People Advisory Services

People Advisory Services

Are you responsible for managing and improving your business’s employee experience? Do you want to improve the effectiveness of your workforce and leadership?

Our People Advisory teamwork with you to meet your strategic challenges in building a sustainable business, deliver operational solutions or help you overcome immediate capacity and capability issues. Our goal is provide you with the strategies, policies and processes or models you need to achieve your objectives. You can choose to focus on modular, bite-sized solutions with affordable budgets and gradual improvement or adopt full-scale solutions to complete large, complex projects.

We draw on the experience and expertise of our colleagues across the full range of accounting and business services. As a national firm, we operate from 17 locations across the UK so that we can be close to you and your operations. Our international network also enables us to support your workforce projects globally.

You will benefit from the insights generated by our simple, tech-enabled diagnostic services. We use your existing data and insights and our diagnostic tools to support all eight core services. You can find out more about our eight core services below or get in touch so that we can discuss how we can help you.

Our people advisory services

 

Defining critical organisational capabilities/competencies with metrics

  • Diagnosing current levels of capabilities and identifying gaps
  • Alignment and effectiveness of learning and development initiatives, training and learning delivery channels
  • Finance and risk upskilling
  • Performance management review and Development planning
  • Deploying Objectives and Key Results (OKR)

 

Case study

USING DATA TO ESTABLISH LONG-TERM PEOPLE SUSTAINABILITY

Building a happy and effective workforce:

  • Talent data analytics
  • Defining and measuring employee experiences through pre-employment, hiring, onboarding, reward, performance, career and separation
  • Well-being, physical and psychological policy development
  • Psychological safety analytics for teams
  • Creating a clearly communicated Employer Value Proposition
  • Aligning internal policies and practices with EVP

 

Case study

REDUCING STAFF TURNOVER IN A RETAIL BUSINESS

Recruiting, retaining and developing your critical talent

  • Defining business-critical roles and talent pools
  • Talent preference analytics (TC)
  • Resourcing critical vacancies on an interim or permanent basis (SRS)
  • Performance and potential mapping
  • Talent sourcing strategies, pipelines and internal mobility
  • Offboarding, outplacement
  • Employee Value Proposition design (EVP)

 

Case study

USING DATA TO ESTABLISH LONG-TERM PEOPLE SUSTAINABILITY

Improving leadership capability, alignment and collaboration

  • Diagnosing leadership team effectiveness and alignment (Align+ and BDO BER)
  • Executive or critical role sourcing reviews
  • Succession planning, risk assessment
  • Leadership team working methods, processes and roles redesign (workshop)
  • Leadership norms and training
  • Leadership development, internal development program review or design
  • Leadership quality metrics and reporting

Case study

HELPING A BANK OPERATE TO ECB STANDARDS

Defining DEI focus factors and metrics linked to ESG people metrics

  • Data-driven analysis of DNA current status and benchmarking
  • Defining DNA-related norms, observable behaviours and support factors
  • Train leaders or teams on DEI behaviours
  • DEI reporting and communications
  • DEI policy development and implementation monitoring

 

Case study

HELPING A BANK OPERATE TO ECB STANDARDS

Assessing your current organisational effectiveness

  • Organisational effectiveness benchmarking
  • Organizational Network Analytics (ONA)
  • HR Due Diligence
  • Agile organisation operations, setting up and managing communities of practice
  • Job design and KPIs
  • Target Operating Models (TOM) design and implementation change management
  • Headcount scenario planning (OrgVue)

 

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RESTRUCTURING TO HELP MEET STRATEGIC GOALS

Creating a resilient and effective workforce

  • Diagnosing current capabilities and benchmarking
  • Defining capabilities required for your future business model(s) and identifying gaps
  • Assessing future internal and external supply
  • Assessing future demand, change dynamics and workforce size, shape and mix
  • Upskilling/reskilling project design
  • External alliance and partnership building (e.g. Uni. partnerships)
  • Providing change management support
  • Leadership team culture awareness workshops
  • Culture 'as-is' diagnostics
  • Culture 'to-be' vision and alignment
  • Analysing sub-cultures within business units
  • Translate culture into measurable factors
  • Support and accelerate ongoing culture change initiatives
  • Culture measurement and change monitoring
  • Sector specific benchmarks and best practice

 

Case study

BUILDING A BETTER BANKING CULTURE

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