Human Resources

Top Tips for Handling a Disciplinary Meeting

We’ve set out below some simple tips for Managers and Employers to follow should they need to hold a disciplinary hearing with a member of staff. Tip 1 – get your facts straight Before...

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Using personality profiling to design training

Personality profiling is very useful when designing or undertaking a training programme that is linked to either soft or hard skill development. We offer our own development programmes but offer our profiling services to...

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Using personality profiling in coaching

Personality profiling is very useful when designing or undertaking a training programme that is linked to either soft or hard skill development. We offer our own development programmes but offer our profiling services to...

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Agency Workers – Update on new Legislation

On the 1st October 2011 the law changes to ensure that agency workers (sometimes called temps) are entitled to the same rights as those workers employed in a business. This right applies to any...

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Do small companies need employment protection insurance?

Over the past 10 years there has been a huge growth in the number of services offering owners of small companies the opportunity to buy insurance to protect themselves against being taken to a...

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Equality Act 2010

We’ve just developed a half day short course for Supervisors and Team Leaders as a briefing on the new Equality Act. The programme is very participative and is designed to give learners the knowledge...

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Using OPQ32 in Leadership Coaching

Have you ever wondered how to make coaching sessions more effective? or how to really understand how hard it will be for someone to change?  Then you may be looking for OPQ32. OPQ32 is...

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Ten really good HR tips for small firms

Tip 1 – be careful who you recruit – never recruit in haste, always take your time to pick the right person when hiring new staff, you may be under pressure to fill a...

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Do small firms really benefit from Appraisals?

As a HR Advisor working for organisations around the UK I have observed that many small companies often want to jump onto a band wagon for the latest HR craze, and are often led...

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HR What’s all the fuss about?

Welcome to the world of Willerby Hill and our take on HR stuff.  HR comes across as a bit of a mythical science that seems to be losing its way, is it leadership, is...

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