the sherpa services - what we do
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Some people don’t see diversity. Othersbury their heads in thesand when they do. It’s too difficult, toomuch red tape.
We see it, wewelcome it.It’s about seizingopportunities.
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Opportunities to deliverthe difference – for your
customers and your staff.
becoming aninclusive organisationis a bit of a journey.we can help you find the best route to take.
it’s not without its challenges thoughAsk yourself, when it comes to
• Attracting and retaining the best people
• Building awareness of diversity and inclusion
• Creating an inclusive culture, stamping out bullying and harassment
• Reducing sickness absence
• Conducting effective performance review
are your policies delivering the difference?
if not or if only ‘sort of’, we can help you.
Whether it’s with
• Impact assessing your policies using our 10eyeTM toolkit
• Developing recruitment methods that tap into new labour markets
• Effective communication campaigns that engage the audience and get your message across
• Advising on difficult investigations or disciplinary situations
• Providing coaching to managers on how to manage with confidence
• Developing action plans that support corporate objectives and promote equality
We offer:
advice, coaching, risk assessment, policy development.To help you deliver a diverse, talented workforce, ensuring you reduceyour risks and costs and maximise opportunity for all.
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who we areLynn Anderson is the chief map reader at sherpa. She has a wealth of experience gained from the private,voluntary and public sectors.
Before moving into consultancy, Lynn was responsible for developing policy relating to recruitment and equality and diversity for the NHS Scotlandworkforce: around 150,000 people working in over 100 different types of job.
Lynn is passionate about inclusion and the business benefits that a solidstrategy can achieve. She is well known and highly respected for herno-nonsense approach, providing honest and thoughtful advice as well as constructive but realistic solutions to organisational challenges.
Lynn is supported by a network of associates with a wide range of specialist skills and experience.
6 7what we doIn short, we make diversity and inclusion work for you.
As we’ve said, in almost every case there’s a journey to go on to arrive at being a fully inclusive organisation.
So, wherever you are on that journey we can:
• Help you impact assess, develop and implement policy
• Audit how you are currently performing, identifying risks and opportunity
• Help you to integrate diversity and inclusion into the core of your organisation
• Help you create a culture based on respect, trust and dignityfor all
• Coach and support your diversity managers
• Manage diversity programmes as outsourced experts
• Ensure that by embracing diversity you improve performance and your reputation
• Help you recruit the best. And retain the best
Depending on your requirements, we provide you with a mix of consultancy,coaching and outsourced management.
how we workA large part of what we offer is traditional consultancy:diagnosing a problem, offering treatment, making theproblem go away. By far the best way of doing this is by becoming part of your team, offering expertise whenrequired and building internal capacity and confidence so that your reliance on external expertise diminishes.
Advice and coachingWith new diversity managers we provide coaching to build competence andknowledge of the range of diversity issues. We often find that people areknowledgeable in one strand of diversity, for example race relations, but not in others, or that they are experts in the diversity field but need help relating this knowledge to wider organisational objectives.
We provide coaching to diversity managers to build change management skills and support them to drive challenging agendas and get buy in across yourorganisation.
We also provide advice and coaching to HR staff, helping them incorporate diversity management in their day-to-day work, ensuring equality and diversityare not ‘add-ons’ but integral to your people management policies.
At a senior level we provide advice and sense checks, ensuring that in trying to do the right thing, your organisation isn’t doing the wrong thing, helping youavoid reputational damage and negative headlines.
who we do it forOur clients come in different shapes and sizes, work in different sectors and all have different needs.
Coming at things from different angles they are all at different stages of thejourney. But one thing they all have in common is a desire to make theirorganisation the best.
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how we work (cont...)
RecruitmentWe can work with you on specific projects from defining job descriptionsthrough to project managing specific recruitment rounds ensuring you get thebest person for the job and your organisation. Using 10eyeTM we can assess theimpact of your existing recruitment procedures, providing a health check toshow areas of risk in terms of compliance and discrimination in your processor its application.
Depending on the level of service you require, we can offer tailored training.We can also develop specialised recruitment models targeting new labourmarkets as part of your ‘positive action’ work. Through this, our clients benefitfrom reduced recruitment costs, access to wider talent pools and improvedemployer reputation.
Performance managementA key way to make sure you retain talent is to make sure your managers areequipped to manage diversity confidently. Using elements of 10eyeTM we can assess the impact of your performance management procedures to ensure you are building a culture in which all staff are supported to achieve their best andmanagers are able to tackle performance issues with confidence.
Equality schemesWe can work with you to review and revitalise your equality schemes andaction plans, whether you want to check progress or align your schemes withyour overall strategy.
InvestigationsOur clients often ask us to conduct confidential investigations into disciplinarysituations and to offer advice to disciplinary panel members. Our expertiseallows us to offer invaluable guidance in this area.
contact usFor further details or to arrange
a no-obligation introductory meeting please contact Lynn Anderson on
T: 0845 452 4096E: [email protected]
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