Management Training & Education

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]

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

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

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