Our People and Business Consultancy

Most organisations face four major people challenges: how to recruit the right people, how to develop their skills and behaviours, how to engage them to give their best and then how to retain them.

Working with your business leaders we can provide consultancy, advisory and coaching support to help you to implement best practices in areas such as:

• Recruitment and Workforce Planning to have the right number of people, with the right skills, in the right roles, at the right time. Determining the appropriate permanent vs contract staffing ratios. Developing competency frameworks and job descriptions. Employing effective attraction and selection processes. Reviewing opportunities for re-skilling, upskilling and job rotation. Developing effective onboarding practices. Implementing talent management, succession and resilience planning.
• Building High Performance Teams. Facilitating the formation of new teams, as new members are added or problems emerge. Creating team alignment. Establishing collaboration between JV partners, your suppliers and between internal departments. Managing Multi-Cultural Teams and implementing a Diversity and Inclusion strategy. Implementing effective communication plans, feedback processes and performance management. You can learn more on our Building High Performance Teams page.
• Training and Developing Your People. Putting learning and development plans in place to develop new skills and behaviours in your team. Training design, delivery & evaluation. Creating a coaching and mentoring culture within your business. See our Leadership Development & Coaching and Training & Development pages for more details.
• Engagement and Retention of Your Workforce. Understanding what motivates people and crafting engagement plans to support their success and retention. Implementing employee Resilience and Wellbeing initiatives to achieve high staff availability and productivity. See our Employee Engagement & Retention for more information.

Organisations need to excel at recruiting, developing and retaining their people, and having the right processes and culture in place. That’s where we can help.

Becoming a Supplier in the Nuclear Sector

As members of the Hinkley Point C Professional Services Group A2O People support the supply chain companies working on the Hinkley Point C nuclear project and companies new to the UK nuclear sector. You can read our e-book “What’s Different About Nuclear – A Supply Chain Guide” where we look at the factors that make working in the nuclear industry different and some of the people issues supply chain companies need to consider as they attempt to bid and deliver work.

To learn more see our Becoming a Supplier in the Nuclear Sector services.

Improving the Capability of Your Business to Work in the UK Nuclear Industry

Business Consultancy Services

A2O People support SME’s through each stage of your start-up and growth plans. Helping Business Owners and Leadership Teams to understand the real issues likely to affect your business, while building the organisation’s capability to grow and operate in new or more competitive markets.

To learn more see our SME Business Consultancy page.

Helping You Build a Better Business

Coaching & Mentoring

We can offer shorter-term coaching or longer-term mentoring support. Our coaching team specialise and have particular expertise in coaching in the construction and nuclear sectors. We offer coaching and mentoring for individuals or leadership teams.

Managers need to be equipped with the skills and behaviours to build, engage and retain their teams

HR Compliance and Best Practice

Implementing HR best practices, ensuring compliance in accordance with complex employment regulations and dealing with people issues. Owners of small-to-medium sized enterprises in the construction sector are often most at risk as they rely on multitasking managers to handle employee issues and lack dedicated HR resources or expertise. International construction companies starting up operations, undertaking short-term contracts or working through Joint Ventures in the UK can also benefit from our HR support. 

See our HR Compliance and Best Practice page which details our HR Support Packages.  

Not every business requires a full time human resources department or manager, but every business requires legal compliance and sound HR advice

Relocation Services

Our relocation and settling-in services are designed to help companies to relocate their employees with the least amount of stress and disruption. Operating initially in Somerset, we assist companies and their employees to relocate to the area including those working on the Hinkley Point C nuclear project.

Our Employee Relocation page has more details.