HR Specialist Oldbury

HR, Training & Recruitment Specialists in Oldbury

Keeping on top of your employment law and HR responsibilities can be challenging. And that’s before you factor in the added expertise needed to manage complex scenarios like mergers, acquisitions and restructures.

The same goes for developing and training your people – and recruiting the best candidates – to add value to what you’re already doing.

Well, we can help.

At The People Factor, we’ll help you make sense of what needs doing from a HR and legal standpoint with clear, straightforward guidance and advice. Or, if you prefer, we’ll take care of it for you.

Not only that, we also provide coaching and run training courses and workshops to help your people at all levels of the business become better at what they do, and ensure that new people coming in are going to be the right fit.

However you involve us, we’ll always help you get sorted in a way that’s best for you, your people and your business.

MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS & RESTRUCTURES

Helping you get the employment law aspects of mergers, acquisitions and restructures right

Are you about to undertake or be involved in a company merger or acquisition, or a restructure as part of a divesting or downsizing project?

Could you do with an employment law expert to help you avoid the legal pitfalls?

Or need a hand with all the complex policy implementation?

Because getting it right from a legal perspective is paramount…

We’ll keep your merger, acquisition or restructure legal and smooth…

For instance:

  • Advising what employment laws and procedures you need to follow (including how to be compliant with managing TUPE, redundancies, job modifications and changes in location).
  • Creating the correct organisation structure for the new business.
  • Revising and ensuring all your legal and HR paperwork is correct and up to date (such as drafting new employment contracts, harmonising terms and conditions, and reviewing contractual benefits).
  • Conducting due diligence analysis for legal entities requiring verification of information transfer to new owners.
  • Drafting appropriate communications and PR about the changes with internal teams to minimise disruption, maintain motivation and retain staff.
  • Managing additional recruitment if increased staffing is required.

If you need some help, we’ve just the people for you.

  • Merging businesses
  • Buying businesses
  • Disposing of businesses
  • Downsizing or upscaling
  • Redundancy programmes

EMPLOYMENT LAW TRAINING

Training to bring you up to date with the latest employment law

Are you struggling to keep up with the latest employment law changes?

Do you wish Right to Work checks, sponsor licences and immigration law were more straightforward and less of a legal minefield?

Would you like to have a Diversity, Equality & Inclusion strategy you can be proud of?

We offer a range of employment law training courses to keep you compliant every step of the way…

Popular courses include:

  • Employment Law – clarifying the legal aspects of discrimination, the practical handling of disciplinary actions, and how to manage grievances and avoid errors. It also covers tribunals, settlement agreements and annual updates on new legislation.
  • Right to Work – outlining how to legally recruit and retain international employees and staff from overseas, verify Right to Work documents to prevent fraudulent working, and legally terminate the employment of workers not authorised to work in the country.
  • Diversity & Inclusion – covering how to develop a robust diversity and inclusion strategy, implement it effectively and ensure it delivers value for everyone involved.
  • Performance Management – providing strategies on how to address underperforming employees, managing difficult conversations, fostering effective improvements and creating proper performance management documentation.
  • Handling Appraisals Effectively – establishing an effective appraisal process, how to use it efficiently, address issues when they arise and develop comprehensive and impactful appraisal documents.
  • Talent Management & Recruitment – including strategies on how to attract and source candidates, and useful techniques for conducting interviews.

INSIGHTS DISCOVERY TRAINING

How Insights Discovery can increase your team’s productivity and effectiveness

Do you wish you could get your people to collaborate more effectively so they can work together better as a team?

How about being able to boost their productivity and overall job performance to achieve better results?

Then you might like to watch this short Insights Discovery video: How Insights Discovery can turn your people into the ultimate team.

Insights Discovery transforms how people work together…

Training your people in Insights Discovery will give them a better appreciation of what makes them and others tick so they can understand, relate to and handle one another better.

Just imagine: no more personality clashes. No more misunderstandings or breakdowns in communication. And no more time wasted trying to navigate politics on important projects. Just straightforward teamwork and results from everyone pulling together.

If you’re serious about transforming your people into the ultimate team, get in touch today.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT & BUSINESS COURSES

Courses that bring out the best in your people

Are you keen to provide better coaching and training for your people?

Do you want your leaders to step up more?

Are there aspects of your business that could do with extra support?

