‘Sandwich leave’: the legal risks

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The concept of sandwich leave is the latest hot-button issue within the HR world. While some employers supported the approach, others questioned whether it was fair or simply a way to discourage employees from taking time off. So, is this something UK employers should be thinking about - and what’s the impact on culture and engagement?

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Supporting your high performers | 7 practical strategies for HR and leadership

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Read our 7 practical strategies for sustainable ways to retain high performers and help them thrive.

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How Insights Discovery Colour Energies Help to Build an Inclusive Culture

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Why understanding Insights Discovery colour energies is essential for creating inclusive, high-performing cultures.

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HR Cheat Sheet: Insights Discovery

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Our Insights Discovery HR Cheat Sheet is your quick guide to unlocking the power of personality profiling in the workplace. Perfect for HR teams looking to drive engagement and impact—download your free copy today.

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Harnessing your Staff Personalities for Business Resilience

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A webinar exploring the benefits of Insights Discovery for your team.

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Can I Train Witnesses for the Employment Tribunal?

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We all know that coaching a witness for an Employment Tribunal is wrong, but can you train witnesses for the Employment Tribunal (ET)? What’s the difference between coaching and training, and where should employers draw the line?

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Webinar: Firefighting → Futureproofing: How to Create a Proactive ER Culture May 2025

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How to be Respectfully Curious about Mental Health

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How you can develop your managers’ competence and confidence in initiating and holding conversations about mental health?

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The Feedback Formula: A proactive approach to performance conversations

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The world of work is changing fast—and so is employment law. With new reforms coming into play across 2025 and 2026, there’s a growing focus on fairness, transparency, and how…

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New Mock Investigation Events Coming to Manchester & Birmingham this Summer

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HR professionals – do workplace investigations ever feel messy, time-consuming, and overwhelming for your managers? You’re not alone… but we’re here to help. This summer, we’re bringing our interactive, face-to-face…

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Download: How to Make Good Disciplinary Decisions

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Our learning experts have put together this workflow to help you come to, and be confident in your decision.

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Managing Sickness Absence: Tips for your Managers

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When a member of your team goes off sick and the absence becomes prolonged, how to manage the sickness absence can seem unstructured for managers as there aren’t specific ‘trigger…

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What ROI can I expect from Using Insights Discovery® Colour Energies?

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If you are investing in people and leadership development using Insights Discovery® Colour Energies this year, you are (or your FD is) probably wondering how much bang you can get…

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Good Disciplinary Decisions – Can you Believe they did it?

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What does 'genuine belief based on reasonable grounds' really mean? This free webinar with Sarah runs through a helpful workflow to ensure your disciplinary decisions are fair an legal.

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How to Performance Manage an Attitude Problem – Feb 2025

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A free workshop with our learning experts.

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Managing Conflict in the Workplace: A 4 Point Plan for HR Teams

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Managing conflict in the workplace requires an understanding of the contributory factors and personal impact on each party. Left unresolved, conflict damages long term relationships, lowers morale and threatens productivity.…

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The Do’s and Don’ts of The Grievance Process

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As employment law advisers, we are frequently asked about grievances and issues surrounding the grievance process, which put us to thinking: what is it about a grievance that fills us…

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Dignity at Work: Do Your Team Know the Behaviour Boundaries?

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Recently, we have seen an increase in challenges around employee’s understanding of standards of behaviour and where they apply. So, we spent some time taking a deeper dive...

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Mastering Performance Management: 5 Common Barriers and How to Beat Them

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Picture this: It’s been a year since Sarah’s last performance review. Sarah sits in her manager’s office, unsure of what to expect. Her manager, swamped with other tasks, skims through…

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New Code of Conduct for Directors: A Commitment Towards Ethical Leadership

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In June, the Institute of Directors (IoD) launched a public consultation on a proposed voluntary Code of Conduct for directors across all types of corporate entities. This new Code is…

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From Mate to Manager: 8 Steps to Help Navigate this Crucial Career Shift

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One of the challenges that HR often meets is supporting individuals in their move from ‘mate to manager’. Stepping into a management role is thrilling but transitioning from mate to…

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Designing your Dignity at Work Ecosystem

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What do you need to be building right now, ahead of the new requirements taking effect in October 2024? Vicky and Tim explore how to build your dignity work ‘ecosystem’ of policy, reporting tools, investigations practice and training in the light of the new legislation.

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Vista Collaborate with Leading Mental Wellbeing Provider, Thrive UK

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Vista and Thrive will be working together to help employers and HR professionals gain the knowledge, skills and tools they need to better manage mental health and wellbeing in their organisations.

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How to Prepare Witnesses for the Employment Tribunal: Tips for HR Professionals

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Vista's employment tribunal advocates share their top tips on how HR can prepare their witnesses for a favourable outcome.

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Insights Colours: What does it mean to be red, blue, yellow or green?

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How you can use Insights Colours to power up your 2024 training programme.

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5 Trends for your 2024 Leadership Training Programme

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What should be in your leadership training programme for 2024 to ensure it packs a punch? Our leadership team reviews the current trends.

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How to Manage Conflict Using Insights Colour Energies

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In this live webinar designed for HR professionals, we will provide you with practical tools and techniques to manage conflict in the workplace.

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Webinar: How to Say No Like a Pro

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In this session we explore why we’re hardwired to hate to hear no, and an oven-ready technique to help your managers say no!

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Bringing ‘outside of work’ issues, inside work: How to make your sexual harassment training stick

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Recent research from Sport England has revealed that some 60% of women worry about the risk of sexual harassment whilst out on a run. How can we start to feed this lived experience into our training to make it stick?

