Focus on the People Function

The GC Index® empowers organisations to drive performance and achieve innovation by creating game-changing teams and cultures. It focuses on finding out how individuals prefer to contribute, the insight from The GC Index® can help your decision making by:

• Gaining a unique insight on how your people make an impact i.e., are they in the right role or right organisation?
• Improving business outcomes buy aligning people to the right work and activity
• Creating a common language across the business
• Increasing individual performance
• Increasing team performance 
• Making more informed and accurate people decisions

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People technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace. As well as full cloud HR solutions there’s a range of smaller providers offering technology for every part of the people function. As a result it can be really confusing to work out what is needed and how to optimise what you’ve already invested in.  We can provide interim/consulting support to help you work through the requirements and successfully get the business case approved and a vendor appointed. For bigger or more complex programmes we can recommend one of our trusted partners.

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So, why is it important to build business management thinking into your people function? We’ve talked for a long time about needing to understand the organisational context, the CIPD released an interesting pod cast in 2012 on this subject. Therefore, building our own knowledge is critical if the function is to succeed in delivering the organisations strategy & plans.  Too often though we don’t operate the function with a business mindset.  InFocus HR can provide interim/consulting support providing tailored solutions to support your need.

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At InFocus HR we have a track record of setting up and/or improving people operations. Firstly, we can support from starting a new service through to a wider review. This could be the implementation of a shared services solution. Secondly, if your focus is on getting the ‘basics right’ or providing value added services we can help. More importantly, no matter the location or the services we will provide customer focused, simple and cost effective solutions. When delivering support for more complex assignments we can leverage our range of trusted partners.

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A 2011 Harvard report suggested that 70 to 90% of mergers & acquisitions fail to achieve their stated aims. Also a 2019 Forbes article on the importance of due diligence highlights the need to focus on people. At InFocus HR we have lots of experience in the people elements of M&A activity. We have seen the impact it can have on deal success or failure in any size organisation. Let us help you in developing and delivering a successful people stream within your M&A activity.

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Organisation design can mean many different things. Put simply though, it’s making sure that all the ‘building blocks’ of an organisation are aligned to deliver the strategic plan. At InFocus we use a simple organisation design approach that is driven by employees and managers. The aim being to avoid ‘the annual / bi-annual’ organisation design activity which can be so disruptive to the organisation. We also use insight from The GC Index to support decision makers on appointments to new roles and teams.

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