HR strategy that aligns your people with where the business is going.
Access HR builds HR strategies for agencies and scaling businesses across the UK. We align your people priorities, structure and HR infrastructure with your business goals, so every hire, process and investment in your people moves the business forward.
What is an HR strategy?
An HR strategy is a plan that aligns a business's people priorities and HR infrastructure with its commercial goals. It sets out how the business will structure, hire, develop, reward and retain the people it needs over the next one to three years, and which HR systems, policies and capabilities must be in place to support that growth.
Your people priorities, aligned to your business goals.
A strong HR strategy connects every part of your people infrastructure to the commercial plan. Ours covers six areas.
Organisational structure
The roles, reporting lines and capability you need for the next stage of growth.
Workforce planning and hiring
When to hire, who to hire and in what order, mapped against your revenue and growth targets.
Performance and progression
Clear expectations, reviews and career paths that drive the results the business needs.
Reward and retention
How you keep and motivate the people your growth depends on.
Culture and leadership
The behaviours and management capability that turn the strategy into everyday practice.
HR operations and infrastructure
The policies, systems, people data and compliance that hold it all together.
From discovery to a strategy you own.
Our four-stage process is built with your leadership team, so the strategy reflects how your business really works and your team is ready to deliver it.
Discover and diagnose
We build a clear picture of where your business is today and where it is heading.
Present back
We present our findings to your leadership team: what is working, the risks and gaps, and what they mean for your commercial goals. No jargon, just a clear view of your people priorities.
Validate and decide
Together we test the findings, challenge assumptions and agree the priorities that will make the biggest difference, so the strategy has leadership buy-in from day one.
Build the strategy
We build your HR strategy and roadmap, with priorities, owners and timelines, then hand it over for your team to roll out and own.
The result: a people strategy your leadership team has shaped and agreed, HR priorities tied to commercial targets, and a clear roadmap your team can deliver with confidence. Want support delivering it? We can stay on through Fractional HR or HR support for in-house teams.
HR strategy, answered.
What is the purpose of an HR strategy?
To make sure your people, structure and HR infrastructure support your business goals. Without one, people decisions tend to be reactive. With one, every hire, policy and investment in your people has a clear reason behind it.
What's included in an HR strategy?
An HR strategy from Access HR covers organisational structure, workforce planning and hiring, performance and progression, reward and retention, culture and leadership, and HR operations, with a one to three year roadmap, owners and timelines.
How do you build an HR strategy?
In four stages. We discover and diagnose (leadership discovery, organisational analysis, a future-state assessment and background research), present back our findings, validate and decide priorities with your leadership team, then build the strategy and roadmap for your team to roll out.
How long does an HR strategy take?
It depends on the size and complexity of your business. We agree a clear timeline with you on your discovery call, before any work begins.
Who needs an HR strategy?
Any business planning significant growth, investment or change, or whose people plan no longer matches its business plan. For agencies and scaling businesses, it is usually needed once the team is too big for founders to manage people informally.
Can you build an HR strategy with our in-house HR team?
Yes. We often build HR strategy alongside an internal HR lead, then hand it over for them to own and deliver.
Do you help us deliver the strategy?
If you want us to. Many clients roll the strategy out themselves. Others keep us on through Fractional HR or HR support for in-house teams to deliver it with them.
Build an HR strategy your board will back.
Delivered through fractional HR or as a project for in-house HR teams.