HR Solutions
Our Solutions - Active HR
We offer professional HR solutions to business owners, including The Active HR Health Check, Attraction, Recruitment, Selection and Onboarding, and more.
Our Solutions
The Active HR Health Check
Our HR Health Check program
This comprehensive, professional and affordable HR Audit checks and reports back on 120 points of people and culture management practices that are pertinent to a business and reflected 3 sets of HR standards/systems and practices including:
The Must Have Standards
Those required to comply with requirements of Australian Employment Law.
The Nice to Have Standards
Those generally accepted as being to the standard of probity associated with being a socially responsible employer
The Great to Have Standards
Those that set a business apart from others and typically position it as an employer of choice or a “Great Place to Work
What can you expect when dealing with Active HR?
Upon a client’s initial enquiry your Active HR Business Partner will have an initial meeting to request documents and detail that give a picture of existing systems and practices. Soon after the HR Business Partner will set some time up with you to step through the Health Check. This meeting takes between 1 to 2 hours and for some larger more complex employers there may be follow up meetings or enquiries that are necessary.
The Health Check report back to the client consists of:
- Detail surrounding findings including an outline of any key points of strengths, gaps and avenues for improvement;
- Specific no obligation improvement recommendations from the assigned HR Business Partner along with some summary information about where and how Active HR can be of assistance.
A full report debrief will also be offered to the client.
Our Solutions - Attraction, Recruitment, Selection and Onboarding
The industry connections maintained by Active HR enable it to offer a focussed recruitment, selection and onboarding solution that is aimed at helping its clients adopting the cost centred yet high yielding approaches to source and find the best people for your role and then depending on your need, can partner with every step of the way through selection and onboarding to ensure your new employee’s success.
What You Can Expect when dealing with Active HR
Upon a client’s initial enquiry your Active HR Business Partner will step them through our 5S of recruitment, a quality checklist-based process that ensures our Business Partners fully understand the specific requirements in relation to the hiring and onboarding of a new starter. As Active HR is well connected with Industry across North Queensland our HR Business Partners can provide insights into key interests such as:
- Labour Market dimensions and suitability of proposed recruitment pathways;
- Competitiveness of wage and remuneration;
- Review of proposed approaches from a compliance and best practice standing;
- Options for utilisation of psychometric, aptitude and situation assessments
- Practicality and usefulness of pre-employment checks
Active HR Attraction, Recruitment, Selection and Onboard Services
- Job Analysis and Job Descriptions
- Position Classification and Job Evaluation using Hays Methodology
- Planning and coordination of community engagement recruitment events
- Tailored Recruitment Branding
- Recruitment and Onboard Planning
- Job advertisement and Promotion
- Candidate Care
- Preliminary applicant evaluation and shortlisting
- Defining a Business Employee Value Proposition Statements
- Selection Interview Planning
- Video Interviewing
- Assessment Centre Management
- Psychometric, Aptitude and Situational Safety Assessments
- Preemployment Medicals
- Security and Right to Work Clearance
- Background Checks
- Development of Onboarding Plans
- Award advice and support
- Letters of offer and employment contracts
- Training Needs Assessments
- Employee Handbooks
- Employee Inductions and Orientation Sessions
- Coordination of Probation Processes
- Setting for Performance Agreements
- Talent Pool Management Services
Our Solutions - Holistic Human Resources Solution
For those clients looking for a holistic solution to HR, our 5 levels of effective HR is a robust and values based approach that ensures your business not only meets all of its employment law compliance requirements but also adopts an approach to the management of its human resources that is proven to attract and retain the right people and enable trust, motivation and ultimately high standards of performance.
What You Can Expect when dealing with Active HR
No matter what stage of maturity your business is at, using our model for effective HR, your HR Business Partner will work to define the right solution suited to its needs and then help you introduce any business system adjustments in a manner that has a positive and enabling impact towards your people and your business’ culture.
