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We help businesses to get their ‘employment legalities’ spot on

As the song says “you gotta have...”

People policies, procedures, systems and maybe employee handbooks too.

We have experts who know the law and best practice and can develop these for you and update them as your needs change.

We help businesses to get their ‘employee relations’ spot on

People problems or concerns?

To keep you out of trouble and your employees out of mischief we can help you navigate the legal minefield and evaluate any risk.

Our aim is to help you to solve your people problems as opposed merely ‘keeping them on the boil’ with weak, ineffective advice.

We can help with payment issues and systems, restructuring, redundancy, trades unions, company councils too

We have dealt with all sorts of difficult change needs and understand the heartache and conflict that can easily develop.

Working with managers, trades unions and company councils we have helped them find acceptable ways through their difficulties and cement better relationships for the benefit of he organisation.

Our activities include:

  • Training of company council representatives.
  • Helping representatives with advise and expertise.
  • Working with managers to them develop and implement strategic change.

We help businesses if a ‘people problem’ arises

Difficult issues? Perhaps with senior staff, maybe sensitive discrimination accusations? Scary!

We assume you want to protect the rights of your employees and also yourself. We can help you to create a supportive and fair working environment for all.

We have a long track record of conducting investigations, interviewing witnesses and making recommendations for your decision making and action.

We can also train and update your staff on employment related issues. And hey – stop yawning! We’ll make sure its not boring.

We help businesses understand what ‘diversity in the workplace’ really means

It’s all pretty new so we understand that some of you out there will need support.

And that’s what we offer. Not endless learning or preaching. Good support is enough.

This is a particular challenge for any organisation that receives public funding or who wants to work with the public sector.

And if you are in the general business sector – well, you had better get it right now before legislation bites you as you don’t get a chance to say sorry!

We enjoy a particular expertise in Diversity and partner with Equality North East to promote and develop diversity in employment, be this recruitment, payment, gender, age or belief related.

We have helped organisations identify payment problems, recruitment and attitude issues and through training, employee and management counseling our client organisations have moved themselves away from this particular minefield.

We help businesses to nurture (and hold on to) their talent and their best performers

If you like sport you will know that team management is not too different in the public and private sectors.

You have to provide effective management, identify and find the players who have talent and then develop and coach them.

We are very good with ability and psychometric testing. We can help you with these or build them into assessment and development centres – the proven way to identify talent.

The design, operation and training of managers to use appraisal systems from 360o intranet based systems using our IT Associates through to basic assessment processes for administrative and manufacturing staff.

We can also help with a lot of the training needs that spin from the appraisal process, (and if the appraisal raises concerns then perhaps our employment legal expertise could be useful).