HR Consultancy
Organisation Development
Organisation Development activities are designed to bring about a certain change that a business needs to make in order to become more effective as a whole – with a particular focus on changing behaviours and attitudes that will add long-term value.
From engaging team building days to insightful values and competency frameworks, our bespoke solutions are designed to help your organisation make the most of its people potential.
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We can deliver the following Organisation Development services
Appraisal schemes
Appraisals can be a time-consuming activity, often dreaded by staff and management alike. WorkNest HR can alleviate that concern by developing a carefully designed and well-managed review scheme for your organisation.
We tailor our appraisal schemes with your people in mind, to improve staff productivity and engagement. Your consultant will work closely with you to review your existing scheme or devise a new approach that better fits your staff and managers’ needs.
The outcome? A valuable tool to frame expectations, monitor performance, share feedback, and explore aspirations and developmental needs.
Board development
Every organisation needs a dynamic and effective board of directors at its helm. Our consultants have extensive experience in expertly guiding organisations to ensure that their boards operate efficiently.
WorkNest HR can:
- Objectively assess your board function and advise you on areas which could be further enhanced.
- Help you to ensure that your board is agile and sufficiently equipped to pursue your organisation’s key mission through a number of tailored solutions, including skills audits, board appraisals and tailored away days for board directors.
Competency frameworks
Complementary to job descriptions that define the ‘what’, a competency framework provides the ‘how’.
A good competency framework reinforces your organisation’s culture and provides a structure for your managers and staff when it comes to the practices and behaviours needed for effective performance.
Not only will this enable your team members to work more effectively and achieve their potential, but a well-designed competency framework supports managers to tackle individual poor staff attitudes and behaviours that conflict with your organisation’s values.
Insights Discovery
Insights Discovery is a powerful psychometric development tool that increases self-awareness, develops effective relationships, and improves communication and positive impact. It explores the effects of different personality types and preferred styles on interpersonal dynamics and management effectiveness. It can be used across all levels, from operational staff to leadership teams and boards of trustees.
Insights Discovery is used globally for developing managers and leaders, improving team engagement and effectiveness, for individual coaching, or as part of your recruitment and selection process.
The methodology uses a four-colour model to understand an individual’s unique preferences. These findings are then used to compile a comprehensive personal profile.
The depth of insight obtained provides an engaging platform to improve individual and team effectiveness with practical approaches that can be put into practice immediately.
WorkNest’s certified Insights Discovery Practitioners can develop tailored solutions for individuals, teams or your whole organisation. Get in touch today to explore how this model can be applied to your most important asset – your workforce.
One-to-one coaching
When you know you already have the right people in place, one-to-one coaching can be a worthwhile investment for helping them add further value to your organisation. WorkNest HR offers one-to-one coaching programmes with our Insights Licensed Practitioners for your senior leaders and managers.
Underpinned by the Insights Discovery model, we provide a valuable sounding board, helping individuals from your organisation enhance their self-awareness and grow their ability to manage individuals and lead teams more dynamically.
Get in touch to discuss how we can help with your particular requirements.
Team and leadership away days
Away days provide a valuable opportunity for your workforce to step back from day-to-day work pressures and give people time to reflect on and contribute to developing new ideas.
Unlock the value of an away day through our tailormade facilitated activities and help your staff refocus on your organisation’s objectives. We provide a safe and engaging environment for individuals to share, learn and grow together, while ensuring it is fun in the process.
Our skilled consultants can design compelling and productive sessions either for team building or whole-staff events. Our bespoke workshops and away days will help bring out the best in your teams and can be adapted to address the more strategic challenges of senior management teams.
To gain maximum impact and ongoing value, we recommend using Insights Discovery.
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Training
Created and delivered by experienced consultants, our interactive HR training workshops are designed to upskill your team and develop manager confidence.
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HR Consultancy
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Why choose us?
Experts in Employment Law & HR
At WorkNest, 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.
- Your own small team of dedicated experts
- Commercial, pragmatic advice tailored to you
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- Trusted by over 35,000 organisations
- Recognised as a leading firm by the Legal 500
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Head of Team
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Principal Employment Law Adviser
Client stories
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Gus Hosein
Executive Director, Privacy International
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WorkNest supports our 280 staff members with Employment Law and Health & Safety and has provided quality management training too.”
Lisa Best
Head of Service Delivery, Catalyst Choice
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We get a great deal of comfort and satisfaction knowing that we have support as and when we need it, in a decisive and responsive way.”
Richard Berry
Group HR Director, Culina Group
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We moved our legal support to WorkNest (formerly Law at Work) having previously used a time and line law firm. It was important, though, that an all-inclusive fee structure did not come at the expense of quality. Thankfully we’ve been delighted with the service we’ve received from WorkNest.”
Chief Executive
Waverley Care
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What we recognised in WorkNest is the background that they have. They are able to supply knowledge and experience in a number of disciplines, which enables us to develop our business in a way that’s safe, to do it on time and with a quality to it.”
Debbie Rainbow
Director of Human Resources and Health & Safety,
Bluestone National Park Resort
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Celia McKeon
Chief Executive, The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT)
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As the company started to get larger, we knew we had to protect our employees and our contractors both onsite and in the offices. WorkNest is exactly what we needed to move the company forward.”
Joanne Beaver
Operations Director, Beaverfit
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Pineapple have worked with the team at WorkNest (formerly Law at Work) since 2003, and we have built a trusted partnership together. We particularly like WorkNest’s concise and practical advice concerning employment law/HR issues and also appreciate their totally supportive approach in all areas of health and safety.”
General Manager
Pineapple Dance Studios
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I’ve taken WorkNest into every organisation that I’ve worked with. I’ve introduced them to many teams and many colleagues and referred them with absolute pleasure because I genuinely trust in the service that we get.”
People Director, The Works
