HR

HR Fractional Support Services

As small businesses grapple with labor shortages, recruiting needs, rising benefit costs and retaining employees, the ability to access HR support in a cost effective manner is becoming more and more essential. Most small businesses, however, can't afford a full-time, dedicated HR executive. 

Led by Sally Rigney, a seasoned HR executive with over 20 years of experience supporting business leaders, our HR fractional practice provides small businesses with access to HR resources, support, benefit planning, change management and talent acquisition and development. Through this offering, small businesses can have an HR executive on their team, without incurring the cost of a full-time HR employee.

General HR Management Support

The day-to-day management of people can be overwhelming for a business. Through in-person and video conferencing, our services can help address your general employee HR needs. We provide support in areas such as employee relations, management coaching, compliance questions and communication strategy development and messaging recommendations.

With these added resources, leaders can focus on business priorities while still supporting the needs of their teams and personnel.

Talent Aquisition and Management

The current labor market has created one of the most competitive environments for recruiting and keeping talent in over a decade. Now, more than ever, having the right strategy and ability to execute is a critical business function.

On top of that, talent management is one of the most time intensive aspects of any business or organization. Time that you don’t always have. Our team has over 25 years of experience hiring and managing people. From company value propositions and job description creation, to inquiry management, negotiation, on-boarding, team development and coaching, our team can help you access and develop the necessary talent for you to achieve your business goals.

Performance Management and Compensation

Having consistent policies and practices in place is critical for every organization. Ensuring the effective application of them, even more so. As a small business or organization needing support, you’re probably spending too much time searching for best practices or finding it hard to find time to complete employee goal setting, compensation analysis and performance reviews. Our services can offer easy access to industry standards, saving you time and money.

Benefit Research and Analysis

People join organizations for many reasons. Salary is just one of the factors considered by candidates. However, today, benefits are becoming more and more costly to maintain, putting significant pressure on the bottom line.

Our services offer organizations the opportunity to research and review potential benefit packages that can create added incentives for your team, but not exhaust your budget. Through our network of agents, we are able to identify potential options for consideration and make recommendations on next steps.

Develop Your People

Building your team, improving their skills, developing their talents creates a vibrant culture where people want to work. Front line managers make the biggest difference. We are able to offer the leading management assessment tool, The Wiley CheckPoint 360°.™, providing organizations with the opportunity to develop front-line managers and leaders, using data and reliable feedback.

What Is It?

The CheckPoint 360° survey combines feedback from direct reports, peers, supervisors, and even others who work with your leaders to help leaders and managers improve their performance and deliver on strategic goals

Why Is It Valuable?

When managers and leaders operate effectively, teams and individual employees thrive. But when they don’t, organizations suffer.

Survey results highlight a manager’s performance across eight management competencies: communication, leadership, adaptability, task management, relationships, production, development of others, and personal development.

What Do We Do With It?

CBV utilizes the survey feedback to identify talents, talent gaps, and focus areas to build personalized development plans. It also helps determine alignment opportunities between the leader and the organizational strategy..

This feedback, survey and coaching provides a personalized approach for developing leadership skills and improving job performance.

Full Services Offered Listing

STRATEGIC CONSULTING
People Strategy & Advisory

Thought leadership

Business planning

Communication strategies

 

Strategic Workforce Planning

Gap/risk identification

Talent planning HR measures

 

TALENT ACQUISITION

Recruitment

Advertising

Active candidate screening interviews

Job Offers

 

Hiring Assessment

Policy, principles

Communications

Vendor management

Execuition and evaluation

 

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Overall goals and strategy

Manager and employee training

Policy, process

System and scalability

360 Assessments

TALENT MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
Learning and Development

Org. and talent review

Career progression

Leadership training

Executive Coaching

High potential programs

Job roation program

Coaching, mentoring

Facilitation

Skill development

Manager development

3rd Party Assessement

 

Organizational Development

Change Management

Organizational Design

 

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Compensation Decision Support & Governance, Program Design

Survey reporting and analysis

Set policies

Comp review and analysis

Market and equity reviews

Job reviews and benchmarking

Program design (Base/Bonus, etc)

 

Benefits

Benefit design

Communication

Employee Help Desk

GENERAL OPERATIONS AND HRIS

Employee Data Management

Job description

Employee info

Reporting

 

Employee Relations

Employee Q&A

Dispute resolution

Counseling

Exit Management

Exit Interviews

Feedback

Employee suggestions

Suggestions for interventions

 

HR Analytics and Financials

Scorecard

Reporting

Budgeting and planning

HR Client Spotlight Aqua ViTea

 

AquaVitea

About Sally Rigney

Sally comes to Community Barn Ventures after supporting large businesses with responsibility for over $1 Billion in annual revenue. She has been responsible for providing leadership to teams of over 1000 people and has led hundreds of hours of training, onboarding and leadership development. For the past two years she has worked with Community Barn Ventures in a consultant role and has dedicated her focus to helping small businesses define and scale their HR strategy in a way that supports their mission, culture and business goals. During this time she has supported many Vermont businesses such as Aqua ViTea, Bee's Wrap, Silver Maple Construction and more, demonstrating her ability to become part of a team while bringing expertise and perspective to their organizations.