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Can you help the pantry by tagging a teacher, scout leader, or place of work ?

I’ve been supporting the pantry for some time and many of my clients are now part of this really important piece of community work.

The pantry are currently looking to partner with schools, sports clubs, activity clubs etc as harvest is upon us.

The pantry invite schools and clients to visit and see their work in action.

The pantry will come to your location to collect



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This harvesttime, could you support by making a donation to Manna House Pantry?

Could you organise a Harvest collection at your school, church, place of work, Scout group etc…?

Schools: we have assembly slides and materials to support an appeal for donations - just get in touch to request your free resources.

Are you ready to smash your HR goals for September?

I LOVE September. All the focus is back on work and there is a renewed energy and vibe for business.

If you are looking for an outsourced HR provider and/or need support, guidance and expert advice, please do get in touch. Onsite and/or remote service.

Providing a generalist service in all aspects of HR.

01562 885918

[email protected]

www.goodwinhr.co.uk

Football is about moments. Life is about moments.

West Bromwich Albion did a fab job today for Super Mals (Dad) 80th!

My Dad - Super Mal 80 today!

Reaching this milestone signifies a lifetime of notable achievement, treasured experiences and cherished memories.

I honestly believe my academic achievements were a product of his coaching, guidance & support.

Without doubt I inherited his abundance of patience, strong moral compass & hard work ethic that make me the HR professional I like to think I am today.

Bonded by belief on many subjects not least WBA and our early days as season ticket holders in the Megson era!

Still catching me when I fall…mainly with D.I.Y, dog sitting & grandson duties!

He is and always will be Super Mal. My Dad.

Happy Birthday.

August has lived up to its latin translation - majestic & magnificent. As hard as the balance between work and family is during the six week holidays, we have had some magnificent moments.

Slicing through HR work this month in the form of;

☀️chairing a greivance hearing
☀️creating an ethics policy
☀️salvaging incorrect process to protect business
☀️updating contracts of employment
☀️onboarding new clients

I don’t know what it is about summer but it’s the months I find that unwanted conduct and behaviour in the workplace often bubble up.

I think the change in resource by way of annual leave and business summer tempo allows Directors and Business Owners to pay closer attention to people management. My boss in industry called it midsummer madness.

I love the onset of September - is like a New Year reset! It’s not to late to achieve your HR goals for 2024 and I’d love to work with you to deliver your HR objectives!

01562 885918
[email protected]

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I’m Claire Goodwin - Director at Goodwin HR. Providing an outsourced HR generalist service to business covering all aspects of managing people. CIPD qualified.

There is a simple reason that salary was continued to be paid in this high profile case ……it’s called employment law.

Employment law applies to all organisations.

I’ve had a few similar cases on this topic and
severity in my career and until proven in the criminal courts, employment continues. Once proven, dismissal on the grounds of some other substantial reason can be applied.

“The presumption of innocence until proven guilty is a basic principle of English law.

Employers usually have a contractual right to suspend an employee if the employee’s conduct is called into serious question, for example, if criminal charges are brought – but that does not permit the employer to terminate the contract or end payment.”

Goodwin HR providing advice, onsite support and management training on investigations and disciplinaries and all aspects of people management to Directors/businesses .

01562 885918

Www.goodwinhr.co.uk

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/bbc-continued-to-pay-huw-edwards-475k-salary-after-his-arrest/

BBC continued to pay Huw Edwards’ £475k salary after his arrest BBC paid more than £200,000 in salary to newsreader Huw Edwards between his arrest in November 2023 and his April 2024 resignation.

How are you getting on FINDING FUN whilst spinning work?

Wow, two weeks already into the six week school recess! The break from the school run and trillion taxi 🚖 journeys to activities every week is totally welcome.

We do love carefree days of hanging out with friends, no agenda, just enjoying natures playground. The car boot carries staple items of cricket and football equipment and we just go where the day takes us. Strawberry picking was a hit!

Plenty of work underway, like many I adjust my working hours and patterns to keep Goodwin HR revving every day!

Lots of new business set up work underway. I’m producing contracts of employment and onboarding advice for businesses who are employing one or two members of staff for the first time. Looking forward to my meeting with a grab hire Company today.

If you are interested in how a HR outsourced service can help your business, let’s meet up! Please do give me a call!

📞01562 885918
[email protected]

HR has been hot 🔥in July and now the weather is levelling up too 🕶️☀️

This month I’ve been busy leading businesses with employee relation cases - Lots of conduct cases (missing company car 🚙, theft of fuel ⛽️, AWOL, a work place bust up 🥊, and plenty of refusals to follow reasonable requests).

A change of government 🇬🇧brings significant changes to the employment landscape - more on that later.

Please do call to see how you can take your HR to the next level 🔥. Goodwin HR Providing an outsource service to businesses on all aspects of people management.

Please do get in touch to see how HR can transform your business and people.

