I’ve worked in senior HR roles at large, complex organisations and in smaller, fast-growing businesses. I’ve built People functions, led teams, supported major organisational change and spent more hours than I care to remember helping managers through the people problems that don’t quite fit neatly into a policy.
And that experience has left me with a fairly simple view of HR.
It should make the business better at people and the people better for the business.
That’s it, really.
It should help you hire good people, manage them properly, develop them, deal with problems when they arise and create a workplace where people understand what’s expected of them and can do good work.
It should also keep you on the right side of employment law. Obviously.
What it shouldn’t do is create unnecessary bureaucracy, introduce processes nobody understands or turn straightforward conversations into six-stage procedures involving three forms and a flowchart.
I’m not terribly interested in HR theatre.
I am interested in helping businesses make good decisions about people.
That’s why I created Digital People HR.
We start with your business.
What are you trying to achieve? What’s getting in the way? What do your people need from you? And what do you need from them?
Then we work out where HR can actually help.
Hello. I’m James.
I’ve worked in HR for a long time.
Long enough to have seen some brilliant HR, some terrible HR and quite a lot of HR that probably didn’t need to exist in the first place.
I set up Digital People HR because I think growing businesses deserve access to really good, experienced HR support without having to build a huge People function around it.
About Digital People HR
So how can we help you?
We can support you with just about everything; from everyday HR advice and complex employee relations through to People Strategy, organisational design, change, performance, management development, policies and the wider employee experience.
You might need some help with one particular problem.
You might need experienced senior HR support for a few days each month.
Or you might be growing quickly and wondering whether all the people stuff that used to happen fairly naturally now needs a bit more thought.
All are perfectly good reasons to talk to us.
There won’t be a hard sell. We’ll have a conversation about your business, what you’re trying to achieve and what’s causing you headaches. And if we can help, we’ll tell you how. If we can't, we'll tell you that too.
Good HR shouldn’t mean more HR. It should mean a better business.
Fancy a chat?
Get in touch and tell us what’s going on, even if you’re not entirely sure what you need yet.
That’s usually a pretty good place to start.
