HR Consultancy and Advice
It
may be a well-worn statement but it is entirely true that
“employees are an organisation's most valuable asset”.
It is equally true that getting the most from
employees is no easy task, one that requires particular skills
and expertise as well as a large investment of time.
Please read about :
The Hugh James HR Consultancy team delivers
astute expertise to ensure that your greatest asset doesn’t turn
into your worst nightmare.
We deliver a wide range
of services to busy HR teams to assist them in delivering results.
We understand that advising about people goes well beyond the law.
We take time to understand the bigger picture - the regulatory
context, the internal ramifications and the sensitivities to ensure
that your objectives are achieved.
Our service is provided
by highly experienced practitioners, led by John McManus who
has extensive HR experience at senior management level in many
industries including:
- Banking & Finance
- Housing Associations
- Insurance
- IT
- Legal
- Manufacturing
- Telecommunications
Services can be provided
as one-off projects alongside your own in-house team or as an
ongoing support to businesses; ranging from high level strategic
support to more immediate crisis management.
Our HR Consultancy
Service is an integral part of the Employment and HR Services Team.
This means that it complements the employment law advice services
and ensures that clients have a complete HR solution.
Real value and a positive
impact to organisations can be achieved by HR practioners
developing or directing strategy or in the way matters are actually
handled in the workplace.
Services can be provided in a number of ways
including:
- Boardroom & executive issues
- Change management
- Conflict management
- Compliance audit
- Development/implementation of staff opinion surveys
- Dispute resolution
- HR strategy
- Interim management
- Investigation of grievances or disciplinary issues
- Job evaluation
- Managing redundancies or re-organisations
- Mediation services with ACAS accredited mediators
- Mentoring and coaching
- Outsourcing your HR requirements
- Performance management
- Pay and benefits review & benchmarking
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Hugh James HR consultancy and
advice experience
The HR Consultancy team has significant
experience across a wide range of sectors and business types
including:
- Successfully developed and facilitated change management
programmes for a variety of organisations.
- Accomplished the effective delivery of a major new
competency based performance management process for a legal
services firm of over 600 employees.
- Significantly changed secretarial working practices increasing
productivity as well as reducing headcount costs by more than £200k
a year for a legal sector firm.
- Successfully developed and launched a new staff consultation
forum and undertaken staff surveys.
- Launched a team of 15 HR specialists successfully TUPE
transferred and integrating over 3,000 staff worldwide for
IBM.
- Designed and delivered director assessment programmes for
Lloyds TSB.
- Considerable experience of resolving difficult employee
conflict situations, often providing practical solutions and where
necessary bringing in legal advice on options.
- Wide experience of implementing redundancy and restructure
proposals including at senior management level. The range of
support can vary from ad hoc advice to project managing the
process and assisting with the communication strategy.
- Coaching and mentoring of senior management employees.
- Providing strategic direction and input for a number of
organisations to ensure that the HR resources/strategy helps the
organisation to achieve its business objectives in the most cost
efficient way.
- Facilitating senior management development programmes.
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Related events
Social housing training
consortium
Hugh James Conference Suite, Cardiff
Ongoing dates
Following the success of the Local
Authority Training Consortium which was launched by Hugh James in
April of this year, we have now in partnership with Community
Housing Cymru ("CHC"), launched an identical forum within the
Social Housing Sector.
Training
Hugh James also offers a comprehensive list of training
services. Find out how we can help train your business employees by
looking at our Training
programme.
Contact
Alison Love
Partner, Head of Employment and HR Services Group
E alison.love@hughjames.com
T 029 2039 1075
