How can we help your business

We provide strategic advice to organisations looking to maximise the value of their people. We work in partnership with clients across a range of areas:

People Management

• Developing performance management and employee motivation programmes
• Managing talent and retaining exceptional staff
• Help with managing probation periods, appraisals, pay reviews, promotions and similar employment milestones
• Implementing employee wellbeing and engagement initiatives
• Best-practice advice on handling dismissals, disciplinary, grievances and other major employment issues
• Succession planning and staff development

Change Management

• Developing change programmes to ensure employees accept and support new policies or processes
• Advising on redundancy, restructuring, merger, relocation and other major changes

Pay and Benefits

• Developing pay structures, commissions schemes, performance bonuses and other reward programmes
• Implementing flexible benefits and other motivational staff incentives
• Auditing current reward systems to identify any potential issues
• Answering any questions with regard to staff pay and appropriate benefits
• Advice on pay equality and the impact of equality legislation on pay and benefits
• Benchmarking salaries and evaluating employee benefits

Operational HR

• Reviewing or developing employment contracts and HR document templates
• Ensuring staff handbooks are kept up to date and are compliant with relevant UK legislation
• HR administration and record keeping
• Advice on use and implementation of HR information systems
• Development of policies or procedures to meet specific organisational objectives

Recruitment

• Induction of new starters and ensuring they fully understand what is required in their roles
• Reducing recruitment costs by advising on appropriate job advertising sources and negotiating with staffing agencies
• Help defining jobs and job adverts to ensure that responsibilities are clear and meet all relevant UK legal requirements
• Developing robust selection and short-listing processes
• Assisting with interviews, assessment centres or psychometric testing
• Verifying credentials and conducting background screening on job applicants
• Assisting with relocation and expatriate management

Training

• Implementing mentoring and coaching programmes
• Training-needs analysis
• Development of bespoke training for either individuals or teams
• Management of external training providers to ensure cost efficiency and measurable return on investment
• Developing continuing professional development (CPD) schedules for professionally qualified technical staff