, resources and support to ease new recruits into their jobs as quickly and efficiently as possible. When managed well, onboarding programmes pay big dividends. Learn how to enhance job performance right from the outset with a well designed employee induction programme

Topics Covered

• The critical elements of effective onboarding – helping new recruits build internal and external relationships, establishing clear expectations for performance, introduction to the role and team culture 
• Effective induction schedules and checklists – get new employees working to near peak efficiency out of the starting gate
• Employer of Choice – why should anyone work for your company? How to attract, optimise and retain top employees
• Employee Value Proposition – how to create a workplace environment that employees and potential employees find attractive
• Setting goals for new employees after the first 90 days

Outcomes of the Workshop

• Enables you to create the best impression when welcoming new recruits into your business
• Creates clear expectations from the start of the employment relationship
• Sets new employees up for success
• Ensures commitment from new employees and increases the likelihood of their acting as advocate for your business
• Expedites returns from employees as they effectively integrate into your business
• Increases retention 
   

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Employee recognition is not just a nice act on behalf of employers. It makes for motivated and loyal employees. Without motivated employees, businesses and employees would not reach their full potential. Learn how to instigate a rewards and recognition programme to build a powerful and dedicated workforce

Topics Covered

• Remuneration structure – key considerations when developing remuneration structures and pay scales, attracting and retaining talent and aligning remuneration with business strategy
• Implementing a bonus structure
• Wellness/wellbeing programmes – proactive overall health management, from health insurance, personal development to retirement planning
• Performance management – the role remuneration and rewards play in employee motivation
• An aging workforce, Gen Y, demographic shifts – how these affect remuneration structures

Outcomes of the Workshop

• Provides an understanding of the key drivers for loyalty and retention
• Provides an understanding of how to motivate your staff
• Provides key principles in creating a culture of recognition
• Helps you to build a positive, high-performance work culture
• Provides insights into the benefits of incorporating non-financial rewards as part of your remuneration strategy

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An ‘engaged’ employee is one who is fully committed to his or her role and employer. Sustained employee engagement creates a happier, more productive workplace and plays an important role in staff retention. In this workshop, participants learn how to sustain an engaged culture

Topics Covered

• What is employee engagement and why is it important?
• Culture surveys to measure employee engagement – insights into what matters to your people
• Retention strategies – keep your top performers on board
• Discretionary effort – consistently going beyond what is expected
• The role of the leader – how the behaviour of managers and leaders influences engagement

Outcomes of the Workshop

• What gets measured gets managed - start thinking about which metrics matter to your business
• Discover what matters to your people
• Understand the impact of discretionary effort
• Understand the cost of “churn” and employee attrition
• Understand and leverage the importance of leadership visibility in employee engagement – walking the talk

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Good performance in the workplace is critical to a company’s success. But how do you define performance? This workshop shows you how to put into place processes that help evaluate and manage your employees’ performance

Topics Covered

• Setting and maintaining appropriate performance standards
• Setting up the processes – from day one with induction follow-ups and weekly/fortnightly catch-ups, to quarterly KPI reviews, annual appraisals and ongoing performance development plans
• Setting goals for new employees
• Managing poor performance
• Managing misconduct and the disciplinary process

Outcomes of the Workshop

• Gives you an understanding of the fundamental elements of a good performance management system that are critical to the success of your business
• Provides an insight into how to deal with poor performance and disciplinary procedures
• Shows you how to set SMART goals – specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely – in terms of performance
• Enables you to create credible KPIs for each member of your team, ensuring that each team members contribution directly impacts on the success of your strategic business goals
• Helps you to put in place a low-cost employee development programme to benefit both your employees and the business
• Understanding the trial period/probationary clause in employment agreements and/or contractor agreements

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Internal career development programmes create happier, more productive employees. In this workshop, learn how to implement low-cost career development initiatives to advance the skill set of and retain top-performing employees

Topics Covered

• Career development and succession planning in your business, understanding the crucial roles that need to be maintained in the event that you or other key position holders leave the business
• How to hold on to your top talent
• Providing opportunities to develop employees’ skills, knowledge and abilities
• Making the most of your most valuable resource through an effective talent management programme
• Exit interviews – identifying the push and pull factors as to why people join and/or leave your business

Outcomes of the Workshop

• Learn how to encourage loyalty and increase retention of your top performers
• Learn how to actively develop employees to meet the demands of their current roles and prepare for future opportunities and challenges – benefiting both them and you
• Understand how to use career plans to maximise your investment in training
• Provides insights on the benefits of retaining organisational knowledge and intellectual property
• Ability to devise a succession plan for the key roles within your business

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A good leader inspires and motivates their team to perform at their best. In this workshop participants learn the fundamentals of effective leadership

Topics Covered

• The role of ‘leader’ within your business
• A look at different leadership styles and successful leadership behaviours
• Managing change effectively from restructures to selling your business
• Ongoing professional development of you as leader and other team members in leadership and/or management positions
• The use of 360 degree feedback – a development tool to help employees recognise strengths and weaknesses

Outcomes of the Workshop

• Provides an understanding of your leadership style and how to adapt this to suit your team
• Provides an understanding of the differences between leadership and management and the importance of both functions to your business
• Learn how you can make change a positive experience for your employees
• Understand how you can develop a culture of high performance 
   

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Often, knowing what needs to be done is not enough for business owners. You may require dedicated one on one training, to ensure you progress and that the programme of study is relevant to your business.  Being immersed in day to day operations can prevent clear business planning from taking place.  This training requires commitment through completion of ‘homework’ to ensure that business planning, development and implementation is strategic and focused on achieving business results.

Topics covered

•  Determine what business planning is and why it is needed
•  Understand what strategising is and how does this relates to your business
•  Vision, values, mission – creating and committing to these
•  Leadership and your role as business owner Incorporating an assessment of leadership capability
•  Role of other shareholders on the business
•  Development and monitoring of a ‘living’ business plan encompassing the key business functions
               - Operations
               - Finance
               - Human Resources
               - Sales and Marketing
               - Innovation/Research and Development
               - Technology

Outcomes of the Training

This training focuses on the key areas for consideration when undertaking strategic business planning.  It enables you to develop a ‘living’ business plan which will highlight the milestones that you need to reach in order to achieve your business vision in the short, medium and long term.  With clear action plans you should feel confident that you are taking considered, progressive steps to grow your business.

Download details for this Training

For more information regarding our workshops please call us on 0800 4 pod hr or email info@podconsulting.net.nz

Even with the tools to implement the best practice within your business sometimes good intent alone is not enough to achieve desired results. Business owners often need an external coach to support them with business challenges, to encourage them to take accountability and deliver agreed outcomes. Our tailored coaching ensures that you do deliver results which impact on your business performance, productivity and profitability.
We work with you to develop and implement a business strategy that focuses on all key aspects of your business.

Outcomes of Coaching

• Clear definable milestones and accountabilities in alignment with your strategic goals
• Measure your progress and success in relation to your goals
• Support and guidance to ensure that you focus on the priorities
• Skills to enable you to effectively address immediate concerns that occur in daily business life

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For more information regarding our workshops please call us on 0800 4 pod hr or email info@podconsulting.net.nz