Consultancy Services
We provide our consultancy services in the way that best suits the needs of your business. You may be an organisation that does not have the luxury of their own in house human resource function, you may be a business just starting up or a business with its own in house human resource function requiring assistance with a project. What ever your size we can help. We can work with you face to face, by email , telephone or a regular site visit. We can provide a full human resource or part service, manage a one off project or just provide some advice. Here are some of the ways we can help you to achieve through your people.
Reviewing your Human Resource Systems
Identifying the human resource needs of your business is vital for improving business performance. Let us complete a free human resource review of your employee documentation, policies, procedures and practices to start this process.
Recruitment & Selection
Recruiting is not a cheap process. On average it costs nearly £5,000 to recruit someone according to CIPD’s 2005 Recruitment, Retention and Turnover Survey. So the last thing you want to do is fit a square peg into a round hole. Let us assist with this process by defining requirements – preparing job descriptions and person specifications. Attracting candidates by identifying appropriate recruitment sources . By selecting candidates – sifting applications, identifying appropriate selection methods including assessment centres, interview design, obtaining references and preparing offer letters, terms and conditions of employment and employee handbooks. Finally by training your managers to recruit there own team members.
Employee Induction
They say a third of all employees leave during the first few months of employment and this is called induction crisis. How much does that cost your organisation? One of the main causes of this is a lack of an induction programme. Induction is the process of receiving and welcoming employees when they first join an organisation and giving them the skill and knowledge they need to settle down quickly and happily and start work. Successful induction programmes consist of a department induction, company induction and the job skill and knowledge required to perform their role.
Performance Appraisal
Reviewing performance, setting goals and identifying learning and development needs. Performance appraisal is one of the key elements of a performance management system, whether it be for existing employees or new starters. Are you wanting your employees to work towards the achievement of the organisations goals? Working with you we can design and implement a performance appraisal system, competency based or otherwise and train your appraisers in how to conduct a motivational appraisal.
Absence Management
Quote CIPD 2006 ‘On average sickness absence costs employers £598 per employee per year. If you add this up its quite a cost. Does your organisation have an absence problem? There are two types of employee sickness absence – short term and long term. Both can be managed but need to be handled differently.
Discipline & Grievance Handling
Failure to follow the statutory disciplinary, dismissal and grievance procedure prior to dismissal will render the dismissal automatically unfair. Employers will pay a potential increase in compensation of between 10% - 50% if these procedures are not followed. Are your procedures compliant with the law? Do your managers need the skill and knowledge to be able to implement them correctly?
Human Resource Policies and Procedure Development
Human Resource policies and procedures are the framework within which actions take place. They promote consistency and equity in the way people are treated. Policies and procedures cover all areas of human resources for example discipline, grievance, recruitment, sickness absence, performance management, induction, equal opportunities and family friendly. We can develop and implement policies for your organisation.
Employee File/ Administration
Maintaining human resource records can be a time consuming process. Yet they need to be maintained from a legal perspective. Let us take the strain of maintaining your records from you.
Auditing of Learning and Development Systems
Are you working towards Investors in People or just looking to implement best practice. Let us audit your learning and development policies and practices to identify how best to achieve your organisations goals.
Learning & Development Policies, Practices & Procedures
Linking learning and development to the organisations goals, defining learning needs, deciding what sort of learning and development is required to satisfy these needs. Implement the learning and evaluating to ensure it has been effective.