Our HR Services
- Enterprise Agreement Negotiation
- Contracts of Employment
- Employment Law and Industrial Award compliance and advisory support
- Tailored HR and Workplace Health and Safety Policy and Procedure Systems
- Establishing Business Values and Behaviour Frameworks
- Performance Appraisal Management
- Setting Key Performance Indicators
- Performance Management System Implementation
- Performance Appraisal planning, coordination and support
- Reward and Recognition Systems
- Workforce Planning and Staffing
- Position Descriptions
- Job Evaluation and Job Grading
- Employee recruitment, selection and background checks
- Right to work validation
- Police checks
- Employee onboarding
- Probation Management
- Database Talent Search Services
- Management of Performance Appraisal processes
- Managing unsatisfactory performance
- Implementation of bullying and harassment preventative measures
- Management of Workplace Bullying, Harassment and sexual harassment complaints
- Workplace Investigations
- Disciplinary processes and employee dismissals
- Training Needs analysis
- E-learning
- Training and Development solutions
- Team Building
- Leadership Development solutions
- One to one coaching
- Talent Mapping and Succession planning
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Engagement Surveys
- Culture Insights Analysis
- Management of restructures, redundancies and redeployments
Our Solutions - Performance Management, Recognition and Development
Utilising our 5S approach to performance management we can help clients build and attain high standards of employee performance in a manner that is sustainable and offers substantial return on investment. Our HR Business Partner will work with you to pin-point your needs and target a performance management intervention that improves accountability, motivation and employee capability. Whether it is to help develop a high performance team or supporting an individual employee through a process to remedy unsatisfactory performance our performance management solution has been designed to meet various needs of all types of business.
What You Can Expect when dealing with Active HR
Whether you are an existing client or a client contacting us for the first time, using the our Active HR 5S of Performance framework our business partner will work through a checklist of steps to help pin-point exactly the best starting place for a performance management process and provide you with proposed solution that not only resolves any immediate performance management issue but also but also help reposition performance management approaches to promote high performance and reduce the reliance on reactive traditional interventional processes.
Active HR Performance Management Services
- Tailored HR Policy and Procedure Systems
- Establishing Business Values and Behaviour Frameworks
- Performance Appraisal Management
- Setting Key Performance Indicators
- Performance Management System Implementation
- Performance Appraisal planning, coordination and support
- Managing Poor Performance Support:
- Performance Improvement Plans
- Performance Counselling and Disciplinary Support
- Formal Warning Correspondence
- Final Warning Correspondence
- Show Cause Correspondence
- Managing Dismissals
- Reward and Recognition system management
- Coordination of remuneration reviews
- Performance Appraisal Benchmarking and Moderation
- Reward Gateway Management
- Coordination of business recognition events and evenings
- Training and Learning Management Solutions
- Training Needs Analysis
- Competency Systems
- Employee Training Plan Design
- E-Learning Solutions
- Mental Health First Aid Training
- Targeted People and Culture Learning Circle and Round Table Programs
- Breakfast Learning Workshops
- Partnership with industry-based RTO providers
Our Solutions - Workplace Resolution Services
Workplace conflict is a complex and time consuming issues for business owners and getting it wrong can be costly in terms of fines, compensation payments and employee turnover. We offer our clients are range of workplace resolution services all of which involve consultants who are professionally trained and qualified for the tasks required giving you confidence that your business will respond and manage the matter in the right way. Our solutions are designed to wherever possible achieve outcomes at the lowest level of conflict thereby helping reduce the overall impact of the distraction and enable employees to return to a situation of being engaged and focussed on their role and responsibilities in the workplace.
We also know that in some instances the matters can be so complex that it involves complaints against matters of law such as bullying, harassment and sexual harassment. Our consultants are highly experienced to help business navigate the complex workplace relations rules, standards and processes that apply to ensure to people are treated with respect, sensitivity and fairness.
For Workplace Investigations we operate to the standard defined by Worklogic in conjunction with CCH Australia Limited Wolters Kluwer.
What You Can Expect when dealing with Active HR
Whether you are an existing client or a client contacting us for the first time, using the our Active HR 5S of Workplace Resolution approach our workplace relations specialist will work through a checklist of assessment with you to ensure that the right level of intervention is applied for the matter at hand. You can rely on our Workplace Relations Specialist to advise you on matters related to:
- Advise on immediate intervention measures such as:
- Providing immediate responses to employees raising concerns;
- Appropriateness of standing down of employees;
- Making reasonable adjustments to the workplace so as to address safety and wellbeing concerns;
- Securing relevant evidence and witness involvement;
- Appropriateness of taking informal versus formal workplace resolutions processes;
- Requirements for and organisation of Employee Assistance support to suit the needs of relevant parties;
- Planning and scoping up the most appropriate workplace resolution approach;
- Leadership and independent management of required actions once approval is provided by you.
At the completion of our specialist’s involvement, you will receive a confidential comprehensive report and summary document and accompanying evidence gathered, providing you with the necessary insights and recommendations that help inform you in being able to properly evaluate the matter and make the required decisions which address the safety obligations held by the business but also the operational interests related to people and their ongoing contribution, performance and development.
