Worksphere

Whether you want to run employment law training for managers or simply keep your HR team fully up to date, we can help. We work with a broad spectrum of organisations across all industries.

Our wide-ranging suite of legal and soft-skill training can increase confidence and build skills for individuals and teams, reduce the risk of costly mistakes and legal claims, and reinforce organisational culture and values.

Our training team are employment lawyers who exclusively provide client training. They’re known for providing courses which are interactive, accessible and engaging.

We offer a full programme of training courses for HR / ER practitioners, legal professionals, leaders, managers and staff. We can provide a course that works for you, whether it’s one of our popular, standard packages or a fully bespoke programme for your business.

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Having an engaged workforce is not only good for individuals – it helps to make your business more productive, improves customer satisfaction, and encourages staff retention.

We can work with you to evaluate your existing company culture before developing a thoughtful and informed plan for next steps.

Our experts can support you with:

• Creating a culture review or a health check on the climate within the team
• Facilitating honest conversations
• Defining key values and behaviours that can be embedded into your company culture
• Building your employee value proposition and employer brand
• Developing an evidence-informed plan to help you drive forward with the strategic people and culture agenda
• Training programmes that encourage an inclusive working environment, including our Speak Up and Guardians programmes
• Leadership coaching
• Team facilitation

Your reward strategy is key to attracting and retaining the right talent. At a time when pay transparency is more important than ever, having the right reward frameworks and structures in place is fundamental.

Our team of Worksphere consultants can help develop your reward strategy and review your current practice across the whole organisation.

We look at:

• Job levelling and categorisation
• Pay frameworks
• Gender pay gap reporting
• Equal pay analysis
• Benefits audits
• Advice and assistance on set up of pay structures and benefits programmes

Every workplace sees conflict arising at certain points - whether between employees, or because of management processes or organisational change.

We can support you with an informal resolution process, where appropriate, to encourage your people to resolve disputes without the need for formal, lengthy processes.

Our “Solutions Pathway” approach provides your business with a people-centred alternative to resolving conflict, using facilitated conversations and mediations in place of the normal grievance or performance procedures.

The support we can provide includes:

• Reviewing your existing process and policies
• Incorporating a new alternative Solutions Pathway process
• Training for your teams who are responsible for triaging workplace issues to assess the suitability of informal resolution
• Training for your teams in mediation and facilitated conversation skills
• Providing external mediators for more complex disputes

Giving your organisation a health check provides you with a snapshot of the effectiveness of your organisation’s policies and procedures. It also identifies risks and recommends improvements to bring you in line with best practice and ensure compliance.

Whether you need a general audit, or one for a specific area such as sickness absence, data protection, immigration compliance, or workplace culture, we can help.

At the end of an audit, we provide you with a detailed but easily digestible report on how your business is functioning and how your policies, procedures, and documents measure up.

We work with you to agree on an approach that meets your organisational requirements and the resources you have available.

Workplace culture is an essential aspect of your business, affecting everything from employee satisfaction and productivity to customer engagement and brand perception.

Our culture reviews allow you to ‘look under the bonnet’ in order to understand any issues that staff may be concerned about.

A culture review allows you to get ahead of any issues and address them before they result in formal grievance processes or resignations.

You can use our culture reviews to:

• Understand anomalies – for example, if you have a team which fails to meet diversity targets, has high attrition rates, or low engagement scores, we can find out why this is and advise on how to address any underlying issues.
• Address reputational risks, such as rumours of a toxic work environment.
• Assess integration following significant change, including a merger or restructure.

Our culture reviews are conducted by a multi-disciplinary investigation team that includes employment lawyers, data analysts, and HR specialists, all aided by AI analysis.

Each review will be tailored to your individual circumstances. Typically, we will carry out a desktop analysis of information from a variety of sources. We then conduct a staff survey and meet with small employee focus groups, before providing an objective and impartial assessment of any thematic issues that are damaging workplace culture and perceptions.

We can also recommend measures to address those issues and work with you to implement them in order to prevent further issues arising.

Our workplace mediation services focus on resolving workplace disputes efficiently and amicably. We’ll help you to address conflicts through structured mediation processes, which foster open communication and promote mutually beneficial solutions.

Our approach helps you to maintain a harmonious work environment, and by swiftly resolving conflicts and preventing escalation, reduces legal costs and enhances overall productivity.