Consulting

Helios creates customized, comprehensive solutions, working with your company’s leadership to develop a winning strategy and then scales, optimizes and dedicates critical resources to realize your goals.

Clients come to Helios to conduct special projects that require our unique expertise and skills. Additionally, many clients choose Helios to help them speed up the completion time of an already existing project. Many important human capital management projects are never completed due to lack of resources, leaving an organization without effective employee tools, such as an Employee Handbook or accurate job descriptions. These unfinished projects can also create problems in situations where federal or local compliance requirements are not being met.

Our model includes design, implementation, and ongoing HR oversight and consultation, with our level of involvement based on each client’s specific needs. Helios will guide the engagement from inception to conclusion.

A sample of frequently requested HR projects include:

• Affirmative Action Plans
• Career Path and Competency Development
• Compensation Studies and Market Analysis
• Employee Feedback Surveys
• Employee Handbook Development
• HR Best Practice and Compliance Audits
• Performance Management Programs
• Identification and Retention of High Performing Employees (HiPOs)

Compensation and Benefits

By optimizing your compensation and benefit programs, Helios can help you attract the right leaders to your team, as well as retaining mission critical employees and establishing a competitive advantage as an employer of choice. Helios will also recommend approaches that will help you control escalating health care costs while ensuring that you are meeting regulatory compliance requirements.

The average company spends up to 39% of payroll on its benefit programs to help attract and retain critical talent. We will help you determine if you are leveraging your benefits budget to its fullest potential.

Helios provides a full range of services that help you examine your strategies, philosophy, and the overall effectiveness of your programs. From salary ranges to career paths, from merit increases to executive compensation, from flexible spending plans to stock option programs, our professionals provide the strategic and tactical guidance you need for long-term success.
Our expertise includes:

• Broad-based compensation program design
• Salary administration and incentive plans
• Executive compensation plans
• Benefit plan evaluation and design
• Comprehensive audit and compliance evaluations
• Customized communication and education programs

Mergers & Acquisitions

Helios consultants assist clients on the human capital issues resulting from transactions that change the corporate culture of a business, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, divestitures, start-ups, and other business transformations.

We create solutions based on our deep experience with this type of situation, along with the needs of each transaction and engagement. During these often-stressful times, Helios helps you ensure successful transitions that will preserve your human capital. Our proven approach includes a 150-point assessment within the following human capital categories:

• Decisionmaking Process
• Legal Issues, Policies and Procedures
• Benefits
• Compensation
• Total Reward Programs and Performance Management
• Career Progression, Training and Development
• HR Department Structure and Staffing
• Operational Needs
• HR Systems

Organizational Development

In any economic climate, an organization succeeds by building efficient systems that support its long-term strategy. Over time, your organization has put comprehensive policies and procedures in place when it comes to accounting, operations, IT and customer service. However, it is as important to assess the complete organizational structure as it exists with an eye towards efficiency and effectiveness for long-term success.

Helios can help you redesign your organization and integrate your people practices with your core business processes, technology, and systems. We work with you to ensure your organization will meet future challenges, and increase the chances that your infrastructure will stay in sync with your organization’s purpose and strategy.

Our Organizational Development offering includes:

• Strategic planning, vision, and goal-setting
• Organizational culture assessment
• Leadership gap analysis using 360° feedback and other assessment tools
• High Potential (HiPo) employee identification, development and retention
• Onboarding and new leader assimilation for key executives
• Culture alignment following a merger or acquisition
• Change management consulting

Change Management

As you have heard many times, change is the only constant in today’s business environment. How well does your organization manage change? Have your most recent initiatives sustained the momentum and made the impact you had expected? If your answer is ‘not quite’, you are missing a tremendous opportunity to fully execute and integrate organizational changes by not being more intentional and using a systematic approach to the change.

Helios provides a structured change management approach to move organizations, teams, and individuals from the current state to the new desired state. It is a process aimed at empowering employees and leadership to accept and embrace changes in their current environment. We’ll work with you to create a communication strategy, change impact assessment process, and training and development plan specific to your organization’s change effort.

Technology

Combining full-service human capital management capabilities with IT expertise, Helios documents your processes and helps you evaluate and choose technology options that fit the needs of your business in achieving your goals.

The selection and implementation of new systems and applications isn’t easy and the impact of your choices will be far reaching for years to come. Helios knows HR Technology and will help you make smart, cost-effective choices that satisfy the needs of senior management and end-users alike. We will work with your organization and potential vendors to ensure your technology choices suit your business and user requirements.

Our direct experience includes:

• Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)
• Benefits Enrollment and Billing Technology
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Performance Management Systems
• Payroll Systems
• Employee Intranet and HR Portal Design