Your trusted partner supporting your HR activities

For HR Professionals

Assistance with a HR project

As HR professionals working in busy companies previously, we know how hard it can be to deliver an extra change project on top of your normal responsibilities. Why not trust us to join your team as an extra resource to help you deliver your project.

Outplacement support

The right thing to do when letting staff go, is to provide outplacement support to assist with the transition. From CV and LinkedIn best practice, an insight to modern approaches to job search to help with career direction, we support the staff your making redundant.

Appraisals, Peer Reviews and 360s

We believe in feedback as a tool for improving engagement and performance. We help design the most appropriate feedback surveys for your culture. To keep the process external assisting with anonymity and confidentiality, we can also manage the implementation.

Recruitment and Talent

The art of finding and retaining talent in your organisation is becoming harder. The war on talent has now become a dire skills shortages in some sectors. We help you keep abreast of changes in recruitment.

Psychometric testing

Already know that psychometrics in recruitment and development is a good thing? But perhaps you don’t have the time or licences to deliver these to your organisation? We use a wide range of tools to support your HR decision making.

Professional coaching

Whilst you have the skill and passion to help your staff develop, sometimes you need to keep a professional distance from their development conversations, or you lack the time to spend one to one with people. Let us act as professional coach to your executives.

For Managers

Please help us get these redundancies right

Making people redundant is never easy. We can manage a redundancy programme to ensure you get it right both legally and morally. For the sake of your company reputation, we want to help you do the right thing.

I need help with recruitment

Recruitment, especially in Cumbria, is harder than you think, is time-consuming, and is expensive if you get it wrong. We will audit, advise or be hands-on delivering any aspect of your recruitment such as advertising and attracting people to your organisation.

The Company has grown and we need some processes to manage people

Companies get to a certain size and realise they need a more structured approach in employing people. From record keeping, inductions, performance management, and appraisals, through to a structured approach to pay and reward, we help you retain control.

I have a particular issue with an employee

As well-meaning as you try to be, we recognise that sometimes things get out of hand with an employee and you are not sure what you can and should do next. We provide pragmatic moral and legal HR support and advice to help you manage issues relating to employees.

Your on-call HR Professional

We offer a range of HR retainers to suit your needs and budget.

Are you legally compliant?

From an audit of your employment contract and handbook, to writing new policies, we will ensure you are up to date with the latest legislation and are legally compliant. We always ensure the style of writing fits your culture and is free of legalistic jargon.