Inspire Excellence
Frequently Asked Questions
Information about us and our services, plus our testimonials.
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Inspire Excellence can assist with the full spectrum of services.
Some of the more common challenges we help with, include:
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What does Inspire Excellence do?
This is perhaps one of the most common F.A.Q’s we get asked. We are an HR, Coaching and Training consultancy based near Warrington and in short, we’re here to help you with all your people management!
With Director level experience available to all clients, Inspire Excellence provides high quality and experienced HR support. We support clients with everything from setting up HR for the first time, to chairing formal meetings, to managing HR systems, to also assisting on a much more strategic level (and everything in-between!).
In addition to HR support, Inspire Excellence also offers tailored, bespoke training and coaching/mentoring services. Due to years of training experience along with certifications in a number of different disciplines, Inspire Excellence is well placed to help clients with any training requirements. Talk to us about any training needs you may have!
We offer bespoke solutions to suit:
Micro businesses
SME’s
Corporate Businesses
As well as all of the above, Inspire Excellence also partners with breatheHR to offer our clients a great HR software solution! BreatheHR is a great HR system which is easy to use and maintain. Please check out the page dedicated to breatheHR for more information.
Especially important, we understand how important trust is when bringing external consultants into an organisation. Therefore, we are also DBS checked, just for that additional peace of mind.
How can Inspire Excellence help me?
Among many things, we can help to ensure your business has:
- The right paperwork and frameworks in place to ensure you’re covered from a legal perspective;
- Employment Contracts, Handbooks, Right to Work, GDPR;
- Comprehensive HR support and advice;
- Coaching, Training and Mentoring as required;
There’s a multitude of ways that Inspire Excellence can help you and/or your business. Have a look through our website for much more information and give us a call to chat any queries through!
We have a variety of packages to suit all types of support and all types/size of business. Contact us for more information.
Why should we use your Company?
This is another of the popular F.A.Q’s Inspire Excellence gets asked. Inspire Excellence takes great pride in our work and in our strong relationships with our clients. We listen to what our clients want and tailor our services accordingly. We are experts in our field with a huge amount of experience in all aspects of HR, coaching and training. We have also worked with small businesses through to large global corporate businesses, so understand the challenges you will face when dealing with people.
As a business you will get HR Director level experience into your business for a fraction of the cost of having an in-house HR Director. We’re small enough to give that personal touch, but have the experience and associates to be able to scale up for larger projects when required.
As the founding partner and Director of Inspire Excellence UK Limited, Krystyna has spent years working across the full spectrum of HR and in all types and size of business. Krystyna prides herself on attention to detail, being able to tailor services to the Client and providing a high-end level of service, which makes her the number one go to for many clients!
Krystyna has a strong network of associates for larger scale work and only works with people that she trusts and would highly recommend.
With a strong sense of integrity and a plethora of experience in this field, you can be sure that you and your business are in safe, capable hands.
To see more of Krystyna’s experience, please do take a look at her LinkedIn profile. Click here.
What locations do you work in?
We’re based just outside of Warrington. Many of our clients are in the North West, however we do have clients in the West Midlands, North Wales, Leeds and across the UK.
We work with some clients onsite and others we support remotely via email, phone, Zoom. Or we can do a mixture of the two!
We’re happy to have a chat with you, to see how we can support you and your business.
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F.A.Q’s about how Inspire Excellence can help
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Do you do: investigations / disciplinaries / appeals / grievances?
Yes is the short answer! We can chair any formal meetings for you, be a minute taker and/or assist at any formal meeting. Let’s start by organising a call to discuss requirements, we can then follow up with a meeting (if required) and then we can get going!
Can you review our HR documentation and make recommendations?
Yes! We often go into businesses to do an HR audit and see where you are as a business and what you need to update and/or put in place. The length of an audit will depend on the size of the business, the number of locations we have to visit and how in-depth you want the audit to be. For a smaller business, it might just take half a day to a day to audit, plus time after to write any recommendations. For a larger business, the audit may take a few days, depending on what’s involved. We will work closely with you to assess requirements, answer F.A.Q’s and to provide an accurate and tailored proposal.
We can also review HR documentation, policies & procedures remotely if required.
