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We know that any business is only as good as its people. Even with the best products, systems or services around, your reputation can be made or shattered by the strengths and limitations of your people. Human Resource management is about creating, sustaining and growing successful businesses through the acquisition, deployment and development of people. Next Steps can work with you to ensure you’ve got the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles, at the right time, at the right price. We support companies of all sizes from the Dentist around the corner to multi-national organisations. We know that every client has a personal list of requirements and a specific budget. We get to know you, understand your business and ensure your individual needs are met in a timely and cost effective way. Take a look at all the summary of services we offer below to give you the complete picture.

HR Management

Effective HR practices enable organisations to create value through their people. Let us help you do just that. The HR professionals at Next Steps have worked at every level, both operational and strategic, in a vast array of industries and are qualified members of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. We have the expertise to guide you through the minefield of employment legislation and help you make the right recruitment, retention, development, restructuring and dismissal decisions whilst adhering to current best practice and remaining compliant yet competitive.

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Employee Hotline

Our confidential employee hotline enables you to find out about sensitive issues which could threaten to undermine your integrity, your reputation, your business and the wellbeing and productivity of your people. Don’t be the last to know. If concerns are not heard, investigated and addressed in a timely manner, they can escalate into increased absence, poor morale, decreased productivity, conflict, staff turnover, tribunals and even criminal proceedings.

Our hotline enables your staff to phone in confidence without fear of reprisal to report concerns relating to such matters as sexual harassment, inappropriate behaviour, bullying, fraud, theft and other illegal activities. We can then work with you to identify what’s really going on and resolve it before it’s too late.

Being unaware is no defence. Show your staff you value them and make it easy for them to come forward in complete confidence to raise concerns that matter to them and matter to your business.

Employee Hotline

Recruitment

Good people are in great demand and harder to find than ever. Whether you need to fill vacancies as a result of natural staff turnover, promotions, retirement, relocation of premises, or growth and expansion, we can help. With many years of experience in search and selection at all levels, in many different sectors, we can provide a recruitment and selection service which is cost effective and tailored to the needs of your business whether you’re recruiting 1 or 100+ people. Poor recruitment decisions can be costly, time consuming and have a detrimental impact on staff morale and wellbeing. Let us work together and get it right first time, every time.

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Training & Development

Businesses who invest in their people are invariably more successful than those who don’t. Employees who have the appropriate skills, knowledge and ability are more productive, more effective, more successful and more satisfied than those who don’t. Research shows that one of the top 5 reasons employees choose to remain with or leave their employer is their commitment to the organisation. Employees who are valued and developed are infinitely more committed and loyal and therefore stay longer, work harder and return the investment made in them many times over.

At Next Steps, we firmly believe that great people achieve great results. We also understand that training and development can be expensive which is why we have developed an extensive portfolio of learning and development packages to suit businesses of all sizes and all budgets. Whatever your requirements, we can meet them.

From a variety of training courses, one to one and team coaching, to internationally acclaimed leadership development programmes, we can make sure your people have exactly the right knowledge, skills and ability to ensure both their personal and your commercial success both now and in the future.

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Workplace Wellbeing

There is an increasing recognition of the importance of wellbeing both within and outside the workplace. UK employers lose an average of £16billion pounds each year due to sickness absence with over 300,00 jobs lost in the UK each year due to mental health . In addition to this, some organisations suffer from a culture of ‘presenteeism’ where staff who are unwell still come in to work but productivity is low, and germs get passed around the office.

A healthier workforce is a happier more productive workforce and a greater emphasis on mental, emotional and physical wellbeing can reduce sickness absence, increase productivity, satisfaction, loyalty and performance.

Next Steps HR can work with you to achieve national charter accreditation by putting a wellbeing strategy in place which demonstrates your commitment to creating and sustaining an environment which encourages and supports the health and wellbeing of all your staff. Let us help you improve the mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing of you and your people to ensure everyone realises the business and personal benefits.

Workplace Wellbeing

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