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Oak sought a proactive HR partner that would drive the HR function forward with great skill, care and professionalism; and this is exactly what Advantage HR delivered. Georgie’s extensive HR knowledge and experience has built a stronger HR function within Oak for the benefit of our company and all of our employees. Having a forward thinking and reliable business partner in the HR area has allowed us to focus more on our core business and achieve better efficiencies all round.
Graham McCormack, Finance Director
Oak Trust (Guernsey) Limited
Advantage HR offers a range of practical, professional HR and Training services to support all your HR requirements. Examples include:
Conducting HR Audits
The HR Audit service from Advantage HR involves an on-site audit of an organisation’s HR processes, procedures and policies. This usually would involve a meeting with a few members of the management team and the requirements to assess any Employee Handbook and current policies and sample a few personnel files together with a short survey of staff and managers. We will go away and work on a complete report which will be delivered back to the business within fourteen days. The report will help the employer to understand weaknesses in their HR processes and give them an action plan on how to improve them.
The HR Audit service is aimed at small and medium-sized companies to help them understand where their vulnerabilities lie and make valued recommendations based on facts.
Sensitive Employee Relations issues including Disciplinary, Grievance or Performance Management problems
Advantage HR can provide advice, support and mediation services to help organisations navigate through a wide variety of people problems, attending onsite when needed and providing documentation and training to help avoid further issues in future.
Managing Change and Reorganisation exercises
Often born out of the need to reduce cost or improve service, most business change programmes fail to deliver fully against their objectives. We recognise that management can find it difficult to think radically about fundamental change. However, by providing an external perspective, we can help facilitate positive outcomes, shaping the options and alternatives to deliver the best possible results.
Drafting Employee Handbooks and Contracts of Employment
There are many benefits of introducing an Employee Handbook to a company, or updating an existing one. The main one being prevention - prevention of employee disputes, prevention of claims to an Employment Tribunal and most of all prevention of financial awards being imposed against the Company.
Learning and Development
Advantage HR specialise principly in training related to the employment law field. All our courses are tailored to the specific needs of the delegates and their businesses. We focus on helping our clients to develop and achieve by providing the knowledge, practical skills and proven techniques necessary to ensure long-term success.
Learning and development is very much a people business – and all our tutors are experts in their respective fields, each of our tutors offers a wealth of ‘hands-on’ experience providing the catalyst that enables your people to truly realise their potential.
Sample courses and workshops include:
- Disciplinaries and Dismissals
- Recruitment and Selection within the Law
- All Purpose Interview Skills
- Avoiding Tribunal Case Triggers
- Tribunal Presentation Skills
- Discrimination, Harassment and Bullying
- Performance Managment and Appraisal Skills
- Absence and Capability
- Managing Change
Life and Personal Coaching
In today's hectic times of uncertainty and pressure, life coaching allows you to re-establish control of your life, further self-development and focus on what is important to your happiness, success and wellbeing.
People who have been life coached are more confident, true to themselves and able to achieve what was thought difficult or even impossible. They overcome significant hurdles and strive to live their lives to the full. What was seen as an obstacle becomes an opportunity. What was considered a burden becomes an experience. They take the actions that will move them on a journey from where they are to who they should be.
Executive Coaching
We work to provide a range of highly focused and individual one-to-one coaching solutions. We develop a partnership that creates an awareness and understanding of ways to improve personal performance and inner leadership, supporting and motivating the actions to deliver the results required.
Assisting with Recruitment and Selection Processes
The implications of not recruiting fairly can be very serious. You may not get the most suitable person for the job and the cost of recruiting again if you make the wrong decisions can be painful and costly. Also, you may be contravening legislation and could be taken to an Employment Tribunal. A planned approach will help you to select the best person for the job and also enable you to justify your decision if required to do so. Advantage HR has the expertise and experience to advise and support you through the various stages or manage particular projects for you.
Interim HR Assignments/Secondments
Source your short term HR personnel needs for maternity and sickness cover or major project support through Advantage HR. We can either assign an AHR Consultant on secondment to you, or recruit a suitable candidate for you.
Psychometric Testing (ability and aptitude testing and personality questionnaires covering every stage of the employee life-cycle)
As well as supporting or managing your recruitment processes Advantage HR can provide a vast array of Ability and Aptitude Tests for every industry sector. We also offer a wealth of personality and management assessment tools to assist client organisations in areas such as recruitment, internal promotions, management development, coaching, appraisal, 360 degree assessment, team building, competency assessment and performance assessment.
Advantage HR is a member of the SHL Solutions Partner Network. SHL Partners are experts in using SHL tools to define, measure and then realise the potential of your people.
Advantage HR is also an accredited member of the TMS Network. TMS Network members are trained to use a unique suite of single and multi-rater diagnostic tools to support and assist individuals and teams release energy and create indvidual and high-performance team working.
Designing Competences for use in Recruitment and Selection, Appraisals and Training
Competencies are a standard HR tool. Advantage HR can design you a competency framework to link to your key people management processes to: - increase consistency and fairness in all people management practices, improve standards, increase the consistency of decision making, and align the capability of your organisation to your business strategy and vision.
If you already have an existing competency framework - can you ensure your existing framework really meets the needs of your business? Advantage HR can review your current framework and either set up a new framework or refresh your existing competency framework. We can assist you in linking them to your systems and successfully increase the performance capability of your organisation .
Designing Talent Management and Succession Plans and Processes, Induction Programmes, Performance Appraisal schemes etc
The key differentiator between good and great organisations is their ability to find, develop and retain talent. If an organisation is to survive, then it will only be through ensuring the continuity of its management and having the right people in the right place at the right time and with the right skills. Advantage HR can design and develop programmes to enable you to create the right environment to develop and retain key employees and take your organisation from good to great!
Employee Surveys to measure Employee Engagement, plus a range of Retention Strategies
There is overwhelming evidence that an organisation whose people are fully engaged is a successful organisation. Discover how to introduce engagement measures that will unleash a more dynamic contribution from your workforce to drive and improve business performance.
