INFORMATION AND NEWS

Quoted in 'Pharmaceutical Field' Magazine

We are pleased to announce that we have recently contributed to an article on Stress at Work in the prestigious Pharmaceutical Field magazine.

Pharmafield magazine - Stress at work article

Quoted in 'Island Business' Magazine

We are pleased to announce that we have recently contributed to an article on Absence Management in the Island Business (Isle of Wight) magazine.

Delivering Bad News

At the moment we are faced with a number of challenges as business managers. We need to keep our productivity high and our teams as motivated as possible while recognising that we are facing challenging trading conditions.

During this challenging time you may need to have difficult conversations with your team to communicate corporate messages that will have a negative outcome.

It may be that you have to speak to an individual about:
• Making them redundant
• Not giving them a pay rise
• Managing expectations about opportunities for advancement in the organisation

We thought it would be an idea to help you be a little more prepared for these challenging conversations. These are our top five tips:
1. Face your fear: the conversation needs to happen, so don’t put it off.
2. Consider the recipient of the message: what can you do to soften the blow? Some people like to hear it straight. Others will want the message ‘fluffed up’ a bit.
3. Practise what you are going to say with a colleague or HR Department, so that you can be as prepared as possible.
4. Think carefully about where to hold the conversation. For example, meeting rooms with glass walls can be very intimidating.
5. When you have finished the conversation give the individual time to consider how the decision will affect them. You may consider allowing them to go home for the rest of the day.

Procurement offering a sucess 12 months on

Steve Wright is pleased to announce that the first year of offering procurement savings has been an unqualified success. Thank you to all of our clients who placed their trust in us early on - we have benefitted together.

Through our Partners we are able to offer you substancial savings off your main non-core spend. If you would also like to have another pair of hands to organise reductions for you - WELL NOW YOU CAN - and for FREE too.

Click HERE for all the details or go to the next webpage

Corporate Support Service

We provide professional, practical and pragmatic help, support, guidance and day to day advice on a range of employment law and human resource related matters in order for clients to maintain effective working practices and operate within the ever changing legal framework.

Our activities include:

Ø Employment Law – providing day to day advice and larger projects including the review and formulation of employment documentation, policies and procedures. We can Also represnet your company at Employment Tribunal and have won some high profile cases this year.

Ø Human Resource and employee relations support
Ø Training workshops – both ‘in house’ and public forum, on a wide range of practical employment law and HR matters e.g. Managing Unsatisfactory Performance; Discrimination and Harassment in Employment; Managing Absence; Conducting Investigations and Disciplinary hearings; Teambuilding; Coaching for Performance.

The Consultancy is headed by Stephen Wright, an experienced Human Resources Specialist. He holds an MSc in HRM from Portsmouth University, an LLM (MA) in Employment Law from Middlesex University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. He has a wide range of expertise in both the private (Professional Services, Pharmaceutical, Engineering, Security, Retail) and public sector (Public Transport) at times of organisational change.

We look to build long standing relationships with our clients by offering an efficient, practical, value for money service.

Further information:
Stephen R Wright MSc LLM FCIPD
07901 556 032
Stephen@SouthernBusinessConsulting.co.uk

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