We can create and deliver bespoke courses to fit whatever your business needs…

Popular courses include:

  • Strategic Business Planning – this involves understanding a business’s fundamental purpose, along with its vision, mission, objectives and values, and integrating them properly so that they function cohesively together.
  • Team Leadership & Effectiveness – this encompasses conducting both indoor and outdoor team activities to assess how specific teams collaborate and function, and tailoring strategies to enhance overall effectiveness based on their dynamics and in line with the wider vision, mission, objectives and values of the business.
  • Employer Branding – this focuses on identifying, developing and promoting the core values of your business, and ways to authentically live these values as the business continues to evolve.

If you’d like to discuss an area of development for your business, get in touch today.

OUTSOURCED HR SUPPORT

In-house and external HR support

Are you struggling to manage your HR commitments?

Or could your existing team do with some extra help?

Do you need additional specialist HR support for complex projects?

Then let us help you.

We can serve as your primary HR team, or supplement your existing one, either remotely or on-site at your workplace…

We cover all aspects of HR and can provide ongoing or interim support ranging from just a few hours per day or week to full-time engagement – with a choice of retainer-based arrangements or pay-as-you-go options.

Our specialist team members include:

  • Generalist HR consultants to deal with more common instances (such as disciplinaries, appeals, grievances, mediations, HR policy writing, contracts and handbook amendments).
  • Senior Director-level HR consultants to deal with more complex people issues (such as reorganisations, devising operational HR strategies and in-depth employment law queries).
  • Employment lawyers to handle settlement agreements and tribunals.
  • Immigration lawyers to deal with immigration legislation, sponsorship licenses, and Right to Work training.
  • Coaches for 1:1 development and to help address performance issues.
  • Outsourcing consultants to help people leaving the business find new work (often as part of a redundancy programme).
  • Recruiters to help you fill specific vacancies.
  • Subject Access Request (SAR) analysts to manage GDPR-driven requests (often from aggrieved employees wanting to know what information is being held on them) and provide the legal SAR report.
  • Systems experts to support and augment HR systems and train users.
  • Payroll-related work.

RECRUITMENT

Helping you recruit the right people for your business

Are you fed up with your previous recruitment efforts being a bit hit and miss?

Tired of wasting time and resources on the wrong hires?

Do you believe that getting the right fit is everything?

Then let us help you.

It’s all about using the right people to find the right people…

Bringing the right people into your organisation makes such a big difference. People grow. Performance improves. And targets are consistently hit.

Because HR is in our DNA, we know what works well and what doesn’t when it comes to fit and finding the right people. Which is why we also know what good recruitment looks like.

Could you do with a hand finding the right people to strengthen your business? Then get in touch today.

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BUSINESS START-UPS

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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

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COMPANY RESTRUCTURES

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ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN

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HR PLANNING& OUTSOURCING

  • “Karen is a thoroughly professional HR expert, who is a delight to work with. She has a very engaging, flexible approach and never says no to any challenge or task. I would employ her as an HR Director tomorrow, or engage The People Factor anytime”

    Simon Wilkinson CEO @ Byron
  • "The People Factor have the balance of detailed technical expertise, contacts with value for money professionals where required, and a desire to make sure that that the whole HR process is end to end with no hiccups. They combine this with a firm but caring attitude and their results speak for themselves. Five stars!"

    Bob Britt CEO @ Bob Britt Consultants
  • "I worked with The People Factor during my time in the retail sector and was always impressed with their balanced, strategic and 'no nonsense' professional approach . It made absolute sense to engage with The People Factor and utilise their huge experience in helping us set up our people and business strategy, nationally and internationally. I know the value The People Factor can bring to a business in any sector.  The People Factor were well positioned as we launched our business support offer PESBusiness and is part of the team to help support other organisations. I would not hesitate to recommend The People Factor to any business owner or business investor "

    Mike Maddock MD @ PES Performance
  • "Gail has been outstanding with helping us understand employment law, whilst guiding us through difficult decisions. She has helped develop organisational culture and has also helped coach our operations and recruitment teams through both interventions and in how to retain key staff. I would highly recommend working with Gail and the team at The People Factor."

    James Hopkins Founder/Director @ The London Cocktail Club
  • "Karen is extremely knowledgeable in her field, she has a wide breadth of understanding to help businesses with all things HR. Karen takes a very pragmatic view to find solutions to help businesses.  I would highly recommend Karen to anyone who is looking for someone to help their business improve and grow.  Karen is very capable and has a very calm way about her approach to work. I have seen Karen guide and steer businesses on the new apprenticeship levy to ensure they have a great solution to move forward and add real value to their business. Karen is someone you can trust to help you and your business. She also has a great team around her."

    Sue Pittock Chief Executive @ Remit

Have a question?

If you’d like to know more about how we can help you, get in touch.

Call us on +44 (0) 203 0867724 or email hello@thepeoplefactor.org.uk