Overview
Our strategic HR advisory practice covers the entirety of the people and culture space. We also have the ability to support and advise those of you with regional and/or global HR teams.
Workforce Planning
Whether you are an HR leader that needs additional guidance with your workforce planning activities or a CEO that requires a full workforce planning solution, we have the research and writing capability to support you with the following:
- Analysing workforce supply
- Analysing workforce demand
- Assessing workforce demographics
- Identifying core skill sets required to achieve anticipated growth targets and associated strategic objectives
- Forecasting staffing requirements aligned to organisational strategy
- Performance/potential matrix exercises to identify internal candidates suitable for progression within the business
- Articulating workforce planning conclusions in strategy documents/submissions to the CEO and/or Board.
Contact us and we can commence workforce planning services for you today.
HR Data and Metrics
Data is critical to inform people decisions and strategy. We can support you with advisory services in relation to key HR data including:
- Attrition (exits)
- Regrettable departures (ie: the people you want to keep)
- Leave patterns and trends
Sick leave - Unpaid personal leave
- Employee engagement.
Contact us today and we can assist you with accessing meaningful HR data that adds credibility to your various HR activities.
Reward and Recognition
Whether you need advisory services on specific reward activities or high touch support with the development of an organisation wide recognition strategy, our service offering covers the following:
- Best practice reward and recognition activities and initiatives suitable for your particular organisation
- Translation of engagement survey findings into practical reward activities
- Tailoring reward and recognition activities relevant to various different staffing populations and levels of seniority
- Short term and long term incentivisation
- Individual vs team based reward and recognition
- Annual bonus payments
- Economic increases
- Sign-on bonus payments
- Finders fee programs
- Additional leave (eg: 50/52, 48/52)
- Consultation on employee reward
- Site based incentive and recognition schemes
Contact us today and we can make sure that you have the reward and recognition related expertise that you need to strengthen engagement across your workforce.
Global HR Services
We can offer practical experience in the planning and direction of global HR services gained from coordinating a team of experienced HR Managers spread across 8 locations worldwide:
- Berlin, Germany
- Melbourne, Australia
- Toronto, Canada
- Shanghai, China
- Dublin, Ireland
- Brno, Czech Republic
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Cape Town, South Africa
Our suite of global HR services includes:
- Development and of Global HR infrastructure including HR vision, objectives and metrics
- Development of Global HR processes to strengthen alignment of people activities across multiple geographies and jurisdictions
- Coordination of the HR response to global challenges – such as IRREG situations/weather/health/hub closures and alike
- Development of country specific HR solutions to HR and IR issues across the full suite of contemporary people and culture activities.
Contact us for advice today and we can partner with you on the design and delivery of your global or regional HR strategy, systems and processes.
Professional Development
If you need expert advice on the most appropriate type of professional development for you, members of your management team or those identified suitable for internal progression, we are here to help. Professional learning and development programs that we can point you in the right direction on include:
- The ‘Mini MBA’
- Managing hybrid
- Mental Health First Aid
- Investigations
- Coaching
- Governance
- Managing Difficult Conversations
- Change Management
- From Peer to Manager
- Finance for Non-Financial Managers
- International education programs for Senior Executives.
We also offer bespoke training and coaching for you, your HR team and members of your management group. Specialist areas of HR related training unique to us include:
- Managing the Probationary Process Effectively
- Performance Improvement Planning
- Grievance Management and Resolution (complaints in the workplace)
- Performance and Disciplinary Management (informal counselling/formal counselling/warning/final warning/show cause/termination).
Our training programs come with relevant educational materials and literature as well as tools and templates for you and your participants to take away and implement.
Contact us today for guidance and advice on the most appropriate professional developmental activities for your business. We also have a catalogue of Professional Development Plan (PDP) tools and templates that you can access as part of your overall performance management and development strategy.
Coaching
Our comprehensive coaching service for business leaders includes:
- Conducting coaching needs analysis
- Coaching program design
- Coaching a group vs individual/one on one coaching
- Guidance on the preparation of a personal mission statement (personal goals/professional goals/global view)
- Evaluation of personal competencies
- Consideration of the need for peer review and/or 360 degree feedback
- Action plans development inclusive of both immediate and longer term goals
- Timelines and setting time-bound goals for achievement.
Contact us today and let us develop and implement a coaching solution to suit your specific requirements.
Communications
HR leaders increasingly responsible for a communications portfolio and may have the role title ‘Executive Director People, Culture and Communications’. We can assist you with people related communication across the following:
- People and Culture related website copy
- Social media publications (including LinkedIn advertising)
- Print media recruitment initiatives
- Candidate information packs for Senior Executive roles
- Annual report writing on HR initiatives and achievements
- Corporate business plan and business unit plan writing aligned to organisational strategy
- Board papers and sub-committee submissions
- Drafting key organisational communication pieces
- Tailoring communication to relevant stakeholders/audiences
Intranet communication.
Contact us today and let support your internal and external communication requirements.
Volunteers
Contact us today and we can provide you with the guidance you need to establish and/or strengthen your volunteer infrastructure.
If you need advice on how to implement volunteer arrangements, then we can assist you with volunteer services administration including:
- Volunteer Policy
- Volunteer Agreements
- Volunteer Induction processes.