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HR Essentials - Fostering future-fit skills

Tailored learning journeys and immersive experiences.

We are a People focused visualization, capabilities and skill-driven consulting team co-creating and collaborating with HR leaders and teams around the world. Our unique and innovative tools and programs, provide insights to teams and leaders that enable them to lead with confidence and prosper.
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HR Strategy & Operating Model

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Customized Capability Success Profile(CSP) and a visual map to guide the talent assessment, skill development, and change activation journey.

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Talent Assessment & Development

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We evaluate talent health, assist in succession planning with a visual Talent Dashboard, and mitigate talent risks across the HR talent pool.

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HR Effectiveness & Maturity

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We assess and enhance your HR function's effectiveness and maturity by evaluating it against the latest HR practices and measuring its significance based on leaders and client needs.

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Skill & capability development

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We design your HR Capability Academy and immersive learning journeys to equip your team with the skills and mindsets to face current and future business challenges.

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Change Activation & engagement

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We activate your team to drive important change. Our engagement strategies help accelerate understanding and adoption through effective communication, learning programs, and tools.

It's time for a paradigm shift

We’re co-creating the future of HR together.

Our expertise will help drive success and provide a breath of knowledge to innovate and transform. Our biggest differentiator is that we know you and have worked with you extensively and understand the region and organizational culture.

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Get it right with HR-Essentials

We are an HR-focused visualization, capabilities, and skill-driven consulting team and we co-create and collaborate with HR leaders and teams around the world.

We partner with HR teams to align their HR deliverables with business strategy. We create custom Capability Success Profiles and visual maps to guide talent assessment, skill development, and change activation.

We equip your team with the skills to tackle current and future challenges, evaluate HR function effectiveness, and provide development plans for HR leaders and business partners. We help activate your team to drive change through engagement strategies.

Our unique and innovative tools and programs, provide insights to HR teams and leaders around the world to enable them to lead with confidence in the ever-evolving challenges and needs of today’s workforces.
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Our Approach

As an end-to-end provider, we cover the entire HR Operating Model and Ways of Working. We organize our offering under three categories – advise, deliver, and implement. These reflect our natural client journeys. Our aim is to become your strategic partner, encompassing strategic, operational and implementational services that creates an impact on your organization.
How we do it
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We Collaborate

How do we turn a great idea into an executable plan?
We connect with you to fully understand your objectives. We define the scope and goals and collaborate with you in designing a road map or strategy for your human capability development journey.
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We Co-Create

How do we get it done?
We deliver by executing the strategy. We design and develop innovative people-experience based solutions that will transform and up-skill your HR Leaders, Professionals and Business Partners, leaving a lasting impact on your organization.
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We Sustain

How do we make it thrive?
Implementation is the ongoing management, assessment, updating, and optimization of the program and associated services. Often, this leads directly into the next evolution of your learning landscape.

What we do to unlock your transformation

Our way of working is to collaborate and co-create “with you” and not “to you” and all our interventions are focused on capability transfer to sustain the impact.
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HR Strategy & Operating Model

Partnering with HR teams to assist them in visualizing HR deliverables that will align with and enable the business strategy is crucial. The result is a customized Capability Success Profile (CSP) and a visual map to guide the talent assessment, skill development, and change activation journey.

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Talent Assessment & Development

Our Talent Development Centre assesses and provides development plans for HR Leaders and Business Partners. We evaluate talent health, assist in succession planning with a visual Talent Dashboard, and mitigate talent risks across the HR talent pool. We also offer accelerated development for top talent.

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HR Effectiveness & Maturity

We assess and enhance your HR function's effectiveness and maturity by evaluating it against the latest HR practices and measuring its significance based on leaders and client needs. This helps you align your team's skills and efforts with business needs.

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Develop

Skill & Capability Development

We design your HR Capability Academy and immersive learning journeys to equip your team with the skills and mindsets to face current and future business challenges.

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Change Activation & Engagement

We activate your team to drive important change. Our engagement strategies help accelerate understanding and adoption through effective communication, learning programs, and tools. Whether it's launching a new vision or embedding new ways of working, we help you achieve results.

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Bringing it all together

We understand that the path to effective HR interventions is not a one-size-fits-all journey. Therefore, we offer a suite of solutions that do not need to be undertaken in a consecutive or consequential manner.

Instead, we provide the flexibility to select and implement these solutions in any order that aligns with your organization's unique needs and timelines.

