Ian Farrand is an experienced human resource management consultant working internationally and across higher education, health and central and local government as well the private sector.
In addition to working on a self-employed basis Ian is a consultant working exclusively the Employment team. Ian has a long association with John McMullen having worked together for several years.
Ian has been described as an HR generalist with specialist skills. He has a strong interest in the behavioural/learning and development dimension of people at work. His professional focus and background is in the training and staff development aspects of human resource management where he can draw on a number of years experience both as an operational HR practitioner and as a consultant.
His main client activity has been of working in the area of management and organisation development, HR audit and investigation and in the HR support process related to employment law. His most fulfilling assignments are those concerned with organisations and workgroups where the context may be sensitive and sometimes one of conflict and resistance to change and where careful handling is crucial to understanding culture and working relationships to attempt to improve these for the benefit of the business and the people involved.
Recent specialist assignments have involved working to support American based companies in all aspects of their UK HR operations and compliance activities.
Specialist Consultancy Activity includes:
•Organisational Needs Analysis
•HR Strategy/Policy and Procedure.
•Organisation Restructuring-diagnosis, re-design and implementation.
•HR Audits.
•Compensation/benefits/Performance Management/Pay/Reward systems.
•Investigation-Discipline, Grievance, Harassment and Bullying.
•Mediation, Stress Management, Family Friendly, Flexible Working Practices.
•Equality and Diversity
•Executive Search/Recruitment and Selection and Assessment Centres.
•HR aspects of employment law.
•Coaching, Appraisal, Mentoring.
•Recruitment, Training and Management and Organisation Development.
•Management and Organisation Development programmes and activities-through action-learning, Facilitation Skills, Presentation Skills, Getting the best from Chairing and Attending Meetings, Appraisal, Letter and Report Writing Skills, Time Management, Team- Building and Leadership.
•Training and development programmes for managers and key support staff
•Awayday events aimed at re-focusing and re-energising management teams and their strategic priorities:
•How to get the best from your people, how to recruit great staff and how to keep them.
Creativity in your department-what is it and how do you develop it.
Consumer/market trends-what next.
What is your vision for the next ten years from now?
Entrepreneurship and innovation-how do you inspire these qualities.
•Humour at work including the Fish Philosophy:
Making work more fun for the good of the business, customers and employees.
Background
•Ian is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development with over 18 years experience of the higher education sector and culture gained as Director of HR/ Personnel at the Nottingham Trent University-1988-2001 and since as a consultant. At Trent he was responsible for Staff Development, Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, Occupational Health, Employment Relations and the full range of operational HR matters.
•He was a founder member of the National Universities Personnel Association Executive-first as joint –chair and for 5 years acted as Treasurer.
•He has operated at national level in Higher Education pay/reward negotiations [teaching/lecturing staff] and on various national working groups and advisory forums.
•Work for other universities has involved undertaking HR quality reviews in the University of Northumbria, Coventry University and Manchester Metropolitan University. Also consultancy work in the University of Hertfordshire and Middlesex University.
•For six months in the late 1990’s he was seconded to serve in a sensitive investigation reporting to the Secretary of State for Health into employment malpractice [Bassetlaw Hospital, Nottinghamshire] that resulted in the Bullock Report.
•14 years experience in Derbyshire County Council Personnel Department-1974-1988. As Central Recruitment and Training Officer, later as Management and Organisation Development Adviser and as deputy to the County Personnel Officer.
•5 years spent in two colleges of FE as Registrar and Clerk to the Governors-1969-1974.
Previous experience involved working in the H.M Land Registry, Nottinghamshire County Council Health Department and the National Coal Board.
•Considerable experience in management and organisation development working in the training of University Governors. Elected members, all levels of managers and graduate trainees.
•Trained and experienced in ‘process consultation’ and ‘action –learning’.
•Hay Management trained in performance pay/ management /job evaluation approaches and processes.
•Trained in psychometrics/aptitude testing.
•Designs, organises and provides professional input to national level conferences in HR.
Email : hr@short-richardson-forth.co.uk