Sarah-Jane McIntosh
Biography
Sarah-Jane qualified as a corporate finance lawyer with Allen & Overy and since leaving practice has focussed on the design and delivery of legal and management training courses.
She specialises in making technical legal topics easy to understand: taking out the jargon and emphasising what is important and what is not. Sarah-Jane is passionate about identifying what the delegates want or need to take away from the training session and then finding a way to ensure that is achieved.
Sarah-Jane has delivered successful training to large professional firms, companies and banks including PWC, Deloittes, Baker Tilly, Lazards, Bank of New York, Centrica, Cornwall Fund Mangers Ltd, Hebridean Housing Partnership Ltd, ICAS as well as a variety of legal updates to lawyers, directors and managers.
Sarah-Jane has developed and enhanced her knowledge of employment law through practical experience. Her management positions have included Head of Training and Development for the training company BPP and for the law firm Hammonds and a human resource consultant to smaller firms.
Specialisms
• Employment Law
• Company and Business Law
• Financial Crime
• Train the Trainer
• Effective Appraisals
Case Study
The client was aware that despite encouraging a progressive attitude within the company there were certain employees who still behaved inappropriately at work. The aim of this course was to maximise the effectiveness of the teams by increasing awareness of the consequences of certain words and actions.
We used actors to play out work place scenarios from drunken conversations at the firm’s Christmas party to a senior executive abusing the IT support when her computer crashed.
The group then suggested different courses of action for the parties and the actors played them out allowing us to discuss the potential emotional, commercial and legal implications of their choices.
The course emphasised the importance of the other party’s perception of certain words and actions as opposed to the meaning or intent of the person delivering them. This made it impossible for any member of the team to deny the benefits of positive behaviours and the cost of inappropriate behaviours not only to their colleagues and to the company but to themselves personally.
Courses
| Employment Law | Employment Law is a minefield and with new legislation coming in all the time it is crucial that managers are up to speed and understand the practical steps to take in order to mitigate future problems. This highly practical course from Right Training has been specifically designed and written by an employment law expert who understands the issues faced by modern businesses of all types. |
