Quarsh - The Intelligent People Business
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Speaking and Workshops

We deliver keynote speeches to crowds, tailored workshops to groups of business leaders, training sessions to internal teams of hiring managers. Our expertise in recruitment and our no-nonsense approach helps audiences to see the problems and find solutions when they’re stuck. We can almost see the lightbulbs going on when our delegates realise just how straightforward recruiting can be when they know what to do.

“I just wanted to say a huge thank you for today. It was truly brilliant. I came into the session thinking I’m pretty good at all this, and came away thinking how have we been getting this, this and that so wrong! Thank you!” 

“It was lovely to meet you yesterday and thanks for delivering a really good session. You left us all wanting more – our only “even better if” feedback was that we felt we could have carried on after lunch!”

Recruitment as a Strategy Workshop

Making recruitment a predictable, strategic part of your business.

The chances are, if a problem is not about cashflow, it’s about people. Nothing is more important to the success of a business than having the right people performing well at the right time. Better people means a better business.

How often do you analyse what talent you’re bringing in, where they’re coming from, and how effective they are? Do you know how you fare against your competition? Most companies start to think about recruitment when there’s a vacancy. But this only addresses a tiny part of the recruitment cycle. Taking control of recruitment gives you the ability to plan what and who you need, when, and raise your game in the competition for talent.

In this interactive workshop, focusing on strategy, Lucy will take you through practical steps to improving how your company plans who you need and then finds, attracts, selects, hires and retains the right people for your business.

 

“I just wanted to say a huge thank you for today. It was truly brilliant. I came into the session thinking I’m pretty good at all this, and came away thinking how have we been getting this, this and that so wrong! Thank you!” 

“It was lovely to meet you yesterday and thanks for delivering a really good session. You left us all wanting more – our only “even better if” feedback was that we felt we could have carried on after lunch!”

 

Gain an unfair advantage when you recruit
Equip your hiring managers with the tools, knowledge and confidence to recruit well

Interview training

Getting candidates to the table is one thing. Ensuring that your hiring managers interview them well is quite another.

If your interview process takes too long; your new hires aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, or they leave fast; if your succession plan is lacking; or you just can’t seem to find anyone good, interview training might be your answer.

In this three hour workshop, we cover the usual do’s and don’ts of good interview practice, as well as the much-neglected starting point of properly defining the role in the first place. If your hiring team dusts off an old job description, sends it out to the wide blue yonder, and that’s the limit of their involvement until interviewing starts, when you have a sneaky suspicion they don’t really know what they’re doing (and they aren’t so sure either!), this workshop is for you.

We bust myths, we demonstrate good practice, we put the onus firmly on the managers to recruit well.

And of course… there’s a little bit of role play… well, what interview training course would be complete without it?

 

“This training course was much more than we expected. We were expecting some examples of questions; this was comprehensive, and focused on culture and company values as well as skills.” 

“What an eye-opener! Having the time and focus to really think about what we need and how candidates view the interview experience was brilliant. Now I know what I need to do and I’m much more confident that I’ll interview well. Thank you!”

Communicating Openly and Inclusively

This course is designed to address the changing face of acceptable communication, specifically in the workplace. What is acceptable, reasonable and even legal is changing fast and very much subject to differences of opinion. 

We have designed this course in light of a wide variety of current issues, including BLM, trans-awareness, woke-ism, cancel culture, no-platforming and free speech.

  • What is Best Practice?
  • Know the legal limits and boundaries of Hate and Equality Legislation
  • Encourage open and free communication
  • Reduce the risk of conflict
  • Improve culture and morale
  • Reduce instances of bullying and harassment
  • Protect your business against claims of bias and discrimination

The course is a combination of presentation and participation and encourages feedback and interaction. It includes real case studies and opportunity for participants to work in teams to look at actual cases and recommend approaches in light of what they’ve learned.

 

“Very interesting, sometimes challenging, definitely thought-provoking course. Thank you!”

Encourage open and safe communication, even with wildly different team cultures

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