HR Strategies & Solutions, Inc - Our Services

Since 1992, we have provided on-site human resource services through our consultants that have significant experience in human resources management or consultant positions. We come along side of your people to provide temporary staff augmentation services during peak work loads, organization transition, unplanned projects or shortage of human resource’s staff.  We provide the following:

The following are some of the outsourcing services provided by our group:

Recruiting & Staffing Augmentation

• On-site Recruiters
• Interview Guide & Forms with Competency Based Questions (for designated exempt and non-exempt/technical positions)
• Decision Matrix (quantitative method for selection)

Our primary focus has been to provide recruiting managers or recruiters during peak work loads or management transition.  We place our consultants on-site to work in your organization to assist or re-organize the recruiting effort.  In the past, this has been accomplished by placing recruiters on-site for 3-6 months to work within your recruiting programs and policies.  Or we have placed a Recruiting Manager to manage the recruiting function during a management transition and assist in the evaluation and selection of a new recruiting manager.  In the place, our placement has also included review and re-design of a selection process, competency-based interview training of supervisors, interview guide with job competency questions, interview forms (w/questions) and a selection matrix for candidate or multiple selections (numerical values that projects performance). See our Products-INTERVIEW & SELECTION FORMS

HR Staff Augmentation

• HR Generalists
• HR Managers/Directors
• Leadership Development Trainers
• Compensation Analysts

We provide Human Resource Specialists, Analysts, Generalists, Supervisors/Managers and Directors/Vice Presidents in interim positions to bring about change or during a transition.  All of our consultants that we would place in these positions come our of HR management or individual contributor positions (most have been typically have worked in most areas of HR and at least a middle management position in the HR organization.

Technical Staff Augmentation

• Engineers and Project Managers
• Nuclear and Technical Specialists

We provide engineers, project managers and specialists in interim positions to support engineering, project managers, plant outages, or Six Sigma projects.  All of our technical consultants come out of line organizations.

Compensation Review

• Compensation Analysis and Programs
• Position Descriptions/Matrix (one page)
• Position Description Re-design Guide/Templates

We provide compensation/total rewards analysts and specialists to support a compensation review, benchmarking, supplement staff or a realignment of jobs in the company.  Our consultants have also re-written job descriptions to align with new salary levels and to insure there is a match to both the candidate hiring qualifications/competencies/ accountabilities and performance management competencies/accountabilities.  We can provide a job description guide, templates including a one-page position description and matrix for job comparison and career pathing.  See our Products-POSITION DESCRIPTION TEMPLATES

Performance & Change Management

• Performance Management Alignment
• Strategy/ Planning/ Project Vision and Values
• Making a Case for Change
• Readiness for Change Assessments

We help your organization evaluate your performance and change management processes to prepare your team to respond to change. Our consultants deliver in the areas such as: Executive Coaching & Team Building, Succession Planning & Job Rotation, and Assessment and Career Planning.  We partner with you to evaluate your existing processes, augment your team through the peak workload and leave a streamlined process behind. We offer strategic yet practical methods to enhance the effectiveness of your performance and change management processes. We also assist in developing performance indicators for the organization. This process is the cornerstone of productivity within your organization.

Safety Culture

• Integrated Issues Resolution Process: to investigate and resolve employee issues
• Establishing a Safety Conscious Work Environment
• Effectively Managing Concerned Employees

We provide services to evaluate your current programs, policies and employee /management attitudes related safety culture and to improve or implement a safety conscious work environment where employees feel free to raise safety concerns without fear of retaliation.  Our program includes an Integrated Issues Resolution Process (IIRP) that is comprised of four programs that enable concerns to be addressed equitably in a timely manner:

• Employee Concerns Program (ECP): independent alternative dispute resolution process that assists employees, contractors and site managers to resolve issues
• Differing Professional Opinion (DPO): mechanism to identify/resolve/appeal technical differences of opinion
• Management Issues Tracking Program (MITP): process to resolve human resource issues such as pay, equity and other issues that can’t be worked out between the employee or supervision
• Corrective Action Process (CAP): mechanism to identify and resolve conditions that adversely affect the safety and reliability of operations

Human Performance

• Balancing of The Business Case & Social Drivers
• Conflict Resolution & Transformation
• Accountability, Roles and Responsibilities
• Training and Communication Programs

When mistakes are not an option…or to minimize error.  To insure that all of your employees were in the right job and performing with the right skills and resources.  We help your company look at both performance management and problem resolution and tracking, documenting the problem and solutions, performance metrics/indicators, extending the problem to other areas of the company, tracking & reporting of lessons learned and to provide the feedback needed to employees and management for continuous improvement on people or work processes.

