Outsourced Human Resources, Internal Hiring & Strategic Planning Services

Deb Best Practices

Your Experienced People, Business, Strategy and Compliance Navigator

Committed to You and Your Team’s Success

Part-Time / Interim Human Resources Strategic Leadership Services

  • “HR 911” Phone Support
  • Corporate Recruitment Process Implementation / Improvement
  • Compliance / Professional Development Training
  • Third-Party Employee Complaint Investigation
  • Employee Relations Issue Resolution
  • Leadership / Managers:  Conducting Tough Conversations Successfully
  • Progressive Discipline and Due-Process Program Advisement
  • Executive / Management / Employee Coaching
  • Mentoring / Training Your Entry-Level HR & Recruiter Employees
  • Mediation / Conflict Resolution  (NYS Trained)
  • Resolution of Discrimination and Unemployment Insurance Claims
  • Investigation / Remediation of Harassment  / Workplace Claims
  • Preventive Employee Relations / Compliance Training, e.g. Harassment
  • Performance Management / Evaluation
  • Handbook, Policy and Job Description Development / Compliance (In Partnership with Management-Side Labor Counsel)

 

Strategic Planning / Change Management

 

  • Employee Communication / Engagement Programs; Knowledge & Collaboration
  • Team-Building, Assimilation and Facilitation
  • Vision / Mission / Goal Facilitation and Development
  • Strategic Planning Retreat Facilitation
  • Workshops / Trainings / Presentations

 

Operations

 

  • Change Management Project Development and Implementation
  • Process Improvement Facilitation and Implementation
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Deb Best Practices 

Your Experienced People, Business, Strategy and Compliance Navigator

Committed to You and Your Team’s Success

 

As an Experienced People Navigator:

 

  • Communication breakdowns resulting in conflicts and lost productivity?
  • Managers and supervisors don’t know how to best lead and inspire your team members?
  • Don’t know the best words and timing to deliver positive and/or constructive feedback to support individual and organization success?
  • Don’t know how to handle office / business conflicts impacting productivity and morale?
  • Office drama running your business / organization instead of you?
  • Don’t know how to respectfully and compassionately address a disruptive and/or low-performing employee?
  • Don’t know how to hire your next leader / executive?
    • Don’t know the difference between legal and illegal interview questions?
    • Don’t know how to best identify the best candidate for the job?
    • Need information on competitive compensation and how it will impact your current employees?
  • Employees struggling with issues outside of work, impacting performance; don’t know how to best handle / get help?
  • Have a brand-new or junior Human Resources (HR) person and don’t know how to train / mentor / guide them?
  • Your HR Leader / Professional is out on leave or has left your organization?
  • Don’t know how to effectively and compliantly navigate pregnancy and maternity throughout the employment life cycle?

 

As a Senior Business Navigator:

 

  • Never had an HR Person and don’t know where to begin / how to build an HR function and then hire your first HR professional?
  • Don’t understand the difference between payroll, benefits and HR, and how to best provide those services?
  • Spending too much money and time on cookie-cutter services provided by inexperienced consultants that don’t meet your people, business, strategy and compliance needs?
  • Spending too much time and money on HR legal issues on the back end and have no reliable HR preventive support on the front end?
  • Don’t know when / how to partner with an experienced HR Practitioner and Employer-Side Legal Counsel; and when it’s appropriate to bring in a qualified Employee Assistance Program (EAP)?

As an Experienced Strategy / Change Navigator:

 

  • Up-and-coming business or organization and don’t have strategic or succession plans?
  • Don’t know how to establish key strategic performance indicators and track accountability?
  • Need help cascading strategic goals and key performance indicators to conduct an effective and ongoing performance evaluation process?
  • Don’t have established organization values to guide consistent employee relations and overall decision-making?
  • Don’t have a project plan / leader to implement your people strategy?
  • Need change leadership support to effectively execute mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, promotions and retirements?

 

As a Senior Compliance Navigator – 30 Years of HR Experience:

 

  • Have a harassment complaint and don’t know how to handle / investigate / resolve it compliantly?
  • Need to investigate and potentially take corrective action on other policy violations and don’t know where to start?
  • Haven’t completed your mandated NYS Sexual Harassment Prevention and other required training?
  • Just had a DOL audit and need to ensure compliance going forward?
    • No handbooks or policies
    • No job descriptions
    • No organization chart
    • No people accountability / metrics
    • Unsure how to administer exempt vs. nonexempt pay (overtime pay) and paid time off compliantly?
  • Unsure if you’re compliant with complex NYS and Federal employer requirements?
  • Don’t know how to compliantly end employment?
  • Never conducted an HR audit to discover and remediate any compliance gaps?
  • Displaying all mandated / current employee posters?
  • Don’t know how to hire and onboard minimizing compliance exposure?
  • Don’t know how to compliantly and compassionately navigate NYS Paid Family and federal Family Medical Leave?