HR Consulting
Strategic HR Without The Overhead
Your employees are your biggest investment. But between compliance requirements, engagement challenges, and constantly changing employment laws, managing people has never been more complicated.
Our HR consulting team is built with seasoned professionals who’ve worked across industries and company sizes. We help you create effective work environments through engaged employees, compliant policies, and strategic practices that actually work. We bring an independent perspective, assess what’s working and what’s not, and provide recommendations you can implement immediately.
GBQ's HR Consulting team conducts an assessment of your current HR practices, policies, and compliance posture. You’ll receive a detailed report with findings, recommendations, and an action plan prioritized by urgency and impact. For implementation support, we work alongside your team to put the recommendations into practice and build the capabilities you need long-term.
A Culture Of Development
Employment law touches every stage of the employment process; hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination. Compliance keeps you out of trouble, but strong HR practices do more than that. They help you attract better talent, retain your best people, and build a culture where employees actually want to work. Most businesses know their HR could be stronger. The challenge is finding the time and expertise to build the systems, policies, and practices that make a difference. Keep reading to learn more about the ways GBQ can help you. Or, click here to speak with a member of our HR Consulting Services team today.
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Employee Engagement & Culture
Culture isn’t built by accident. We help you assess current engagement levels, identify what’s driving turnover, and implement changes that create workplaces people want to be part of. We also provide training and development programs tailored to your team’s needs.
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Goal Setting & Tactical Planning
Goal setting is an important method for deciding how your business wants to execute on key performance indicators.
It’s important to separate what’s important from what’s irrelevant. Meaning, this is the part of the process where we help your business focus on what’s crucial to the effective development of your human resources functions and push aside and/or remove those functions that are a barrier to strategic growth.
Once we’ve helped you to “clear the path,” we then establish goals that motivate the leaders within the organization and cascade to the individual contributor. We help you match the work to the strategy and, in doing so, create departmental and tactical plans for the individual contributor.
Over time, your organization will work toward building a culture of confidence, based on the successful achievement of goals.
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HR Compliance Review
Employment laws change constantly. We review your policies, handbooks, and practices to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. We also help you address identified issues before they become costly fines or lawsuits.
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HR Infrastructure Development
Need to build or strengthen your HR capabilities? We help you develop the systems, processes, and team skills needed to manage people effectively. From recruiting strategies to performance management to employee development programs, we work with you to implement what’s missing.
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HR Scorecard & Assessment
Collaboration Sets The Stage For Business Success
We conduct a comprehensive onsite review of your existing HR functions, processes, and procedures. You get a detailed report with specific recommendations, strategies, and priorities for improvement. We identify compliance gaps, inefficient practices, and opportunities to strengthen your HR infrastructure.
Areas Of Focus
- Assessment of employee benefits.
- Development of policies and procedures.
- Evaluation of technological solutions.
- Process improvement.
- Talent recruitment.
- Team member training.
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Organizational Assessments
Effective organizational assessments provide clarity for how organizations are functioning within organizational structures and key performance indicators. Identifying areas of ineffectiveness, either in leadership or department performance, can provide insights into how your business may need to transform and re-align to function even more efficiently and effectively.
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Strategic Planning & Facilitation
We understand that strategic planning is more than just sitting in a room and talking about the future. Converting a written plan into results is all about execution.
Several factors contribute to the successful implementation of your strategic plan:
- Leadership commitment to the plan.
- Achieving buy-in from management and staff.
- Having clearly defined goals and objectives aligned with the overall business objectives of the company.
- Assigning “ownership” to the right individual(s) to carry out assigned responsibilities.
- Establishing realistic timelines for implementing tasks.
Turning your organization’s strategic plan into reality can be a challenging endeavor. But it doesn’t have to be. What separates the GBQ team from other players in the strategic planning business is implementation. GBQ helps large and small businesses prepare strategic plans and implement action items post-meeting.
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Talent Development & Management
Developing Your Business Also Means Developing Your Talent
Attracting, managing, and retaining talent requires strategic thinking. We help you design compensation structures, develop career paths, implement performance management systems, and create retention strategies that keep your best people engaged.
Core Competencies & Career Pathing
Connecting behavioral competencies to your business’s values paints the picture of “what good looks like.” We give you the language you need to sound successful, and we also partner with you to build the story of career progression to retain top talent.
Leadership Training & Coaching
GBQ can help you transform the way your team thinks about career development. It's not just about completing a training session, it's about providing experience that drives behavioral change by partnering classwork with coaching. With access to a library of live and on-demand learning options, we have the success skills training library that will equip leaders with the skills necessary to create meaningful results.
Behavioral Analytics
With certified experts in the following areas, our team can provide the right tools, at the right time, to drive better team performance and can eliminate any foreseeable performance gaps:
- DiSC: An assessment to determine a person’s behavior in a specific environment.
- StrengthsFinder: This tool identifies key strengths and values of each person through the completion of the StrengthsFinder quiz.
- Kolbe: A personality tool that reveals what a person is individually “wired to do;” what they’re naturally inclined toward professionally.
- Myers Briggs: This tool is a psychology-based personality test that identifies 16 distinctive personality types based on differences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.
- Profiles XT: This tool is a “total person” assessment that measures job-related qualities that make a person productive – Thinking and Reasoning Style, Behavioral Traits, and Occupational Interests.
Executive Performance Improvement
Supporting executive performance requires a special skill set. Using a comprehensive approach, we match executive performance goals with organizational KPI’s of success to measure impact and effectiveness.
Performance Management & Appraisal Systems
Through a customized approach, we can develop, implement, and drive the ongoing process of communication between managers and employees to establish goals and strategies. From evaluations and feedback training to compensation guidelines and reward systems, we can help you master performance management.
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Total Compensation & Rewards
Compensation Systems & Management
An effective compensation system is designed to help your business attract and retain the talent needed to support your strategic goals and maximize your financial resources.
GBQ's Human Resources Consulting Services team has state-of-the-art compensation software designed to address your unique size, geographic location, and any additional wage requirements you may have.
Ultimately, your compensation system will provide competitive wage ranges for each job position that reflect comparable market salaries that are internally equitable. Additionally, we engage in knowledge-transfer with your team, offering your company the ability to license our compensation software and fully manage your compensation structure starting now and well into the future.
Incentive Compensation Systems
Let us help you design incentive-compensation systems that provide evaluation criteria and target payout amounts for employees at all levels, to reward actions creating value for shareholders and the company.
Our incentive compensation systems identify and reward stretch levels of performance, i.e., an employee going above and beyond and making a tremendous effort to achieve a personal and/or professional goal.
Executive Compensation Strategies
We link value creation for shareholders and the company with key executive evaluation criteria and compensation strategies that are personally motivating and effective.
Our executive compensation plan directly correlates company-specific goals and metrics to a variety of compensation elements and funding strategies that are externally competitive and appropriate for the unique expertise and value provided by your key executives.
When it comes to developing your employees, GBQ can help you develop a culture of engagement and compliance. Wondering if it's time to call in our Human Resources Consulting team? If any of the following scenarios sound like your business, let's jump on a call!
