Employment

Management Training

Specialised employment training programmes to support management.

Employment law training for managers

By the time an issue reaches HR, it can often be too late. It’s vital that managers are equipped to proactively deal with situations early on. This takes the burden off HR teams that may be inundated by support requests from managers who don’t have those skills. It’s vital that managers are equipped with good management tools to get the best from their teams.

Bringing in expert employment law training for managers helps them recognise problems early and understand their legal requirements, creating a culture where line managers take ownership of workplace challenges. When managers are well-trained, they can effectively address workplace issues, reducing risks and enhancing overall performance.

Our programmes

Whether you are worried about your existing organisational culture, looking to upskill newly promoted technical experts’ people management skills, or aiming to improve wellness, we provide employment law training to help you minimise risk, build resilience, and enhance performance. Our programmes include:

Leaders within organisations are often promoted due to their technical expertise but without having yet fully developed their people management skills. Without those skills in place, there is a greater opportunity for increased risk, employment tribunals, and reputational damage to your business. We believe that investing in your managers is key to future success, and our employment law for managers development programmes reflect that. Invest in your leaders, motivate them, and they will motivate their teams. Employment law training helps line managers understand their legal obligations, reducing risk and increasing organisational resilience.

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In recent years, we’ve seen an increasing number of discrimination claims before the employment tribunals related to gender diversity. Managers and employees often lack confidence in discussing gender diversity and understanding how to manage a diverse workforce. That’s why we’ve been delivering bespoke employment law training for managers to ensure leaders foster inclusivity while meeting their legal requirements.

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How do you see the world? Unconscious biases influence our actions even when – by definition – we don’t notice them. Our Inclusive Leadership one-day course focuses on what it means to lead inclusively. Looking at how leaders both shape the culture of the organisation and how individual behaviour role model inclusive behaviours. The course also addresses how unconscious bias can impact on how we develop and grow our talent. Inclusive Leadership will share best practice in diversity and inclusion, encourage discussion and apply learning specific to your business.

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From 26th October 2024, employers will be under a new positive duty to take reasonable steps to prevent harassment in the workplace (known as the Preventative Duty). Our employment law training comprehensively covers this new duty and is tailored to different roles and seniority, as recommended by the EHRC. By working with us, we can deliver sessions which are practical, bespoke, innovative and informed by the latest guidance.

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We have seen first-hand the challenge of businesses and their managers integrating and growing teams in a strategically aligned way following organisational integrations. These can progress slowly.

Our post-integration programmes are designed to address the possibility of increased risk and different cultures that lead to disengaged employees by investing in your managers’ people management skills through engaging and enjoyable sessions to unify and enhance results across the board.

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The link between good health and productivity is increasingly recognised as a major factor in success. By educating employees on health and wellbeing strategies, we can help you to gain the competitive edge as your people improve their energy, productivity and overall wellbeing.

Our wellbeing programmes deliver practical, educational, fun and interactive sessions that are empowering and designed to bring about genuine positive change.

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Why choose Foot Anstey?

Our management training experts specialise in translating legal knowledge into practical, pragmatic, innovative and enjoyable training programmes. Not only does this reduce risk and build resilience but it contributes to making your organisation the employer of choice. That’s because effective culture change programmes lead not only to upskilled managers and a better employment relationship, but ones who are motivated to learn more and carry their learning forward to let your business see the benefits.

Investing in your leaders goes hand in hand with protecting your business. Whatever you do to maximise staff protection will also reduce your exposure to legal claims and Foot Anstey employment programmes reduce legal claims to below 50% of the national average.

A business is nothing without its people – let us work with you in enabling your talent to reach their full potential. Our training progammes can help you build awareness in the workplace, help your management teams become experts in these areas, create a positive culture and look after your workforce.

Our people

Our training experts, led by legal director Joanne Boyle have signficant experience of working with a vast number of organisations wanting to invest in their leaders. The team has extensive advocacy experience and brings this to life with an innovative training style.

We make sure that your managers understand the legal requirements behind pragmatic situations, empowering your managers to proactively deal with issues to prevent escalation and increase engagement. Our employment law training empowers managers to prevent escalation, improve employee relations, and maintain a legally compliant workplace.

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What do our clients say?

“The learning from this course has been invaluable and I will suggest to all my colleagues to take part. Not only the trainer was absolutely fantastic but also the topic was relevant to our role and essential for us manager to carry out our duties.”

Andrea Lombardo Hospitality and Corporate Event Manager, BM Limited (Bartlett Mitchell Ltd)

“Foot Anstey have a strong employment team with excellent knowledge.”

Legal 500 2025

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