Workforce Planning

We provide workforce planning services to help organizations plan to help quantify and maximize the intangible value of people and make a significant impact on the future of your organization.  We have consultants that have worked in highly regulated industries who can work along side of your people to improve your workforce planning process and methods for retirements, downsizings or peak workforce needs

Six Sigma

• Executive Workshops
• Strategic Alignment
• Design for Six Sigma
• Training at all levels (belts)
• Connecting Six Sigma to Leadership Styles

To help organizations implement Six Sigma or to improve Six Sigma alignment in the organization.  To help managers and professionals gain valuable skills, which can be used immediately to analyze unit or organizational performance, to use Six Sigma techniques to attack inefficiencies - wastes caused by defects, overproduction, and extra processing to enhance any organization.

Leadership Development

• Leadership Grid (formally Blake & Mouton, Mgr Grid)
• Performance Management
• Supervisory Training
• Selecting The Right People
• Problem Solving & Decision Making

We focus on proven leadership strategies, best practices in a highly regulated industry for your management team or new supervisors/first-line supervisors to acquire the necessary tools and techniques to develop and enhance their leadership skills and abilities.  We use some of the following proven development courses and utilize your current programs to build on them and not implement a completely new idea:

• Leadership Grid (formally Blake & Mouton, Mgr Grid): The Power To Change….Grid is unlike any other approach to management and leadership training. True, lasting, and meaningful change is affected only by addressing the fundamental values and attitudes that influence behavior. Grid supplies the tools to transform ineffective and ingrained patterns of behavior into productive and dynamic action by shifting the responsibility for learning and change from experts or "teachers" directly to the hands of individuals. Grid International to successfully help organizations around the globe for over 40 years
• Performance Management: we recommend an internal focus team of managers to evaluate the effectiveness of your current performance management process and what is working/not working; to benchmark against other successful companies; and revise/develop an improved process to train managers/supervisors on any process changes
• Supervisory Training: evaluate your current supervisory training and make recommendations for improvement.
• Selecting The Right People: evaluate your current position descriptions, selection process and performance management to help insure you hire the right people, they are placed in the right jobs and their performance is as expected ...or better yet…exceeds your expectations.
• Problem Solving & Decision Making: to evaluate your current problem solving and decision making techniques used in the company for problem resolution, verification and decisions.  Incorporate changes into your training programs to establish a common way of analytical thinking, problem solving and decision making.

Knowledge Retention

This is a significant problem in most highly regulated companies.  A large number of management employees will be retiring over the next 5-10 years.  How will you capture what they know before they leave!!??  We have a benchmarking and consultants that will help you in this area.

Benchmarking, Best Practices & Presentations

We have been providing project management for the following industries since 1995:

• Electric Utilities-HR Metrics Group (EU-HRMG): (Jun 1-2, 2006 , JEA-Jacksonville, FL) See EU-HRMG
• Electric Utilities-Staffing & Recruiting Benchmarking: initial benchmarking (Apr 6-7, Nashville, TN) See EU-S&RG
• Document Control & Records Management Benchmarking (3 yrs): organized and project for this group for 3-years to establish their benchmarking process and sharing of best practices (self-managed)
• Nuclear Human Resources Group (NHRG): meets annually (FPL-May 3-5, 2006 West Palm Beach, FL).  The following presentations are also included on our NHRG web page (presented at our conference): See NHRG (Access & Password Required)
• Staffing Numbers & HR Metrics
• Nuclear Total Rewards
• Nuclear Labor Relations
• Knowledge Retention
• Leadership Development

Our consultants have significant human resources, training, employee/labor relations and project management and consultant experience in a highly regulated industry.