Building One HR Team, united and business-centric

Why clients reach out to us

HR sub-teams operate in silos without collaboration; sometimes there’s conflict
Lack of alignment across the team means that HR’s precious resources are wasted
There’s a real appetite to refocus the team – to transform the HR function to become business-led
HR’s reputation is undermined by lack of cohesion and inconsistent messaging across HR
There’s a business transformation going on, and HR need to transform too to get behind that.

How we help them

Create the conditions and interventions for HR leaders to re-learn what the business needs from them
Align the HR team’s purpose and refocus their activities on business challenges rather than HR specialties
Develop the culture and capabilities of the whole team to collaborate and co-create new business-led HR solutions
Support HR’s leadership to reinforce the narrative of ‘One HR team’ and embed cross team working
Review the HR operating model, roles and ways of working, and undertake organisation development design work.

What we achieve together

A united HR team with shared priorities and a strong culture of ‘One HR’ with consistent messaging to the business
HR is able to partner more strategically with key stakeholders, with the whole function lined up behind business needs
Greater collective capability: everyone in HR grows in business mindset, partnering and delivery
HR’s interventions land well, with improved relevance to the business, timeliness and consistency in quality
A clear operating model and ways of working that are efficient, collaborative and aligned with strategy.

Client project examples

Research and workshops to engage and re-align leaders
- Research with HR leaders and business leaders in order to clarify needs, expectations and views of HR’s strengths and development areas
- Facilitation of HR leaders’ thinking about how they want to lead change
- Alignment Workshops to bring business leaders and HR leaders together for fresh dialogue about business needs
- Development of HR leaders in response to priorities identified
Workshops to engage, involve and inspire the wider HR team
- Getting the voice of the business into the HR room
- Achieving a shift in mindset – uniting around shared purpose
- Agreeing how they want to move forward.
Development interventions and coaching to build capabilities
- A range of blended development programs, just-in-time workshops, expert HR coaching and mentoring to respond to needs identified
Organisation Development work to review HR operating model, consult leaders and design new structure and roles.

The above are just examples and are not an exhaustive list of our capabilities. If you would like an informal conversation about your particular challenges, please feel free to book a conversation with us.