Underperforming Employee 

Do you feel you are not getting the most from your employees or they are not meeting the expectations of job

Sometimes all it needs is an open and honest conversation, but if that still doesn’t solve the problem you may want to go down the formal route.

Beagle HR is there to support you with this. We will meet with you to discuss the individual and put a plan in place to support. Whether it’s coaching you to have the conversation, or being there with you during meetings. Our trained experts will guide you every step of the way.

An employee with high sickness absence 

An employee being absent due to illness is always challenging and they should be supported during difficult times. However, a high sickness absence can impact the rest of the team and how the business performs.

It is helpful to have a conversation with the employee to see if a return to work plan can be made for their old role or a new one with reduced hours and responsibilities.

At Beagle HR we know this isn’t always possible, however dismissing someone on grounds of prolonged sickness absence can be difficult due to the risk of unfair dismissal on the grounds of disability. We will meet with you and gather all the facts, produce a professional set of documents that mean the dismissal goes by the books and the risk on your business is minimised.

Help dealing with a formal complaint

To feel recognised, it is important that employees can feel like their concerns are being heard. This can be done informally, but if there are no satisfying outcomes it can be raised as a formal grievance in writing. As an employer, you are required to meet with the employee to understand the issue, and if appropriate, investigate the grievance.

These meetings can be sensitive, Beagle HR sets up meetings to discuss the grievance, giving all parties a chance to voice their case and discuss what a fair resolution should involve. Our team produced professional minutes for these meetings, ensuring accountability. Where appropriate the business can investigate the grievance further before making any decisions to bring to a meeting.

Once the investigation is concluded, you need to decide whether to uphold the grievance and decide if any action is necessary as well as a timescale to implement the action.

We make sure this process isn’t useless paperwork and box ticking. If there is something wrong in the working relationship we find it and fix it so you are assured that you and your people are happy and doing the great work you are there to do.

Help with retaining employees 

Today’s workforce is set to change roles more often than any generation before. What is going to make them stay at your company? A satisfied employee will still leave when grass looks greener on the other side. An engaged employee, committed to the goals of the business stays.

Our employee engagement processes look at how engaged your employees are, find what matters to them, and set up teamwork exercises that align the goals of the business with the needs of the employees. With a stronger mutual understanding there is a stronger shared vision that makes your top talent stay with you.

This is a tasking process that takes time and effort that you don’t always have. We have seen what works for businesses of all sizes, so when you work with us you are working with experience, involving rigorous processes, not time wasting “team building exercises”. We are focused on what will actually make your best talent stay with you, building an emotional commitment between the employee and the business.

Help with recruiting employees 

It’s a candidates’ market out there. With so much choice out there, what makes an employee want to work for you?

We work with experienced recruitment associates who can help you find the right person for your business

Get in touch and let us take the pain of hiring the wrong person away

Help with payroll and pension (Payroll and Pensions)

Having a robust payroll and pension system is essential to trust, a sign that the business is holding up their end of the deal. However, changing legislation can make it tasking to update these systems and make them run smoothly.

I need an Employment Contract

Whether hiring for the first time or expanding your workforce, it’s important to have the right documents.

Our expertise in tailoring contracts means you get the specific kind of work relationship you want to have, from employee, to worker, to contractor. Whether you want a permanent, part time, or zero hour contract.

We meet with you, learn what kind of relationship you want to have and your long term vision to produce a contract that will deliver today and and anticipate your needs over time, all whilst keeping you legally compliant and reducing the risk of unfair dismissal

I need a staff handbook

Business Inductions are time consuming and involve a lot of information that can be legally sensitive.

 It is important to have a thorough and detailed staff handbook that covers all the scenarios that may arise in your business. This ensures that in any disagreement or conflict, you can show compliant policy, keeping you on the safe side of the law.

Beagle HR uses policies crafted with the help of employment lawyers to put together a bespoke handbook that meets your actual business needs. You simply fill out a form with the details we need, and we deliver a professional, fully formatted, handbook that is fit for use both digitally and in print.

I want a better system to manage HR administration such as calculating employees’ holiday

HR admin like holiday calculations are time consuming and cause conflict if the employee is promised one thing but given another. This wastes time that you would rather spend developing your business and finding new clients.

Beagle HR offers easy to use software that completes all holiday calculations for you, logging holiday requests in real time, showing any timetable conflicts, allowing you to approve them quickly and easily. Most importantly, our software provides accountability, nothing depends on hearsay or watercooler conversations, employees can see how much holiday they have left and decisions about holiday requests are recorded, so nothing is left ambiguous.

I need help with aligning my team to the value and visions of the organisation

The people that work for you today are different from the people that worked for you when the business first started. How close are the people who work for you now to the vision that the business was started with and wants to carry today? Do your employees share your vision for the future of the company?

The truth is, many businesses are too busy to take time and ask these questions, since they are not technical questions, they often go unaddressed. However, a shared sense of values is one of the key indicators for how long an employee will stay with the business. Beagle HR helps you increase retention by finding out what matters to your employees and implementing policies that let your employees see a shared future vision with the business.

By aligning the business’ vision with its employees, Beagle HR has helped clients not only keep their talented employees, but see gains in productivity since the employees feel a new level of emotional engagement with the business.

I need a bespoke policy 

Beagle HR specialise in working with small businesses. We know that small businesses have unique working relationships because of the scale they operate on. These can change over time and are not covered in typical document templates.

We work with you directly to find out what is involved in your working relationships and how this can be tailored into a policy specific to you. This way you can be assured of legal compliance and freed of any confusion in your working relationships.

If you need a new workplace policy, or need to amend an old one to better suit your business’ needs, get in touch with Beagle HR today!

Help with Employee Benefits and Remuneration 

To attract and retain top talent, employers must be more competitive than ever. This doesn’t just mean an increase in pay.

Beagle HR offer benefits packages that make your roles look more attractive. From 24/7 GP and mental health services to free financial guidance and shopping discounts, our benefits package (pikx) increase your employees’ quality of life, giving them a greater sense of emotional connection and care that goes beyond a simple work relationship.

We will meet with you to choose a specific benefits package that will actually be felt by your employees. Not an empty gesture, but a real tangible benefit to their everyday lives.