One-day INCOMPANY workshop "The good employer"
Dutch Labour Law and HRM Essentials: Lead with Values, Act with Clarity.
#PeopleFirst
From Rules to Results: Dutch Labour Law for Values Driven Leadership.
Empowered management starts with clarity. This workshop equips HR professionals, managers, young leaders and entrepreneurs with the legal insight and leadership mindset to build thriving teams—while staying fully compliant with Dutch employment law.
Whether you’re navigating performance issues, contract renewals, or reintegration after illness, this training transforms legal complexity into confident, values-driven leadership.
Your people are your company’s greatest strength. Effective leadership means being true to your values while understanding the rules that protect your teams and your business. This isn’t just compliance—it’s culture-building.
What you’ll gain
What you’ll gain in this workshop with max 8 participants:
- The opportunity for practical case work and personalised advice
- Up-to-date knowledge of Dutch employment law and case law
- Legal clarity on performance, illness, reintegration, and labour conflicts
- Tools to prevent underperformance before it starts
- Confidence in renewing contracts and managing behaviour issues
- A stronger foundation for collaboration between HR and leadership
- Contemporary leadership philosophies, new org models and HR practices
- A Certificate of Achievement to support your personal and career development.
Personal intake included: you receive a 1-hour personal intake and advice session (in person or online). We’ll explore:
- Your personal and company values
- Your prior knowledge in the field of employment law
- Collective labour agreement, HR handbook / personnel manual, standard contracts of your organization
- Your learning goals and current challenges
Tailormade In-company Workshops
We can also offer the Good Employer workshop in-company for your managers and/or HR professionals or if you have several colleagues with the same training need.
Because the participants then share the company background, more than 8 people may participate; the recommended maximum is approx 10 people. The workshop will of course be fully tailored to your wishes and needs.
- Intake: including an extensive intake to incorporate your internal HR policies, labour contract formats and current challenges.
- Embedded: everything we do in the incompany workshop will be embedded in your HR vision, values and ambition.
- Topics: you can select any one of our workshops which can all be offered as individual incompany workshops. Alternatively, we can select topics from the various workshops that we offer to create a fully tailormade incompany workshop.
- Certificate: each participant will receive a ‘Certificate of Achievement’.
- Location: we can work on location at or near your office, in our training room in Baarn, online or in a hybrid combination.
One of A kind workshop
A one of a kind workshop embedding a sound knowledge of the requirements of labour law and HRM principles in personal values and ambitions, which propels career development and setting your managers and young leaders up for success.
Your teacher and founder of the HRM college, Arthur Hol, believes in #PeopleFirst—always.
Arthur is partner at the Amsterdam-based law firm De Koning Vergouwen. He is a former international HR Manager at Royal Dutch Shell and KLM and holds university degrees in both Law and Organizational Psychology. As your trusted advisor, he is committed to educating and empowering young leaders and strengthening the relationship between HR and management, creating a culture of shared responsibility, proactive leadership, and results-driven collaboration.
Lead Legally. Manage Brilliantly.
Legal Foundations for Daily Practice Practical Case Work
Collaborative sessions with human resource specialists, young leaders and managers strengthen bonds and break down silos between HR and management, setting everyone up for success.
Smart Leadership, Sound Law.
The Confident Manager: Dutch Labour Law Made Practical.
Empowered Management, Protected Teams: Dutch Labour Law Training.
What Participants Say
“This workshop helped me shift from reactive firefighting to proactive leadership.”
“Arthur’s approach is refreshingly human. He connects legal insight with real leadership.”
ReADY TO LEAD SMARTER?
Invest in your managers. Protect your teams. Achieve your values.
Join “The Good Employer” workshop and transform your leadership from compliant to confident.
Book your spot now
Please contact us to make an appointment so we can discuss your specific wishes and needs, free of obligation, at 035 – 887 48 35 or .
Workshop location
The open registration workshops are held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Baarn, Villa Mollerus (Mollerusstraat 1), a 10 min. walk from Baarn train station, circa 30 min. from Amsterdam and Utrecht). Parking is free at the location. The workshops always include tea/coffee and an extensive lunch, in the same building.
‘On location’ workshops are hybrid, i.e. they allow for online participation as well, which works well given the fact that we work in small groups (maximum number of 8 participants). The prices for the on-site and online workshops are the same.
All of our workshops are also available in the form of a one-on-one workshop or on an in company basis, with different prices.
Workshops dates 2025 - 2026
Your investment
With open registration for individual participation € 997 excluding VAT, payable in advance and including one hour personal intake & advice, reading materials, lunch & tea/coffee, certificate of achievement.
For an in-company workshop you have various options. Regardless of the number of participants:
- A one-day (7-8 hours) workshop at € 4997 ex VAT.
- A half-day (3-4 hours) workshop at € 2997 ex VAT.
- All options payable in advance.
If your branch, professional or network organization has a cooperation agreement with us, a discount may apply. Indicate this under remarks during registration, stating the organization.