Do you want to know how to proactively manage and reduce absence levels in your team or business?
Our Managing Absence Training Course will introduce you to some proactive ways of reducing absence, but should it happen, we will also introduce you to ways of managing employees absence more effectively. The course looks at return to work interviews and drivers of absence which should help you to reduce the amount of absence in your business.
This Managing Absence training course is delivered as a scheduled open online training course or in-house just for your business. We deliver the course as a face to face course and a live virtual online course.
In this Managing Absence Training Course, we look at Managing Attendance rather than absence. This means being proactive when managing sickness.
It’s reported that ill health costs the UK economy in excess of £100 billion per year. Paying sick pay, loss of productivity, covering long term sick and recruitment costs all add up.
Most sickness is genuine where the people need to take time off; however, some sickness may not be all of that genuine. It seems easier and easier to get a sick note today, in fact, some websites even sell them. Why do people want to take time off work when they aren’t genuinely sick? Declined holidays, bullying and lack of motivation are just a few reasons.
Many organisations deal with sickness after it happens using return to work interviews and their sickness policy, but is there another approach?
The session is very interactive with lots of discussion, role-play scenarios and an action planning session.
By attending this Managing Absence Training Course you will:
Here is what we cover in this Managing Absence training course
Why Manage Attendance?
Cause and Effect
Adapting Your Leadership Approach
The Absence Process
Return to Work Interviews
This managing absence training course is for leaders, managers and business owners who have line management responsibility.
If you want to:
Then this managing absence course is for you.
The course is suitable for people of all levels and in all roles and industries.
A 1 day online live virtual training course with one of our highly experienced managing absence trainers. You also get:
A 1 day training course with one of our highly experienced trainers at your location or online. You also get
Managing attendance is a more more proactive approach in that you are looking at ways to stop absence from happening before it happens. Managing absence is the reactive part of the process that happens after absence occurs
We'll provide you with the tools and approaches to make this happen. Providing you do the work afterwards and put the skills into practice, then you should see a reduction in absence
Firstly, because they are genuinely ill. Your process needs to determine if this was the case. But, if people are demotivated, not engaged, influenced or they just think they can get away with it, people will call in sick when they are not ill. This is why managing absence and attendance is so important.
Yes. We have lots of articles about absence in the performance management section of our blog.
Our Online Managing Absence course is an interactive live virtual course. The content remains the same but the delivery and approach has been re-imagined for the virtual environment. Our online training courses are delivered by Zoom.
We can also deliver this Managing Absence course just for your organisation. We can do this in-person at your office or a location of your choice or as a live virtual training course. We can deliver this via Zoom, Teams, Webex or any other platform that you are currently using and comfortable with.
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