PEOPLE HEALTH CHECK
Your people are one of your firm’s biggest investments, and one of its biggest competitive advantages. But as firms grow, people issues often develop quietly. Remuneration falls behind the market. Career progression becomes unclear. Performance conversations get delayed. Good lawyers leave. Recruitment becomes harder. Culture changes. Partners manage people differently. The hrmattr People Health Check gives your firm an independent view of where you stand, and what needs attention.
Book a People Health Check
A complete health check of your people strategy.
We look beyond policies and contracts. We assess the key factors that influence whether your firm can attract, develop and retain great people.
ATTRACT
Can your firm compete for the people it wants?
Employer brand and market positioning · Employee Value Proposition · Recruitment strategy and processes · Candidate experience · Careers messaging · Remuneration and benefits positioning · Graduate and junior talent strategy · Firm visibility to potential hires
DEVELOP
Are your people becoming better because they work for you?
Onboarding · Performance review processes · Career pathways · Promotion criteria · Associate-to-Senior Associate progression · Senior Associate-to-Partner pathways · Learning and professional development · Mentoring · Leadership and management capability · Succession planning · Personal brand development
RETAIN
Are you giving your best people compelling reasons to stay?
Employee engagement · Culture · Retention · Remuneration · Benefits and flexibility · Recognition · Management practices · Performance management · Employee relations · Policies and HR frameworks · Exit processes and reasons for attrition
See your firm through the eyes of your people.
What leadership believes employees experience and what employees actually experience are not always the same thing. Where appropriate, the People Health Check can incorporate confidential employee feedback to identify what’s working, what’s frustrating people, what your strongest people value, what could cause them to leave and what they want the firm to do differently.
The objective isn’t another employee survey. It’s actionable intelligence.
Know how you compare.
Your people don’t evaluate your firm in isolation. They compare their salary, flexibility, career opportunities, culture and leadership with what they see elsewhere in the legal market. hrmattr brings specialist legal talent-market insight into the review, across salary and remuneration, benefits, flexible working, career progression, titles and promotion, candidate expectations, employer reputation, talent attraction and retention risks.
You’re not simply asking “Are we doing okay?” You’re asking “Are we competitive?”
A clear view of what matters.
At the end of the Health Check, you receive a clear assessment of your firm’s people position. Rather than a lengthy report that sits unread, we identify what matters.
People Health Score
A clear assessment across the major areas of your people strategy. Red, amber and green make it clear where the firm is performing well, where improvement is required and where there may be material risk.
Priority Issues and Quick Wins
The people issues that require the most immediate attention, alongside changes that can make an immediate difference without significant investment.
Strategic Priorities
The bigger initiatives that will strengthen the firm’s ability to attract, develop and retain people.
90-Day People Plan
A practical roadmap showing what should happen next, in what order and why.
From insight to action.
A People Health Check shouldn’t finish with a presentation. Once we know what needs to change, hrmattr can help you implement it. That could mean redesigning your performance framework, benchmarking remuneration, building clearer career pathways, developing your EVP, improving your employer brand, strengthening Partner and manager capability, improving recruitment and onboarding, addressing retention issues or acting as your firm’s ongoing outsourced People & Culture partner.
BUILT FOR LAW FIRMS
hrmattr isn’t a generalist HR consultancy. We specialise in the people challenges facing law firms. We understand the structure of legal careers, the competition for talent and the expectations lawyers have at different stages of their careers. That means our recommendations are grounded in the realities of the legal talent market, not generic HR theory.
START WITH YOUR PEOPLE
That’s what the Health Check is designed to uncover. Understand where you are. Identify what matters. Build what comes next.
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