Manangement for Design is well positioned to provide quality, in-depth and compliant HR advice and guidance to your business. The first step is for Management for Design to conduct an HR ‘health check’ of your current people, systems, processes and activities. This enables us to conduct a review of your company’s current HR ‘back of house’, including any supporting HR materials, documentation, policies, processes and activities. This will be achieved by: (a) M4D reviewing all required HR information in the business, as well as any face-to-face discussions to further ascertain the current HR state of play across the business. This includes any unwritten HR processes and activities in place for your business presently. (b) M 4D will then provide your business with a summary HR ‘health check’ report of HR findings arising from this process to confirm areas of current HR strength and further clarifying opportunities for further improvement. There are a number of automated tools and templates designed to walk you through creating policies, procedures and documentation. They should be designed to ensure your business is compliant with workplace laws, such as Australia’s Fair Work Act. Choose with care, as many online HR tools offer templates based on US or UK workplace laws. The next step up from fully automated tools is HR consulting services, which often combine online HR tools with a hands-on appraisal of your HR needs. Rather than simply generating forms and policies, such services often assist you with managing the entire employee lifecycle from recruitment and orientation to performance reviews, personal development, ongoing training, and termination and exit interviews. Please give Rob Peake or Adam Kreuzer a call 03 9645 8834 if your business would benefit from specialist review of your HR activity.
Cloud-based business systems Much has been written about the cloud and its impact on how business is conducted today. But is the cloud really that significant? In a word, yes! The cloud is the great equalizer. The cloud offers everyone (businesses and individual consumers) the ability to obtain products and services from literally anywhere, anytime in the world on a device of their choosing. That is the power of the cloud. A consistent experience that is always available and appears to the consumer as something that is indistinguishable — large or small companies, local or global, morning or middle of the night, simple to extremely complex — it’s all there, all the time. But… The cloud is only a method by which we all obtain our experience. The experience is, and has always been, controlled and delivered by the business
