Expert 121 with Serena May, HR Advisor

Are you a business owner or manager in the Sussex area, looking for some support dealing with employment or HR issues? Discuss your requirements with Serena May, HR Director, who can help you with any aspect on HR.

Choose from a selection of dates and times to suit you. Once you've registered, we'll pass on your details (name and email address) to Serena, who will contact you with joining instructions for your session with her.

Conversations with Serena could focus on the following HR issues or topics:

• Employing your first member of staff
• Discipline and Grievance
• Redundancy and Restructure
• Performance Management
• Absence Management
• Contracts of Employment

Expert biography

Serena May is a Director of the HR Dept with over 15 years generalist HR experience advising on people management issues and problems. She has covered all aspects of HR including recruitment and selection, disciplinary, grievance, performance management, redundancy, restructuring, mergers, TUPE, compromise agreements and policy writing. Prior to her career in HR, Serena worked in Financial Services. She is commercially astute, has experience of working closely with customers and their teams and is able to quickly build strong relationships with clients.

Note

The adviser is an independent professional and is not an agent or employee of the Council, nor the Library. They will be regulated by their own professional body and they will be able to provide you with details of that organisation.We will not be aware of any advice that is given to you by the adviser when you consult them in the 121 session and we do not verify or approve their advice. We therefore take no responsibility and make no representations regarding the relevance, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or otherwise of any such advice or information. Any views expressed by the adviser are their own views and not those of the Council.

This session will be held online. Once you've registered, you will receive the video call joining instructions from the business expert prior to your session.

Following the session, the expert will send you a feedback form which we would be grateful if you could complete to allow us to monitor the success of our offered expert 121s.

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I mportant

All our expert one-to-one meetings on offer are free, but places are limited as our business expert partners are giving their valuable time to the BIPC and to you for free while fitting these sessions into their busy schedule. Therefore, if you need to cancel the session, to give a chance for others to still book it, please give at least two working days’ notice when possible via:

• email to bipc@brighton-hove.gov.uk, or
• cancelling your booking on Eventbrite, or
• email/call to the business expert.

Please note down the experts' contact details when they get in touch with you prior to the session.

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FAQs

What is your cancellation policy?

The majority of our events are free, but places are often limited - especially for in-person events, therefore please make sure you cancel your place, if you are unable to attend. You can cancel through your Eventbrite booking or emailing bipc@brighton-hove.co.uk.

Can I attend if I'm not a member of the library?

Absolutely! Any Sussex based business/ person with a business idea is welcome. Though we always recommend joining the library as it's free and will make accessing our databases, books and publications much easier.

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