headstogether.com HUMAN RESOURCES CONSULTING

Thank you for your interest in Headstogether. We’ve built our firm around one simple idea. To bring together a team with the best possible human resources expertise, to give advice that’s decisive, pragmatic and efficient. No vagueness and no jargon.

Our clients speak face to face with consultants they know and trust. We provide a personal alternative to the big accounting and consulting companies, and to call centre based employment law advisory services.

I hope you enjoy this brief introduction to Headstogether, and I look forward to meeting you. 

Joanne Kane Chartered FCIPDHuman Resources Director

At a Glance

Our smallest client has one

employee, and our largest has 52,000.

Our continued success in adding value to our clients

depends on the quality of our people. All of our consultants are

CIPD qualified, each with between 10 and 20 years’ experience.

We help our clients to effectively

plan, organise and manage their staff,

for maximum results.

We are equally experienced in the private, charitable and public sectors.

Headstogether is a specialist human

resources consulting firm, founded in 2007, with offices in Belfast

and London.

Our Expertise

RECRUITMENT & SELECTION

• Job descriptions / person specifications

• Designing and placing advertisements

• Selection and assessment• References and checks• Staff induction

EMPLOYMENT LAW & POLICIES

• HR Audit• Contracts and handbooks• Policies and procedures• HR Records• Data protection

STRATEGY & CHANGE

• Organisational review• Change management• Restructuring and redundancy• Mergers and acquisitions• TUPE transfers

LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

• Training needs analysis• Design and delivery of training• Coaching and mentoring• Management and

business skills• Leadership development• Training evaluation

EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

• Disciplinary and grievance• Bullying and harassment• Mediation• Employment tribunals• Employee engagement• Capability management• Absence management

PERFORMANCE & REWARD

• Job evaluation• Salary benchmarking• Staff appraisal systems• Performance management• Remuneration packages• Pensions

Our people currently have on average 14 years’ experience, both as consultants and in senior human resources roles with companies like Marks & Spencer, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Homebase and Royal Bank of Scotland.

As well as solid general human resources expertise, our consultants bring different specialisms, which allows us to offer clients an impressive range of capabilities. A selection of these is set out opposite. Please contact us and we’ll be happy to discuss with you, in plain English, how we can help.

Our clients benefit from our expertise, which in turn comes from the collective experience of our consultants.

Small and medium sized businesses

How about the peace of mind of checking your compliance with employment law? Or dealing with an awkward employee situation, before the costs and disruption get out of control? We’re a cost effective alternative to having your own HR manager.

Our Teammate® retained HR service gives you the ongoing reassurance of professional HR support as and when you need it, for a fixed monthly fee. Or we’ll be very happy to work with you on one-off jobs; as much or as little advice as you need.

Corporates

Our consultants are all experienced in a corporate setting, so they’ll quickly slot into your team, saving you time and money. We have a range of technical specialisms that you can call on to back up your HR generalists on a project basis. Or just call on our resources when you’re at capacity internally.

Whatever the size of your business, whatever the sector, we’ll tailor our advice and support to your needs, with a focus on getting cost effective results.

Private Sector

Headstogether helped us to complete a restructuring programme at a senior level, to very challenging deadlines. They quickly got to grips with our environment and were able to hit the ground running, delivering the project with minimal input from us. That really took the pressure off my team.

LISA MOORESENIOR DIRECTOR HUMAN RESOURCES, INTERNATIONALAOL

Not for Profit

Many of our not for profit clients tell us they feel squeezed at both ends right now. Expected to govern themselves like the public sector, without the resources of the public sector, and under increasing funding pressure. We can help you by using our experience across different organisations, to enable you to be as robust and efficient as you can be.

We can measure your organisation’s fitness using techniques like strategic review, evaluating job roles and benchmarking salaries. Or we can support your own HR function on an ongoing basis with specialist advice, as required; a trusted sounding board.

In challenging times you can lean on our experience.

Headstogether were exactly the right choice to carry out our organisational review, and the programme of changes that followed. The team got to know us, and between them had the complete range of specialist skills and experience we needed, which saved us a lot of time, disruption and cost.

DR. DAVID HILLBOARD MEMBER AND FORMER CHAIRCRESCENT ARTS CENTRE

The Board is the oversight body for the PSNI, an organisation with over 9,500 staff and a budget of £835 million. Access to limited internal resources sometimes requires the Board to seek specialist, external expertise. In their work with us on people related issues, the consultants from Headstogether have always impressed us with their ability to strike exactly the right balance between professionalism, and understanding and respect for individuals.

ANNE CONNOLLYCHAIR, NORTHERN IRELAND POLICING BOARD

Public Sector

We’re specialists in all types of grievance and disciplinary matters, including at the most senior levels. We investigate efficiently and discreetly and provide clear, decisive reports. We are experienced in providing expert witness testimony at employment tribunal.

As budgetary pressures bite, we’re increasingly focused on restructuring and change management. Our capabilities cover strategic, organisational and cultural aspects.

As a well-established independent consultancy, we provide a realistic, credible and cost effective alternative to the big national firms.

Teammate®

You’ll be assigned your own consultant who’ll get to know you and your organisation. We start with a free HR audit, so you know where you’re starting from. After that you can contact your consultant by telephone, e-mail or face to face, when you need support. Or just to sound out an idea.

Teammate is our outsourced human resources support service, giving you advice as and when you need it, for a fixed monthly cost.

WHAT YOU GET

A qualified, experienced professional who will get to know you and be your adviser.

A free initial HR audit so that you know where you’re starting from.

Personal hands on advice when you need it, by telephone, e-mail or face to face.

Quarterly face to face health checks to discuss how things are going in your business.

Advance warning of changes in employment law relevant to you. So you can plan for them and not be caught out.

A reduced rate for one-off HR projects, if you need them.

WHAT YOU DON’ T GET

A call centre number.

A software program to put on your computer, so you can look up the answers yourself.

Tied in to a long-term contract.

HR is inherently difficult and is a quagmire of byzantine structures, human emotions and complicated legislation, particularly in a dual-jurisdiction context. Headstogether’s skill is to make sense out of this complexity and deliver simple, smart and flexible solutions that are appropriate to the size of the business. Could not recommend highly enough.

WARREN DEUTROMCHIEF EXECUTIVE, CRICKET IRELANDTEAMMATE CLIENT SINCE 2010

You’ll get specialist expertiseAs individuals and as a company, we’re human resources specialists. Not an accounting firm, an insurance company or a trade federation. We’re purely focused on providing human resources advice to you.

It’ll be delivered by a person you know and trust You’ll always be dealing with an individual or a team of individuals, face to face. Particularly important when you’re facing sensitive people issues, which you might not be used to dealing with.

And you’ll know the costs up frontWe’ll never charge you for an initial discussion about the help you need, and we’ll be completely clear with you about fees before we start any work. No surprises.

Why Headstogether?

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0800 520 0365 BELFAST2-4 Gray’s Lane Holywood BT18 9AU +44 (0) 28 9042 4030

LONDON24 Greville Street London EC1N 8SS +44 (0) 20 7099 1735 hello@headstogether.com www.headstogether.com

Please get in touch with us, we’d love to hear from you.