Beth Pipe, FCIPD

This Precedent Return to work interview (RTWI) audit register, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, is intended for law firms. It can be used to check and record that RTWIs are being conducted consistently for every employee and to the required standard. It will allow you to check whether there is appropriate follow-through on issues identified during RTWIs and recommendations made. This register can provide important evidence in the event of an employee claiming they are being singled out or treated differently from their colleagues.

This Precedent checklist, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, can be used to plan and prepare for a return to work interview (RTWI) and to ensure you have all the information you need to conduct the interview consistently and effectively.

This Precedent, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, contains a selection of FAQs for employees about return to work interviews (RTWIs). These FAQs are intended to accompany a staff communication on introducing a return to work process, but can also be used as a free-standing document to supplement any return to work interview provisions in your sickness and attendance policy.

This Precedent, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, can be used to inform staff that you are introducing return to work interviews (RTWIs).

This Precedent Risk appetite statement can be used to formulate and record an organisation’s position on risk. It sets out the overall approach to risk as well as the organisation’s appetite for different categories of risk, ie strategic, operational, reputational, legal, regulatory and/or compliance, financial, people and technological. It is also sometimes called a risk tolerance statement. A formal risk appetite statement may help to focus the minds of the board when an attractive but high-risk proposition presents itself, but ultimately the business’ true risk appetite is demonstrated by what it does rather than what it says.

This Precedent Risk audit can be used to collate and consider risk information that is available across your business. It encourages you to look across your business and think about where risks come from. It can be used to inform and populate a risk register, through which you can categorise individual risks identified in this audit into strategic, operational, regulatory, financial, legal risks, etc and decide how best to control or mitigate each risk. You can use the Precedent Risk questionnaire to gather information from across your business before completing this audit.

This Precedent Risk management policy is intended for general commercial organisations in the UK. It outlines the risks posed to a typical business and provides a set of actions to be taken to both prevent the risk from occurring and reduce the impact of the risk should it happen. There are various categories of risk, the majority of which should be included in the risk management policy.

This Precedent Risk questionnaire is intended to create a framework for eliciting information about the risks presented by each department within your business. You could send it to the head of each department for completion or use it to structure an interview. The responses can be used to populate a risk register. You should also complete the questionnaire in relation to your own department and use this to identify compliance and legal risks.

This Precedent Risk register is a tool for collating and managing all your risk information in one place. To formulate an effective risk register, you must first identify the risks your organisation faces. It is also helpful to have an understanding of your organisation’s appetite for risk. The risk register enables you to categorise each risk the organisation faces, score each risk and then decide on your response to each risk, eg reject or accept, and if you accept, to control or mitigate the risk. There is a separate Precedent for a privacy risk register.

This Precedent Risk scorecard is also known as a ‘risk matrix’. It defines and provides suggested scores for the component parts of risk, ie probability and impact. This allows you to quantify risk using the formula risk = impact x probability.

This Precedent Root cause analysis—worked example illustrates how a root cause analysis (RCA) diagram can be used as a tool to analyse information to identify what is causing a problem or issue. It is often known as a fishbone diagram because it looks like the skeleton of a fish. It may also be called a cause and effect diagram.

This Precedent sample operational objectives, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, is intended for law firms. It can be used as a guide to help you implement initiatives and interventions from your absence management strategy.

This Precedent Service level agreement (SLA) contains commitments by the learning and development (L&D) team to the wider business and vice versa.

This Precedent simple check sheet can be used to record data as it happens The data can then be presented as tables or graphs to illustrate issues or problems. To work effectively, a check sheet must be as simple as possible for the end user to complete.

This Precedent six-week follow-up evaluation form can be used as part of your learning and development (L&D) procedures to assess the effectiveness of a training course.

Once you have written a training course or presentation, you should consider producing an outline which can be shared with the business to give an overview of key aspects of the planned course or presentation. It will also enable potential delegates to get a feel for whether the course or presentation is appropriate to them and is worth attending.

This Precedent Training course approval request form can be used as part of your learning and development (L&D) procedures. Anyone who wishes to attend a training course should complete and submit this form in accordance with the L&D policy.

This Precedent appraisal training presentation is intended for law firms. It has been designed as an aid to help you train your staff on how to prepare for an appraisal and what to expect of the appraisal process.

This Precedent presentation is intended for law firms. It has been designed as an aid to help you train your managers on conducting appraisals.

This Precedent Annual long-form L&D planning workflow—medium to large firms will help you navigate our L&D planning Precedents.