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The Method The Grange offers its services on a retainer basis.  For a negotiated amount, The Grange will provide your company with Twenty-Four hour human resources support seven days a week.  Shorter term arrangements can be made on a project or hourly basis. Success by Design Successful companies design their culture, policies, and practices instead of hoping it happens by accident.  We’ll begin by identifying your current policies and practices, strategically crafting a path forward that enhances your company vision and its goals.  We’ll develop a plan the company can follow as it grows.  The plan will keep you more than just compliant, it will give you a competitive advantage and help you design a world class culture where employees truly are your best and most valuable resource. Once the plan is in place we’ll implement it by creating the documents, handbooks, and necessary policies to make it happen.  We’ll help you roll it out to employees, train supervisors, managers, and executives in best practices ensuring that the culture you create will be sustainable over time. Stand With You No matter how well crafted, nothing operates indefinitely without the proper maintenance and management.   The Grange will help you design and manage your benefit offering, conduct open enrollment, help you design annual reviews that won’t be a waste of time, message annual increases, and, when necessary, help you resolve “employee relations” that could land you in court if not handled correctly. We’ll recommend products and services best suited to your company’s size, culture and capabilities.  The Grange partners with companies that provide Payroll, Human Resources, and Benefit Management software as well as others that can help you manage 401k benefits, outplacement, and recruiting. Legal Advice: The Grange also partners with Haymore Law to provide you with customized employment agreements, liability release agreements, and other HR related documents that protect you now and in the future.  This partnership can provide you with affordable services and advice when things go beyond human resources. All these services are offered to you at a cost you can afford.  Lay the foundation of success today by partnering with The Grange, Strategic HR Services today.

An HR Consultant that Doesn’t Say No HR has a reputation of saying no more often than it finds solutions to problems.  HR employees are like any other professional employee, they are educated in “best practices,” taught the “legal” way to do things, and are drilled with the consequences of what happens when you’re out of compliance.  Some of them are even educated in how to read a financial. Most HR employees aren’t taught risk assessment.  What is the likelihood of the consequences you’ve been taught about in all your recertification classes?  What will be the real impact if those consequences come about verses the cost of compliance? Executives ask these questions all the time, but a lot of entry level to midlevel HR employees rarely think this way. At The Grange, we never tell an executive no.  We council, we advise, we educate, and we explain the risks, but we don’t say no.  You need an HR partner that that finds solutions, not barriers to success. When you have questions with real impact, we’ll be there with real answers that strategically move you towards your goals.

Human Capital Are employees your most important resource or not? Employees are your most expensive capital investment.  Just like any other capital investment they have production limits, specifications, installation costs, and, most importantly, maintenance costs. If you’re a manufacturer and you purchase a piece of equipment that is supposed to produce 100 widgets an hour, you’ll do whatever you need to do to ensure it produces 100 widgets an hour or more. Human capital is no different. When you hire an employee, you purchase the equipment.  Employees need to be on-boarded, trained, integrated into your operations, coached, and guided properly.  Some employers think they don’t need to do things that keep employees happy.  Happy employees are productive employees, productive employees are efficient employees, and productive and happy employees make you money. Do you know the following about your most productive capital investment? ·       How long do your employees work each week? ·       What are the advantages of having each employee? ·       Each employee is rated to produce a certain amount of production each week.  What does each employee produce for you? ·       If you changed how you utilized an employee would he or she be more productive?  How much more productive? ·       What incentives exist within the company and what behavior do they produce? ·       Are your employees self-motivated and looking for ways to improve the business or do they just do their job and go home?  Why? If your employees really are your most valuable asset, do you treat them that way?  What would you sacrifice to ensure they are at their productive peak? Do your actions match your words?  It’s easier than you think. The Grange is packed with ways of ensuring your most valuable capital investment gives you the best possible return.  It’s time to improve your ROI.

Why an HR Consultant? Laying the foundation of a business isn’t easy. Doing it wrong can put you in court or worse, trapped with an ineffective team and culture that continually holds back the growth of your company.   How do you get real HR support without breaking the bank? The Grange assists you in laying that foundation carefully and deliberately. 1.   The right processes and procedures to ensure you’re compliant. 2.   The right policies that facilitate growth and create trust between management and employees (handbooks etc). 3.   The right benefits to help you keep the best employees. 4.   The right culture to keep you on top and take care of your customers. 5.   The right plan.  Planning ahead to stay ahead. 6.   The right way to resolve issues, open, honest, and geared to get the best from your most valuable resource, Human Resources.