Can you draft and implement all of our HR documentation?
Of course. We can draft and implement contracts, handbooks, HR policies and procedures and many more documents to ensure you have everything you need. Our expertise and attention to detail mean you don’t have to worry about documentation – we’ll make sure you have everything you need.
I have a problematic member of staff, can you help?
Yes. We can either support your team to deal with the individual (and provide support and advice with that way) or we can come into the business as a consultant and deal directly with the employee. Depending on the situation, this might be mediation, performance management, investigations (as part of a disciplinary process) or a number of other processes.
How else do you work with businesses to provide HR support?
These are F.A.Q’s we get asked a lot. We can work with businesses in a number of ways – our priority is to make sure we tailor our services to exactly what YOU want so you are not paying for things you don’t need. The Company can complete work at a day rate, we can set a project price for set pieces of work and we can work with your business long term by way of regular monthly payments. We can work remotely and support via email/phone and/or we can be onsite as often as you need us – it’s really up to you!
Do you do HR Project work? What does that mean?
Yes. Inspire Excellence can work with your business for a certain period of time to complete a project. For example, TUPE projects, mergers, redundancy programmes, change programmes to name a few! This is part of the services we offer as a HR consultancy.
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We have a HR person in place, can you support them?
We certainly can! We can come in to support your existing team and we can help and/or mentor them if you wish. Inspire Excellence has a strong coaching background, so we are well equipped to coach and mentor any HR personnel. Often, we act as a coach to newer HR staff (E.G. coaching/training up HR staff) and we’ve also supported HR Managers, HR Directors and other HR personnel when they’ve come across something more complex to deal with.
I want to build a culture within the business – can you help?
Definitely! A large part of what we do when we work with an organisation is to look at culture and employee engagement. Changing culture is not an overnight thing and takes time and dedication but with the right support from us, your business can succeed! We’ve worked with many organisations where we have taken an in-depth look into the culture of a business and put measures in place to change and improve the business and people’s perceptions of it. Talk to us for further detail and how we can support your business in doing this.
Can you provide HR Software?
Inspire Excellence partners with breatheHR which is a great, online HR solution. It’s easy to use, cost-effective and Inspire Excellence are happy to recommend Breathe.
However, we also understand that breatheHR may not be suitable for all organisations, so if you want an HR software solution, we will work with you to understand your specific requirements and then source and implement a solution that will work for you and your business.
Do you do ad hoc/one off work?
Yes. We can come in to support your business as required for ad hoc work. For example, you might just need someone external to chair a formal meeting, do the outcome and then that’s it. We’ve come into businesses to chair investigations, disciplinaries, appeals, grievances, sick/welfare meetings, consultation meetings and many more!
Sometimes organisations just want an external, unbiased person to come in. Sometimes the team inhouse doesn’t have the expertise if the matter is complex, sometimes the person at the centre of the meeting is senior and an external person is more appropriate. There are many reasons why you might prefer an external HR consultant to assist and we’re happy to support businesses in this way.
Can you provide long term HR support?
We can! We can support your business for as long or as little as you would like. Many of our loyal clients work with us as long-term partners (paid for on a monthly basis). We have packages to suit all sizes of business and we can support remotely via email/phone/Zoom and/or we can be onsite too – it’s up to you! Get in touch to discuss the different packages we offer and how we can support you.
Have you worked with our industry?
We work with a broad range of industries. Some of which include; retail, hospitality, facilities management, entertainment, financial services, telecoms, insurance, commercial services and more!
We’re used to tailoring documentation, policies and procedures to fit different industries (and organisations within those industries), so you can be reassured we can help you.
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HR Testimonials
What everyone is saying!
“We have been working with Krystyna for some time, she has worked closely with us to refine and develop our internal systems as well as improving our HR compliance. Krystyna has made a number of significant positive changes to how we work with our people and has not been afraid to challenge us and question how we operate, so improvements can be made to how we do things.
She gives honest, straight forward advice and has always been available to speak to or to attend our stores. We believe we made the right move changing our HR advisors and moving the business to Krystyna”
“Krystyna knows how to help you get the best out of yourself. She has a calm and warm manner, balanced with curiosity and challenge. I always feel at ease when I am with her and I have found our discussions extremely rewarding. Krystyna helps me to identify what my priorities are and how I can address them, and she’s also a great sounding board.
