Our services
Employee Handbook & Policy Development
Having a comprehensive and current employee handbook is crucial when it comes to managing your workforce and ensuring that you are staying in compliance with relevant employment regulations. Cobblestone HR has significant experience in a broad spectrum of global industries and markets. This vast knowledge allows us to incorporate industry-specific and easily enforceable employment policies into the employee handbooks we tailor to your company’s unique requirements. Our handbooks cover a variety of issues: anti-harassment, internal grievance, equal employment opportunity, employee benefits, leaves of absence, minimum and maximum working hours, paid time off, disciplinary policy, internet and work computer usage and more.
HR Best Practices Evaluation
An in-depth review of your current policies and procedures is essential to identify redundancies and weaknesses while mitigating potential risk. Whether your company is concerned about being out of compliance in certain areas, struggling with talent acquisition or retention, or simply looking to optimize its HR procedures and practices, Cobblestone HR will help you meet your objectives. Our expert advisers start by assessing your company to identify strengths and weaknesses. They then design an exhaustive optimization plan, providing you with a detailed road map to fix previously identified issues and improve your overall business performance.
Training Workshops
Keeping you and your employees up to date and informed is essential to the functioning of your company. The human resources department is responsible for providing them with the most accurate answers on a variety of regulatory, interpersonal, professional and payroll topics. Cobblestone HR believes that proper training and methodology are essential to ensure your HR team's capability to meet your employees’ guidance needs. Depending on your specific goals, we offer both individual and group training sessions. All our workshops are fully customizable and address a variety of topics including harassment, ethics, leadership, conflict resolution, talent sourcing, performance management and more.
Performance Management
No matter the size of your company, managing employees is a time-consuming and often challenging supervisory requirement. It requires dedication and a comprehensive performance management strategy. Our performance management and optimization specialists have extensive experience assessing performances and designing tailored performance-improving strategies that help our clients meet their medium to long-term objectives. Cobblestone HR advises business leaders on how to strategically document and analyse performances. Additionally, we provide supervisor training and give your management team the tools to address any performance issue while ensuring company compliance with all relevant formal and informal requirements.
Recruitment Optimization
Sourcing the right talents for your company can prove challenging. Besides having the right set of skills and the relevant experience, the prospect hire must also be a good fit for your company’s culture and vision. At Cobblestone HR, we have a vast experience helping HR departments screen applicants and apply highly effective interviewing techniques. Our services include reference checking, interview scheduling for HR managers and even support on an as-needed basis during interviews. To ensure that the new employees smoothly integrate your company and feel welcome, we also offer processing and training assistance. Additionally, our advisers design retention strategies that help build employee loyalty for minimized turnover rates.
Employee Relations
All businesses face challenges involving employees not getting along. Whether it involves an employee considering filing a complaint, co-workers in an antagonistic relationship, attendance or performance issues, we can help you neutralize the conflict. Our broad human resources expertise allows us to provide expert conflict resolution training to HR managers, giving them the necessary tools them to approach these delicate situations more serenely and effectively. Unfortunately, disciplinary actions and sanctions may be required from time to time. Cobblestone HR also offers advanced guidance and support regarding the organization, proceedings and documentation of disciplinary hearings.