People Advisory Services

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Why choose to work with us?

We provide the support and advice to ensure your people and culture are aligned to, and support, the overall success of your organisation. Whether that is updating and re-aligning your people strategy, mitigating significant people risks or developing your leadership group, we have the expertise and knowledge to help you achieve tangible results.

We thrive on collaboration, working hand-in-hand with you to create a holistic approach that seamlessly aligns with your organisation's overarching ambitions.

You will benefit from the insights generated by our simple, tech-enabled diagnostic services. We use your existing data and our diagnostic tools to support all six of our core services. You can find out more about our core services below or get in touch to discuss how we can help you maximise the value of your people. We are flexible and agile in how we will help you address your challenges.

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We draw on the experience and expertise of our colleagues across the full range of accounting and business services. As a national UK firm, we operate from 17 locations across the UK so that we can be close to you and your operations. Our BDO international network spans over 160 countries and every important financial centre. It also enables us to support your workforce projects wherever your people operate.
 

Our core people advisory services

Our approach thoroughly examines your HR processes, practices and employer brand proposition and reviews them in the context of industry trends such as demand for future skills. Armed with these insights, you will be able to make strategic decisions that optimise both your workforce and the attractiveness of your employee experience, driving sustainable growth and success.

For further information, please email Sam Seehra.

We address people-related risks by understanding your organisation’s overall risk management approach. We consider interconnected risk issues and any areas which interact with people-related risk.

Our broader risk understanding combined with our ‘people’ expertise will give you fresh perspectives on people risks as a risk multiplier. This understanding will improve your risk mitigation by using potential synergies and improving cross-functional collaboration.

Find out about our broader risk services here.

Enhancing Safeguarding Maturity

Safeguarding is one of the most significant risks any organisation faces as well as statutory duty. It should not be considered in isolation. We will help your organisation understand the safeguarding risks it is exposed to and provide advice, support and assurance. Our adaptive solutions enhance safeguarding maturity and support statutory compliance.

We help organisations transform EDI concepts into actionable plans to embed DEI across your organisation’s activities. We also create a business case for it and monitor it to ensure that benefits are achieved.

For further information, please contact Sarah Hillary or Dan Bonner.

Culture is key to meeting regulator and stakeholder expectations, drives standards of ethics and compliance, and performance and resilience. We will help you define and develop the culture you need for your business to succeed and deliver your purpose. We can support you at any point throughout your cultural journey. Our strategic partnership with Telos broadens our capacity and capabilities for mobilising the right expertise at scale.

Our culture services cover:

Culture deep dive

Using our proprietary model and methodology to help organisations understand your cultural strengths and challenges. This can then inform decision and focus areas for your culture strategy. We can perform deep dives into areas of concern such as Diversity and Inclusion.

Culture maturity assessments

Using our culture development and maturity model, we can help you understand the maturity of your approach to developing your organisation's culture. The assessment identifies opportunities to learn and adapt your approach so that you can align your culture ;to your business purpose and strategy

Culture definition and Strategy

Our culture model and assessment are used to define the desired organisational culture and strategy. This will include Board alignment on the ‘distinctive Choices’ for your business and where progress needs to be made against the ‘fundamental elements.’ We also assure the process you undertake to develop and embed your organisational culture.

Cultural Change and Transformation

Our culture experts help organisations achieve and sustain cultural change and transformation. We focus on actions with measured outcomes based on ‘emergent change’ methodology rather than large-scale programmatic change.

We also help organisations check if the cultural change is working in practice and remains on track.

For further information on any of our culture service, please email Sam Seehra.

Attracting, retaining, engaging and managing talent has always been key to business success. Organisations must take proactive measures to optimise their workforce. Our Talent service provides an adaptive approach that helps organisations deal with their most pressing talent and workforce challenges. Our big differentiator is that we combine our renowned risk methodologies with our talent advisory expertise. Our services include:

Talent Risk & Advisory

A comprehensive diagnostic review of your employee/talent life cycle to help you understand your most pressing talent risks in relation to recruiting, retaining, developing, managing, and engaging your workforce.

Employee engagement and experience

Partnering with leading experts in the field of predictive analytics, we will help you understand the preferences of their employees at the individual level collected in real-time, enabling individual and macro decisions to optimise talent strategies, reduce costs improved employee retention and engagement

Workforce capability

A data-driven approach to help ensure you have the skills required to achieve your current and future strategic objectives.

For further information, please contact Sam Seehra.

Leadership is critical to meeting disruptive challenges from digital transformation and the emergence of AI to social and economic headwinds. Leaders must not only be authentic and empathetic but must also embrace complexity. Our tailored leadership services will help you develop those leaders at every level of your organisation.

We deploy experts in assessment, leadership development, Board and team effectiveness and executive coaching with extensive experiences across multiple industries and functions.

Leadership Team Effectiveness

We partner with Boards, Executive and Leadership teams, bringing the best of team coaching, psychological insights, and facilitation skills to meet the demands of top teams.

Leadership Assessment and Development

Our assessment and development solutions provide objective and actionable insight in real-time to close capability gaps where it matters most.

Succession Planning

We effectively prepare organisations for leadership transitions. We identify gaps in leadership roles and help close the gaps.

Every organisation's culture, context, and value drivers differ and require a collaborative multi-disciplinary approach to optimise sustainable performance.

We can deploy experts in digital transformation, risk management, governance, and data protection to ensure that your organisational design works at both the micro and macro-operating model levels. Our data-led approach can model different design choice options. We will respond to your needs based on scale, complexity and sector.

Workforce check-up

A rapid assessment of your current workforce capabilities and organisation configuration using available people data. We deliver a set of data-led insights and recommendations for optimising your organisation's performance.

Annual workforce plan

An annual subscription-based service that consolidates all people, role and position data to deliver a 12 to 24 month workforce plan with recommendations for organisational design adjustments.

Workforce transformation

Taking a systemic data-led approach to analyse your current workforce capabilities and capacity to optimise your organisation for effective strategy execution.

We passionately believe that change management needs to have the employee experience at its heart. We remain framework and tool agnostic, as we believe your business purpose, culture and strategic ambitions should determine those choices. What sets us apart is our expertise in developing approaches that address both the employees' needs and experience, and the risk and compliance challenges of complex organisational change initiatives.

Change management and adoption

We take the guesswork out of the people side of change management so that your business can realise the benefits of transformation on time and within budget.

Change review and advice

A rapid review of in-flight change projects/programmes either as part of an internal audit or for quality assurance and expert advice

For further information, please contact Mark McAleer.

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Sam Seehra

Sam Seehra

Director, People Advisory Services, Consulting
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