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HR Consulting

Practical HR infrastructure — designed by people who've built it.

Kestrel provides innovative management and human resource services necessary for employers to fully meet core business goals: communication, productivity, internal and external customer satisfaction, and compliance.

Employee Policies & Handbooks

Kestrel will review an existing handbook or develop a new one summarizing the policies applicable to your organization:

  • State and federal employment-related policies
  • General guidance concerning work-related behavior
  • Rules and regulations
  • Salary and benefit information

Job Descriptions & Performance Systems

Performance-based job descriptions provide employees with a clear picture of what functions are and how they directly link to the total success of the company.

Our performance appraisal process ensures employees have a clear understanding of what is expected from them — and helps them address strengths and weaknesses. We can assist you in either developing or maximizing the existing performance appraisal program at your company.

Compensation Analysis & Design

Many aspects of traditional compensation programs are not keeping pace with the ever-changing business environment. This service will provide a snapshot of the competitive nature of base-pay programs to guide future decisions with confidence.

The resulting documents provide the foundation that will enable organizations to implement a strong, accountable performance management program — to move employees through pay ranges based on performance.

Strategic Planning

The key to strategic planning is to understand the life cycle, culture, and how the organization operates. At Kestrel we proceed in an orderly fashion to develop strategic business objectives that will guide the organization.

Our strategic planning includes a review or creation of the mission and vision statements and an examination of where the company would like to be over the next three to five years. Additionally, objectives are compiled to outline the responsibilities, time frames, action plans, and desired outcomes.

How We Engage

Short-cycle projects. Long-cycle partnerships.

Kestrel's HR consulting services can be delivered as a one-time engagement or as a continuous advisor relationship — whatever fits the stage of your business.

Project-Based

Defined scope, fixed deliverables: handbook, comp study, job-family architecture, performance system rollout.

Continuous Advisory

Retained relationship with a senior consultant on call — for HR questions you'd rather not handle alone.

Contact us for more information.

We'll listen, then propose a scope that fits your team — not a packaged retainer.