Enterprise Agreements
I've helped many businesses achieve productivity and flexibility improvements through updating and improving workplace agreements.
Brooke Services can assist with any phase of an Agreement's life. From pre-work setting strategy and defining goals, drafting agreements and setting timetables, to help negotiating outcomes and reaching agreement to administration, compliance, filing and registration of Agreements.
We assist setting up and auditing payroll rules and processes to ensure payroll compliance and avoid any potential underpayment issues.
I provide expert advice on avoiding and minimising disputes as well as minimising and managing the impact of industrial action
Employee Relations
I assist businesses reach positive outcomes in resolving employee grievances, performance management issues, discipline and dismissal
Brooke Services assists with recruitment, documenting job descriptions and performance contracts, employment contracts, payroll setup, as well as seperation and outplacement services
Workforce productivity
I've helped businesses achieve substantial cost savings and productivity improvements through structured changes to working arrangements. I provide expert advice on optimising workforce mix (the number and mix of Full Time, Part time and casual workers) and can model the ideal balance for your business to minimise cost, cut overtime and reduce costs. My roster modelling has been able to eliminate dead time and make the best use of flexibility to reduce overall cost and create better work/life balance for employees.
My processes for restructuring workplace agreements has removed barriers to workplace flexibility, and helped created better work cultures for businesses.
Compliance
The consequences of non compliance can go beyond expensive and time consuming remedy to harsh penalties.
I provide assurance to Boards and Managers that existing people processes are both lawful and compliant as well as providing advice on ensuring decisions made within the business comply with relevant employment laws
Expert help with Employee and Industrial Relations
Help and support
I offer an on-call advice service to help you resolve the day to day workforce issues you can encounter in your business.
This is a great service for managers new in their role and for businesses without dedicated IR resources to access experienced knowledge and advice on how to navigate issues that arise in your business.
I offer advice on a range of issues from recruitment and selection, engagement, discipline and grievance resolution to performance management.
You get unlimited email and phone contact and I work with only a small number of clients to ensure I can meet your needs for timely response to issues.
Advisory Services for Boards and senior managers
Strategy
My processes are designed to help Boards and Business Owners clearly express their workforce strategies in ways that give managers clarity on their goals, help teams focus on delivering performance and engender support from shareholders and investors
I can help you build strategies that are short and to the point but backed by deep thinking, commitment and insight that help you set clear concrete goals that will deliver objectives and map out pathways and timelines to achieve them.
I bring creative and imaginative processes that will challenge participants to re-examine embedded ways of operating, helping boards discard obsolete or unproductive tools and retain and strengthen core assets with new thinking and directions.
I recommend every business to engage with a Strategy refresh every five years to keep your business direction on course, adapt to changes and stay engaged and motivated.
Assurance and Compliance
You need to know that what you asked your managers and teams to do is actually happening and in the way you expected it to and you need to know that your business is complying with laws and licences.
My assurance and compliance processes provide the evidence you need from your business to be satisfied that you're not exposed to non compliances that can be expensive to rectify or expose you to penalties
My processes cover internal controls (compliance with delegated authorities, expense management, HR policy, debtor control, expenditure approvals and accounts payable) as well as your external regulatory obligations (Worksafe, Licencing, Fair Work) and give you confidence that there are no surprises lurking undetected.
Change Management and Risk
My change management approach helps businesses set new directions to refresh organisations or grow to meet new opportunities.
I've helped clients with restructuring and workplace culture change and implemented change to workplace agreements and practices that resulted in greater flexibility, reduced cost and improved productivity.
I can help you achieve your organisational goals of downsizing, resizing, merging teams, building more productive and flexible cultures and adapting to external legislative and regulatory changes.
My processes identify and manage risks to implementation and barriers to adopting change to ensure that disruption is minimised and that the benefits are realised through permanent changes to practices workflows, behaviours and culture.


Expertise
Experienced business advisory specializing in industrial and employee relations
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Support
doug@brookeservices.com.au
m: 0405 928 662
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