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Join our free webinar series to get up to speed with the latest HR, health and safety, employment relations and Employment Relations Act fundamentals. Our webinars are designed specially for small to medium sized business owners to understand employment legislation matters. You can attend as many of the live sessions as you like.

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Managing Difficult Employees: Performance Management & Disciplinary Action

Dealing with difficult employees can cost your business time and money, impacting workplace morale and productivity. Save yourself unnecessary stress and join our webinar to learn practical strategies for performance management and disciplinary action to protect your business.

Topics covered:

  • How to identify if the employee issues at hand are a matter of underperformance or misconduct
  • Strategies for managing poor performance and implementing a performance improvement plan
  • Find out when disciplinary action is warranted and the best practices for carrying out fair procedures

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Location: Zoom

Date: 6 May 2025 | Time: 11:00 am NZST

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Seminar: Building a Resilient Business: Contracts, Policies & Fair Procedures

Navigating employment law and managing workplace challenges effectively are crucial for business resilience. Join us for an insightful seminar in Queenstown designed to equip you with the essential knowledge and practical strategies to build a resilient business through legally sound contracts, robust policies, and fair procedures.

Topics covered:

  • Discover critical NZ contract components and ensure you're classifying workers accurately
  • Learn how defined policies for performance, discipline, and grievances protect your business
  • Learn how to manage challenging workers with fair procedures to avoid costly claims

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Location: Sudima Queenstown Five Mile, 20 Grant Road, Frankton, Queenstown 9300

Date: 13 May 2025 | Time: 10:00 am NZST

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Top 3 Emerging HR Challenges for Business Owners in 2025

Celebrate International HR Day by equipping yourself for 2025! Learn to navigate evolving employment law, ensure compliant documentation, and confidently manage employee issues in this essential webinar for business owners.

Topics covered:

  • The crucial 2025 updates impacting the Holidays Act, personal grievances, and worker classification rules
  • How to ensure your essential documents are accurate, compliant, and audit-ready
  • Best practices to fairly manage performance, misconduct, and handle grievances

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Location: Zoom

Date: 20 May 2025 | Time: 11:00 am NZST

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Previous Events

Are Your Leave Policies Ready for the Holiday Rush?

Is your business prepared for the upcoming Holidays Act reforms? With changing legislation and complex calculation requirements, many employers struggle to manage leave entitlements correctly. Whether you're grappling with pay-as-you-go calculations or uncertain about leave accrual methods, getting it wrong can be costly. Join our free expert-led webinar to gain clarity on your obligations and learn practical strategies for effective leave management.

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The Absenteeism Challenge: What's it Costing You this Holiday Season?

As a small business owner, you're likely familiar with the frustration of managing frequent absences, questionable sick leave patterns, and the impact on your business operations. Register now to learn proven strategies for managing absenteeism effectively. 

Holiday Party Precautions: Ensuring Employee Safety at Seasonal Events

Planning your workplace holiday celebration? Don't let preventable incidents turn your celebration into a hr headache. Join our expert-led webinar to learn how to host a safe, enjoyable workplace event while protecting your business.

Santa's HR Workshop: Managing Difficult Employees

Are you spending endless hours managing difficult employees during your busiest season? Don't let challenging employees cost you time, money, and peace of mind during peak trading periods. Our webinar will unwrap practical strategies on handling absenteeism, performance issues, and workplace conflicts.

Recap: Employment Legislation Updates and Preparing your Business for 2025

Are you ready for the biggest changes to workplace regulations that will occur in New Zealand's employment law in 2025? How will the upcoming workplace reforms impact your operational strategies? Join us for a comprehensive breakdown of the legislative changes that will fundamentally transform how you run your business.  

How to Navigate Performance Management & Difficult Conversations

As a small or medium sized business owner or employer, performance management is not just a critical HR function. It’s also an opportunity to set expectations, assess and identify high-performing employees, and make an action plan to improve the performance of others.

How to Protect your Business from a Potential Employment Claim

Could your business absorb the financial impact of an employment claim? As a business owner or employer dealing with misconduct, bullying, harassment, violence, intimidation, or termination can be extremely challenging and stressful. And if proper policies and procedures are not followed, it can lead to an employee claim being made against your business. In this webinar we’ll cover practical strategies on the importance of HR compliance for small businesses.

Seminar: How to Manage Difficult Employees

Dealing with difficult employees can cost your business time and money, impacting workplace morale and productivity. Save yourself unnecessary stress and join us to learn effective strategies you can use when dealing with challenging employees and workplace conflicts.

How to Manage Difficult Employees

Dealing with difficult employees can cost your business time and money, impacting workplace morale and productivity. Save yourself unnecessary stress and join our webinar to learn effective strategies you can use when dealing with challenging employees and workplace conflicts.

The Latest Employment Relations Legislation that will Impact your Business in 2025

Is your business prepared for the significant changes in workplace regulations that will occur in 2025? Join us for a comprehensive breakdown of incoming reforms and a discussion of strategies you can use to keep your business prepared for the latest amendments.

How to Navigate Disciplinary Procedures and Avoid Unfair Dismissal Claims

How often do you second-guess disciplinary action because you’re worried about potential claims? Join our free, expert-led webinar and unlock the secrets to effective disciplinary management. Learn to spot issues early, create robust policies, and navigate dismissals with clarity and confidence.

Your WorkSafe Obligations: Physical & Psychosocial Hazards

Are you across your workplace health and safety obligations as an employer? How confident are you with your current policies for work health and safety? Tackle these questions and other work health and safety concerns in our expert-led webinar where we've broken down everything you need to know.

How to Ensure Procedural Fairness: From Initial Warning to Termination

Handling dismissals requires procedural fairness, but what does that really mean? Join our webinar to unpack fair procedures within the context of dealing with employment issues, starting from initial warning all the way to termination, and get practical tips to protect your business along the way.

Cut the Confusion: Pay & Leave Entitlements for your Employees

Confused about yout obligations for wage and leave entitlements? End the guesswork and join our live webinar to get clear answers from our employment law experts. Find out how the 2025 minimum wage update affects your business, what you need to pay your employees, and how to manage their leave entitlements.

Protecting People, Performance, and Profits: Your Complete Guide to Workplace Wellbeing

What does “Workplace Wellbeing” really mean for businesses? And is it actually important? Join our free webinar to get a clear explanation of wellbeing, why it’s essential in the modern workplace, and how you can benefit from promoting it in your business.

Contracts & Policies: Their Crucial Role in Protecting Your Business

Not sure if your contracts and policies would stand up against disputes? Join our free webinar to understand the essential legal frameworks every New Zealand business needs, how to properly classify workers, and create enforceable policies that safeguard your company against disputes and claims.

Managing Personal Grievances in the Workplace: A Practical Guide for Employers

How do you handle a personal grievance raised by an employee in your business? Workplace grievances will arise at some point, and it is how they are managed that makes all the difference. Regardless of the scenario, employers bear the responsibility of responding promptly, appropriately, and fairly. Register for our free webinar and learn how to correctly manage a personal grievance in your business.

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