Our services are provided by a team of OD and HR professionals with a diverse capability set. Together we can deliver the following services:
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Organisational Performance Consulting
Some say it’s the study you do in order to determine what you want to do. Rather than walking through your door with a set of prescriptions and assumptions, our approach to analysing organisational performance is one of structured inquiry to get an accurate picture of current and potential performance. It’s like keys and locks, problems and solutions have got to fit together to be useful. Our services include:
Organisational Effectiveness Reviews
Identifying and addressing organisational constraints that may be impeding performance and opportunities that could be leveraged to deliver improved organisational effectiveness.
Organisational Strategy Development
Helping facilitate the creation of the strategic framework, the development of business plans and the communication of the strategic vision to employees.
Organisational Structure Design
Developing fit-for-purpose organisational structures to support business strategy.
Job Design and Role Profiling
Enhancing workforce effectiveness by undertaking job analysis, developing role statements and streamlining role accountabilities to provide role clarity.
Identifying key role relationships to improve collaboration across the organisational landscape.
Organisational Culture Assessments
Culture is about how things get done in an organisation as opposed to what gets done. Both are important and critical to success but since culture is less tangible, it is often neglected. Gaining insight into your actual and preferred culture helps you set a course to a more constructive work environment where your organisation’s values are brought to life. Our services include:
Undertaking cultural assessments.
Exploring and identifying the anchoring values and behaviours.
Developing and delivering a cultural change & engagement strategy.
Change Management
There has been a mindset shift around change; from being an infrequent and feared event to an everyday part of our reality in organisations and a friend to our future viability. Our services include:
Exploring and building business cases for change.
Developing strategies for the people-side of change and implementing change management plans.
Providing a structured and sensitive approach to individual and organisational change.
Development leadership capability in the art and science of change management.
Employee Engagement & Alignment
This is about keeping your people clear and connected with your organisational agenda; both hearts and minds. Engagement and alignment are great sources of un-tapped economic value in organisations. Our services include:
The APS AlignUs Program
This program specifically focuses on the process of developing and cascading the corporate strategy throughout the organisation. We can design your program, facilitate the process and/or develop the internal facilitation capability.
Internal Communications Projects
Providing advice and support to effectively communicate key business messages throughout your business. We can help craft your messages, develop your communication strategy and help develop the internal capability to facilitate the effective delivery of those messages.
HR Consulting
Our consulting approach is flexible; we can work in green or brownfields operations. We work collaboratively, in a stand-alone capacity or pinch-hit by providing an extra pair of hands. We’ve got tools which we will assimilate with your systems and processes or we can work with yours.
People Systems
Designing and implementing recruitment & selection, induction, graduate management and development, performance management, talent management, succession planning & reward & recognition systems.
Workforce Planning
Analysing and forecasting the talent that your organisation needs to effectively execute your business strategy.
Developing and implementing strategies to meet the shortfall.
Competency Framework Design and Capability Profiling
Designing robust competency frameworks to consistently communicate the organisations expectations in terms of outcomes and the manner in which these actions are carried out.
Matching role requirements to individual capability and learning developing strategies to keep your people in-flow and releasing their full value to the organisation.
Employee Relations
Providing expert advice on the legislative framework and its impact on the workplace.
Coordinating representation where required.
Remuneration & Benefits Reviews
Evaluating current review processes, designing new processes, conducting
remuneration & benefits reviews.
Turnover Analysis & Retention Strategies
Undertaking turnover analysis and building systems so you can focus on keeping the best and brightest.
Psychological Assessments
There is no better performance improvement strategy than to use the best tools to help you to attract and retain the best and brightest for your organisation and have them release their full capability to add maximum value.
Using internationally recognised psychometric tools to assess role suitability, assist recruitment & selection decisions, support effective performance management, undertake career development and succession planning, identify training and development needs and facilitate the development of a constructive team & cultural dynamic.
Leadership Assessment and Development
We all intuitively know how important leadership is, how effective leadership enjoys a significant correlation with organisational effectiveness and how great it feels to experience great leadership. Realising and releasing the leadership potential within your organisation may be the single most important decision you have ever made as a leader.
Leadership Assessment
Using a range of tools and approaches to provide individual leaders with insight into their thinking patterns, behaviour, personality and capabilities.
Conducting leadership capability assessments to assist businesses harness the full leadership potential.
Leadership Development
Developing and defining leadership principles, competencies and practices to align leadership effectiveness to organisational effectiveness.
Analysing leadership needs and creating leadership development programs to address those needs.
Developing & facilitating tailored workshops to meet leadership development needs.
Facilitating leadership learning forums.
Coaching Services
Coaching provides the opportunity for deeper engagement and thus potential for a deeper level of change. Leaders enter a partnership with an APS coach, setting goals at the outset and then combining their efforts in order to achieve them.
The answers can always be found within the leader, the coach’s role is to heighten the leader’s self awareness with regard to their thinking patterns and behaviour, to identify skill development needs and develop strategies for their achievement and to recalibrate personal, career and business goals.
Developing structured coaching programs.
Providing professional coaching services to improve personal effectiveness, to enhance goal achievement and for career development.
Developing the internal coaching competency within the organisation.
Process Improvement
Process Improvement is a means of elevating the efficiency and effectiveness of processes that exist within organisations.
Through the evaluation of workflows, we provide support to de-clutter processes and implement Lean practices that:
Optimise productivity and throughput;
Eliminate loss and waste, and
Deliver flexible and scalable business services.
Managerial Wellness
Wellness extends the boundaries of concern and caring well beyond the human as a resource by helping individuals to develop a better understanding of their personal investment decisions – decisions based on where they invest their energies and how they balance their investments so that they are living a sustainable life.
Organisations who support this investment are harvesting the largesse too. They are reporting improved productivity, reduced absenteeism, healthy turnover and much higher engagement levels.
The ‘Zone Program’ was designed to assist employees to evaluate and gain a holistic understanding of where they direct their energy and how their energy might be redirected to better align to their investment strategy.
“The sense of ease and flow that you experience when your energy is working positively for you means that you are working in your Zone.”
Human Resource Talent Pool
Our business, our market, our passion is Human Resources and Organisational Development.
We have a growing pool of high calibre professionals who can provide consulting analysis and advice or provide support by taking leadership of a special project or undertake operational work.
Our services can be offered on a fixed hourly rate, a project specific rate or consultants can be deployed on a retainer for a fixed number of hours per week, either in-house or remote.