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

February 9, 2026

Sexual harassment at work: what’s changing in 2026?

An outline of how expectations on organisations will rise across legal, regulatory and cultural dimensions this year.
Cathy Oliver
Oliver
November 24, 2025

Alcohol at work events - getting the right balance of risk vs engagement

The way alcohol is perceived at work is changing, leaving HR teams questioning how they should structure work events and celebrations.
Cicilia Wan
November 3, 2025

What to do if you've gotten drunk and acted inappropriately at a work event?

Founder Matt Dean shares learnings from decades of experience on how one should navigate this common scenario.
Matt Dean
Dean

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