The Centre for Applied HR
CPD Certified Training
The Centre for Applied HR
CPD Certified Training
Live online, CPD-certified courses aligned to Irish, UK and European HR practice and codes of practice. Built and taught by a practising HR consultant with over 23 years of experience, not a textbook.
Each course leads to a formal, internationally recognised CPD certificate on completion. Click through for the full outline, dates and to apply.
Built and delivered by a practising HR consultant who has represented companies in hundreds of employment and labour court cases. The realistic approaches they don't teach you in college.
Every course is built around current Irish, UK and European HR practice and codes of practice, so you learn HR the way it is actually done, wherever you want to work.
Certified by The CPD Certification Service and recognised internationally by employers and professional bodies. You finish with a formal CPD certificate as proof of accredited professional development.
Catherine has built many strategic HR plans and resolved disciplinary matters at the sharp end of Irish employment practice. These courses distil that real-world experience into a clear, practical method you can apply immediately, the kind of knowledge most universities simply cannot deliver, because it is lived, not studied.
View the CoursesHave a question about a course, the dates, or CPD certification? Send it here and Catherine will reply personally.
Most HR functions are busy but reactive. They run payroll, handle issues and keep the lights on, but they do not have a plan a managing director would recognise as strategic. This course closes that gap.
Over three live sessions you build a real strategic HR plan, spanning 12 months to three years and tied directly to business goals, using a clear, repeatable method: pillars and projects, properly planned, properly timelined. You leave with a genuine plan, not notes.
What strategy means in HR, the pillar method introduced, and the People pillar worked in full.
Irish, UK and EU legislative updates, policies and the handbook, GDPR and health and safety, then HRIS, AI and HR metrics.
Breaking pillars into projects, owners, timelines and buy-in; leading the plan as change; HR metrics; and the course assessment.
On completion, and on passing the knowledge assessment, you receive a formal CPD certificate from The Centre for Applied HR, certified by The CPD Certification Service and recognised internationally by employers and professional bodies across Ireland, the UK, Europe and beyond.
Getting a disciplinary process wrong is one of the costliest mistakes an employer can make. This course teaches you how to get it right, step by step, using real-life scenarios.
The core message runs through everything: a disciplinary case is won or lost on the HOW, on whether due process was followed and any dismissal carried out correctly and fairly, not on who did what. Employers certain the employee was in the wrong still lose when the process does not hold up.
The legal framework, the six stages from preliminary assessment to appeal, the sanctions ladder, suspension, and routing matters correctly between absence, performance and conduct.
A role-played disciplinary hearing, a scenario clinic, building the evidence bundle, real cases worked in depth, and the course assessment.
On completion, and on passing the knowledge assessment, you receive a formal CPD certificate from The Centre for Applied HR, certified by The CPD Certification Service and recognised internationally.