Elevate HR Solutions offers human resources services to businesses that do not have an established HR presence or that require additional HR support. We provide expertise in a full range of HR functional areas, offering authentic advice that generates tangible results.

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Elevate Hr Solutions

ABOUT US

Elevate HR Solutions is a boutique Human Resources firm servicing start-ups, small, and medium-sized businesses within Ontario. Our goal is to partner with you to provide the HR support needed with the expertise it takes to achieve strategic and day-to-day business objectives while you maintain focus on your business operations.

With a reputation for quality, efficiency, and uncompromising integrity, our passion is to create value, drive results, and ensure organizations are poised to optimize and meet their overall human resource requirements while mitigating their risk for governance and compliance.

Whether your business needs are to simply build an HR foundation comprised of policies and procedures or to develop a strategic human capital plan that supports your business’ goals and objectives, Elevate HR Solutions has the expertise to deliver results for your business.

Our Values


  • Quality, Efficiency and Uncompromising Integrity

WHY CHOOSE US?

Want to accelerate business results?

Engage your greatest asset - your People.

We understand how tightly linked the performance of your people has on the successful achievement of business objectives. By designing and implementing an HR strategy that is aligned to your business strategy, you will uncover new organizational capabilities, which translate into customer and shareholder value.

One of the top challenges business Leaders face are their human resources issues and more and more they are realizing this as a business priority. To maintain a competitive edge, businesses need to implement strategies for attracting, training, managing, and motivating the best talent. Our strength is the successful delivery of HR strategies and programs professionally and efficiently, building strategic partnerships to help solve these complex people challenges, enabling businesses to grow and succeed.

Elevate HR Solutions understands that no two organizations are alike, each having its own needs and expectations. For this reason our approach is to build successful and long-term partnerships with our clients. Starting with understanding your business, we will design and implement strategies and programs that tailor your needs and drive the results your business is looking for.

SERVICES

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Strategic HR Planning

Elevate HR Solutions integrates HR practices into business plans enabling organizations to better position themselves to drive financial and strategic business results. We recognize that business organizational structure may be necessary to achieve greater economy, efficiency, and improved operations, as well as maneuvering within a legal framework.

  • Organizational Alignment - identify top HR priorities and align with organizational Vision, Mission, Values, and Strategy
  • Development of HR strategies to support organizational strategies
  • HR Assessment (Gap Analysis)
  • Assessment of current resources and optimal utilization of skill sets - organize jobs, people and resources to increase efficiency and meet the demands of emerging technologies and the changing marketplace
  • Capitalize resources to execute business plans
  • Forecasting HR needs & Downsizing Initiative
  • Mergers / Acquisition and due diligence
  • Restructuring
  • Terminations & Downsizing Initiatives

Policy Design & HR Operational Planning

Elevate HR Solutions will assist in establishing a structured framework, setting the standards that guide your day-to-day business operations by developing HR policies that help set employee expectations and assist your business in meeting its obligations for legislative compliance. We also assist in reducing risks of liability, saving unnecessary litigious costs by ensuring your business is meeting the minimum standards.

  • HR Risk Management / Assessment
  • HR Budgeting
  • Policy development
  • Program and processes efficiencies
  • Organizational charts
  • Employment Agreements
  • Termination / Severance / Layoff
  • Employment Legislation and Standards
  • Human Rights compliance
  • Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) – policy and training requirements
  • Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) – policy and training requirements
  • Human Capital Management planning and implementation (interfaced with Payroll)
  • HR Reporting

Talent Management Planning

Elevate HR Solutions helps businesses maintain their competitive edge by building a framework for identifying, acquiring and retaining top talent, implementing a strategy to develop employee potential, and designing succession plans for key individuals, ultimately enabling businesses to maximize the use of their talent.

  • Recruitment & Selection
  • Manpower forecasting
  • Competency modeling
  • Job Analysis
  • Job Postings
  • Interviewing Techniques
  • Internal Hiring policy
  • On-boarding & Orientation
  • High potential employees (HIPOs) strategy
  • Career mapping
  • Succession planning
  • Development of Leadership capabilities
  • Retention strategies

Total Rewards / Compensation Strategy

Elevate HR Solutions enables your business to maintain a competitive advantage by ensuring your compensation strategies guide the long-term sustainability of your total rewards program. Focusing on cost optimization and individual performance, Elevate HR Solutions will design or review your organization's compensation and benefits strategy and ensure it aligns with your HR and business objectives, helping you address a full spectrum of issues through a well-constructed total rewards program.

  • Ensure the commercial viability of your reward structure across market cycles
  • Compensation design: establishing classifications by aligning job descriptions and job evaluations to position / pay bands
  • Consistency / equity across employee groups
  • Transparency in communication
  • Link pay and performance
  • Target competitive positioning
  • Understand what role your recognition program should play in your total rewards strategy
  • Health Care benefits cost optimization
  • Reward & Reward & Recognition program design

Performance Management

Elevate HR Solutions believes in a holistic approach to performance management, transforming businesses to a results-oriented culture by focussing on the four pillars of Customer, Financial, Operational and People. We support the translation of organizational objectives into individual goals, enabling Leaders to effectively evaluate individual performance against organizational expectations, all of which links motivation to desired results.

Performance Management model - analyze and measure both organization and individual performance including the results achieved, as well as how the results were achieved and how closely those results tie into the organization’s overall strategy and objectives

  • Progressive discipline
  • Training

Employee Relations

Elevate HR Solutions supports the establishment of a work environment where there is respect, trust and confidence between management and employees, where employees at all levels feel valued for their abilities and contributions. Effective employee relations strengthens the Employer / Employee relationship resulting in improved motivation and morale, increased productivity, less conflict, and less attrition, enabling the organization to out-perform the competition.

  • Advice and Counsel
  • HR Metrics and trend analysis
  • Change Management
  • Employee Surveys
  • Workplace Investigations
  • Legal matters
  • Policy and employment law interpretation

Our Team

Testimonial

President

As a bilingual Human Resources Executive with a generalist and entrepreneurial background, Founding Partner to President has extensive expertise developing and implementing organizational best practices. Gina focuses on creating environments that support management in defining and successfully implementing change management processes that enhance overall organizational performance.

Gina is a strategic business leader with over 20 years’ experience achieving organizational alignment through effective assessment, development, and execution of Human Resources strategies. She has worked in a wide variety of industries including Financial, Entertainment, Travel, Legal and Not-for-profit sectors.

In her consulting work, Gina can be relied on to champion the needs of the employees while serving the best interests of the organization. With strengths in people strategy, organizational design, benefits and compensation, employee relations, training and development, recruitment and retention, she has an innate enthusiasm for seizing challenges and driving projects to successful completion.

Gina has an Associate of Arts in Business Administration from Cégep du Vieux Montreal, is a member of the Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario and a Certified Human Resources Executive (CHRE) candidate.


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