Birch-HR: Supporting Leaders Through Complex People Challenges
Managing people effectively means being ready for whatever challenges pop up. This week really highlighted how our CIPD HR consultants step in to help organisations tackle the tricky, sensitive, and high-risk sides of HR.
How We’ve Supported Our Clients This Week:
- Managing Sensitive Investigations with Care and Rigour: Handling multi-faceted workplace investigations, including allegations of sexual harassment. We ensure these are conducted robustly, balancing a firm grasp of employment law with empathy, discretion, and fairness.
- Building Capability Through EDEI Training: Facilitating tailored Equality, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training. The goal is to boost leadership confidence and turn good values into everyday behaviours that positively shape workplace culture.
- Resolving Conflict and Disputes: Guiding clients through workplace mediation to repair relationships, and leading ACAS conciliation cases—including successfully recovering client costs on out-of-time claims using a practical, commercially-minded approach.
- Providing Capacity for Complex Sickness Management: Stepping in to handle time-consuming, long-standing sickness absence and grievance cases. We manage the health considerations, reasonable adjustments, and legal risks so internal HR teams can focus on broader business priorities.
- Coaching and Supporting Senior Leaders: Providing practical, one-to-one executive coaching to help senior leaders build resilience, make tough decisions, and navigate complex people issues at pivotal points in their careers.
- Partnering Through Change: Offering clear, compliant, and compassionate guidance to charities and other organisations navigating redundancies and wider change management programmes to ensure sustainable outcomes.
No two weeks are ever the same, but our main goal always is: helping you handle people challenges with confidence and care. Whether it’s a sudden issue or long-term organisational change, we’re here to act as your trusted partner, bringing a bit of calm and expertise when it matters most.