Krystyna has a deep and extensive knowledge of HR and employment legislation and has always provided me sound and realistic advice. Krystyna has supported me through significant life and career decisions and I now class her a trusted friend. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her to anyone.”
“Krystyna provided HR consultancy works during a period of rapid change in the organisation, I would highly recommend her in all aspects.”
“Easy to work with, quickly understood a very complex brief. Dealt with a difficult employee with union representation and delivered a cast iron outcome on time, in full.”
“Krystyna is a very experienced HR professional with a ‘can-do attitude and excellent employment law knowledge. She is commercially aware and works with managers to achieve the best result.”
“Krystyna provided HR Consultancy services to our organisation on a complex change programme. She was professional, detailed, focused and customer-driven in all aspects. I highly recommend her services.”
“I worked alongside Krystyna as a recruitment partner for a year or so. She has an amazing work ethic and always gives me the detail I need.
On top of her remarkable work ethos, HR knowledge and experience she has an exceptional personality which I believe is a key quality, much needed to be a successful and engaging HR Manager within a large organisation.
I would positively recommend Krystyna as a first-class HR Manager and look forward to working with her for many years to come.”
“The year that I worked with Krystyna, I have found her to be extremely focused and committed HR/Business Professional. I have been impressed with her approach to solving business problems related to people at work. She comes up with newer perspectives and she proposes solutions that are creative as well as aimed at solving issues on a long-term basis.
Another attribute of Krystyna that gives her an edge is her ability to keep her head high in challenging situations and move things forward”
“I worked under Krystyna for nearly two years. Strategically, Krys reshaped the HR team and created partnerships with the business. She was a true mentor and a real hands-on problem solver. Her love of all things people related including her passion for NLP and EFT was a huge benefit to me and the Company. Krys would be a huge asset to any company.”
“I worked alongside Krystyna for about a year. I found Krystyna to be an extremely supportive colleague and our working relationship was seamless. Although it was a great loss to the Company and myself as a colleague when Krystyna left, I was delighted for her when I learnt of her new role of which I wish her every success with”
“Excellent HR consultant – has provided my companies with grounded, risk averse and effective HR policy and services. She’s helped us avoid many potential disasters by planning ahead and when problems arise, helped us overcome potential liabilities and costs. Highly recommended – a real pearl.”
“Krystyna is down to earth and I have found her easy to work with through a number of challenging organisational situations including staff transfers, restructures and complex employment cases.
Krystyna achieves commercial outcomes and hasn’t been afraid to do things a bit differently in order to achieve the right business result, showing the effective balance between real-world HR, employment regulation, and commercial business interests.”
“During my 3 years with the business, Krystyna played an instrumental part in helping me manage the BAU HR needs of the business, delivering pragmatic HR solutions and advice to help get the best from the operation and team.
Krystyna’s council was both sought, valued and trusted as an HR specialist, enabling me to ensure that the business operated in a legally compliant way, providing sound guidance for a range of HR issues and considerations.
Further to delivering BAU HR into the business, I worked closely with Krystyna on a number of strategic projects aimed at enriching the culture and developing the talent within the team. Krystyna always impressed me with her top down thinking approach whilst working on these projects; able to clearly see the big picture, the desired outcomes, and work backwards from those to identify the key actions needed.
More than all these however, Krystyna’s key strength for me, lays in her ability to make HR work for the business that she’s in and it’s that ability to apply her wide generalist HR knowledge to fit the business operating model, that truly sets Krystyna apart from all other HR Professionals I’ve worked with over the years.”
“We started working with Krystyna in early 2018. We had a situation arise and needed help and we were put in touch with Krystyna, who was actually on holiday abroad at the time! Despite being on holiday and not knowing us, she happily spoke to us, advised us and guided us through the process. On her return, she helped us wrap up the process quickly & efficiently and at that point, we knew we wanted to engage in her services long term.
