If your team feels out of sync heading into 2025 and you’re unsure when to seek help, here’s a quick guide for contacting your trusted HR partner.
It’s very easy to get lost in the day-to-day when running a business and leading a team. You may overlook the symptoms or that gut feeling telling you when something isn’t right. Whether it’s a change in team dynamics, a drop in productivity, or several resignations, there are usually red flags telling you it’s time to seek expert HR and employment support.
At Stapleton Consulting, we specialise in aligning employers and employees, ensuring both parties are on the same page. We provide proactive support to address the people challenges, well before they escalate to the point where your business needs an HR ambulance or a stay in critical care!
Here are five top reasons you should reach out for help:
1. Triaging and acting on workplace culture before it’s fractured
Culture is the pulse of your organisation. If it starts to sour, engagement and productivity will follow. A trusted partner like Stapleton Consulting can audit your workplace culture, highlight pain points, and create a plan for improvement—ensuring your team remains aligned, engaged, motivated, and connected.
As a reminder, workplace culture represents what is happening in your team and wider organisation. As the Society of HR Management Professionals (SHRM) puts it refers to “the shared values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that characterise an organization and guide its practices. It encompasses the work environment, company mission, leadership style, and communication patterns. A strong workplace culture can enhance team cohesion, employee satisfaction, and overall productivity”.
Society of Human Resource Professionals
2. Resolving conflict and strengthening employee relations
Those niggly workplace conflicts and disagreements that go unresolved can fracture teams and slow progress. We can help you get to the root cause of conflicts through confidential meetings, mediation and expert guidance, ensuring that all parties come together with a clear path forward.
This is exactly what Catherine did when working closely with the Waikato Students’ Union with a constructive outcome.
“Working with Stapleton Consulting has been exceptional. Your expertise and personalised approach to HR solutions have been invaluable to our organisation. Your professionalism and dedication have consistently exceeded our expectations, and your responsiveness and ability to provide tailored solutions quickly have truly impressed us.”
George Z. Liu, President & Board Chair of Waikato Students’ Union
3. Boosting Employee Retention
When you receive a flurry of resignations, it’s often a symptom of deeper organisational issues or a failure to respond to a shift in the recruitment market.
While you are scrambling for replacements, we can work with you to identify what’s pushing or pulling talent away. Then we partner with you to develop and implement strategies to increase engagement, satisfaction and retention, keeping your valued employees on board and your recruitment costs down.
4. Remaining compliant and mitigating legal risk
Navigating the complex and ever-changing landscape of New Zealand legislation that affects employment can be daunting for any business leader and their team leads. We ensure that your business remains compliant with regulations and aligned with leading NZ employment standards so you can focus on what you do best.
Early in November, the team attended The Drug Detection Agencies (TDDA) update session and walked away with some interesting insights into the changing landscape of rehabilitation and return-to-work practices.
If your employment agreements, policies and employee handbooks haven’t been reviewed since 2020, then let’s help you get on top of that with you. Also, if you are struggling with the HR admin and paperwork and want a tech solution, let’s do that now slowly and steadily instead of scramble when you are feeling the pain.
5. Enhancing Performance Management
If your financials are not looking as good as expected, then let’s delve into how your people are working, the performance goals set and the skills they have. Your financial challenges may really lie in your employee performance and development practices, your capability planning or your workflows and communication methods.
By exploring and applying curiosity, we can identify gaps and opportunities to improve financial results. We refine performance practices, coach leaders on providing clarity and feedback, and support workflow redesign to create growth opportunities. This approach can benefit both the team and your bottom line.
We’re here to help transform your journey, whether in business or leadership so that you can sleep at night.
The team at Stapleton Consulting is here to help resolve your HR and employment challenges, ensuring your business thrives. Don’t wait until you receive an employee complaint or resignation and need a crisis intervention—schedule a chat over coffee with us today and let’s build healthier, more resilient workplaces together.
