On Average employee absence costs organisations seven working days each year. These absences have a negative effect on operating costs, productivity and morale of the workforce.
What is often not recognised is the effect that proper absence management procedures can have in improving attendance.
This training will give you the skills to manage short and long term absence in a fair and consistent way.
This training will provide guidance on best practice in reducing levels of absenteeism. Identifying the skills needed by Managers to tackle absence in a fair and consistent manner.
Training Content:
Return- to- work interviews
How to carry out thorough and effective return-to-work interviews, identifing the positive effect Return-to-work interviews can have on reducting levels of absence.
They can act as a deterrent to non-genuine absences as well as supporting those that have been genuinely ill.
Long Term Absence
Managers can often face problems when trying to manage long-term absences and support returning employees, this training will review some of the common issues that managers face when dealing with long-term absences and methods of overcoming them.
This training includes exercises to encourage participants to think about how they would handle a situation of long-term sickness absence, and provides guidance for use in the workplace.
Short Term Absence
Managing short-term absences effectively is crucial for organisations as they have a huge cost and are the most difficult to accommodate, this training will highlight some of the common issues that managers face when dealing with short-term absences and review some of the ways to overcome them.
Exercise to give managers and supervisors an opportunity to think through how to handle a persistent absenteeism problem will be included in this training package.