Your car gets an MOT, your business gets an MOT. Why shouldn't your People function?
You probably know when something isn't quite working. There's a rattling, a squeak, something just doesn't feel right.
Managers are avoiding conversations. Recruitment feels harder than it should. Good people leave unexpectedly. Processes have grown organically. Or perhaps everything seems fine — but you're not entirely convinced.
The Digital People HR MOT finds out.
This isn't another employee survey. And it isn't a 78-page HR audit. We look at your business from three different perspectives:
LEADERSHIP
What do the people running the business think is happening?
EMPLOYEES
What's it actually like to work there?
EVIDENCE
What do your policies, processes, systems and People data tell us?
Then we compare them. Because the interesting stuff is often in the gaps. We look under the bonnet.
The MOT examines ten areas of your business:
- People Strategy
- Organisation & Roles
- Recruitment & Onboarding
- Management
- Performance
- Culture & Engagement
- Reward & Development
- Employee Experience
- People Systems, Data & Technology
- Foundations & Risk
Not to produce ten new HR initiatives. To work out what actually matters.
How it works
1. Leadership diagnostic
A structured assessment of how People currently works in your business — plus the questions a tick-box questionnaire doesn't ask.
2. Evidence review
We look at a sensible selection of the documents, processes and People information behind the answers.
3. Employee Pulse
Three short, independent and confidential conversations with employees from different parts of the business.
4. We join the dots
Leadership perception. Employee experience. Evidence. Plus experienced professional judgement.
5. Your HR MOT report
A clear assessment of what's strong, what's fragile and where there is genuine risk or opportunity.
6. Results conversation
60 minutes to talk through what we've found and what we'd concentrate on if it were our business.
What you actually get
Not just a score.
You'll get your People Effectiveness Score, a ten-area dashboard and a straightforward report covering:
- What's working
- The things worth protecting.
- What I'd worry about
- Problems that deserve attention before they become bigger ones.
- The perception gaps
- Where leadership, employees and the evidence are telling different stories.
- Three priorities
- The things most worth doing something about.
- Don't bother
- Things you could spend time and money fixing — but probably shouldn't.
That last one is important. Good HR isn't about doing more HR.
For businesses that want an independent diagnosis and are happy to take it from there.
HR MOT + Action Plan — £995
Everything in the HR MOT, plus a working session where we turn the findings into a practical 90-day People Plan.
- What to do now.
- What to do next.
- What to leave alone.
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A few things it isn't.
It isn't a legal audit. It isn't a representative employee survey. It isn't designed to catch anybody out.
And it isn't a cunning way of producing a list of things you subsequently have to pay Digital People HR to fix.
The findings are yours.
Do it yourself. Give it to your existing HR team. Give it to another consultant. Or ask us to help.
We'd rather identify three things that genuinely matter than invent twelve projects to keep ourselves busy.
Still not sure?
You don't need to know whether you need an HR MOT before speaking to us. Tell us what's going on and we'll tell you whether we think this will help.