Whether it's training, recruitment, policy development, or any other HR activity, our approach is tailored to fit seamlessly into your company's specific requirements, ensuring maximum impact and efficiency."
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How we unlock your transformation

We want your client and partners to see a destination, get aligned, and move forward together. Together, we will create a clear vision and a straightforward strategy and plan of action. We'll help you hone in on where you want to go, visualize how to get there, and craft a plan to get everyone pointed in the right direction.

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Visualize & Design

You need a clear vision of where you’re headed in order to design a clear strategy. And you need a clear strategy in order to align your teams to get there. We help you to craft and clarify your vision and strategy and visualize it so all of your employees and stakeholders can see it, get aligned, and move forward together.
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Mindset & Capabilities

Want to attract and retain great people who can make your organization succeed? You’ll need to build a culture, leaders, and capabilities that supports your strategy and business goals. We’ll help you design interventions and programs that engage your leaders and employees and help them develop and thrive.
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Practices & Processes

Want to improve your work processes while keeping your organization in balance? You’ll need to attune the many dimensions of your organization to work together effectively. We’ll help you apply a systems design approach to ensure that as you change, your system changes with you.
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Tools & Assessments

Want to help your team adopt new ways of working? You’ll need training programs and job aids to support your team’s growth and development. We’ll help you show them the way, teach them how, and give them tools to support the change you seek.
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Activation & Metrics

Want to get employees onboard with change? You’ll need a thoughtful approach to helping them hear it, believe it, and live it, no matter how large or small the change. We’ll help you craft an activation plan to ensure your transformation takes hold and accelerates the results you want.
Key Differentiators

What makes HR Essentials different?

Our Global Reach

We have worked across the world and bring global experience and insights to the solution. Our strategic partnership allows access to global best practices, tools, assessments, and thought leaders.

The Team

The overall team combines experienced practitioners with technology industry, subject matter expertise and global HR leaders in the Human Resources domain through executing projects across the breath and depth of the HR value chain

Our Experience

We understand the sector well through our rich experience with several organizations and understand the challenges you are facing

Tools & methodologies

We have  a large number of proven IP, tools, accelerators and cutting –edge research on HR trends and thought leadership to accelerate the outcomes and ensure success for you

Key Differentiators

What makes HR Essentials different?

Our Global Reach

We have worked across the world and bring global experience and insights to the solution. Our strategic partnership allows access to global best practices, tools, assessments and thought leaders.

The Team

The overall team combines experienced practitioners with technology industry, subject matter expertise and global HR leaders in the Human Resources domain through executing projects across the breath and depth of the HR value chain

Our Experience

We understand the sector well through our rich experience with several organizations and understand the challenges you are facing

Tools & methodologies

We have  a large number of proven IP, tools, accelerators and cutting –edge research on HR trends and thought leadership to accelerate the outcomes and ensure success for you

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We've partnered with the best

Trusted by industry leaders

We've helped organizations both locally in South Africa and abroad to assist them in ensuring HR remains relevant and impactful with our fit-for-business operating models and ways of working.

We also partner with various service providers to ensure we deliver fit-for-purpose solutions and assessments.

Don't take our word for it

Here's what our clients are saying...

"Driving change within a business can be a formidable challenge, but the HRE team made the process remarkably smooth for us. Upon reviewing our challenges, they skillfully crafted a change strategy and presented an integrated approach to tackle the task at hand.

Their profound understanding of change enablement and adept navigation of the people side of change were instrumental. Thanks to their expertise, we managed to implement the necessary changes within the given time frame and stayed within our budget. The HRE team's contribution was invaluable in ensuring a successful and efficient transformation"

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Banking

"Our organization faced the crucial task of revitalizing our Employee Value Proposition (EVP), and with limited resources, our HR department was challenged by capacity constraints.

Fortunately, the HR Essentials team proved to be a game-changer for us. Their expertise and dedication were evident from the moment they joined the effort. The HR Essentials team seamlessly integrated with our HR department, initiating a comprehensive process to modernize our EVP. What truly set them apart was their ability to engage with our HR professionals and connect with our employees. Their inclusive approach ensured that the updated EVP genuinely mirrored the unique culture of our organization.

Working with the HR Essentials team felt like having an additional, highly skilled HR department at our disposal. Their commitment to excellence and collaborative spirit made the entire EVP revamping process manageable and enjoyable. We are incredibly grateful for their support and their impact on our organization's HR initiatives"

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