HR Consultancy
Cascade can now provide HR Consultancy Services through it's partner, Breathing Space HR. Offering a range of services, Breathing Space HR can help you with:
Outsourcing HR Support
Our partner will work with you to discover the HR needs of your business, supporting you with an outsourcing package which is suited to your business and employee needs.
Key Services
Your Outsourced HR Department
We provide a total solution to HR, from administration to HR strategy and management. Working with the Cascade HR system remotely, you can authorise HR administration and have the assurance that qualified HR professionals are there to ensure that your business is fully utilising the benefits of hr best practice.
Strategy Management
Planning a future for your business over a one year/3/5 year plan is integral to grow, this development of your business is delivered in the main by your employees. Ensuring that you have a complimentary strategy for your employees will support your future business goals. We can work with you to develop a People Strategy which drives your business forward.
Documentation and Policy Formation
We can provide you with the HR framework of policies and documents that are right for how you want your business to run and how you would like to treat your employees.
- Staff Handbooks
- Contracts of employment
- Policies and procedures
- Letters drafted for discipline etc.
It is not only the legal requirements of the documents that need to be considered, this paperwork can guide you in making difficult decisions and help sort out people problems objectively, fairly and within the law.
Recruitment and selection
Our partner can support your recruitment needs by utilising a wide variety of advertising, interviewing and assessment methods, helping you to get the right people at the right time.
- Recruitment campaign management
- Preferred supplier negotiations
- Interviewing
- Assessment centres
- Psychometric testing
- Discipline and Grievance
Every organisation has breakdowns in relationships with individual or groups of employees. We can ensure that your organisation is properly equipped to satisfy the legislative requirements in discipline and grievance. We would hope to ensure that your employee relationship remain on good terms however we have the experience, knowledge and expertise to come to resolution as quickly as possible.
Absence management
Proper monitoring and clear procedure are the most successful ways of managing absence, we can help you through complex absence management issues – high levels of sporadic absence and long term sickness absence.
Compensation and Benefits
We will work with you develop the right compensation package for your employees, helping you to discover the right pay scales and the incentives which will motivate your employees and make you an attractive employer in your market.
- Flexible benefits
- Pension selection
- Salary surveys
- Salary structures and grading
- Changes to terms and conditions
- Harmonising conditions
- Bonus/incentive plans
- Recognition Schemes
Employee Communications and Engagement
How does your business make sure your employees are “engaged”? Using good communication and motivation strategies you can involve your people and acknowledge that their part in the business is part of its success story. We can work with you to understand the important messages your people need to know and work with you to increase motivation and engagement.
Employee Development
Development and training employees ensure that the people you hire continue to be the best for your business. We can work with you to develop a unique strategy to support your employees and your business.
- Training needs analysis
- Development plans
- Skills based training in-house
- Facilitation service
- Coaching and mentoring
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
CSR, also known as Corporate Citizenship concerns the role of the Corporation in society and the effect of its business activities on society and the environment. Companies who want to make the best use of the resources available to them, their approach to CSR should be closely aligned to the overall business goals and strategy – this in turn supports the long term business prospects of the company.
Employee Feedback
Do you know what your employees really think? We offer a unique service for organisations who understand that knowing how your employees feel about their work and environment effects their productivity. Using criteria-based questioning techniques, our associates will interview your people at key stages of employment – recruitment, induction, training, normal working or on leaving.
Change Management
Re-structure and organisational change can be uncomfortable for management and the workforce, the process needs to be conducted so that employees are treated with dignity and respect, your employees and ex-employees are advocates of your business.
- Redundancy
- Business relocations
- Greenfield site development
- TUPE
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Insourcing and outsourcing
- Union negotiation
Managing Consultant
Suzie Bogle, MA Chartered FCIPD, CEDR Accredited Mediator
As Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Suzie is recognised for her ability and experience in advising chief executives who wish to develop human resources strategies in their organisations. She has worked in the HR sector for 15 years, five of them at strategic level and specialises in project and change management. For the last 3 years Suzie has worked as an independent HR Consultant.
Suzie has worked for large International Corporations and small owner managed business and knows the challenges faced for both; she has a wide and varied experience of different industries and cultures. Recently, Suzie has formalised her ability in mediation with CEDR accreditation. Mediation is an alternative dispute resolution method to litigation.