HR Services
These are the main services we offer at Vinehouse. To find out more, just click on the links.
Writing HR Material
Objectives and Measuring Employee Performance
Performance improvement consultancy, coaching and workshops
Speaking Engagements
Writing HR Material for You
Nancy Slessenger will
- Modify our material to suit your processes
- Add in examples from your own organisation
- Write material specifically for you
- Fits with your current material
- Is aligned with your branding
- Refers to your processes, forms and systems
- We can write objectives and performance definitions for you, starting with the material you already have and in conjunction with you and your people
- We can train people through workshops to write their objectives
- We can coach individuals through writing objectives
We will ensure whatever material we provide for you
We have worked with many organisations producing material to help them carry out training, implement new systems and get information to employees. We specialise in designing material that is short, concise and easy to understand. If you'd like to talk to us about your needs, call us on 01483 811418 or use this Contact Form.
| 'Nancy wrote a booklet for us to help our managers use our feedback and coaching tool. The feedback has been phenomenal. People have seen one and then said they would like some for their team. Originally we got 5000 printed thinking this would be enough and give us some spare, but now we’ve completely run out and are having to have more printed.' - Ian Schreeve Management Development B&Q |
Writing Objectives and Measuring Employee Performance
| I first heard of Vinehouse Essential some time ago, and since then have found their various publications very useful. Whilst working for a multinational I was asked to introduce a computer based appraisal system across the whole company (worldwide) and knowing some of the work that Nancy had done in the past felt that she would be able to help out with this. I had a very short timeframe to propose and introduce this system and after one meeting with Nancy was very happy that she was able to help. We designed and implemented a competency based appraisal system that was totally web based. This was presented to the company who were very pleased with the system, and they adopted it across the whole organisation. It has now been in place for over a year, and I recently checked with the Head of HR how well it was working, as I was concerned because most of the organisation had not used any form of appraisal in the past. I was delighted to hear that it had been embraced by all managers who were delighted to have a simple and effective performance management tool. It had clearly been a huge success, and one which will benefit the company in the future. - Alison Delchar HR Consultant |
Nancy Slessenger will write your objectives for you or help you to do it. Yes, it's true. Most of our clients hate writing objectives. Do you? So we have found a way to make the process not only quick and easy, but also much more effective than before.
Nancy will work with you and your people to produce a pick list of standard objectives which you can pick from and modify to suit each individual and their situation. Or Nancy will train you how to write them, or she will work with your top team to get theirs right.
Nancy will write performance definitions for you or help you to do it. Many organisations now use categories like 'not met' 'met' 'exceeded' and 'distinguished' to categorise performance at the end of the year. Often they find it hard to make these judgements consistent.
We will help you to get that right. And if you like, Nancy will do it for you, making sure you have a set of definitions that mean your managers can assess performance and your people are clear what each level means and why their performance has been categorised as it has.We offer these services in several different formats:
call us on 01483 811418 or use this Contact Form.
| "Many thanks for your help with developing my objectives.I found the process highly illuminating, helping me to see more clearly what I need to do and how to communicate it, as well as how to measure and evaluate it. So thank you, a very valuable session." Kind regards, Hugh |
Objectives - Our most popular service:
We work with the top team and get their objectives right. We do all the leg-work, sending through the drafts for their approval and comments.
We work with a few people in each job and produce objectives templates for each job that people can pick from and modify to suit.
We present these at a workshop.
Difficult Behaviours
How to deal with those annoying people who make your life more difficult than it needs to be.
Call us on 01483 811418 or us this Contact Form.
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Performance improvement consultancy, coaching and workshops
What help do you need? Our purpose is to help you improve your performance or the performance of others.
The key areas we can help you with are:
Tackling underperformance. Many organisations have people who are just not producing what they should. Where do you start? How do you get their output up and the problems down? We help you to do just that.
Giving Feedback. Giving feedback effectively can improve performance by up to 39%. How would that help you and your organisation? Most people either don't do it or do it in a way that actually reduces performance.
Dealing with difficult behaviours. Sometimes problems are more around the way people do things, rather than what they achieve. (Of course it can be both.) We help you to deal effectively with all kinds of behaviour problems from bullying to negativity and just plain awkward.
Time Management. Too much to do and not enough time to do it? Too many people making too many demands on your time? Not enough hours in the day? Stressed to breaking point? We help you to solve those problems with straightforward, easy to implement strategies and techniques.
Confidence. Is it that you just need more confidence but don't know where to get it? We do and we can help you to develop it yourself.
Recruitment. Have you recruited people that just didn't work out? Would you like to know how to gather the information you need in order to make effective recruitment decisions?
Would you like some easy ways to get it right more of the time? We can help you with all of those.How to make the most of your training budget.
How many of us have infinite training budgets? Would you like to get more out of yours? We can show you how and help you to make improvements that will get more from what you are already doing.
We can do any of this as consultancy, coaching you to do it yourself or by designing and running workshops to train you and your people. Most often we use a combination of techniques to give you the best result.
call us on 01483 811418 or use this Contact Form.
| “What’s really frightening is that, if we hadn’t had this help, we would have recruited some of the really bad people!” - Nigel Williams Navica |
Speaking Engagements
Nancy gives talks, presentations and workshops for professional associations and at corporate conferences.
Usually Nancy presents to groups of managers and HR professionals. Her talks are highly interactive, thought-provoking and fun, even when dealing with apparently boring topics, such as objective-setting. They are packed with practical tools that people can use immediately. Each talk is designed with the specific audience in mind and she is always happy to talk to some of them before hand to make sure their needs will be met.
To contact us for more informationcall us on 01483 811418 or use this Contact Form.
Performance management
How to make the most of performance management and get what you need out of it.
Objectives
What they are, how to write them and when to use them. How to get the performance improvement you are looking for.
Your Brain
The secrets of keeping your brain going till you are 100. What to stop doing and what to start doing. How to improve your memory and your life.
| Thank you so much for such a terrific, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable session. All the feedback has been extremely and exceptionally positive. You were awesome and greatly appreciated by us all. Your name will be advertised and recommended on all future invitations as a 'CAPD Presenter' and on the forthcoming CAPD web site. We shall certainly recommend you to any interested CAPD members and we wish you every good luck and success for the future. Kindest regards ~ Alan Margolis Founder & Co-Chair of The Corporate Association for Professional Development |
Difficult Behaviours
How to deal with those annoying people who make your life more difficult than it needs to be.
Call us on 01483 811418 or us this Contact Form.
Click to see a video of one of our clients talking about his experience of working with Vinehouse