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Avalon HR
A boutique People Management Specialist, supplying HR and Training packages and projects for employers.
Our Goals and Purpose
- To deploy our specialist knowledge and skills in People Management to benefit small and medium sized organisations, ensuring our clients are both sustainable in business and legally sound as employers.
- To provide the essentials for implementing people and HR strategy that supports the inevitable changes faced by our clients
- To enable our clients to become highly attractive in the labour market, ultimately creating a place where employees can enjoy a great career.
Our Values
Commitment to delivering the ethical employment standards of our profession.
Being great listeners, highly supportive and consistently determined to provide value for money.
Enabling our clients to grow in confidence and self-sufficiency through coaching.
How we work
We work with employers who want to stand out, to attract and retain the best team and become an “employer of choice”.
Our clients typically employ between 5 and 150 people but some are much bigger.
We support and coach business leaders and managers to nurture a positive organisation culture, smoothing bumps in the road and growing talent.
We supply your HR and training documents, policies and processes and techniques, and enable effective job and organisational design and change.
In summary we are:
Essential
Documents, deep experience and retained advisory services, or pay as you go
Developmental
Learning about your situation and what you’re aiming to achieve; then aligning the right documents, processes and best practice to fit your needs.
Strategic
We add value at every stage of your project, improving your capability to hire, train, lead and get the best from your people, achieving deeper employee engagement and improved output.
Explore our range of services
HR Essentials
ADVICE / SUPPORT / DOCUMENTS / LETTERS
- Retained HR Adviser – Protect your interest as an employer with on tap, tailored, professionally indemnified advice from as little as £100 per month depending on the size and complexity of your company.
- HR in a box – Our fixed price pack of self-editable word documents includes: A basic contract of employment, essential policies and procedures a basic employee handbook
- Custom documents – Have our HR in a box product edited to your specific needs and build additional documents such as job descriptions, recruitment specifications and HR procedures, specifically for your organisation.
- Employer of choice – Ask us to quote for a custom package of HR documents, policies and procedures coupled with proactive hands on HR advice and our help enabling you to roll it out and embed it.
Employee Development
TEAM DEVELOPMENT / SOFT SKILLS / MANAGER TRAINING
- Looking for a specific learning solution, a coach to support a newly promoted (or an experienced) leader, or advice on how to structure your investment in capability development?
- We have a range of tools, processes and interventions and over 35 years of practical experience.
Employee Relations
ABSENCE MANAGEMENT / INVESTIGATIONS / MEDIATION
- Need assistance with case management, an investigation or a hearing?
- Our experience encompasses working on Executive Mediation, negotiation with Trade Unions, Harassment and Bullying cases, Redundancy, Ill health and Capability and much more.
Strategic HR
PAY STRUCTURE / EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT / TALENT MANAGEMENT
- The most important but most frequently overlooked part of running an organisation is the People Strategy.
- Our boardroom experience can quickly help you identify the direction, budget and tactical path needed to differentiate your business and deliver outstanding results.
- Our significant project management experience will help you bring your strategy into reality.
Business Change Projects
RESTRUCTURING / POST MERGER HARMONISATION / HR MENTORING
- More than 50% of business changes fail to meet all their objectives, often because the people elements were overlooked.
- If you are considering a buyout, acquisition or sale, or you need to downsize or upscale, you’ll need to consider the human as well as the legal aspects of change.
- We can either support or lead the people elements of your organisational change and we use tried and tested approaches to deliver lasting transformation.
30
Clients helped
£500k
Staff retention savings direct costs at one location
12.5x
ROI
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