HR Support and Consulting

SPC offers a full range of HR Consulting and HR Analytics and Metrics services. Tell us what is important to you and we will analyse it and work with you on strategies to address it. This includes but is not limited to;

• Performance improvement
• Employee Development
• Discipline and grievance
• Absenteeism
• Productivity
• Labour turnover

Team Development and Coaching

SPC’s development and coaching interventions are aimed at not only enhancing employee skills around HR basics but also to identify and develop individual soft skill needs that enable individuals to be more productive, innovative and engaged within their teams or themselves.
Our courses can be structured or customised around your specific needs and include;

• Creating High Performance Teams
• Care and Growth Leadership Model for team leaders and management
• Team workshops, team building and focused interventions – communication / conflict resolution /
• Team and Individual Leadership coaching
• Problem Solving
• The “how to” of Discipline and Grievance procedures for team leaders

Succession Planning

Talented people are the new scarce resource for businesses in today’s constantly changing environment.  Your company’s ability to attract, motivate, develop and retain this talent is the key competitive differentiator.SPC can assist you to build a robust succession plan based on your company’s strategic intent and help define where you are headed. We will help you identify your company’s people needs and create supporting development plans and activities aimed at achieving your business growth and sustainability.This will include;

• Strategic and Workforce Planning
• Identifying gaps for example in knowledge, resources and skills
• Identifying talent pools
• Developing succession strategies
• Implementing succession strategies
• Monitoring and evaluation

HR Administration

Effective HR administration is the corner stone of any business that if done correctly ensures the smooth integration of new employees and allows current employees to focus on what they are actually employed to do. This is a crucial but often neglected responsibility for team leaders and management.SPC provides;

1. A customised outsourced HR Administration service that will save you time and money
2. A structured, internally managed process that uses the latest software applications designed to optimise your employee administration needs
3. A “clean-up” of your current HR administration to set you up for continuing the process on your own

Processes will be backed with all the relevant policies and formsneeded to support your choice.

Policies and Procedures

SPC has a library of ready-made policies and procedures that can be customised, if necessary, to suit your company’s needs. Should you have a specific policy requirement not covered in our current library, we have the expertise to draft if for you.You have the option to contract with SPC for the following;

1. An all-encompassing policy package,
2. a customise a policy package to suit your needs or
3. an individual policy or form on a “needs” basis

Contact us for our comprehensive Policies and Procedures Library. Click on “Get more info”

Job Evaluation and Job Profiling

Apart from the obvious advantages of having comprehensive job profiles that clearly define each position’s roles and responsibilities in your company, one of the key aspect of the Employment Equity Act is being able to prove that your company’s hierarchy and related remuneration structures are fair and equitable. Using a recognised job evaluation system supported by well written job profiles or job descriptions will give structure towards setting up justifiable remuneration structures as well as improve employee engagement and commitment through reducing confusion and improving motivation by letting your employee know exactly what is expected of them.We can;

1. Assist you with drawing up job profiles and organisation charts
2. Provide outsourced job evaluation and grading services
3. Train and support your internal job evaluation committee

Remuneration Analysis and Structuring

Remuneration and benefits are critical elements in employee commitment and engagement. A well designed employee reward strategy that covers more than just a basic salary, will be a key element in the attraction and retention of employees. There is an increasing expectation in the workforces of today for companies to offer far more than simply basic salary. If structured correctly, your company’s employee value proposition can be a huge attraction and retention strategy with very little on-cost to your company.SPC has partnered with highly recognised remuneration experts for remuneration surveys and is able to consult on any number of related topics. This ensures that your company remuneration is benchmarked against blue chip companies across South Africa and is able to be give insight into how your company remuneration fairs against them.We can also assist you with;

1. Setting up and managing your company’s remuneration committee
2. Remuneration policy
3. Salary Grade Scales analysis, structuring and implementation
4. Remuneration & Reward, Incentive structures & strategies

Employee Value Proposition development and implementation.

Performance Management

The fundamental goal of performance management is to promote and improve employee effectiveness. It is a continuous process where team leaders and employees work together to plan, monitor and review an employee’s work objectives or goals and his or her overall contribution to the organization. This facilitates the alignment of goals between employees and your company goals as well as improves employee engagement and motivation.SPC will help with;

1. Designing a sustainable performance management process for your company
2. An easy to use technological solution delivered through easy to use software that will reduce the drudgery of paperwork and increase all stakeholders’ commitment to the process.
3. Performance Improvement Process

Employment Equity

The Employment Equity Act requirements can be quite daunting for most companies to tackle without specialist input. Your annual submission to the Department of Labour needs to be well structured and thought through in order to be viable and accepted by the department. SPC can provide a range of services to help you to be proactive with your analysis and reporting.We can assist you to prepare the following;

1. EEA1 – Employee Declaration
2. EEA2 – Employment Equity Report
3. EEA4 – Income Differential Report
4. EEA12 – Employment Equity Analysis
5. EEA13 – Employment Equity Plan

Project Management

No matter how big or small a project, SPC can help you manage it! We will help you scope, plan, implement and evaluate your project, driving you towards successfully meeting the objectives.We will project manage the project for you or simply help to;

1. Develop a project charter and definition
2. Scope and blueprint “as is” processes
3. Assist with critical milestones management
4. Manage communication, workflows and risks
5. Complete the project evaluation

Discipline & Grievance Management

Misconduct, if left unchecked, can lead to unnecessary angst and disruption in the work place as can the ineffective dealing of grievances. A sound platform for appropriate behaviour and dealing with inappropriate behaviour for both the company and its employees is a cornerstone for fairness and harmony in the work place.Not only can SPC help you put this platform in place with appropriate policies and procedures, they can also assist with;

1. Conflict mediation
2. Drafting disciplinary charges
3. Chairing hearings or grievances
4. Preparation for CCMA cases

Payroll and HR Systems

SPC partners with PaySpace for Payroll and HR systems. PaySpace offers an intuitive and modern payroll solution that does away with some of the legacy payroll approaches (like the month end payrun concept) and simplified data capture capabilities for Human Capital Management by embedding legislation into the software, thereby minimising the numbers of fields and forms a user would be required to complete. With PaySpace, you can workflow a number of the cumbersome manual, paper-based processes like leave applications, overtime and commission uploads and expense claims that once approved will automatically upload into your payroll, saving you time and money.