HR Fundamentals

Foundational HR tools play a key part in creating and establishing the norms for businesses.

The efforts your organization makes to ensure a positive employee-employer relationship are critical to providing a positive employee experience and retaining top talent. Strong employee relations also contribute to high levels of employee productivity, morale, and overall company performance.

We can help your organization with managing your employee relations function, including:

  • Policies and Employee Handbook
  • Employee Termination Services
  • New Hire Onboarding
  • Performance Management

For more information about our Employee Relations Support, contact us at 647-406-4476 or info@firstavehr.ca

Policies and Employee Handbook

Comprehensive Guidance & Support

Staying on top of ever-changing employment laws and regulations can be extremely challenging for any business, especially those with employees in more than one location. Failure to meet compliance standards can lead to government fines and lawsuits, as well as reduced employee satisfaction levels and higher turnover.

Through our Policies and Employee Handbook Services, we can provide the expert guidance your organization needs to successfully navigate, track, and maintain compliance.

Employee Handbooks

An Employee Handbook provides clearly established guidelines and rules for your business and is designed to ensure consistency in practice and limit your company’s liability.

Our holistic approach will result in a Handbook that reflects your company culture and contains all critical and required policy information.

To learn more about our Policies and Employee Handbook Services, please contact us at 647-406-4476 or info@firstavehr.ca

Employee Termination Services

Terminating an employee can represent varying levels of liability for any organization. Each action you take from decision to communication represents opportunities for mistakes to occur, potentially leading to business disruptions, additional costs, and possible lawsuits.

Our team can provide you with expert guidance to help you plan and execute this critical but delicate task while also managing liability.

Our Approach

When terminating an individual employee for performance issues or any other reason, our team will help you navigate the process from start to finish, including:

  • Review of the circumstances that have led you to determine an employee termination is necessary.
  • Identification of any possible concerns and issues; helping determine next steps to address your goals while also limiting your company’s exposure.
  • Guidance through the development of liability limiting paperwork, such as performance management and work product.
  • Process and checklist development identifying each step in the process, including ownership and roles.
  • Creation of talking points and scripts to be used during the termination meeting.
  • Outplacement support of displaced employees.

Should you need to lay off multiple employees as part of a broader workforce reduction, our team can also help you plan and deliver this process.

New Hire On-Boarding

On-Boarding new hires is a critical step, and one that requires a solid plan and execution.

First Avenue Consulting can help your firm establish a process that properly welcomes, integrates, educates, and assimilates newly hired employees into the organization. Our HR consultants will ensure that your firm is taking all the necessary, strategic steps from the point of extending your offer of employment through the end of the first 90 days, resulting in a more completely integrated new hire and higher employee retention rates.

Our Approach

  • Review the current on-boarding process.
  • Work with senior management on the key aspects of the business that they want shared with newly hired employees, from culture to history, from administrative to logistics, and from facility layout to team introductions.
  • Take all we learn and make detailed recommendations of what should be updated or changed.
  • Create a new, more complete on-boarding process, including a new employee orientation schedule.

To learn more about our On-Boarding services by contacting us at 647-406-4476 or info@firstavehr.ca

Performance Management

Performance management programs and processes provide employees with formalized feedback and set performance standards, and inform employee growth and compensation decisions. These systems are also a driving factor in determining overall company objectives and priorities.

Our team can help you design, enhance and roll out an effective performance management program.

This may include:

  • Development of appraisal forms, including competencies measured and scoring systems.
  • Creation of performance appraisal timelines, cadence, and schedules.
  • Guidance on managing through performance issues and creating performance improvement plans.
  • Goal setting, including aligning individual goals with company-wide objectives and compensation planning.
  • Management training on completing and delivering performance reviews.

For more information contact us at 647-406-4476 or info@firstavehr.ca