CONSULTANCY SERVICES

helping Improve your business Performance

We can all be guilty of talking about HR policies and initiatives while forgetting the why? In these circumstances it is no wonder that business leaders get frustrated with HR programmes and policies. HR professional can only be effective if they truly understand the business in which they work. Only then can they help their business achieve its goals by anchoring the HR agenda to the business agenda.

On every business agenda is profit and growth and it's obvious that these are derived from loyal customers providing recurring revenue. This can only be achieved by delivering excellent customer service which is a natural product of maintaining high levels of employee satisfaction. 

​By focusing on understanding operationally what makes each business successful, how their profits are maximised, and what drives their employee satisfaction, HR CONSULTING SOLUTIONS are well placed to articulate how HR activities can be adapted to raise levels of employee satsifaction, add value, and drive up business performance. If current HR practices don't achieve this, then our recommendation is to stop doing them and rethink the plan. Only then can HR become a value add contributor rather than an insignificant appendage. Operating strategically cannot be achieved without delivering brilliant operational basics.  Below are just a few of the areas that we can help you achieve this..........

Reward and recognition

Effective reward and recognition is essential to ensuring success when recruiting, motivating and retaining your employees. Getting it wrong can be a very costly mistake. HR CONSULTING SOLUTIONS can help you understand the worth of each role in the organisation and accurately benchmark them internally and externally. Using this data we can then develop grading structures complimented with creative ways to reward and recognise your employees aligning their performance with the values and goals of the business.........    ​​​​More

Disciplinary And Grievance Investigations

We all know how time consuming the inescapable features of grievance and  disciplinary cases can be and yet the importance of thorough disciplinary and grievance investigations are attracting growing emphasis being such a critical step prior to a formal hearing. Conducting these investigations properly can cause significant disruption distracting HR team members from their day to day role of adding value to your organisation. Avoiding this disruption is a good enough reason alone for having a skilled and independent third party conducting these investigations thereby providing objectivity, and experience & knowledge. Additional support can be given through independantly chaired hearings or appeals and providing training for line managers in managing disciplinary and grievance situations .................
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Project Management

This is about delivering projects on time and within budget. You may have a project that needs specialist skills for example to be managed within the confines of employment legislation and HR department are usually so busy doing the day job, that taking time out to effectively manage a project with HR implications is just not viable. HR CONSULTING SOLUTIONS is able to offer business leaders the comfort of knowing that HR professionals with an in depth understanding of the Human Resources environment are leading the project and will identify and mitigate the potential risks that such a project may create. Projects may include re-engineering processes, outsourcing or insourcing functions, introducing a new employee programme or running an employee survey to name a few....................

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Talent and Performance Management

Many organisations have performance or talent management strategies which focus too much on the individual's career aspirations rather than taking the business where it needs to go. Talent conversations first and foremost have to start with reality. An effective performance management system needs to be centred on delivering business goals and improvement. HR CONSULTING SOLUTIONS can help you align your talent and performance management strategy to your business strategy. This results in an empowered and motivated workforce fully committed to taking the business where it needs to go............   ​​​​​​More 

Policy Development and Employee Handbooks

Is writing and updating policies and creating employee handbooks the best use of your HR resource's time? Getting HR policies and procedures right is essential but it is very time consuming and often results in your HR team being distracted from delivering the HR initiatives which help improve business performance. HR CONSULTING SOLUTIONS can develop these for you, ensuring that they reflect company values and set the tone for the right performance standards, behaviour and therefore help manage both employee and employer expectations. Additionally. when written correctly along with the employment contracts, they reduce the pressure on those providing first line HR support and ensure that the company is legally compliant and protected against litigation................​  ​​​​​Call or email us for further info

Process Reengineering

For business functions to operate effectively, they must make the best use of technology, systems and processes, be appropriately structured with clear boundaries for responsibility and accountability and good channels of communication. HR CONSULTING SOLUTIONS can help you develop an objective view of how your business operates, how information flows, where inefficiences exist and recommend and implement improvements. The expected outcomes may include reduced costs, an increase in responsiveness, higher employee engagement and an improvement in internal and external customer service levels................  ​​​​​​Call or email us for further info

Employee engagement & Employee Surveys

Businesses that recognise the changing needs of their clients and hand the power to their employees to adapt to meet those needs can then go on to improve their performance. This demands an engaged workforce who want to go the extra mile to deliver an outstanding product or service to the customers - but how do you get there? Value uniqueness in your employees, place trust in your people and foster values such as adaptability and innovation. Employee Surveys are a key strength within HR CONSULTING SOLUTIONS and are an invaluable tool for identifying the degree to which employees believe that you trust them, and value their contribution ...................  ​​More

Leadership Development

When it is done well, leadership development programmes not only benefits a business and its leaders, but they can also act as a catalyst for top down cultural change. As an alternative to providing conventional vanilla leadership courses, HR CONSULTING SOLUTIONS advocate the assessment of leader's competencies before and after development intervention to measure the actual behaviour and performance of senior leaders. The leaders can be given feedback on their strengths and development gaps and given support and guidance to create their own development plans and choose their own development interventions. By giving the leaders objective data on develop needs and how they progress, this assessment focused approach enables tailored leadership development aligned to drive real change, business improvement and better engaged leaders..................  ​​​​Call or email us for further info

Mergers and acquisitions

The success of a merger or acquisition is not only judged by the level of increased growth and profit to the business but also how smoothly employees are transferred.  Transferring staff from one organisation to another is one thing: integrating their knowledge succesfully into the wider business is quite another. HR CONSULTING SOLUTIONS have expertise in handling mergers and aquisitions, be it conducting due diligence,  completing service agreement reviews, integrating cultures and knowledge, aligning and reengineering processes or harmonsing practices. Choosing to place these key processes in the hands of experienced professionals can make the different between the success or failure ​of a new business venture.........................  ​​Call or email us for further info

Key Services


Here are some examples of how we can make a difference and add real value to your organisation

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  • ​Organisation ​Restructuring
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  • Redundancy Management
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  • Absence Management
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