HR Consultancy
HR Strategy
Does your current HR strategy align with your business goals? Do you have the right number of staff, with the right knowledge, skills and abilities, in the right roles, at the right time and at the right cost to meet the needs of the organisation? Are your staff engaged and motivated to support your organisation’s vision and values?
At WorkNest, we help organisations shape their workforce , empowering employees to unlock their full potential and drive organisational success.
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The benefits of our strategic HR support
An effective HR strategy goes beyond policies and processes – it’s a clear plan that aligns your people initiatives with your business goals. By taking a strategic approach to managing your workforce, you can build a more agile, engaged, and cost-effective organisation, ready to succeed now and in the future.
By aligning your people initiatives with your business goals, we’ll help you:
Create a tailored People Plan with actionable steps and ongoing support, ensuring your long-term objectives are met.
Make better decisions by implementing a framework that supports informed decision-making across workforce planning, recruitment, performance management, and employee development.
Enhance employee engagement and satisfaction, boosting morale, productivity and retention, while fostering alignment with your organisation’s vision.
Plan for the future with succession and talent development, identifying and nurturing key talent to minimise turnover and secure your organisation’s success.
- Improve operational efficiency and reduce costs, saving on recruitment, training, and turnover while driving sustainable success.
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The types of HR consultancy services we can deliver
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Consultation support
Looking to make changes within your organisation? If it will have a fundamental impact on the employment relationship, you have a duty to inform and consult with your employees first.
Whether you’re embarking on large-scale redundancies, considering making changes to employees’ terms and conditions or going through a transfer of ownership, our skilled HR specialists can conduct productive consultations with those affected to help you make informed, commercial decisions.
Employee engagement
Ensuring each and every employee is fully committed to an organisation’s mission, goals and values, so they can contribute to the overall success of the business, is key to good employee engagement. We can work with you to put in place mechanisms to improve how you engage with your staff to make them feel valued and motivated.
Our HR experts will work with you to design a strategic engagement plan which fits your organisation and culture. This plan might include communication plans, management coaching, staff surveys, focus groups or developing skills.
HR audits
Want to ensure your organisation is compliant with HR best practice and latest employment law developments? Keen to understand your strengths and weaknesses, protect your organisation, and improve the efficiency of your HR system? Then you need a HR audit.
Policies, procedures, practices. Get a systematic health check of how you’re performing from a people management perspective and take your HR function to the next level with support from WorkNest.
Investigations, hearings and appeals
There are many components to a fair disciplinary or grievance process. If you’re not comfortable conducting investigations, hearings and appeals yourself, or are simply strapped for time, our seasoned HR specialists can offer on-site support to take the pressure off.
We can conduct the meetings for you or, if you prefer, attend them with you to provide expert guidance and reassurance. This is invaluable when experienced, independent HR support is needed.
Mediation and facilitation
Resolving a workplace dispute or repairing a working relationship that has gone sour isn’t always easy. At WorkNest, we can provide mediation or facilitation services to help two or more individuals or groups reach a solution that is acceptable to everyone.
We can help those involved understand each other’s perspectives, clarify potential options, and develop an appropriate action plan for the parties to follow – allowing you to move forward positively.
Organisational change (TUPE, Redundancy, Restructure)
Got big plans for your organisation over the next 12 months to three years? Then you might need to rethink and right-size your organisation to make sure your structure and skillset aligns with your aims.
If you’re not sure where to start with a task of this scale, our skilled HR Consultants can support you through the reorganisation process and ensure your workforce is set up for future success.
Organisation Development
In order to fully improve the effectiveness of your people, a holistic approach is necessary to look at the real issues impacting your people and things that can be improved on. This may include fine tuning existing processes or it may mean introducing a new initiative.
WorkNest can support you to identify the obstacles and develop HR systems to improve the effectiveness and productivity of your staff.
Pay and benefits
Are your remuneration packages in line with current market rates?
Do your exit interviews indicate that salary is a high reason for staff leaving? Are you looking for the most appropriate salary to pay for new posts?
We can support you by undertaking salary and benefit benchmarking reviews to help you make informed and effective remuneration decisions to increase employee engagement, reduce staff turnover and attract high quality talent.
Training
Equipping your staff with the right skills fortifies your organisation and maximises its success.
Our trainers will apply fresh thinking to your operational and strategic challenges and offer innovative solutions to address your training requirements. Sharing their skills and knowledge, they will facilitate productive and insightful events to enhance your business’s management and leadership capability.
Welfare and Absence Management
When dealing long-term absence or persistent short-term absences, care must be taken to avoid being found liable for unlawful discrimination.
If you have concerns about an employee’s ability to undertake their role effectively, our seasoned HR Consultants can coach and support you through the management of absence and help you to do the right thing by your people and your business.
Explore our HR Consultancy services
We offer end-to-end support through the entire employee lifecycle
Outsourced Payroll Services
Get support from a dedicated payroll professional, ensuring payments are processed accurately and on time. Plus, combine with our automated pensions administration service for ultimate peace of mind.
Outsourced HR Manager
Develop your company’s culture and enhance employee engagement for long-term success with support from a highly-experienced, dedicated HR Manager. A cost-effective to bring in real expertise and drive positive change across your business.
Outsourced HR Administration
Save time and stay compliant by having a named HR professional take charge of all your HR admin tasks, from the efficient management of employee documents to overseeing your WorkNest HR and eLearning platforms.
99.2% Client happiness rating
97% Client retention rating
Who you’ll be working with
Toyah Marshall
Principal Employment Law Adviser
Client stories
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Gus Hosein
Executive Director, Privacy International
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Suzy Gray
ICNARC
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Tim Walker
Poor Servants of the Mother of God
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WorkNest provided fantastic support with our recent staffing review. Christian sought to really understand our organisation, and offered clear advice throughout. He was consistently responsive and flexible, and provided a valuable sounding board in respect of some of the more challenging parts of the process. I look forward to continuing to work with WorkNest in the future.”
Celia McKeon
Chief Executive,
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT)
Why choose us?
Experts in HR
At WorkNest HR, we’re known for our bespoke service and the quality of our support. Not only is our expertise unmatched, but we take the time to know you so that we can function as a true extension of your team.
- 40 employed HR Consultants, many of whom are CIPD qualified, chartered and fellows
- A dedicated Organisational Development Team of specialist trainers and consultants
- Cradle-to-grave HR service for new start-ups and growing businesses – everything from managing your HR administration through to defining your HR strategy
- Specialists in managing projects such as pay and reward, recruitment, HR systems, onboarding, redundancy and restructuring
- HR Consultants based in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Chester, Horsham and London, working remotely and in your premises