People solutions
People solutions help clients with their people challenges, whether recruiting, motivating, organising or retaining key people. We have particular experience working with owner-managed businesses, professional practices and not-for-profit organisations in the following areas:
Staff engagement
We have worked closely with clients developing key people, planning for succession and dealing with key staff retention challenges, including:
- Harmonisation of diverse complex bonus scheme arrangements.
- Management development programmes for current and future leaders and managers.
- Resolution of executive pay disputes.
- Executive remuneration benchmarking.
- Culture and values development.
Organisational effectiveness
We have undertaken detailed organisational and departmental reviews to facilitate change programmes, including:
- Aligning aspirations of owners, managers and owner-managers.
- Wide ranging organisational reviews, including consistency in management standards and key internal and external relationships.
- Board level restructuring and governance.
- Strategic and staffing reviews of finance functions.
- Effectiveness of redundancy processes during organisational restructuring.
Executive recruitment
We have successfully recruited at finance director, chief operating officer and finance controller levels, and our clients have included:
- Europe’s largest integrated agriculture business.
- One of Britain’s leading fashion retailers.
- A fast-growth US internet business expanding in the UK.
- One of the UK’s leading independent distributors of fresh produce to the foodservice market.