Workshop Details

There is a lot of training available on the technical, legislative parts of HR. But the more challenging part can be working in the grey areas and developing your ‘soft’ skills (although there’s nothing soft about it).

The HR Advisors Master Class covers the areas that you have to learn face to face and that aren’t regularly discussed and will give you the skills and knowledge to be an HR superstar!

As well as the content, you’ll learn from our fantastic facilitators, who all have a wealth of HR experience and were hand picked as people who will share practical tools and techniques with you and answer your questions with practical and real solutions.

Workshop Dates & Pricing

April/May

Auckland: Tuesday 13 April 2021

Wellington: Wednesday 12 May 2021

September/October

Auckland: Wednesday 22 September 2021

Wellington: Thursday 28 October 2021

Early Bird (4 weeks before): $395

Full price: $495

9am   Introductions

9.15am  Developing Your Skills

In this first session you will cover:

• Understanding the different HR Advisory responsibilities, skills and challenges that can occur
• Ways to grow your skills on the job
• How to build credibility with managers while still learning and establish your reputational capital
• Using social media to build yourself, your learning and your network and use this as an HR tool   

10.45am MORNING TEA

11.15am Employment Law and Advising Managers  

As an HR Advisor you often need to provide quick and accurate HR support to your people managers. This session covers:

• Keeping compliant with legislation (1 hour). This is an update from Angela Evans, Employment Law Partner at LangtonHudsonButcher. Angela will cover recent legislation changes and case law that you need to know, and we will discuss how you can keep up to date on these.
• Deep dive into some specific employment law cases with a discussion of what you could do to keep your company compliant
• Advising managers through poor performance and warnings (30 mins). How do you make sure they are following the process correctly?

Workshop Contents

1.15pm  LUNCH

2pm  Delivering great HR

In this session you’ll cover the following:

• Dealing with difficult managers - learn the different types of difficult personality styles and the challenges that these types of managers can cause. Then find out some different strategies for dealing with this and getting these managers onside!
• Influencing and Persuasion techniques  - learn some different marketing and sales tools to influence your managers to follow the right process and manage their teams effectively.
• Managing multiple relationships. You might have hundreds of emails and calls from managers to deal with. How do you manage multiple relationships and still deliver excellent HR advice?

3.30pm  AFTERNOON TEA

4pm  HR Leadership

To finish the day you’ll hear from an inspiring HR leader about their career path and what learnings they have to share with you about how you can become a great HR Advisor. (45 mins)

In Auckand this is Jessica Ah Kuoi, in Wellington you’ll hear from Riti Sharma-Kelkar.

4.45pm  Action planning session - you’ll now work through what actions you can take from the workshop.

5pm  FINISH

Who you’ll hear from:

Nikki Peck has over 20 years of generalist HR experience working in diverse sectors such as health, engineering, utilities, retail and not-for-profit.  Nikki has a Post Graduate Diploma in HR from The University of Auckland with her experience, has a focus on finding useful and practical solutions to problems..

She always receives fantastic feedback from managers and HR people for making any workshop she runs interesting, entertaining and extremely useful - sharing practical real life examples and answering curly questions.

Angela Evans has wide commercial and litigation experience across a range of matters including fair trading, regulatory and advertising law, as well as general commercial law issues. This gives her a broad perspective on how employment law fits with the wider commercial issues facing an organisation.

Angela has presented regularly at our Payroll Game Changer and HR Advisors Conferences - and always receives outstanding ratings on the usefulness of her sessions.   

Wendy Li is an experienced workplace practitioner with over 15 years’ experience in employment law and employment relations.  She has held leadership roles in both private practice and public sector organisations in the area of employment and industrial relations.

Wendy has practiced employment law in NZ and Australia as well as undertaking work in the United States and France. She has led bargaining teams in a large employer organisation, in negotiations with multiple unions.

Workshop Dates & Pricing

April/May

Auckland: Tuesday 13 April 2021

Wellington: Wednesday 12 May 2021

September/October

Auckland: Wednesday 22 September 2021

Wellington: Thursday 28 October 2021

Early Bird (4 weeks before): $395

Full price: $495

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Jessica Ah Koi is the Head of People and Culture at the Eye Institute. Her previous roles include being an HR Business Partner at NZME, People & Culture Advisor at PWC and HR Advisor at Chapman Tripp. She is also  a Board Trustee at the Sir John Kirwan Foundation.

Riti Sharma-Kelkar is a Senior HR Business Partner at Wellington City Council. Her previous roles include being HR Business Partner at Healthcare New Zealand, Senior HR Advisors at Statistics New Zealand and several years working in HR and Talent at Accor Hotels.

Jessica and Riti will  be presenting on their background and career in HR roles as well as the challenges and learnings they have seen in the first few years of your HR career.

Comments from the Auckland HR Master Class in April:

Angela was great and so awesome to be able to ask her questions and useful info to bring back to my organisation. Good to have another opinion on things that have differing answers. Jess was great and her 5 lessons were great to keep in mind as we progress through our career.

Nikki was very engaging and a great MC. Angela was clear with her explanations of the legal side of things and was very easy to ask questions to. Good to have another opinion on things that have differing answers. Jess was great and her 5 lessons were great to keep in mind as we progress through our career.

It was very valuable for career progression and bridging the gaps between a coordinator to an advisor level for those who are ready to make step up in their careers.

I really enjoyed it, there was a variety of content and some helpful tips and information

Loved it - loved the employment law piece, and personality profiling.

What people say about our training:

“For me the whole day was useful to embed my knowledge – it was an excellent course.”

“Learning about justifications re some of the case law – good to know why a decision was made, course was awesome thank you”

“A fantastic course overall. The fact that I came away with some essential knowledge relating to fixed terms contracts and trial periods (amongst everything else!) meant I could come into work and confidently make a few changes to our IEA's the next day.”

“The seminar was interactive and although professional, was still quite a relaxed environment. The Elephant team really know their stuff and are happy to answer every little niggling question I had during the breaks.”

“I enjoyed the real life examples of what could happen, the different ways people can react and strategies to work with that”.

“Great case studies. The presenters were willing to answer questions and give examples. They involved the group and kept everyone on course.”

“The workshop altogether was great! Nikki has been an absolute star of a facilitator and Angela and Jessica who came to speak were awesome as well. Altogether a very beneficial and good quality training day! Out of tons of workshops and trainings that I have attended in the past 10+ years, this was definitely one of the higher rated ones for me ”