Managing Promotions, Demotions & Internal Staff Moves

Introduction

Managers and team leaders will often find themselves at some point needing to move their employees into different roles in line with the needs of the business.

It might be that a new management role has been identified or that a project needs an employee to be temporarily seconded to a team. Perhaps we have a valued employee who is not quite managing their team as well as they might and so we want to demote them. Lots of scenarios arise which make moving staff within an organisation a little tricky for managers to navigate through.

After all, employees were recruited to do a specific role, so how can we ensure that employees are doing the jobs that we need to as circumstances change - with as little risk as possible? Change is a fact of working life and so managers and team leaders need to consider fairness, the legal situation, practicalities and company culture when planning for desired outcomes.

This virtual classroom session will focus on changing roles and responsibilities in line with business needs.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• The managerial contractual position and how much flexibility is reasonable when considering allocating new work/responsibilities
• Ensuring fairness at work and equality of opportunity
• Considering team culture, policies and precedents - how managers can support career development
• Secondments and temporary moves - how managers set expectations and what to do if things do not work out
• Promoting staff - when managers need to run a process
• Options for running a promotion process
• Giving feedback and keeping your employees motivated through change

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.