This CPD by Croner will explore the trends you can expect to see coming in 2023 to prepare your business for the year ahead.
Join Amanda Chadwick to find out what issues businesses like yours are seeking guidance on. Find out how you can use this to take a proactive approach, and how you can protect your business and people.
These exclusive sessions are free for SBID members. Get in touch for your association number.
This CPD by Croner will discuss how to deal with absences and conduct around the Christmas period, providing valuable advice for employers and business owners.
Join Amanda Chadwick to find out what issues businesses like yours are seeking guidance on. Find out how you can use this to take a proactive approach, and how you can protect your business and people.
These exclusive sessions are free for SBID members. Get in touch for your association number!
This CPD webinar by Croner will discuss the fall of the pound and how it affects the industry, as well as present some valuable advice for employers and business owners.
The Croner advisory team have recently analysed their call interactions with members and clients. With this, we have built an exclusive, member-only session to assist you with the biggest issues facing UK businesses right now.
Topics covered include:
- The pound falls
- Industry reaction
- A pay rise flurry
- How to address the increase in demand
- The cost of living and retention
- Do existing benefits already meet employee needs?
- Helping employees help themselves
- Getting more from the workplace
- Managing costs
- Changing terms and conditions
- Lay-off and short time working
- What is redundancy?
- Preparing for redundancy
- Collective consultation & Individual consultation
- Employees wellbeing during redundancy
- Looking after (soon to be) ex-employees
These exclusive sessions are free to SBID members. Get in touch for your association number.
This CPD webinar by Croner will discuss the importance and characteristics of a good HR team, explore employee policies, laws and regulations, and provide useful guides for managing your business.
Topics covered include:
- Understanding performance management
- Why a line manager shouldn’t “double up” and do HR
- Making time for staff issues and employee policies
- Staff training, support and retention to aid business growth
- Protecting the mental health of your staff
- Why an untrained HR team could be costly to owners
- How to meet employment law regulations
- Simple steps to improve equality, diversity, and inclusion in small teams
- A total guide to SSP (Statutory Sick Pay)
- A total guide to Holiday Pay
- How to resolve conflict whilst legally protecting your business
These exclusive sessions are free for SBID members. Get in touch for your association number.
The CPD webinar by GRAFF will provide an overview of three key elements that can enhance our daily lives: water, wellness and sustainability.
Starting with water as a precious and essential natural resource to its role in bringing us wellness, the session will focus on the origins of wellness through today’s WELL concepts and to how to integrate wellness in design projects. Lastly, GRAFF discuss how wellness through water can be delivered in sustainable ways.
In this CPD webinar, you will receive an overview of Luxury Residential Lighting and inspiration for how to use it on client projects to elevate their designs.
From creative design principles and luminaire specification through to control systems, technical documentation, and working with builders and electrical contractors, this presentation is packed with useful information and some fantastic 3D animated explainer videos. It will also cover how to understand zones, scenes, and dimming technologies.
A live Q&A will allow you to field your questions to Managing Director, James Ratcliffe; drawing on his 20+ years of experience in the integrated home technology world.
Finally, you can attend the virtual tour of the Homeplay Experience Centre showroom - an ideal setting to visit with clients to inspire and demonstrate all that home automation could bring to their homes.
This session forms part of a series to that also addresses luxury residential audio and shading.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the basics of good lighting design
- Learn the drawbacks of LED and how to overcome them
- Identify the difference between basic and luxury lighting
- Explore zones, scenes and dimming technologies
- Know how control systems make lighting easier to use
This immersive CPD webinar will provide an understanding on the technology and usage of automated shades in residential environments. Delivered by the home technology specialists, the session will cover everything you need to know about installing high-end shading solutions for private luxury interiors.
This session forms part of a series to that also addresses luxury residential lighting and audio.
Learning Objectives:
- To give a broad understanding of automated shading for a luxury home
- How to integrate automated shades into the fabric of the building
- How to specify fabric for performance
- How automated shades are powered, wired and controlled
- To explain through demonstration the importance of fabric colour and openness
This CPD webinar will provide an understanding on the technology and usage of concert grade sound systems in residential environments. Delivered by the home technology specialists, the session will cover everything you need to know about installing effective high-end audio solutions for private luxury interiors.
This session forms part of a series to that also addresses luxury residential lighting and shading.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the drivers behind the emerging trend of live music events being streamed directly to the home.
- What makes a concert grade sound system different from typical consumer sound systems.
- How to create a suitable acoustic environment for a concert grade sound system, with appropriate sound isolation.
- Examination of a case study of a residential concert grade sound system.
- To explain through demonstration, the emotion that a concert grade sound system can convey.
The HS Property Hub is to run a new three-part online course on Office Design and Space Planning (in the Hybrid Era).
Hosted by key industry experts, this series of professional market and educational briefings will bring attendees up to speed on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the workplace, the opportunities that have been created and the benefits of adapting your workplace to the new reality.
Taking place online in three detailed 75-minute briefings in February and March next year, each briefing is chaired by Colin Stuart, CEO and Workplace Consultant of Baker Stuart Ltd, who will lead an expert speaker line-up that examines the opportunities and elements for an effective hybrid working strategy.
Session 1: Hybrid Working and Workplace Design - Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Session 2: Developing a Hybrid Working Strategy that Works for You - Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Session 3: Designing for Wellbeing - the Employee-centric Workplace - Tuesday, 7 March 2023
SBID members save 30% off the current price - email pr@sbid.org for your exclusive discount code!
As the world changes and businesses adapt, so do the office spaces that we use. More than ever, we hear about companies trying to increase efficiency of their existing office spaces and exploring new ways to entice employees back to work with a hybrid workspace.
Join a webinar with Kesoon Chance, Industry Specialist from Vectorworks UK, to discover how to build an efficient model through the fit-out process and ways in which you can showcase these changes to your clients.
Attendees will:
- Discover effective techniques to build a 3D model of existing building conditions to enable a data-driven design process.
- Observe how data-driven 3D models can help you make better-informed design decisions through analysis of the spaces and objects within the project.
- Explore how to manage the different project phases within the software: Category A fit-out and Category B fit-out.
- Review the benefits of an integrated workflow to better represent your design vision to clients with visualisation techniques.
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