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Hi Sandra

Team building is appropriate when people need to get to know each other better and build a working relationship. That's not what you're dealing with here. If you try any kind of team building activity with these two people present, they are…

Samantha's plan gets my vote, especially that the appropriate person to do this is the manager's manager. That is the person who should be addressing conduct issues with their direct report.

Hello again Andre

I suggest you Google some job descriptions for HRD roles and analyse them in the light of your fourth, fifth and sixth posts in this thread. HRD roles vary somewhat, so don’t just pick one; pick several. Try and form a realistic opinion…

Hi Andre

I spent time outside HR and had to drop a level to get back in. I took an HR Administrator job and was later promoted by that employer? There are quite a few threads on here where a number of contributors have advised people trying to transition…

Hi Andre

You have made a number of assertions in your opening paragraph of things “we all know” but if you reread the responses to the many other threads in which you have made these assertions, you will find a number of people disagreeing with you with…

Hi Marie

There are a couple of big differences between professional study as an adult and your schooldays.

Firstly, you are a customer now and can choose whether to study or not and which institution to patronise. Therefore, you are entitled to ask…

Hi Charlotte

You haven't only got theoretical knowledge from your studies, you also have years of experience of being an employee. I think you will find you have the knowledge and experience to make a good assessment of which policy points will be contentious…

Hi Deirdre

www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/

These guys are good and widely recognised as a front-runner in this field, but they are expensive. At the other end of the scale, the Gallop 12 are backed up by very solid research.

Hi Caitlin

I think you are facing the challenge everyone in HR faces at some point: gaining credibility. In HR we rarely have the authority to enforce management compliance. We have to establish ourselves as authorities. At the moment, managers know…

Hi Emma

As you want to compare your company's sickness absence to an authoritative external benchmark, I think you might be better off to use the report as it stands and aggregate your company's sickness reasons into the same categories as the report…