The HR Agency
The HR Agency is a purpose-driven organisation based near Oxford. Created to be a force for good for business, The HR Agency works with employers of all sizes to deliver world-class products and services while delivering a more sustainable future for our planet.
If you’re a business owner who wants to get more from your company, why not get in contact with one of our consultants for an initial discussion.
The HR Agency is proud to be the HR Partner of choice for the fantastic Includability as well as a committed advocate of, and campaigner for The Better Business Act
What we do
Consultancy
Whether you are a business owner, CEO or HR Director, The HR Agency can support you and your business across a range of challenges. From strategy review, brand alignment and employer branding, to restructuring your business, our consultants offer an agile approach to deliver rapid, robust and fully tested solutions.
HR support
Getting your employment policies and procedures right for your business can make the difference between success and costly failure. Our HR advisors provide commercially driven, practical solutions tailored for your business. Ensuring legal compliance needn’t rely on standard, process-heavy personnel support. The HR Agency provides you agile solutions to enable you to focus on what you do best…running your business!
The HR Agency support packages are aimed at your business if you run a micro, start-up or SME. If you currently don’t have an in-house HR team or can’t justify the cost of hiring an HR advisor, we can offer you a cost-effective service that covers all aspects of the employment life-cycle. From attraction and onboarding to performance management and disciplinary procedures we’ve got you covered.
Learning and development
The HR Agency gives you outstanding solutions to engage your people. We are experts in designing learning pathways, from customer service to wellbeing to leadership development. We offer your business flexibility with a blend of online and in-person training.
With access to some of the most engaging presenters, trainers and facilitators in the industry, you will receive outstanding value from your relationship with The HR Agency.
Our solutions for you
We work with you to identify your needs and can offer a wide range of solutions. Below is just a small taste of what we can offer:
Business impact assessments
The HR Agency is experienced in supporting organisations in their journey to B Corp certification. Partnering with you, your employees and the organisation as a whole to complete your Business Impact Assessment, we provide project management to collate evidence and interventions to co-create solutions to enable your business to further develop as a force for good for society and our planet. Your journey must have total buy-in and be driven from the top of your organisation. Contact us today to find out more about igniting your purpose!
Role profiling & Job crafting
Whether top-down or bottom-up, creating structure, alignment and meaning for your people is a critical launchpad from which many exciting projects can take-off. The HR Agency has a wealth of experience of shaping roles and responsibilities in numerous organisations, from large employers to small businesses.
Depending on the culture of your organisation, there is a solution right for you. A more traditional approach to defining structured responsibilities comes from creating role profiles as an output of job design. This relies on more of a top-down approach to define individual roles. Whilst it does involve input from individual role-holders, it is more reliant on contributions from line managers and senior leaders. This is an ideal solution for a more traditional hierarchies organisation.
Job crafting enables your people to take a lead in defining their roles and gives them the tools and permission to tweak their jobs as they see fit. Always ensuring any changes they make align to the overall mission and values of your organisation, this solution may be ideal for a smaller employer looking to maximise accountability and engagement from their flatter structure.
Performance evaluation frameworks
Having defined roles and responsibilities in your team, having the right performance evaluation framework in place is fundamental to keeping your business moving in the right direction.
The HR Agency has worked with multiple employers to implement performance evaluation frameworks that make a real difference to organisational efficiency and engagement between managers and their teams, as well as the wider organisation.
Removing the annual performance management cycle is crucial in today’s world. A time-consuming and often feared process, it has thankfully been consigned to the history of business books. At The HR Agency, we work with you to identify the right solution, but it will always be one that moves toward the value of conversation and away from burdensome documentation. Agility is key and this can be achieved by putting in place the river banks within which the performance conversations flow.
This approach allows for in-the-moment feedback on performance which has been proven to have a much higher impact than trying to recall the last 6 months work in a bi-annual meeting. Another key difference is moving toward future-focused goals and away from assessing past performance. Whilst an element of this remains - the value is in the journey ahead and that’s where your performance evaluation framework will focus.
Hackathons
A Hackathon is a great way to engage your people and generate innovative, creative solutions for your organisation. Usually staged over a full day, The HR Agency combines inspiring methods to create energy and enthusiasm among participants. Using interventions such as world cafes and Disney creativity to open up the possibilities while refining and testing ideas to arrive at a list of potential solutions for your organisation. Identifying low-hanging fruit to big-ticket items you will have a wealth of possible solutions to begin implementing immediately following your Hackathon.
The HR Agency has run successful Hackathons in a range of situations. With an expert team of facilitators combined with your own employees, these days are fun and inspiring to all who take part.
