HR/ER skills

With deep expertise in employment law and senior HR/ER roles, we equip HR professionals with the skills to navigate complex workplace challenges confidently and fairly. From handling harassment concerns to managing conflict, performance, and formal processes, our training is practical, targeted, and rooted in real-world experience.

Building confident and accountable HR/ER teams

Our facilitators come from employment law and HR backgrounds, bringing first-hand insights into what works - and what doesn’t. We help HR professionals follow processes with confidence, balancing legal compliance with human awareness. Explore our HR/ER skills training sessions below.

Handling sexual harassment concerns
Handling disciplinary, capability and grievance processes
Investigations Academy: conducting fair and effective investigations
Recruitment and selection: hiring the best
Effective feedback and challenging conversations
Performance management
Conflict resolution
Training for employee representatives
Managing maternity & parental leave

Trusted by global companies for 20 years.

We're a team of highly specialised experts with diverse professional backgrounds. All of us have worked in organisations like yours and at the coalface of workplace people issues. We quickly grasp your concerns and where you want to get to.

It's a great personal feeling when business colleagues and leaders give you high praise and thanks for learning interventions. That's what you get when you engage byrne∙dean!
Fiona Pizzey, Diversity Manager, RBC Wealth Management, Royal Bank of Canada

Our thinking on Workplace behaviour

June 3, 2026

When the client is not always right: third-party harassment and the October 2026 duty

From October 2026, employers face new liability for third-party harassment under the Employment Rights Act. Helen Dallimore explores what the duty requires and why it is as much a question of culture as compliance.
Helen Dallimore
Dallimore
April 30, 2026

Provision 29 and people risk: can your board declare your controls work?

Provision 29 requires boards to declare control effectiveness from Jan 2026. People risk - speak-up, harassment, conduct - counts. Most orgs lack the evidence. We can help.
Ellie Herriot
Herriot
April 29, 2026

Feedback in the workplace: leaders learning from real conversations

Leaders mean well, but feedback often harms. Real-world practice shows clarity, tailoring, silence and preparation matter more than intent or scripts today.
Matt Dean
Dean

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