Management Training & Education

Management Training & Education

Overview

Your greatest asset in business is your people, but if not managed correctly, they can also become your greatest liability. Proper people management is critical to running a business, as any missteps can damage your reputation.

At NB Employment, we concentrate on delivering results through three key pillars:

Educate

We educate employers and managers to create business success and avoid headaches. We take the time to understand the unique operations of our clients’ business and provide the supportive, professional legal services they need.

Advise

As employment law specialists, we understand that the success of a business depends on having employees with the right skills and experience working together in a supportive and productive environment bound by mutual respect, fairness and safety.

Solve

We listen to our client’s needs, provide solutions to complex problems and produce solid results. Our team are experts in navigating such situations, with our track record demonstrating the variety of problems we have solved for clients.

Our Presenter

Darren Taylor, Principal Lawyer at NB Employment Law, brings over 10 years of experience supporting employers in navigating workplace laws and minimising legal risks. He specialises in employment law, workers compensation, and litigation, with particular expertise in managing ill or injured workers, handling unfair dismissals, and addressing discrimination and harassment claims.

Having worked closely with employers across Queensland—including with the Workers’ Compensation Regulator—Darren delivers practical, strategic advice that empowers leaders to make confident, compliant decisions. He’s committed to helping businesses build strong, legally sound workplace practices—why NB Employment Law are the lawyers for employers.

To find out more, please call:  +61 7 3876 5111 or email: [email protected]

Our courses

Actively addressing performance issues contributes to a productive work environment and demonstrates your dedication to the success of your employees. Connect with NB Employment today to discover more about improving discipline and performance management within your business.

Course

Managing The Unmanageable

Short Session: 60 Minutes

Overview
This insightful short session will focus on the recruitment and retention conundrum, discussing the effect of past problems and future developments within the context of Employment Law.

Key Learnings
• The recruitment and retention conundrum framework for employers;
• What happens when it all goes wrong?;
• General Protections;
• Unfair Dismissal; and
• How to have difficult conversations

Outcomes
• Resources to implement lessons learned;
• Skills to hold difficult conversations;
• Tools to avoid liability due to unfair dismissal and general protections claims; and
• Strategies to avoid problems festering.

Includes
• Pre-workshop discussion with decision-makers
• 60 minute workshop
• Post workshop debrief
• Takeaway resources

Course

Psychosocial Risks Workshop

Half-Day Session: 2.5 – 3 Hours

A new Dawn in the Workplace
Dealing with Mental Illness

Overview
New WHS legislation now puts a direct positive obligation on Employers, leaders and people managers in regards to eliminating (or minimising) the risk of Psychosocial Risks. There are practical applications for all levels of people management and an understanding of the positive duty and the requirements of reasonable steps to be taken will go a long way to mitigating legal risk and liability.

Key Learnings
• The new Workplace Health and Safety law changes and the positive obligations in regards to psychosocial risks and mental illness;
• Case studies and examples to understand the practical nature of the positive obligation; and
• Reasonable steps to be taken to mitigate liability and risk including their own personal liability.

Outcomes
• An understanding of the new laws;
• Information and documents to assist in implementation; and
• Practical understandings of what will be required.

Includes
• Pre-workshop discussion with decision-makers
• 2.5 – 3 hour workshop
• Post workshop debrief
• Takeaway resources

Course

Performance Management Workshop

Half-Day Session: 2.5 – 3 Hours

Overview
This premium workshop focuses on employing strategies and tools to prevent problems from festering due to negligence and misconduct.

Key Learnings:
• Strategies to deal with mental illness and injuries in the workplace (including workplace bullying); and
• Workplace restructures, redundancies and changes;
• Performance management within the recruitment and retention conundrum;
• Dealing with misconduct.
PLUS key learning outcomes included in the shorter ‘Managing the Unmanageable’ workshop.

Outcomes:
• Resources to implement lessons learned;
• Skills to hold difficult conversations;
• Tools to avoid liability due to unfair dismissal and general protections claims; and
• Strategies to avoid problems festering.

Includes:
• Pre-workshop discussion with decision-makers
• 60 minute workshop
• Post workshop debrief
• Takeaway resources

Course

Extensive Management Workshop

Full-Day Session OR Two Half-Day Sessions

Overview
This comprehensive session is tailored to educate your team on the significance of effective leadership and employee management. This can be conducted as one full day or two half day sessions.

Key Learnings
• Workplace investigations and planning;
• Case studies and litigious proceedings;
• Industrial relations, including disputes and protected action; and
• The ins and outs of Workplace Health & Safety.
PLUS key learning outcomes included in the shorter ‘Managing the Unmanageable’ & ‘Performance Management’ workshops

Outcomes
• Resources to implement lessons learned;
• Lessons from real-life case studies to avoid similar situations;
• Steps to conduct workplace investigations successfully; and
• Importance of Workplace Health and Safety.

Includes
• Pre-workshop discussion with decision-makers
• 60 minute workshop
• Post workshop debrief
• Takeaway resources

Course

Due Diligence Workplace Health & Safety Workshop

Half-Day Session: 2.5 – 3 Hours

Overview
• Executives, Directors and Managers must have a fundamental understanding of Workplace Health
and Safety (WHS) for a number of reasons. Legal accountability, audit purposes, risk mitigation,
reducing liability and crisis/incident response are just a few. WHS laws hold persons with directive
control personally responsible and merely delegating without regard to the context of the
responsibility has landed many decision makers in hot water even as far as criminal charges.

Key Learnings
• Current WHS laws and personal responsibility and liability;
• Overview on roles and responsibilities in regards to WHS;
• Case law understandings – what can we learn from common law cases in the WHS space;
• How these issues are manifesting in a high number of complaints, grievances, and litigious
issues; and
• Workplace investigations by regulators:
• What are they looking for?;
• How do we respond?; and
• What issues do we need to consider?

Outcomes
• Resources to implement lessons learned;
• Lessons from real-life case studies to avoid similar situations;
• Steps to conduct workplace investigations successfully; and
• Importance of Workplace Health and Safety.

Includes
• Pre-workshop discussion with decision-makers
• 2.5 – 3 hour workshop
• Post workshop debrief
• Takeaway resources

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