HR Services for every stage
of your business evolution
With extensive business acumen, HR expertise and decades of experience, O’Grady Consultants Inc. is the go-to HR consulting firm to grow your business.
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Scalable HR
We transform start-ups into multi-national operating companies with strategic and transactional HR consulting services that support your growth plans.
START-UP
You likely have a core team in place and focused on finding your path to success. This is when you’re setting the foundation, experimenting with finding your ideal customer, testing out ways to differentiate, building the best mouse trap, and finding your secret process sauce.
Your pain points
It’s likely that some of your top concerns go something like this:
- How do we convince top talent to join our little known start up?
- How do we differentiate nice-to-have HR vs must-have HR?
- How do we ensure our people have skin in the game?
- How do we compete for talent with established players? And still remain lean?
- What’s the best way to retain key staff?
- How do we deal with people who aren’t working out?
Paint Points (con’t)
- What roles and talent are we missing and how do we get them?
- How do we ensure the important stuff we may not be good at (or don’t like doing!) gets done – well? Operational issues, compliance, insurance, contracts.
- How do we vet the people we hire and get different perspectives when our team is so small?
- How do we set salaries and make offers?
- How do we get benefits and people programs in place? Fast – so we can compete for talent?
- How do we define who we are and who we want to be?
GROWTH
You’re ready to take what you’ve learned and grow your business. You likely have a strong understanding of your customer, an attractive product / service, consistent sales and your business is “referable”. It’s also where you’re building out systems, attracting experienced managers, delegating, managing performance and data.
Your pain points
You’re probably asking yourself the following questions:
- How do we find the experience & expertise we need to execute on our business plan when there’s a serious shortage of skilled workers?
- How can we best compete on compensation arrangements with the larger established players?
- How do we minimize collateral damage when making difficult business decisions that impact employees?
- How do we develop employees into managers, & managers into leaders?
- How can we select the right people who can fit into the culture & team already in place?
- How do we implement the HR procedure and systems now needed & still remain lean and nimble?
- How do we adapt to new compliance requirements for 50+ companies?
Paint Points (con’t)
- What roles should founders play?
- How do we keep our org chart flat?
- Do we need in-house HR staff? How many?
- What type of leaders & managers do we need?
- How do we provide cost-effective training for career progression?
- What’s our succession strategy?
- What’s our retention strategy?
- Do we promote from within or hire new talent?
EXPAND | EXIT
You have a sense of maturity and momentum that comes with steady growth. You may be expanding by acquisition or merging with strategic partners where you’ll be monitoring, measuring, and adapting. You may also consider going public or exploring an exit strategy.
Your pain points
At this stage, you’ll likely need help with these concerns:
- Should we go public or merge?
- What do we need to know about HR during mergers & acquisitions?
- Should we expand cross boarder or internationally? What are the rules and norms of other jurisdictions?
- Who are our key people and how can we retain them?
- Who’s next in line to lead and manage?
- How do we manage & communicate changes?
Paint Points (con’t)
- What does the HR department look like at this stage?
- What type of leaders & managers do we need?
- How do we provide cost-effective training for career progression?
- What’s our succession strategy?
- What’s our retention strategy?
- When do we promote from within & when to hire from outside?
What we do
We understand lean and we’re experts at setting up solid and pragmatic HR foundations for founders and start-ups.
We’ll help you:
- Develop recruiting & compensation plans to compete with established players
- Create your employer brand & compelling website career pages
- Minimize the significant costs associated with bad hires & hire the right people who thrive in a more unstructured (and often chaotic) environment
- Identify & keep your top talent
- Implement only the HR policies & best practices you need
- Get you ready for your next stage of growth
Results (con’t)
- Figure out whether to promote or hire
- Define, create, sustain & spread the word about your culture
- Create a compensation & benefits plan that drives the behaviors, performance & retention you need
- Develop a long-term incentive plan
- Evolve your organizational design
- Team build
- Resolve conflict
- Leadership Assessment (DISC), Development, Coaching & Succession
- Develop KPIs
- Understand employee satisfaction
- Employee training & education
- Optimize HR data
- Create must-have HR policies
- Manage performance
- Get disciplined about executing on operational work
- Other HR Services
What we do
We understand this critical stage in your business evolution and we have the experience to help you get to the next level.
We’ll help you:
- Figure out the roles and talent profiles you need to scale & determine whether to promote or hire
- Source the needle-in-haystack prospects and get them to your table
- With change management and staff communication during difficult business transitions
- Create a training & development plan to grow technical people, managers & leaders
- Be clear about your culture and the people who will thrive in it
- Implement HR procedures & systems you need to manage your business efficiently
- Understand and adhere to compliance requirements for this stage of your business
Results (con’t)
- Figure out whether to promote or hire
- Define, create, sustain & spread the word about your culture
- Create a compensation & benefits plan that drives the behaviors, performance & retention you need
- Develop incentive plans
- Evolve your organizational design
- Team build
- Resolve conflict
- Leadership Assessment (DISC), Development, Coaching & Succession
- Develop KPIs
- Understand employee satisfaction
- Employee training & education
- Optimize HR data
- Create must-have HR policies
- Manage performance
- Other HR Services
What we do
We’ve helped transform start-ups into multi-national operating companies and understand the complexities that come with this stage in the business.
We’ll help you:
- Navigate merger integration / IPO planning & execution
- With due diligence & risk analysis
- Create cross-border & International HR
- Relocate talent and handle the relocation and immigration process
- Manage planning and communication
- Establish good compensation committee governance
- With HR regulatory compliance
Results (con’t)
- Create retention plans and incentives
- Become strategic about acquiring talent
- Align your organization
- Figure out whether to promote or hire
- Define, create, sustain & spread the word about your culture
- Create a compensation & benefits plan that drives the behaviors, performance & retention you need
- Develop incentive plans
- Evolve your organizational design
- Team build
- Resolve conflict
- Leadership Assessment (DISC), Development, Coaching & Succession
- Develop KPIs
- Understand employee satisfaction
- Employee training & education
- Optimize HR data
- Create must-have HR policies
- Manage performance
- Other HR Services