Challenges clients raise with us are:
- A large proposition of staff leaving or looking to leave triggering disruption and higher recruitment costs;
- Increased membership of and support for unionised action;
- Difficulty in recruiting new staff; and
- Signs of limited staff motivation with a focus on salaries, terms and other compensation.
The causes are rarely complex, perhaps a poorly managed transformation (such as changes to terms and conditions or poor systems implementation or merger) or leadership practices at varying levels of the organisation or simply a lack of responsive action to problems that arise. Even when there is a specific trigger has been identified, organisations can be surprisingly slow to tackle it, perhaps due to fear of making it worse or uncertainty about what the solution might be.
The consequences can be far reaching and while sometimes evidenced through relevant staffing KPI (if they are being utilised), can often lead to lower productivity, even if evidence of ‘quiet quitting’ is limited.
Turning this situation around requires action at multiple levels, backed up with some key initiatives. Seen from within the organisation it can be difficult to objectively analyse the situation and the solutions are mistakenly perceived as the reserve of ‘big business’.
We work with management teams to provide them with the insights and capabilities to deliver change in a multidisciplinary way supporting leadership, people, finance, legal and IT considerations. We can roll our sleeves up although most of the work is based on embedding a framework for improvement and ‘skills transferal’, giving your team the ability to make cost effective and long lasting improvements. Our experience is based on supporting mergers, restructuring, cost reduction and re-energisation programmes across the middle market as well as international businesses.
If you would like to know more, please contact fiona@linkstoneadvisory.com
