Employee Investigations: Looking after Your People and the Process

Employee investigations can cause real harm to those being investigated – as well as those involved in the process. They can harm your organisation’s culture and reputation and divert time and resources from meeting the needs of those you exist to serve. Whilst they are necessary and important for addressing major workplace issues, understanding their potential impact and building in compassionate support for those going through them needs to be an integral part of the process.

Join us and find out how you can:

• Deliver processes with compassion
• Reduce the number of your investigations
• Create learning cultures instead of punitive ones
• Consider the impact on individuals and organisations
• Develop a ‘last resort’ approach

What’s in the training?

• Understanding avoidable employee harm – what can we learn from the patient safety movement to make the application of our policies and processes safer for our employees
• ‘When work harms’ – a case study unearthing some of the common problems that can take place during investigations.
• Managing the process – understanding and anticipating the issues – so that you can avoid or mitigate in future investigations.
• Walking a mile in their shoes – reflect on the impact of investigations on those investigated, wider staff and the organisation itself.
• Coaching for change – what are the conversations that you can have with colleagues in your organisation to bring about change.
• Q&A session – with our panel of experts.

Who is the training for?

This training event is targeted to those involved in commissioning, leading or supporting the delivery of employee investigations: frontline management, investigation officers, HR, wellbeing and staff side representation. We would encourage you to send a team which includes colleagues from management, staff-side, HR, wellbeing to enable you to effectively apply the learning in your organisation.

Please note: This event is specifically targeted to audiences that the course has not necessarily reached before, including the VCSE sector.