Somebody who was aligned with my values…
I met Claire when I was looking for a HR Consultant to help me with some deliverables and being in a standalone role it can be tricky to spin all of those plates especially when you are trying to set up a team from scratch, so I was really looking for someone to support some integral projects enabling me to do some more of the BAU stuff. I came across Claire’s website and instantly I knew that Claire wasn’t just any consultant. There’s absolutely an energy, a lightness, she is less corporate, I was really looking for somebody who was aligned with my values and brought a certain type of energy. It can be really daunting to take the leap with a consultant, because its someone who you’re going to be working with really closely, but from meeting Claire within minutes I knew that we were on the same page.
On Claire’s website she says that HR FOR HR are who HR go to when they need the same type of support and care that we in HR provide from others, and I think that most HR professionals have felt like we look after everyone else in the business , we are there for everyone else, but who are there for us? Sometimes it can be quite a lonely profession and that’s where Claire really comes in.
She has an amazing ability to extract all of this chaos from your brain and turn it into something tangible and measurable. We started with lots of ideas and workshops and in a short space of time we have collaborated on some amazing pieces of work. Claire has helped to shape our new onboarding process, which has made it really slick and accessible for colleagues, she has helped me to design an orientation day for new starts with really meaningful and engaging content. She has worked tirelessly, and I do mean tirelessly to source an intuitive HR system and has project managed the system to bring it into fruition as well as completely an entire overhaul of our recruitment process. Also helping me to articulate the People Plan in full, and getting it to a place where we are able to communicate this with colleagues so that they really understand what we are working on, and all of this is helping to support the business in the right way, empowering our managers to lead their teams effectively, she has also given some amazing support to the wider business not just myself. Claire has run sessions during Stress Awareness Week about individual stressed and how to manage that, so employees were able to leave the session with an individual stress wheel and other amazing tools that she brings, and the business has been raving about these sessions since. Claire has also worked alongside me to run our performance calibration and talent management sessions.
Overall it has been an absolute pleasure to work alongside Claire, in fact I don’t want her to leave ever! 😊 She is incredible! If anyone is looking for that authentic personalised service I cannot recommend Claire enough
Tom – Head of People & Engagement – Renewable Energy - Cardiff
