• Leaders that are skilled at developing talent and accountable for business performance. 

    The raison d'etre for HR

  • Providing HR Solutions that suit your business and your people! 

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    What we do

    We help you execute your business strategy ensuring that your people believe in your purpose, understand what it means to create value and know that they are doing meaningful work.  
     
    We believe that organisations are as individual as their people so we provide tailored solutions that support your culture and employees and drive success.
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    How we do it

    We start with ensuring we understand your business purpose and that your basics are legally compliant.

     

    We then build on this by developing the right skills and behaviours across your organisation, from the Board of Directors down through every level of employee.

     

    We will help you identify and embed successful business practices that drive employee satisfaction and overall improve performance. The result will be an inspired workforce who drive business growth and profitability and have fun doing it!

  • In other words....

    Our principal role is to help build the right sort of workplace, creating a supportive and caring environment, with the right people and the right skills who want success for themselves and the organisation.

    Skills

    By making sure that leaders are skilled at developing talent and accountable for business performance.

    Trust 

    By building trusting relationships with you, your leaders and employees.

    Objectives 

    By understanding the business goals and objectives and designing solutions that enable business success.

    Environment 

    By working with management to create the environment and opportunities, starting with the basics, so as to engage, motivate and inspire your people.

    Solutions 

    By providing leaders and employees with what they need, when they need it, in order to effectively do their jobs. One size does not fit all!
     

    HR Basics 

    By knowing how to deliver all elements of an HR service from developing people strategy to ensuring everyone has a contract of employment. We want HR to be as easy as possible.
  • What we can do for you

    HR Health Check

    A review of your contracts of employment, employee policies, processes, pension provisions and employee benefits to ensure they are legally compliant  and fit for purpose.

    Auto Enrolment

    We can manage the whole process of Auto Enrolment as long we are have sufficient time before your staging date. It’s not as frightening as you may think, it just needs careful planning!

    The Basics

    A robust recruitment and selection process, legally compliant employment terms and conditions and an induction and probation process to manage the very important early days of an employee’s life with you.  As much or as little detail as you require on policy, entitlement and benefits, and company expectations all provided in an Employee Handbook.

    Employee Effectiveness

    We can help you define company values and embed culture change. This will engage employees and help them understand their value. We can support the development of great managers who know how to get the best out of a team with customised tools and processes and new ways of doing things that build high performing teams.

    Pay and Reward

    We can design pay and reward structures that are competitive, attract and retain employees. To compliment this we can introduce benefits that suit your business profile and your employee’s needs.  These may include health cover, cycle to work schemes, buddy schemes or yoga at lunch time.

    HR Forum

    The HR Forum provides a unique opportunity for HR professionals to share and learn.   The uniqueness of the forum means that the same group of people attend the quarterly meetings and the agenda is largely shaped around topics or issues that the members wish to discuss ranging from strategic and operational topics, share practice and policy, debate issues in the headlines, discuss case studies, and listen to speakers talk on a range of subjects. 

     

    www.hr-forum.co.uk

    HR Mentoring 

    We offer mentoring to HR professionals who may be inexperienced, have a stand alone role or at a crossroads in their career.
     
    Mentoring:
    • is about enhancing an individuals career development through a collaborative, knowledge-sharing relationship 
    • facilitates the transfer of knowledge and organisational culture
    • can provide career support and feedback
    • provides an opportunity to self-reflect on your career goals and challenges.

    And the rest....

    We can lead and manage change that may affect your company structure, your employees or the way you do things, including mergers & acquisitions, redundancy or restructuring.  We can highlight risks, align legal requirements and ensure fairness.

     

     

    We can also provide unique expertise and advice to help you successfully grow and develop your business, identifying investment streams and providing the Board and CEOs with the skills required.

  • Our Clients

    We work with companies of all sizes and across all industry sectors.  Our clients include private educational institutions, technology services, retail and hospitality, manufacturing, financial services and the construction industry.

     

    We support SME's, on a regular basis as an extension to your management team, or as and when you need us.  We also provide medium to long term interim project resources for large companies with their own in-house HR Functions. We give you what you need when you need it! 

     

    We have a varied client portfolio in the South East and now offering the same range of HR services to business and organisations across Cornwall.

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  • In our clients words

    "Sparkhouse Consultants provides an excellent service to American Express. They have driven and delivered on a number of key projects, most notably strategic positioning and leadership development for our Training Competence requirements under the terms of our regulators, the Financial Services Authority. Sparkhouse have also provided most valued support in the key areas of Employee Relations and Change Management. I would have no hesitation recommending Sparkhouse to other prospective clients."

    American Express, HR Director

     

     

    “Sparkhouse have a wealth of experience, and have always provided us with excellent advice. A highly valued business partner whom we call upon whenever we need advice on HR matters Sparkhouse have helped us to identify many areas in which we could improve productivity through people.  We are now much better at finding, interviewing, motivating and retaining the right people. If you have a need for outsourced HR expertise, talk to them. I would not hesitate to recommend Sparkhouse consultants to any business that wants to get more out of its people."

    Propellernet, Managing Director

     

     

    “This was an extremely useful and professionally presented piece of work which will enable Relate to compete in the marketplace when recruiting and thus enable implementation of retention and succession planning that will support a highly effective team. We felt that Sparkhouse very quickly understood our organisation and we felt secure in the knowledge that the service we were receiving was tailor made to our special needs."

    Relate, Brighton and Hove Centre Director

     

     

    “Having carried out a major re-structure it was clear from a very early stage that additional expertise was required to ensure fairness, legality and an objective point of view. Sparkhouse provided that and more. They understood from our first meeting what was required and provided outstanding back-up throughout. We could not have completed the re-structure without their advice and support. Lawyers can provide legal information but they cannot spend time in your organisation working with management and the staff to ensure everyone understood what was happening and why.   I cannot recommend Sparkhouse Consultants highly enough.”

    Handcross Park School, Headmaster

     

    “To transfer any employees under a TUPE scenario is a tough and engaging task at the best of times, but  to move a large number of employees from a global blue chip organisation to a new legal entity in just 6 months is extremely demanding. Everyone at Sparkhouse Consultants not only achieved this task on time but they produced such an effective communication strategy within this process that the transfer was smooth and 100% effective. Very rarely do you work with a company that takes such pride in the service they provide and who care so passionately about the people they are working with. We simply could not have done it without them.”

    Kanoo Travel & Foreign Exchange, UK General Manager

  • Lets chat over a coffee....

    Send us an email and we will call you to arrange a meeting. 

  • About Us

    We have over 20 years experience in Human Resources and have built our expertise by managing or advising on almost every scenario you can think of, from large scale redundancies to long term absences from mentoring CEOs to writing policy and procedure.
     
    Our principal consultant (and MD) Melanie Franks would make initial contact with you and agree terms and priorities.  
     
    We work with a group of talented and expert associates whose key skills include data management, compensation, data management, business development, coaching and employee relations.  We are not stuffy HR folk, our talents extend well beyond the world of HR into the world of law, sailing, art and baking! 

    Contact Us

    01326 379 359
     
    Slipway House
    Restronguet
    Falmouth
    TR11 5ST

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