People Strategy

Before you focus on growing anything, it is important to make sure that you have all the right plans, tools, processes and knowledge available to support that growth. With a clear, strategic people plan in place that aligns to your business goals and leverages the capability of your people, you will ensure that your development plans and growth will support the business.

How we can help

We partner with you on every aspect of your business strategy as your trusted advisors supporting the growth of your business. When your vision, mission or values are unclear or need refreshing we can support you and your leadership team to develop or review and embed them. Whether you want to improve or need to develop a talent and engagement strategy we ensure your activities and plans are aligned to your business vision and values and that they maximise the capability of your people.

We work as trusted advisors to develop a people plan that creates the right culture, values and behaviours and supports your talent and succession to reduce risk, protect the business and help you grow.

We offer a range of services, consultancy and support that is flexible, can be phased and is relevant to your business – where you are right now with your growth plans.

Vision and Values

Are you clear on what your business is aiming to achieve – it’s aspirations, vision, mission, values and goals? Do you know how your team members’ roles contribute to achieving the business vision and objectives? Do you know your key areas of focus? Are they aligned to the business vision and goals? We work with companies to help gain clarity on the company vision and identify and embed core company values so they come to life.  We also run events and workshops to help bring your values to life for the team.

Measuring and Managing Performance

Performance management is the key to helping bring out the best in your people. Although it has a significant role to play in enhancing organisational performance, many organisations are saying it is becoming more of a headache and an overhead and they feel it is just a tick box exercise which drives no value or benefit to business. It should be about creating a culture that encourages continuous improvement of both the business and individuals’ skills, behaviour and contributions but many employees are saying that they’re not clear on what is expected of them or understand how they contribute to overall business outcomes. We can work with you to develop a performance framework that will add value and make a difference to your business and your people.

Organisational Development Planning

Do you know what skills and competences are needed to help individuals fulfil their roles? What standards of performance and values are needed? Are you clear on your company’s development priorities? Have you got a clear organisational structure either now or for the future?  How effective are you in identifying training needs? We can help you develop a plan which supports both your business plan and your people’s aspirations. We can review, develop and/or support the implementation of your organisational development strategy, creating alignment with the organisations goals and activities in a planned and intentional way. Working together, we can ensure your plans result in improvement of the overall performance of your company or organisation.

Talent and Succession Planning

Do you know who are the potential future leaders or senior managers of your company? What about your business-critical roles? It’s a fact of life that people retire and move on with their career, however you do not want to be in a position where your business is at risk. We can help you manage business risk through robust talent and succession planning, combining the aspirations and talent of your people with the business growth and continuity of your company.

Communicating, communicating, communicating!

Do you have a clear communication plan to ensure that everyone is clear on what is communicated, when, by whom and how?  Through our employment engagement work we know that communication is so hard to get right. There are many factors we can help with, from having a robust communication strategy to ensuring your team meetings are fun and engaging. We can help you communicate with impact at every level of your business.

Board review and skills mapping

If you are not getting the best from your board members or have challenges communicating or collaborating across executive and non-executive boundaries it might be time to review. Do you feel like there are skills and experience that are missing from your board makeup? We can work with you to develop a planned review process, build a skills matrix, look at gaps and can support your board away days and development sessions to make them as engaging and experiential as you feel appropriate for your team. Putting teamwork back in the board room can have a hugely positive impact and create a new strategic alignment.

Our approach is bespoke to your needs and we can provide consultancy, support and tools to design, develop and embed any of these areas in your business to support business growth including training for managers or leaders on the process.

Supporting your future Talent

What are you doing to support your future talent? Are you helping them to understand what is needed to achieve at the next level?  We can help by designing and delivering Assessment Centres or Development Centres to support your talent pipeline and bring your succession plans to life. We can help you with a programme of support working with future talent in your business including related 1:1 support to help embed succession planning and individual growth of talent.

Leadership framework, competencies and behaviours

We believe that leadership is not a title given but a way of being. Are your people empowered to lead themselves and encouraged to be self-motivating, effective and productive? Are your leaders clear on the behaviours and culture that is expected of them and the people they are meant to inspire and motivate? Is there a common language for behaviours and expectations that is understood at all levels in the organisation? We can help you develop a framework of clearly understood behaviours and expectations that is used for personal development, evaluating performance, recruitment, talent development and succession planning. Our approach is bespoke to your needs to support business growth including training for managers and leaders.