Over the time we have worked with Krystyna, we have totally re-vamped all of our HR documentation including handbooks, employment contracts and lots of other documentation that we were missing. Krystyna took the time to listen to what we needed and to understand the way we do things and really tailored everything to our exact requirements. I feel totally confident in all the documentation we have now, in all the processes we have put in place and in the support Krystyna provides, as matters arise. As a small business, it’s great to be able to get the help of a HR Director level person which is something we couldn’t do otherwise. Her advice is always very pragmatic, clear and she feels like part of the team!
We’ve built up a great relationship with Krystyna and I would highly recommend her to anyone wanting experienced HR Support, no matter how big or small the Company is”.
“On a recent project, Krystyna was engaged to oversea operational HR in an area of the business that required excellent organisational skills as being able to support line managers with their HR responsibilities. She supported the transition of paper-based HR onto an HRIS platform which enabled more accurate reporting. Krystyna is an extremely knowledgeable HR professional with a calm approach to the task in hand. She is totally reliable and executes her responsibilities in an efficient manner. She has an engaging style and I found her collaborative approach extremely helpful. I look forward to working with Krystyna on other projects.”
“Krystyna is an absolute breath of fresh air. She has a fantastic knowledge of all things HR and offers expert advice and practical solutions. She fit into our team from day one and never felt like a ‘consultant’ – I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her and look forward to working with her again in the future.”
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Coaching Testimonials
What everyone is saying!
“Krys has been mentoring and coaching me since August 2020. She is inspiring with her extensive HR knowledge and she has excellent coaching skills.
Krys has been supporting me to develop in my HR career, she has increased my confidence and given me the determination to reach my goals. I have attended her masterclasses which gave great strategies and steps to re-program your mind for success.
Krys is a genuinely nice person, she’s very understanding and so easy to seek to.”
“Krystyna is an excellent coach and mentor. She combines the gift of personability with wisdom and insight. She listens carefully and offers insights and alternative viewpoints. She gets you to look at a situation through the other person’s eyes, to better understand not only others but also yourself!.. using some tools and formal approaches (such as NLP) to assist in this.
We all tend to see the world through our own prism, coloured by our own preconceptions and I found Krystyna’s techniques really useful in realigning myself and my team in a changed business with a refreshed management team and outlook. Her support was invaluable, her approach never heavy-handed, always encouraging, ever-insightful!”
“Had the pleasure of working with Krystyna a few years ago and I can certainly recommend her. She’s a top trainer within her field and it’s very easy to see that the way she delivers her training’s she’s an expert.
Her clients are very lucky to her. Highly recommended!”
“Krystyna’s coaching and guidance techniques are fantastic, she is also very professional in her ways. She takes the time to listen and then understand what goals you are trying to aim for and then she puts the right practice into place to guide you, always working with a positive attitude.
She has recently helped me re-work my CV and also helped offer direction for a new career path. Her experience and expertise are second to none, consistently showing effectiveness in the right areas.
I am really happy with the results, so thanks Krystyna, you’re a star!!”
“Krystyna has worked with me over the last six years on a variety of focus areas. Initially, she offered HR guidance, often on a day to day level helping me become the best version of myself. She gave advice and shared techniques to allow me to develop myself personally which in turn lead to success in my career.
Following on from this, I really trusted her and felt I could open up a bit more which then lead to her helping me with some more personal issues. She helped me open up and see the root of some of my feelings and challenges and over different types of sessions helped me deal with and work through them rather than just hiding them away.
She helped me understand myself better and find clarity in areas I had struggled with for a long time. Our most recent journey together involved her support initially on a HR guidance situation, however as always, she goes the extra mile and also became personal support giving me additional perspective on the situation helping me work through it in the best possible way from start to finish.
I would happily recommend Krystyna to anyone looking for support on anything HR related to those looking to work on themselves or others for personal and professional development too.”
“Krystyna is an awesome keynote speaker who draws on her experience as a business owner, her background in psychology and coaching to enlighten and entertain the audience.
Krystyna’s keynote helped tremendously making our women’s summit a great success. It was a pleasure working with Krystyna. She made our lives easier by just understanding what we need and want and building her keynote exactly around that.
On top, she delivered great resources to share with the audience afterwards. Thank you so much for this amazing work, Krystyna!”
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