HR review
Reviewing your organisation's HR provision is crucial for several reasons, as it ensures that the HR practices and policies align with the organisation's goals, legal requirements, and the well-being of employees. Here are just 8 reasons you need to review your organisation’s HR provision.
1. Compliance with legal requirements
2. Optimising HR processes
3. Employee engagement and retention
4. Strategic alignment
5. Talent Management
6. Managing Change
7. Risk Management
8. Continuous Improvement
Regularly reviewing your HR provision is vital for the health of your organisation. By partnering with The HR Agency, you can access specialised expertise, stay compliant, and ensure your HR practices are optimised to support the success of your organisation. Being proactive with your approach helps to build a resilient and engaged workforce, aligned with the strategic goals of the organisation.
Performance evaluation
Having defined roles and responsibilities in your team, having the right performance evaluation framework in place is fundamental to keeping your business moving in the right direction.
The HR Agency has worked with multiple employers to implement performance evaluation frameworks that make a real difference to organisational efficiency and engagement between managers and their teams, as well as the wider organisation.
Removing the annual performance management cycle is crucial in today’s world. A time-consuming and often feared process, it has thankfully been consigned to the history of business books. At The HR Agency, we work with you to identify the right solution, but it will always be one that moves toward the value of conversation and away from burdensome documentation. Agility is key and this can be achieved by putting in place the river banks within which the performance conversations flow.
This approach allows for in-the-moment feedback on performance which has been proven to have a much higher impact than trying to recall the last 6 months work in a bi-annual meeting. Another key difference is moving toward future-focused goals and away from assessing past performance. Whilst an element of this remains - the value is in the journey ahead and that’s where your performance evaluation framework will focus.
Hackathon
A Hackathon is a great way to engage your people and generate innovative, creative solutions for your organisation. Usually staged over a full day, The HR Agency combines inspiring methods to create energy and enthusiasm among participants. Using interventions such as world cafes and Disney creativity to open up the possibilities while refining and testing ideas to arrive at a list of potential solutions for your organisation. Identifying low-hanging fruit to big-ticket items you will have a wealth of possible solutions to begin implementing immediately following your Hackathon.
The HR Agency has run successful Hackathons in a range of situations. With an expert team of facilitators combined with your own employees, these days are fun and inspiring to all who take part.
Your people book
Employee handbooks have long been the solution for organisations seeking to lay out what it’s like working with them. As well as covering some important policies and procedures it’s the chance to shout about benefits and translate the strategic direction of the organisation.
One pitfall of the traditional employee handbook is that it gets read by someone joining the company and is then rarely, if ever referred to again. A great way to overcome this is to create the handbook with your people - afterall, they’re best placed to tell the world what life is really like with your organisation. Taking ownership of the manual enables employees to bring it to life and keep it relevant, making it a living document.
The HR Agency has a wealth of experience creating what we like to call People Books. Working with you to ensure any legal necessities are included, the structure and other content is driven by your people to perfectly capture the culture and engage employees new and old.
Policy review
Largely sitting in the background of the employee life cycle, your policies protect your organisation as well as your employees. As such the policies need to be rigorous and, crucially, readable.
The HR Agency will work with you to ensure your policy documents move away from dry and verbose and toward brief and engaging, whilst ensuring the legal stuff is covered.
From recrutiment and onboarding to disciplinary and grievance , your current policies will be reviewed and updated to capture the culture or your organisation. The psychological safety of your people has never been more important so policies covering such as mental health and well-being and diversity, equity and belonging, are critical to any organisation which places their people at the heart of what they do.
The HR Agency has decades of experience managing, reviewing and introducing policies in employers large and small. As part of your policy review, we will review your contracts of employment and recommend any changes as necessary, as well as manage any of these changes on your behalf, including consultation where necessary.
Role profiling & Job crafting
Whether top-down or bottom-up, creating structure, alignment and meaning for your people is a critical launchpad from which many exciting projects can take-off. The HR Agency has a wealth of experience of shaping roles and responsibilities in numerous organisations, from large employers to small businesses.
Depending on the culture of your organisation, there is a solution right for you. A more tradiitional approach to defining structured responsibilities comes from creating role profiles as an output of job design. This relies on more of a top-down approach to define individual roles. Whilst it does involve input from individual role-holders, it is more reliant on contributions from line managers and senior leaders. This is an ideal solution for a more traditional hieracrhied organisation.
Job crafting enables your people to take a lead in defining their roles and gives them the tools and permission to tweak their jobs as they see fit. Always ensuring any changes they make align to the overall mission and values of your organisation, this solution may be ideal for a smaller employer looking to maximise accountability and engagement from their flatter structure.