Management Essentials

Practical E-Learning for managers and leaders to build confidence, strengthen people management skills and create positive, high performing workplaces. Each of the below modules are 1 hour duration. Purchasing a license will allow access to all of the below modules. Attendees will receive an individual certificate for each module completed. The cost is £55 + VAT per user for 3-month access, charged per person, with a maximum charge of £550 + VAT per practice.

Course Overview

Discipline & Grievance

This session provides managers with practical guidance on handling disciplinaries and grievances fairly, consistently and in line with employment law and ACAS guidance. It covers investigations, hearings, decision making, and appeals, with a strong focus on good practice and risk mitigation.

Performance Management

This session equips managers with practical skills to identify and address performance issues and conduct challenging conversations with confidence. It covers distinguishing performance from misconduct, giving effective feedback, supporting employees through reasonable adjustments, and creating a high performance, psychologically safe culture.

Respectful and Inclusive Leadership: Foundations for a Positive Culture

This session equips leaders with practical skills to build respectful, inclusive workplace cultures by understanding behaviour, bias, and psychological safety. It focuses on inclusive leadership actions, addressing negative behaviour early, and fostering open, high performing teams through everyday management practices.

Transitioning into a Management Role

This training supports new and aspiring managers in successfully transitioning from colleague to leader by building confidence, credibility, and effective working relationships. It covers core management responsibilities, leadership styles, communication, motivation, and practical tools to manage people and priorities with consistency and impact.

Leading through Change

This session equips line managers with the essential skills to lead people through workplace change effectively, covering contract changes, flexible working, restructures and TUPE. It focuses on planning change, clear communication, meaningful consultation, and gaining agreement to implement change in a fair, lawful and supportive way.

Recruitment and Interviews: Safer Recruitment

This session provides managers with practical guidance on planning and delivering fair, effective recruitment processes, from defining roles and shortlisting candidates to conducting interviews and making job offers. It covers legal considerations, values-based interviewing, and best practice documentation to support consistent and defensible selection decisions.

Sickness Absence Training

This session equips managers with the knowledge and confidence to manage sickness absence fairly, consistently, and legally. It covers absence triggers, return-to-work processes, Occupational Health referrals, reasonable adjustments, and when to move into formal or capability procedures, with a strong focus on wellbeing and legal compliance.

Induction and Probation Management

This session focuses on how managers can effectively induct new starters and manage probationary periods. It covers setting clear expectations, supporting performance and wellbeing, meeting legal obligations, and making fair, evidence based decisions around confirmation, extension, or termination of employment.

Pricing Structure

1 user = £55 + VAT
2 users = £110 + VAT
3 users = £165 + VAT
4 users = £220 + VAT
5 users = £275 + VAT
6 users = £330 + VAT
7 users = £385 + VAT
8 users = £440 + VAT
9 users = £495 + VAT
10+ users = £550 + VAT

If you wish to enrol yourself and/or your staff, please complete the enrolment form on this page.