
You have been hearing about loads of potential benefits and value from using a freelancer or independent HR consultant to help-out with your important projects.
But how would you know when to reach out externally?
It’s easy to just email the audit partner and ask her to direct your request to their consulting department. Sure, it costs a lot and they generally just give the essentials, but it’s hassle-free. They can even help figure out what you need, which generally is what they are easily able to help with.
We understand that the freelancer world may seem daunting at first. So we put together a few scenarios showing how One Circle’s family of HR experts can help you plunge into the world of possibilities out there!
Scenario 1:
You’re starting up your business and it’s time to start hiring people.
Employment needs a very precise set of legislated requirements attended to, like employees’ taxes, social security, and compliance with all employment legislation.
Even the contract itself needs to be drafted in a way that is not just complaint, but accurately reflects your company’s values, policies, practices and pay structures.
How can a One Circle independent HR consultant help?
From the outset, they can help you make sure your business has a safe, compliant and organised working environment.
One Circle consultants can help you with:
- An overall analysis showing what you have, what you need and what’s missing in terms of a solid people management plan.
- Designing the administrative tools you need like policy manuals, documents templates (like employment contracts) and simple processes to ensure that your growth happens at the pace required and in a sustainable and compliant manner.
- Shortlisting people for your initial take-off, then step back once you are flying!
Scenario 2:
Your business started up for a short time now and is at a point where you’re getting more and more HR-related questions.
The head of marketing talks about using more external resources. Your sales manager says the commission structure is not aggressive enough and everyone seems to want to rebalance the compensation structures.
You have good, solid HR people who get the transactions done with little fuss but their hands are full.
Truth be told, you would like specialist guidance with some of the issues surfacing. You need to quickly strengthen your HR capabilities with specialist HR experts.
How can a One Circle independent HR consultant help?
Getting the right HR fundamentals embedded early on will be one of the smartest things you can do to build a top working environment.
One Circle consultants can help you with:
- Tangible workforce and organisation solutions on how to help your business scale smartly by using flat structures, simple work processes and on-demand experts (including themselves!).
- Practical insights on leveraging freelance consultants instead of human resource management consulting firms and will show you healthy cost savings by developing your company’s flexible organisation policies and strategies.
- Design or review of your HR work processes and workflows, break down your business strategy to functional milestones, then cascade these even further into individual roles, so every person knows what is expected in order to deliver the strategy.
- Linking this performance model to reward, while navigating the balance between reward and cashflow.
- Designing your reward strategy, and all underlying programmes governing fixed pay, bonuses & commissions, long-term incentives, benefits and recognition (our reward experts can help you do this).
- Shaping your company’s employee experience over a solid reward strategy (Our talent management experts can help you do this).
Scenario 3:
You are a large-ish business that’s been around for a while now.
You have a long-term incentive plan in place which has run for while but you now want to see what options are out there for enhancement.
Tired of using the same old consulting brands though who all seem to know only about Performance Shares and Restricted Stock.
Your core reward team is good, so you just need fresh perspectives / ideas and dedicated focus if you decide to make any changes, as your internal team has their regular deliverables to take care of.
How can a One Circle independent HR consultant help?
We have experts across the entire employment life cycle who can drill down into levels of detail supporting any HR programme.
One Circle consultants can help you with:
- Bringing global expertise on the use of share schemes and are able to dive into the technical aspects of financial reporting, instrument valuation, accounting considerations and performance modelling with ease.
- Guiding your long-term plan through listing regulations, legislative requirements, regulatory considerations and other governance-related matters.
- Even drafting your stock exchange notices or any other communications for you if needed.
Scenario 4:
The post-pandemic world of work is here. You need to reboot your entire suite of HR policies to support your move towards remote work arrangements in a sensible compliant way.
Want to ensure that this move does not disrupt productivity and ruin the positive work environment you’ve built prior to the outbreak.
Unfortunately, the pandemic hurt your business and you also need to say goodbye to a part of your workforce too.
How can a One Circle independent HR consultant help?
If there’s one common thread uniting One Circlers (besides their passion for life at large!) it’s the fact that they are all freelancers themselves. Some of them have decades of experience working independently.
One Circle consultants can help you with:
- Conducting full audits of your existing policies to make them remote-friendly and change them if you agree.
- Analysing your technology infrastructure and remote work platforms (like video conferencing, instant messaging, etc) to assure you that the tools are in place for work to hum along.
Preparing a full change management and communication plan, and if you prefer, execute them for you. The effective communication of such a change will be of massive help in getting them accepted and embraced by your people.
Scenario 5:
Your business has been through an extremely difficult period and you need to reduce overheads.
We realise it’s tough letting go of people, but you can take solace in the fact that One Circlers have done this many times before, with empathy and compassion.
One Circle consultants can help you with:
Handling departures soberly and personally, oftentimes the use of a specialist who is at arm’s length to both the employer and departing employee, but well versed in the specific details, can remove the personal sting associated with such situations.
In all the scenarios presented, you could well possibly engage with HR consulting firms, strategy consultants or the Big 4 accounting companies for help.
Keep in mind however, that One Circle independent consultants are all specialists with 15+ years of experience that they want to share with you.
We have Partner-level expertise (using consultant language) at Junior Consultant-level rates.
You release payment when you’re satisfied with the work, through our simple escrow payment feature and, if you’re not, your funds are returned.
Because you use a specific individual consultant and not just whoever is not busy, One Circle offers not only a cost benefit, but also better knowledge transfer to your internal team, of if one of your team leaves without a thorough handover.
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One Circle is a freelancing platform for independent HR consultants.
Where businesses of all sizes can find coaches and HR specialist consultants across the entire HR spectrum with multiple areas of expertise. If you are a business and are looking to get HR projects done, virtually, consider signing up!