As an outsourced Human Resources (HR) Director for people across a fabulously diverse range of businesses, firms and consultancies in an equally diverse spread of industries: anything from law firms to allied health practices, accountants to business consultants, I provide my extensive expertise and skillset for people to build thriving businesses where their people feel valued. These are businesses where they may not necessarily have need of or capacity for an in-house HR Director but know the foundations of their people and culture would benefit from a set of highly experienced eyes and that the ‘people part’ of their business, although perhaps neglected, is important.

Look, there are a myriad of reasons why people reach out to me for my outsourced HR Director support. Sometimes they’ve just become aware of a compliance issue. Other people know that their human resources function is hanging on by a fingernail and a smidge of sticky tape.

Others have a very clear vision for their business and know they need some support with talent management to develop the right mix of talent to get them there.

Put simply, I’m all about making great people practices (aka HR!) accessible to people, working with me in a partnership approach.

Partnership is the key word here, as I don’t offer cookie-cutter HR services but rather a bespoke, solutions-based approach.

We start with a health check, and from there I come in to:

● Suggest outcomes to match your business goals
● Provide solutions that are evidence-based, relevant and practical; and
● Educate on the go through timely responses and transparent and open feedback so people are informed and able to make strategic decisions.

My clients:

● Tell me everything I need to know, the good, the bad and the you-know-what about their business, people and existing employment practices
● Follow through on their commitments; and
● Prioritise our work together so we can be super-efficient with putting into place actions to address issues.

In practice, this could mean a whole myriad of activities.

In any given workplace we could explore:

● DiSC workshops and communication skills to build functioning teams
● Understanding values
● Onboarding and employee experience
● HR foundations (performance management, compliance training, policies and procedures, employee handbook, org structures etc)
● Talent management
● Success building; and
● Strategic growth