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)

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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

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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

People Advisory Services