Workplace Management Consulting

Australian employers are competing in the tightest labour market for many decades. Maintaining the status quo is no longer a viable way to attract, retain and reward quality employees. The EI Group specialises in creating contemporary work environments designed to get the best for employees and keep them engaged with your overall business objectives.

Our consulting team focus on providing you, your team and your business with tangible workplace improvements.

Building The Modern Workplace

A modern workplace is one that has a performance recognition culture, along with strategies that seek to engage staff and enable them to balance their work and life commitments. 

The Advantages of a Performance-Recognised Culture

Paying for performance has considerable advantages for your business, as well as your employees. Paying for performance can:

• Support organisation change, allowing you more flexibility in defining positions, multi-skilling employees and offering training;
• Introduces flexibility to respond to labour market trends, allowing you to pay for performance, loyalty, to retain good staff and attract staff to particular occupations where there is a shortage;
• Creates a more inclusive team environment by flattening our hierarchical managerial structures and removing organisational silos;
• Promotes lateral career movement as it encourages employees to seek out more challenging opportunities to use their current capabilities;
• Increases staff professional development as it allows for greater training opportunities and incentives to retain staff who perform well;
• Reduces administrative time and costs through standardized payroll and rostering procedures and the reduced complexity of calculating rates of pay,
• Increases shareholder value by increasing productivity and reducing business costs, as well as encouraging greater business growth, and
• Increases the strategic capabilities of management, ensuring they no longer have to act as police in ensuring the award is adhered to, but can refocus on strategic planning, ensuring objectives are being met and motivating staff.

At The EI Group we assist our clients to build modern workplaces which recognise the value of every employee. We work with your organisation to develop an incentive-based pay strategy that works to reward excellent performance of employees. We also development a performance management system which assists your management team to assess employee performance and address performance difficulties easily and effectively.

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Our 8-Step HR Management Program

The EI Group has also developed an exclusive eight-step HR Management program that is designed to provide overall improvements to your business practices and performance.  Our program benchmarks your organisation against internationally-recognised best practice standards, then implements programs to bring your HR Management practices up to best-practice standards.  International studies have shown that good HR Management practices can improve bottom-line performance by up to 25%.  Our eight step HR Management Progam is designed to provide your business with all of the tools to reach this goal, and it covers:

• Strategic Planning
• Recruitment (including Top-Grading)
• Employee On-boarding and Induction
• Performance Management
• Risk Management
• Employment Administration, Time & Attendance and Payroll
• Training and Development
• Employee Off-boarding, Termination of Employment and Counselling

Our HR Management program is truly a Complete People Management Solution which can provide improvements for businesses of any size.

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General Consulting

If you have a workplace or people management issue or problem, we have the experienced consultants to assist you.  Our consulting philosophy is highly outcomes driven, ensuring that you get the results you desire within the timeframes you expect.  Our consulting team are able to assist you, your management team, your staff and your business in many ways:

• Managerial training and development on general people management practices and processes
• Developing HR strategic plans for business growth
• Acting as your strategic HR partner and team to provide your business with an overall service
• Dealing with emergent people management matters as they arise (including crisis management)
• Change management systems for business realignment

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Employer Branding & Employer of Choice Strategies

In order to attract the best available talent in the current labour market, Employers need to have a strong brand that is instantly identifiable as a desirable place to work.  This is particularly important for attracting the new generation of employees - Generation Y - who are highly brand conscious and discerning about what employers they will work for.  The EI Group takes a Total Rewards approach to developing strong Employer Branding by first benchmarking your organisation against other employers of choice and total rewards standards, then developing a tailored strategy for your organisation.  In developing a strategy for your organisation, we seek to attain the right mix of:

• Compensation (both static and variable compensation)
• Rewards and Benefits
• Work-Life Balance Strategies
• Performance Recognition
• Training and Development

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