Leveling Up Your HR Team – How An External HR Consultant Can Empower Your HR Team

Would you support a business who already has a HR Manager or HR Team? Absolutely!

As an external consulting firm, Bramwell Partners is often asked whether we work with businesses who already have HR. Our HR Consultants work in business who do have HR Teams and HR Managers already in their workplace.

In this blog, we highlight some of the key advantages an external HR Consultant can provide to in-house HR.

Why Bring In External HR Support?

1. Expertise & Knowledge

External HR Consultants bring the benefit of experience and knowledge across a vast range of industries and sectors. This allows a Consultant to have a unique understanding of industry best-practice and current trends; whether it is talent management and compliance or organisational development and remuneration packages. Your HR Team can receive insights they may not be aware of.

2. Strategic Planning & Advice

HR Consultants are often tasked with supporting People Strategy development, workforce planning and will be responsible for implementing large-scale HR projects (i.e., restructuring, mergers, acquisitions). This experience helps guide your Company in a direction that has remains in line with legal requirements and keeps you on track to achieve your business objectives.

3. Ensures Regulatory Compliance

Our HR Consultants are held accountable and are responsible for ensuring their knowledge is up-to-date with all employment legislation and regulation changes. An in-house HR Team may not be as well-informed and may receive the benefit of working closely with an HR Consultant.

4. Risk Management

HR Consultants are trained to be risk-aware. Having a HR Consultant support your HR Team to provide a new perspective and their own insight can support the risk management of your business and effectively mitigate unforeseen risks.

5. Training & Development

Through the provision of professional development opportunities, training and coaching, HR Consultants can support the internal HR team members to build their competencies and knowledge.

On an organizational level, the HR Consultants can support the HR to facilitate large training initiatives and ensure training is designed to suit the industry and business.

6. Talent Management Practices

HR Consultants provide an unbiased opinion and perspective when supporting Company recruitment campaigns. Furthermore, the consultant may assist in developing strategies, selection processes and onboarding programs to ensure talent is attracted and retained.

7. Performance Management

External HR Consultants can provide support and unbiased opinions for reviewing performance of senior leaders and employees. This is especially useful should your management team or HR Team find themselves emotionally tied to an outcome.

8. Organisational Change Management & Development

Supporting the internal HR team in managing organizational change initiatives, HR Consultants ensure smooth transitions and minimizing disruptions to the workplace in times of major change.

9. Culture & Engagement

Consultant can provide advice and assistance in developing organizational culture and engagement strategies. HR Consultants are often supporting culture initiatives and can find unique opportunities to enhance morale and employee engagement.

10. HR Systems & Technology

As HR Consultants we are constantly adapting to different businesses’ systems and technology. We can advise you of what has worked well and what hasn’t – saving you time and money. Furthermore, a HR Consultant can support your implementation, and optimization of HR technology solutions, such as HRIS, ATS, and LMS. We can assist you to find the best solution to suit your organisations workforce and business objectives data metric needs.

11. Interim Support

As HR Consultants we can act as the first point of contact and fill the gaps caused by absences from the workplace (i.e., parental leave, increased business periods) and increased workloads.

12. Conflict & Mediation

Bringing an external, objective perspective to internal HR issues, consultants can lead teams to more balanced and effective solutions.

13. Tailored Solutions

Based on their experience, knowledge and education, HR Consultants can create customized solutions tailored to the specific needs and challenges of the Company.

Signs My HR Team Could Use Support

Some signs that indicate it might be time to bring in external HR expertise include:

• High workload that is struggling to be completed
• Burnout of HR employees
• Lack of expertise in key areas
• Lack of confidence in regulatory compliance
• Audit findings
• Lack of strategic focus
• Organisation is undergoing significant changes
• High turnover in HR team
• Low engagement within workforce
• Outdated HR systems
• Employee complaints
• Unresolved conflict in the workplace
• Resistance to change

Interested In Finding Out How Our HR Consultants Can Support You?

Call us on 07 4849 5517 (Central Qld) or 07 3630 5695 (Brisbane) to organise a free consultation meeting to find out more of our expert support services.