01562 885918
[email protected]

Www.Goodwin.co.uk

REFLECTIONS

Zachs last day at primary school . I’m not sad for the end of this era, for us it’s a celebration of a period of time that has brought much joy.

It’s a celebration of many special moments he has brought to the family through his educational experiences and for us as parents where through his experiences, we have grown personally too.

We have journeyed with some wonderful people who have become solid and reliable friends and we continually offer each other a network
of support for lift sharing to activities, childcare for enabling us to continue to work and some seriously good social times!

Our client network has expanded through meeting new people/new referrals too!

We wish all of his buddies success, good health and happiness as they make their next move.

Mi casa es su casa. Our home is always open to Zachs friends, no invitation needed. 🏠 and we look forward to new friendships too!

Long may the friendships and bonds continue. 💙

It’s a summer of transition but it’s going to be good one!

Here’s to the summer holidays!

Love

💙 C x

Where do you get 20 tonnes of horse manure from at short notice 🐴💩? That has been my personal challenge this week for my garden project!

Faced with this stinky problem, I really wasn’t sure where to procure such quantities. 🤷‍♀️

It didn’t take me long to think logically and laterally and reflect on my contacts with equestrian interests. 48 hours later a local farmer delivered the 💩!

Networking and contacts are EVERYTHING.

You can’t know what you don’t know, but you do need to know who to turn to in order to find solutions.

Business owners are NOT expected to be experts in HR and people management, but having the instinct to recognise the signs of when it’s time to talk and engage with an expert is essential.

Please do call to book a meeting for advice on all aspects of people management and any 💩 issues you are seeking more guidance, support and coaching to resolve.

📞01562 885918
Email 📧 [email protected]

www.goodwinhr.co.uk.

🙏 to Alison Skidmore.

I hope my Grandad is looking down and smiling on this week - he was always in search of manure for his garden 🤣 🌷.

Are you ‘Aceing’ people management in your business or is it more a case of ‘love’ equating to zero points!

I’ve been serving up some positive HR techniques & changes on behalf of clients to create some winning ways and more sales & profit!

When you realise your team, your employees, your staff are your superpower to smash the competition by embracing HR, your business results will return higher performance.

Contact me for a discussion on how I can support your business 01562 885918

Are you sceptical about the role HR can play in your business?

What if I said I can be your money maker, solution solver, risk reducer in business this month by role modelling best practice HR?

In June, new clients and existing sought advice, coaching and confidence from myself in all these areas - and TOGETHER we SMASHED it!

Here’s how ⬇️

- MONEY MAKER 💷managing and reducing significant cost through effective HR on absence management, reshaping teams for competitive advantage & reviewing every aspect of HR from a financial perspective

- SOLUTION SOLVER for Business Owners with employee problems that were causing headaches on a practical, emotional and financial level, massively impacting day to day business.

- RISK REDUCER - implementing robust contracts, handbooks & policies relevant for today. Chairing fair conversations with employees that Business Owners were struggling to face.

Book a call or on site meeting if you want July to be about money making, solution solving or risk reducing! 01562 885918

www.goodwinhr.co.uk

Jude Bellingham, our local football star fired the first goal in for England last night.

Who do you think will win the Euros? ⚽️

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/euro-2024-employers/

midlands business

Euro 2024: Employers’ guide to the workplace implications Euro 2024: Many employers are gearing up for staff to enjoy this year's tournament in Germany.

Half term and todays chosen activity by the youngest member of Goodwin HQ was bird watching……

And actually a hideout and a bit of piece and quiet was really quite perfect!

If you are on the ‘lookout’ for a HR specialist to take care of people management for your business, please do call.

I provide a HR generalist service - onsite or remote covering recruitment, selection, performance management, restructuring and exit management.

Ideal for start ups who want to ensure the basic HR foundations are in place or for those businesses who want to excelerate HR to a higher level for ultimate profit and competitive advantage.

It’s relatively easy to find a HR professional but I like to think I am a rare spieces amongst the flock - achievement focused, results focused, fun & engaging!

Willing to visit your business to discuss your people management requirements.

01562 885918

Www.goodwinhr.co.uk

I’ll be super happy to see Friday this week so my 11 year old boy can return to his childhood in a more normalised school environment and atmosphere. Will you?

It’s SATS week across the country and our 10 and 11 year olds nationwide are sitting exams. 10 and 11!

I sat exams for a 10 year period - age 16 + and yes I get their purpose, necessity and reason for existence but I can’t see many advantages to examination at such a young age. Some may disagree but this is my sentiment and my feeling.

Our (minimal) prep has been about rest, good sleep & feeding the brain. It’s a low key approach here.

My HR rador senses parent and school apprehension is on high alert for achievement which transcends into the child. We are creating anxiety and downward pressure in very young age group. And we wonder why the challenges nationwide with mental health is at an all time high and presenting so prevalently in young people.

It was refreshing to meet my neighbour last week who reminded me that her 18 year old (Straight A GCSE, A level and now nailing a first at Uni on a highly credible degree course)… didn’t succeed at SATS.

