Talent & Workforce

We understand that when problems arise in the workplace it is imperative to make sure they are dealt with fairly, consistently and in a timely manner. We can support you to fully consider the issue and then help to make an informed decision on how to proceed.

Local Authorities have been trusting us for decades to undertake independent investigations for them on employment issues such as discipline, grievance, whistleblowing and review of actions.

If carried out incorrectly, HR policy development, review and implementation can make a bad situation worse. We are here to offer you support in developing new policies and are happy to review existing ones to ensure they meet legal requirements where applicable.

Here at North West Employers we offer an array of skills workshops and employment briefings around HR and employment related matters.

Areas in which we are experienced include employment law updates, discipline, grievance, dignity at work and investigation skills training.

Recruitment and retention difficulties are increasingly common across the public sector. For this reason, it is important for employers to keep on top of pay and rewards and be ahead of the game in terms of what pay and incentives that you offer.

We can provide help with organisational restructure, senior management pay reviews, senior management grading and job evaluation.

If you need help to resolve disputes and breakdowns in your team’s working relationships, we provide independent mediation for problematic relationships between two individuals, small teams and groups of colleagues.

We can also offer training for your internal mediators, including provision of accredited training to establish your own mediation resource for one-to-one and group disagreements.

Making your organisation the best it can be starts with talent development. It’s the core of what builds better employees, leaders and teams.

Identifying and developing talent is a continuous process and we can support you with talent management and succession planning. There may be times when you need to look externally to recruit the best talent for the job and we have a comprehensive recruitment and assessment offer that can be tailored to meet your needs.

If you want to drive your organisation forward, you need your top team working together like a well-oiled machine. Playing to everyone’s strengths, behaving corporately, and having the hard conversations that lead to better decisions.

We can help your top teams find productive ways of working together, by building on their individual strengths and valuing their differences. Our interventions include personal profiling tools, facilitation and powerful models to help your top teams define and commit to shared goals.

Great leaders have great self-awareness and our 360 tool provides leaders with the opportunity to reflect on their own leadership style and see how this is perceived by others.

Supported by a quality conversation, the in-depth report enables leaders and teams to recognise and build on their strengths and identify their own development goals to be even more effective.

It is well documented that a happy and healthy workforce is good for any organisation, especially the public sector. That’s because looking after both the mental and physical wellbeing of your employees offers a host of benefits.

Our new Workforce Wellbeing suite is aimed to support you in doing so and includes courses around managing the effects of Menopause & Bio-Resilience to make for a healthier workplace for all.

‘Leadership of place’ is an inclusive model of leadership, based on systems thinking in a spatial context. For leaders it takes delivery of services to the next level, moving from commissioning and providing services, to also acting as leaders of an entire locality.

With our access to both local government and the wider public sector leaders, we are ideally positioned to support leaders to turn this concept into a reality.

Managing services in local government is about providing high quality services that citizens and the public value. Throughout our time supporting employers, we have developed a suite of modules that have been tested and refined within the sector on topics ranging from difficult conversations to dignity at work.

Talk to us about how we can equip your managers with the essential skills that are tailored to your organisation and setting.