0 to 6 Months: Making it Easier for Managers to Manage

This session is aimed at anyone who is responsible for managing staff or sees people management as part of their future career. Learn some tips on how to attract the right candidates, explore the tools and resources you have at your fingertips to manage new employees, become aware (and avoid!) the common pitfalls that business owners fall into, and be assured that you do have options when things do not go to plan.

Clodagh O’Donovan is a senior HR Professional who after 20 years working in the corporate world founded AdvanceHR to support businesses with their HR and employment challenges. Clodagh recognizes that business owners can end up tying themselves in knots trying to sort out HR issues and trying to tackle them without the right guidance and support often results in escalation and reaching a point of no return. Clodagh partners with her clients to understand their business and their people and offers practical solutions to their problems freeing them up to focus on developing their business.

Clodagh will cover topics such as:

• Things to ask when a vacancy arises

• Why job descriptions are key to your hiring success

• Being conscious of Unconscious Bias

• What a successful first 6 months looks like

• What to do if it does not work out