We recognise that managing HR situations in the workplace can take up precious time and often leaves line managers feeling frustrated or unsure about how best to resolve these situations, which Is why we can offer a range of services on a need’s basis.
This is why in addition to our managed service; we provide tailored consultancy services to meet your needs and budget. We will arrange to meet with you to discuss what you require and agree the scope of the work and the number of hours or days required.
Examples of projects undertaken using our HR consultancy services...
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BrooklandsHR will be your trusted partner for specific workforce planning solutions. Our consultancy and research experts will help you identify, understand and achieve the change you need.
Our unique workforce planning service ensures your organisation has the right skills, and is the right size, to deliver a high-quality service at a cost you can afford.
Starting with an organisational strategy, we will support your organisation to align its workforce initiatives with wider strategic frameworks, developing and implementing workforce initiatives to help meet your business goals. Structured workforce development will mean that you start with a clean benchmark of the skills people have, and the skills they need for the future.
The fundamental elements of our Workforce Development solutions are to:
To support your workforce, and based upon the identified and recommend competencies, we are able to clarify and articulate the capabilities needed for job roles by designing customised training and sourcing required qualifications. Furthermore, we can develop mentoring and action learning initiatives that are supported by integrated performance management and learning and development systems.
We will work closely with you to design and deliver the best solution to meet your needs.
We can ensure your contracts, handbooks, policies and procedures benefit your business, not hinder it. When used effectively, they can improve the efficiency of your people and support your managers to do their job.
We believe that any business would benefit from sensible, ‘plain English’ contracts and policies that do the job but don’t tie you in knots. It’s always important to get the balance right, in that you want your employment contracts, policies and procedures to be robust and comprehensive, protecting you in all the likely situations that could come up. But you also don’t want to get tied up in over-complex obligations and processes that prevent you from being agile when you need to be.
We will ensure that you have in place robust, clear terms that offers clarity to what needs to be contractual and what you could leave as discretionary. Furthermore, it’s ensuring your clauses, terms and restrictive covenants are fit for purpose. It is also important that you have the necessary built-in flexibility to adapt to changing situations.
It is important that HR policies and procedures not only need to be legally compliant but also need to be tailored to your organisation and employees. This is particularly useful if you have specialist staff or departments, or a specific problem to be resolved. We will work with you to understand your needs and to create bespoke policies that work for your business.
We at BrooklandsHR, offer a range of short courses and training programmes and coaching programs for frontline managers, senior managers and leaders.
All of our programmes are aimed to develop manager capability with practical management skills that deliver return on investment for organisations; therefore, improving performance and engagement for managers and their teams.
We are able to develop essential management skills for those taking on their first management role. Afterall, there are many challenges faced by new managers in that the new role can be more demanding than originally anticipated.
BrooklandsHR offers a range of short courses, training programs, coaching and self-paced learning programs to assist new managers to make the transition to their new role and enhance their effectiveness. Our learning and development solutions combine structured learning with on the job projects, feedback tools and reports to ensure learners apply skills and develop capability and drive results for themselves and their organisations.
We also offer a range of coaching, management training programmes and management short course options available for managers and leaders. These vary from the equivalent of a one-day course to a full management and leadership programme. BrooklandsHR also offers certification for leaders and managers seeking a practical, work based certificate option.
Performance management and development is the cornerstone to securing high performance of your teams. It’s recognised that a good performance management process will focus on the quality of discussions between managers and staff and has many benefits for your organisation as a whole. Afterall, a good and effective performance management and development will link your business goals with the work of individual staff and tackle poor performance, as well as identifying and developing talent.
How effective is your current recruitment process? Do you struggle to attract applicants with the right skills and experience? Do you have high turnover of staff?
The recruitment process is the beginning of an employment relationship and it is therefore important to get it right and present a professional company image. Remember applicants are making a decision about you and your company.
The cost of making a wrong recruitment decision can be expensive and usually leads to wasted time and resources. Here is how we can help you...
Some investigations could easily take over 20 hours to conduct, so do you have that to spare? It’s difficult to find the time, resources and skills to conduct detailed investigations into disciplinary and grievance matters, and for line managers to commit, taking you all away from your main responsibilities.
They can be gruelling and tiresome, and some small businesses may not be able to demonstrate they’ve been conducted fairly, transparently and independently. Unfortunately, it’s also easy for an employee to complain that an internal investigation by a manager will reach a foregone conclusion. Sometimes an external investigation sends an important message. It’s recognised that external investigations provide a far more impartial view, which can provide useful information across your business.
By commissioning an independent report, BrooklandsHR will provide you not only with a cost effective and impartial high quality first stage to the disciplinary or grievance process, it’s likely to improve your legal position if the case later ends up in an Employment Tribunal claim.
For disciplinary and grievance matters we offer an investigation and report service with all the benefit of HR specialist input. We know how Employment Tribunals tend to view investigations and investigatory processes. We understand the sort of detail expected to have gone into. The sort of probing questions you ought to have asked.
An investigatory report from us gives you:
It is our view that restructuring, and redundancies should be handled strongly, with a sound process, but empathetic due to people’s jobs and livelihoods being on the line. Therefore, legally watertight but also very reasonable and dignified towards those employees facing disruption or dismissal. Certainly, taking a caring, human approach reduces your legal risk enormously.
It is very possible that restructuring and redundancies will raise a number of issues and queries that cannot be factored into a policy and procedure, and for that reason it is sensible to have a guided approach – BrooklandsHR can assist you with that.
Our belief is good structured planning is everything. We can support you strongly at the initial planning stage, working with you on your strategy, the overall process and timetable. We are able to provide you with the highest level of expert advice on your selection pools, selection criteria, scoring methods, scripts for meetings and record keeping.
In additional to Restructuring and Redundancies, there’ the lovely concept of Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE). TUPE rules and regulations can be complex, primarily as they’re always changing.
Our team of specialists have experience working with employers and business owners facing TUPE situations.
We will provide you with the highest quality tailored advice and practical guidance to assist you through due diligence, contract negotiations and a smooth business transfer. We will ensure that you have the confidence that you are not left in a vulnerable position in the future.
Having the right Pay and Reward policies and initiatives can inspire and motivate your employees. However, get it wrong and could experience low productivity and retention difficulties.
Here at BrooklandsHR, we can help you to design and implement pay structures that fit your organisation’s needs, direction and culture.
It’s so important to avoid waste and ensure that every aspect of your Pay & Reward policies drive the right behaviours. Yet so often, they don’t – often because of a lack of a proper review for many years. We can review your current Pay & Reward approach and either suggest improvements or design and implement a brand new one which help you boost business performance.
Whatever your HR needs are, we can ensure that they are completed on time, to your requirements and with the minimal impact upon your day-to-day operations.
We become an extension of your company, and we do so at an affordable fixed monthly cost.
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Making the process run efficiently, saving time and money
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