A comprehensive total rewards and pay equity review can ensure your organization is fully compliant with pay equity legislation, maintains internal equity and provides a competitive wage to attract, retain, engage and motivate employees.

In a recent review, we trained a five-person job evaluation team of employees who then completed job evaluations for all non-union and management roles. We confirmed compliance with pay equity legislation, developed a pay equity plan, completed an external market review of the various positions and developed appropriate salary grids.

For a full external market review of compensation, we obtained comparator salary rates through surveys, established salary grids to meet clients’ compensation philosophies, developed implementation strategies and provided estimates of full implementation costs.

A full HR policy review and audit can be invaluable when your organization is facing a major transition or considering how to minimize risk and improve performance. The review and audit will focus on factors influencing how HR is managed and overseen, identify shortcomings, gaps and risks, and, operational and practical matters, including policies, procedures and processes, documents and forms.

• Our HR audits will include a review of the following:
• Organizational charts and descriptions
• Job descriptions for all roles
• Compensation structure
• Overview of any scheduling program or the approach to scheduling
• A list of any outsourced HR functions
• HR policy manual and associated procedures
• Other documents which may provide information on HR practices and their impact on employees

In most cases, we will conduct interviews with staff, asking questions from an interview template to ensure consistency. Staff input provides rich information on the perceived impact of current HR processes and any process gaps.

The Osborne Group principals have extensive experience in leadership training, development and coaching in the nonprofit and business sectors.  We have a solid understanding of the many common service needs organizations struggle with as they adapt to new circumstances, changing public expectations and funding uncertainty.  

We custom design the approach to employee development to meet each client’s needs. The range of topics include:: 

• Building effective teams 
• Coaching for performance 
• Delivering feedback and handling difficult conversations
• Communicating for high performance 
• Problem solving for high impact outcomes 
• Best practices for program delivery 

Contact us to discuss your training needs and develop a program to help your organization better serve its clients and customers. 

Assignments for coaching and performance management are deeply personal and interactive between the consultant and our clients.

To develop and deliver effective coaching, we:

• Liaise as appropriate to analyze the coaching client’s current state
• Collaborate with the employee to identify areas of focus
• Work together to develop a strategy to address the focus areas
• Support the employee to implement the strategy and achieve goals.

Performance management also requires in-depth conversations with the leader and staff member before structuring an engagement. Contact The Osborne Group to explore how we can help.

Talent Management is an all-encompassing approach to managing and developing the people and the culture in your work environment.  It includes performance management, employee relations, succession planning and talent acquisition to attract, retain and engage current and potential employees.

Companies need a talent management strategy that addresses elements of culture, mission and vision. What will the employee experience be from their very first conversation with you? How will potential employees be treated? How will they be treated when they join your organization? When they are working in your organization do they feel the company’s values are being lived daily in the work environment?

Principal Anne Bloom writes how talent management applies when conducting future performance evaluations.

Contact us to discuss your needs with one of our human resources experts.