Building Block Courses

Open to all, our popular applied short courses target newer and aspiring frontline managers and everyone with HR and ER responsibilities.

Expert guest facilitators are brought in as appropriate to ensure each course provides the foundation skills and knowledge required in Australian workplaces. If you need to get up-to-speed quickly with the essentials, these Building Block courses will provide you with a critical overview. To maintain learning quality, numbers attending all programs will unfortunately be limited.

Building Blocks Courses	Duration	esp. suit frontline managers	esp. suit ER & HR
Stepping Up To The Line	1 day
Essential Employee Relations	2 days
Advocacy in the IR Tribunals	12 weeks

To combine attendance at the Essential Employee Relations Building Block course and Best Practice workshops, please see our value ‘Building Blocks Plus Package'.

Please see our Open Courses Timetable for availability.

Stepping Up To The Line   New in 2009

An intensive one-day course for new, recent and aspiring managers and supervisors.

Provides frontline leaders with an overview of their employee management responsibilities. Focuses strongly on the most challenging areas - performance management and handling employee complaints - as well as developing the core people skills required to build authority within the team. Gives clear instruction how to prevent workplace issues from escalating.

Essential Employee Relations

For several years this two-day course has been successfully supporting line managers, Human Resources professionals and others requiring an overview of ER and its application in the workplace.

Content includes an overview of the Australian industrial relations system; awards, agreements and contracts; managing employee grievances, performance, discipline and lessening the risk of unfair & unlawful dismissal claims. Participants share experience with practitioners from a range of other organisations via the course’s interactive delivery. There is a strong emphasis on resolving and, where possible, pre-empting workplace issues.

Advocacy in the IR Tribunals

This long-established course is suitable to aspiring industrial advocates from employer and union backgrounds. It runs over 12 weeks, one evening per week.

Traditionally, advocates have appeared in federal and state industrial relations commissions, magistrates’ courts and anti-discrimination tribunals. The advent of Fair Work Australia will bring some changes, however the need to plan successful appearances and to develop quality advocacy skills remains constant. This course is not for people wanting just to sit and listen, as you will be expected to prepare and appear before simulated moots. Prior ER practice is essential, while at least some prior experience as an advocate or preparing for industrial cases is strongly advised. To ensure a balanced mix of participants no more than two should register from any single organisation.

To combine attendance at the Essential Employee Relations Building Block course and Best Practice workshops, please see our value ‘Building Blocks Plus Package'.

Please see our Open Courses Timetable for availability.