It’s a pity there isn’t a SAT for personality and charisma …the natural characteristics that define our leaders of the future. Academics alone won’t cut it. Interpersonal skills are fundamental to leadership and career success.

I love working with people of all ages to recognise their strengths, abilities, paths for the future & career dreams.

Working with individuals & Companies to develop talent at every level. Please do call to see how I can develop talent for you!

01562 885918

[email protected]

HR Sunday outing

We’ve got two chances…..😬

West Bromwich Albion

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In sickness and in health….

I’m human in this Human Resources world too and I have had to flex my work to navigate the bumps in the road these last 10 days and for the foreseeable.

I’ve needed to take time off for dependants at short notice and I certainly need to work flexibly in the short term to help Richard Goodwin Insolvency Practitioner whose foot surgery finally went ahead yesterday to address those sporting injuries of old.

They say bad luck runs in threes and we’ve certainly
experienced that! We’ve needed the expertise of most emergency services via hospital, police & vet, pretty much in a 36 hour window.

We’re good. On the road to recovery and we adapt, reset and go again next week. Hope we will be back
to bright lights and sunny days super quick.

Make sure your workplace is HR ready with policies to support your employees in sickness and in health. You know I’ll sort that for you in my own super hero HR way.

01562 885918
[email protected]

Enjoy the bank holiday people! We won’t talk WBA 😬…….

Love

C💙x

Ps thanks to all the superheroes who helped us - there’s some seriously amazing emergency service workers who demonstrate incredible work, a
core group of friends that are ALWAYS there & my parents, nearly 80 and still as solid and reliable as they always have been 💙.

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CALLING ALL SCHOOLS, NURSERIES AND COMMUNITY GROUPS 📢

This Summer we are excited to bring you our popular Ice Cream Parlour.

We can simply bring our charity ice cream tricycle to any school in the local area for FREE.

No ice cream or ice lolly over £1 to purchase from the trike, with all the profits raised being donated to help patients here at The Mary Stevens Hospice.

We would love to attend your Sports Days, leavers celebrations or even just to surprise the children.

If you would be like to book in, please contact Allison at [email protected] or call the Fundraising Office on 01384 377 778.

And the final whistle has blown today and not just on this season but our five year ‘Shark’ story 🦈. We draw to a natural conclusion, aligned to the primary school years closing in too!

Today we wholeheartedly reflect on success and achievement – but it is not about trophy counting or where we finished in the league every year. Our biggest victory is our team effort and focus in ‘shaping humans’, and that is the best trophy of all🏆.

You can be the grassroots player/parent/fan that wants to obsess and focus on the score, the opposition, which league you are in, who scored, monitoring who your friends are playing for, how other teams are performing OR you can choose to be part of a team focused on building foundations. You can channel your mind and energy into building foundations brick by brick.🏠


It was always about the ‘foundations’ during the formative years. Technical football development aside, the foundations of loyalty, commitment, attendance, punctuality, team work, passion, pride, longevity, respect, character building, personality and desire are the greater success outcomes that set this team of players up for high school, employment & beyond. Futuristically these are lifelong qualities that form the fundamentals long after the game of football has ended.

To journey together unified by football during the primary school years has and always will be special and unique. Epic effort and commitment from parents on and off the pitch. We wish all players the very best in their next football moves & high school journeys and long may the boys remain united in shared experiences and lifelong friendships.

Now it is time to build the first floor…….

If you employee people - this is a must read to ensure you are legally complaint from 6 April 2024!

Check this out!

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An HR things-to-do list for April 2024 Personnel Today provides an HR checklist of things to do in April 2024, as new employment laws come into force in the UK.

Happy Easter

We are on Easter people!

No winter lasts forever and no spring skips its turn!

It's such a hopeful time of year, and I wish you all goods things this Easter!

It’s been an epic start to the year and thank you for keeping me super busy!



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Spring vibes. Warmth in the air today ….longer daylight hours loading ….🙌

VACATION SCHEME: Aspiring solicitors, we're looking for you.

If you know someone who is actively pursuing a career in the law and would like to experience a week in the life of our Business Services Team, please let them know that our summer 2024 vacation scheme is open for applications.

Full eligibility criteria, scheme dates and application instructions can be found at:

https://www.talbotslaw.co.uk/site/careers/vacation-scheme/

Or if you have any questions, please email [email protected] and the team will ensure you're looked after.

Oh that perfect HR Halo!

Perhaps the perception of HR professionals as goody two shoes types is off putting for some!

Yes we do have a rep for rule enforcing to keep your business safe and mitigate risk but maybe we should talk about our ability to influence growth, success, optimise performance & profit!

Choose me as your HR Pro for your business, and you will soon see the fun & engaging side of
HR halo life!

Very willing to visit your work location to explore how we can work together and chat people management.

😇01562 885918
😇[email protected]

Super cute gift from Starz Academy East U11’s 2023/24 ⚽️💙

The learning from a team is so much more than the subject of football.