Recruitment

Designing your recruitment to ensure that every new member of your organisation is going to add value and stay with you beyond what can be an expensive training period is crucial to your success.

When was the last time you reviewed your recruitment process?

We will help you to review your role descriptions and person specifications to bring them up to date with what you need for now and in the future. We will help you to design an approach to attracting the right people to fill those roles and the selection criteria and methods to ensure that only the best of these people are recruited. We will also work with you to create an on boarding approach that will get your new employees adding value as quickly as possible.

We can also review your Preferred Supplier List with you and put in place effective methods for managing these suppliers. We can help you outsource recruitment or bring more of it in house, whichever we deem as most appropriate for you in terms of the cost and quality of your recruitment.

We have experience of recruiting in some of the countries biggest employers and have designed and implemented recruitment strategies for diverse roles from Senior Executives to Sales and Customer Service roles.

We also provide an executive search and selection service which is bespoke to your needs and very competitive on price.

 Performance Management

Your people are often one of your greatest costs; they can also be your greatest competitive edge.

An effective approach to getting the most from your employees is what is required but often not in place or implemented well.

Are ALL your people adding value to your organisation?

We can support you to create a regular cycle of effective performance goal setting, performance review and performance issue resolution.

We can help you to develop your managers to be able to identify the right goals and levels of expectation in regard to both what people to do and how they do it. We can develop their skills in reviewing performance on a daily, weekly, monthly, annual basis and give constructive feedback, criticism and recognition.

We can also help you to make the link between your performance management approach and your reward and recognition schemes.

We have designed performance management solutions to achieve organisational strategies and goals in diverse organisations across the UK and Europe adding £millions of value to the bottom line.

 Reward and Recognition

We keep hearing about “The war for talent”. So much is often done to attract the very best people to join and organisation. So many promises are made to get people to leave another employer and the recruitment/replacement costs can often be up to a years worth of salary.

Reward is often a key reason why people move organisations. Does the way in which you reward people get the most value from people once they join you? Does the way in which you reward and recognise people incentivise people to always do their best and to stay with you?

Reward needs to be seen as fair and equitable as well as at an overall level which is attractive. It is not enough to pay someone well for the job that they do, they also want to be paid well compared to their peer group and based on their specific contribution to the business.

Bonuses and incentives need to be seen as fair and equitable and also achievable if they are to have the effect of being a motivator to work harder or smarter or change skills or behaviour.

Are you rewarding people in the most effective way to achieve your organisational goals and aspirations?

Are you doing enough over and above reward to recognise your best people and to recognise specific contributions that really make a difference to your organisations success?

We can help you to do this and it doesn’t have to mean spending more money, just spending it differently!

 Communication

Often the most common criticism from employees, “communication here is awful”. Even those organisations that are good at it could be better. Ever heard the phrase: “it’s not what you say it’s how you say it” You may communicate a lot and spend a lot of time and money on it but is it effective? Is it getting people to think differently, feel different, and act different?

Your communication is critical to your success. It is also often said that “knowledge is power”, this can be true but only if shared.

Compelling communication of your organisations vision and strategy and plans for success are the foundations for your success. People can only contribute effectively if they know what they are trying to achieve, why this is important and what is in it for them. Once people understand this they can use their initiative more and achieve more for you more quickly. When people understand the bigger picture they are more innovative and challenging and will offer solutions more than obstacles.

We can help you to create compelling communication content, methods and tools. We can also develop your communication style and skills so that all employees are engaged with the organisations goals and values and so that every effort they make adds value to the bottom line.

 Reorganisation

Making changes to structures and roles can often be seen as “moving the deck chairs on the Titanic”.

Change for change sake in this area can sometimes be a criticism too.

Is a reorganisation the best solution? Is the investment worth the return? Are you sufficiently capable of reorganising effectively so that you realise the return on your investment?

Reorganisations are always more time consuming and costly than you plan them to be. Often this is because they are not well thought through, often knee jerk reactions to an issue.

We can help you challenge your thinking before you take action.

We can work with you minimise cost and disruption and risk.

We can support management to achieve the change quickly and effectively so that it feels like a positive change for everyone even if that means people are made redundant.

Organisations need to change to remain successful and sustainable. Each change needs handling well so that employees don’t get change fatigue and change resistant.

We have well regarded expertise in creating positive changes and at the same time developing the change capability of the management team.

 Organisation design

A world class organisation is like a world class anything. Rising above the competition and sustaining success requires your organisation to be designed to compete within the challenges of today, culture, skills, structures, processes and systems need to be designed to work effectively together like a formula one racing car. They need to be in tune with the economic environment and the social environment and the product or service being sold.

When was the last time that you took that helicopter view of your organisation? Is it fit for now and for the future?

We can work with you to review your organisation design and to implement changes effectively so that you have that competitive edge.

We can help you to identify the changes required to structure, reward, performance management, knowledge, skills and behaviour, recruitment, training and management style. We can help you to create a change plan and implement it ensuring that every change works in synchronisation with each other to give maximum effect.