Our Solutions - Leadership Development and Succession Planning
When it comes to building a competitive business, one that keeps innovating and developing businesspeople are pivotal and leadership is critical to creating that great place to work, the ones that attract and retain the best people get the most from their people. Our 5 Levels of Leadership Development solutions are designed to help you:
- Foster and develop leadership skills and capability in critical areas such as innovation, customer service, people management, digital literacy and business acumen.
- Develop a bench that can be relied upon for replacing subject matter experts and their niche capabilities or readiness for quick and effective succession in the event of unexpected leader separations;
- Develop leader skill in how to transfer mission-critical knowledge to new employees.
What You Can Expect when dealing with Active HR
Our Business Partners will design an approach that levers leadership effectiveness, capability and impact. As a professional HR practitioner whose mission is to help shape great workplace when communicating with our Business Partners you can expect leadership, leadership planning and leadership development to become a regular feature in the conversations.
To support our clients, and with the support our suppliers and partners, we offer a range of leadership development solutions that can be incorporated into one of our service plan arrangements or as part of a project-based consultancy service. In all cases we work with our clients to develop solutions that are high value with strong return on investment.
Active HR Leadership and Succession Planning Services
E-learning
- 24/7 access to premium digital learning content
- Self-determined career pathways
Leadership Development
- Development of Values aligned Leadership Competency Frameworks
- Strategic Partnerships with Leadership Development and skills focussed RTOs
- Leadership Power Coaching sessions
- ½ day, 1–2-day leadership development workshops including:
- Future Leaders – Transitioning from employee to leader
- Improving your impact as a people leader
- Leadership Impact – Circles of Safety, Belonging and Inclusion
- Leadership Impact – Building High Performance Teams
- Leadership Impact – Effective Workplace Communication
- Leader 360-degree feedback and coaching
- People Leader Mentoring
Succession Planning
- Identifying and mapping leadership talent
- Succession Plan formulation and management
Our Solutions - Organisational Analysis, Cultural Change and Restructures
At Active HR we believe that it is your people that makes your business unique and having the right people in the right places, or your aces in their places as we like to say, is what drives business success. Having the right organisational model and culture is pivotal to becoming an “Employer of Choice” one that attracts the right people and keeps them so that they are not tempted to go work elsewhere. This is a key to success in a sustainable way. Active HR has a comprehensive array of solutions to help a business understand and reshape and organisation, its culture and the employee experience at its workplace.
What You Can Expect when dealing with Active HR
Upon a client’s initial enquiry your Active HR Business Partner will initially step through our 5 levels of business culture model, a quality checklist based process that ensures our Business Partners fully understand the critical dimensions of your business’ culture including:
- Employee alignment to a business’s purpose and values;
- Team effectiveness
- The existence of hygiene and motivational factors that influence the employee experience, sense of inclusion and safety.
This initial investigation may with your involvement, be supplemented with other information gathering processes such as focus groups or cultural analysis sessions all of which are aimed at getting the most accurate assessment of what is actually happening throughout your workplace and impacting the experience of employees.
Based on our findings we will make set out recommended changes to your organisational model, structure, systems and ways of working which are focused on developing better alignment between a business and its needs for growth and sustainability and the needs and motivations of its people so that the way in which work happens is a positive employee experience with connectivity, commitment, inclusiveness and high sense of safety.
Where restructuring is required our Business Partners will work with our Workplace Relations Specialist to guide you through the process of formulating and introducing revised staffing plans, ensuring consultation is effectively managed and that any staffing changes included, transfers, redundancies, redeployments and separations are managed correctly and professionally in a manner that is compliant with Fair Work Act standards.
Active HR Culture Insights and Retention Services
- HR Health Check
- Organisational Reviews and Analysis
- Organisational Redesign and Restructuring
- Facilitation of Organisational and HR Planning workshops
- Embedding core values workshops
- HR Policies and Procedures
- Employee Engagement Surveys
- Team and Group Effectiveness workshops
- ½-day, 1-day or 2-day Team Building Events
- Employee Experience Improvement Projects
- Coordination of Employee Community Giving Events
- Diversity and Inclusion frameworks
- Designing and implementing inclusion strategies
- Managing Unconscious Bias Workshops
- Harassment and Bullying Employee Awareness Session
- Wellbeing in the workplace programs
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Mental Health First Aid Training
Active HR Business Partners hold accreditation to deliver the following solutions:
