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the IES HR Network
Continuing professional development with the Network
Continually developing your knowledge and skills base is a prerequisite for success as an HR professional. We have developed a range of training programmes to help you and your colleagues stay at the leading edge.
All the programmes below are available to be run on-site, in your organisation, so that you and your colleagues can learn together and explore how new ideas might be applied within the organisation. For individually-tailored support, we can provide personal one-to-one coaching with one of our expert HR Coaches, or run an action learning group for some or all of your HR team.
Note: links to individual training pages will take you out to our wider website.
HR coaching
For individually-tailored support, we can provide personal one-to-one coaching with one of our expert HR Coaches, or run an action learning group for some or all of your HR team.
Knowledge Knibbles™ : 90-minute masterclasses
Short, sharp masterclasses to stimulate your thinking
Masterclass workshops : one day for more in-depth understanding you can apply
provide knowledge, research, examples and insights for tackling specific issues in your organisation.
- Designing your learning and development strategy
- Designing your talent management and succession strategy
- Developing an HR strategy
- Developing people metrics
- Getting to grips with workforce planning
- High-performance working
- Managing flexible working
- Modernisation of reward strategies
- New HR models
- New HR roles and careers
- Performance-related reward: here we go again?!
- Positive psychology – the latest thinking
- The power of organisational culture
- Strengths at work – using people’s natural talents to deliver high performance
- Talent management
- Understanding employee engagement
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Advanced skills
focus on those skills that will help HR and people management professionals make the most effective impact on their organisation.
Emerging leaders
Our Emerging HR Leaders Programme is specifically designed to help people advance to the top level of HR leadership. The Programme enables you to identify your own strengths and leadership style, and define how you want to develop.
Contact us about our courses
| non-members:
or telephone +44 (0) 1273 763419 | 
| IES HR Network members:
or telephone +44 (0) 1273 763 445 |
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