Absence Management

How to maximise attendance at work

We all have to deal with employee absence. Sometimes there are issues that we need to manage particularly when unauthorised absences feature. This course will help participants to understand the cost of absence, appreciate the need to manage absence effectively, explore your absence management policy and provide development of the interpersonal skills needed to deal with absence management and return to work interviews.

Our absence management course outline includes:

• Discussion of objectives.
• Exploring the cost of absence.
• Learning from your absence management policy.
• Understanding how to implement the policy.
• Handling the:

- sickness notification call.
- return to work interview
- sickness review discussions.

• Skills and behaviours for conducting the interview appropriately.
• Practice your return to work interviews.
• Links to your disciplinary process.
• Personal action planning.

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