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The Risk of Wilful Blindness: Why Ignorance Isn’t Always Bliss

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Some tools & techniques to help HR teams to tackle Wilful Blindness and achieve a respectful and inclusive culture.

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How to Create a Neuroinclusive Culture when Working Remotely

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Practical guidance and strategies for employers, to help you foster a neuroinclusive culture, even if you work remotely.

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Building an Inclusive Culture: Navigating Respectful and Disrespectful Questions

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How to ask respectful questions.

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Vista Welcomes Two New Learning Experts to its Team

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We are so excited to be strengthening our learning team with two new employee relations training experts, Sharon Andrew and Sarah Walker. Meet them here!

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Gender Inclusivity Guide: Gender discussions into bite sized chunks

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Gender inclusivity can be a complex area to navigate. This Gender Inclusivity Guide breaks this big topic down into bite-sized chunks.

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Vista Amplifies Its Employee Relations Training with New Appointment

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Vista is pleased to introduce you to the newest member to our Learning team, Beth Armstrong. Beth joined Vista this month as an Employee Relations Trainer.

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How this game-changing technique will change the way your managers run workplace investigations forever

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Have you heard of our 3-part technique for planning workplace investigations? We designed it when we discovered that managers were consistently struggling with: How to structure their investigations so that…

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Accelerated Learning: How to apply the principles in a virtual classroom

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How can we apply accelerated learning in the digital classroom? Here’s our experience. Place your pen on a piece of paper and draw a line about 3 centimetres long diagonally…

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Diversity Training: Responding to the Voices that say it Doesn’t Work

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There has been plenty of articles of over the years pointing out why diversity training does not work. Whilst it’s not inevitable that it works, in our view, it’s equally…

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The Question Sandwich: A Practical Technique to use in a HR Investigation

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When chairing a HR investigation, there are three main issues we come across: Managers aren’t completely clear about what they are looking into They don’t plan their questions effectively They…

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How to Give Feedback: A Simple Technique for your Managers

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How to give feedback is one of the top questions we’re asked at Vista Learning HQ. When your managers are giving feedback, positive or negative, how do they know that…

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Do you have a problem with harassment at work?

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The understanding that ‘harassment at work can happen unintentionally’ is nothing new to HR or learning and development, and it could be tempting to think ‘that sort of thing’ won’t…

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Inappropriate Behaviour at Work: Why Don’t we Speak Up?

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It’s happened to most of us. ‘That joke’ (or comment, action or question) at work that made us feel uncomfortable. And yet, we put up with it – and perhaps…

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Performance Management or Bullying?

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This technique is proving a hit in our performance management training. When managers begin to put more focus on managing their teams’ performance, one of the things they dread the…

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How to Make Sure your Equality and Diversity Training Doesn’t Go Stale

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This month the word ‘banter’ was yet again the subject of a tribunal claim. In Allay (UK) Ltd v Gehlen the EAT rejected the employers defence that they had taken…

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The Digital Classroom: The Triune Brain

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We use the reptilian, or Triune brain as part of our training on a variety of topics. Its a great tool to help us understand our reactions, why they happen,…

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What is ‘Dignity at Work’ Anyway?

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Dignity at work is the title of our flagship training programme at Vista. But what does dignity at work really mean? In order to feel valued and included at work,…

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How to Make Employee Feedback Memorable: Tips for your Managers

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Great quality employee feedback is one of the best thing’s managers can give to their teams. Well-structured, constructive guidance that the recipient can use to evolve what they do; and…

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How to Write a Better Grievance Outcome Letter

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The importance of explaining your findings with evidence The first rule of the grievance outcome letter: provide reasons for any findings, backed up by evidence. It is a common fear…

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How to Conduct a First-Rate Grievance Investigation

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So, we know the importance of establishing the nature of the grievance and ensuring all of the issues are addressed. One way in which we can be confident we have…

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Dignity at Work – Meet our Dignity Dinosaurs

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Dignity at work is a complex and emotional topic and has become one of the toughest training challenges for Learning and Development professionals to tackle. We’ve developed a communication strategy…

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A Short and Sweet Guide to Soft Skills

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We’re all well versed in the benefits of soft skills training. Research has shown that they account for 90% of what makes people progress up the ladder. Whilst soft and…

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Questioning Techniques to Use During Workplace Investigations: Tips (and a sandwich) for your Managers

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When we’re supporting our clients with a workplace investigation, we find that there are three things most managers struggle with: • They aren’t clear about what it is they are…

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Achieving Respect in the Workplace: The 10 Must-Have Messages to Communicate to your Employees

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It’s well understood that achieving respect in the workplace is everyone’s job. It’s also the case that people don’t recognise that the impact of behaviour can be different to their…

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Four Practical Ways to Tackle Unconscious Bias

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We’re human, we all have unconscious biases that play a huge role in the decisions we make day in, day out, at home or at work. When these biases rear…

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An Ageing Population: What can Learning and Development do to Manage the Impact?

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Amongst social learning, digital learning and gamification, the next era of learning and development will need to address a pressing (and arguably less glitzy) challenge for UK employers – the…

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How to Manage the Grievance Appeal Process: Tips for Your Managers

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An employee has appealed against the outcome of a grievance they have raised, and one of your managers is in the frame to chair the appeal hearing. We’ve put together…

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Why Digital Learning Works: The Theory

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Digital learning, workshop learning or e-learning? It’s a challenge for employers to decipher which approach will meet their objectives. Employers often ask us which is the best way to go,…

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Dignity at Work: Meet our Dignity Dinosaurs

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Dignity at work is a complex and emotional topic and has become one of the toughest training challenges for Learning and Development professionals to tackle. One thing is for sure,…

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