Business Optimisation Services

Talent Management

To excel in the management of a firm’s most precious resource requires an understanding of industry best practices in hiring, compensation, benefits and retention. The improvement of business growth strategies that result from this understanding can often be attributed (at least in part) to successful Talent Management. Westport Partners houses a wealth of expertise and experience in formulating unique and invaluable roadmaps and playbooks for Talent Management.

Feasibility Studies: The firm also provides additional services applicable to various stages of the process of hiring new talent for an organisation. Westport Partners has successfully delivered numerous feasibility studies. We have helped our clients assess if they are looking to Globally Hub Technology & Operations in Asia, to enhance their product platform from a technological, operational and human capital perspective. We possess the dexterity and adaptability to customise our services for clients, responding promptly to the nuances of your business. The emphasis on providing a stellar service is driven by practical and sound business sense – to develop long-lasting, strategic partnerships and hence, quality repeat business.

  • Information: A comprehensive view of the market - access to competitor info on an exclusive basis

  • Networks: Relationships at the highest level with captains of industry

  • Practical: Viable working solutions that are aligned with your strategy

  • Talent Attraction: Bespoke advice on the best way to attract and engage candidates

  • Flexibility: Developing a working programme which suits your firm

Talent Development

Talent Development remains a strategic priority for all organisations, however, it is often a greatly neglected business initiative. At Westport Partners we help our clients drive and deliver the coaching and training at scale to develop talent across all levels within your business. We understand that time is scarce and urgent tasks have a tendency to consume it. We help managers instil discipline as part of their priorities as these will be subject to daily crises that interfere with activities that are part of your long-term investment in people.

  • Organisational design and structure: Effective planning of business divisions

  • Succession planning: At multiple levels throughout the organisation

  • Career architecture and frameworks: Across the organisation, helping create future leaders

  • Focus on visible skills: Enhancing the team’s optics, teaching them to integrate and walk the floor

  • Sales excellence: Developing successful traits, enabling staff to upgrade their ability to build relationships

  • Body language: For introverts/extroverts. Creating gravitas and a lasting impression

  • Professional development: Guiding staff to become future leaders

  • Team building: Driving trust and support, building a cohesive unit

  • Running efficient meetings: Wasted time kills business: 5 senior practitioners in a room for an hour =$$$

  • Conflict resolution: Mediation focused on creating harmony amongst the ranks can transform businesses

HR Advisory Services

We help companies that are new in the region and may not have an onsite HR team. We can help you at all stages of your business:

  • Business Set-Up Mode: Creating all HR templates including employment contracts, tools and services

  • Drive and Growth Mode: Transformational HR, tailored HR templates, tools and services

  • Take Off Mode: Helping businesses looking to grow across the Asian region, creating an HR footprint on the ground

HR Templates, Tools and Services:

  • Design: Compensation structure, including commission and bonus programmes

  • Review: Compensation & benefits analysis

  • 360: Review of system and performance appraisal systems, enhancing work performance

  • Succession planning: Strategic workforce design

  • Assessment centre: Recruitment: search and selection

  • Training & development: Leadership development coaching

  • Performance management: Coaching and review

  • Career development: Architecture and coaching

Recruiting Best Practices: How to Build a Successful Hiring Team

We can help you build a world-class hiring management team from top-down and bottom-up. Recruitment is not only about the candidate impressing the employer; companies must also impress the top candidates.  We have broken it down into three categories:

Reviewing Recruitment Best Practices: After working collaboratively with many different businesses over the years, we have seen the same poor recruitment patterns and errors being made repeatedly.  These inherent problems result in significant financial costs and long-term detriments to organisations across the world.

The Lost Message: Communication Overlap Resulting in a Disorganised Approach to Interviews:

  • We can help by implementing a process that eliminates these errors and train the hiring managers to ask different but relevant questions

  • We can also create ‘cheat sheets’ and ‘action plans’ for the hiring team ensuring that all key topics are covered in an efficient and seamless manner

Lost Candidates: Reducing the Time Required to Interview Candidates and Get to the Offer as Quickly As Possible: ‘Time Kills Deals’.

  • We can help train and develop the HR team, hiring managers and personal assistants about the importance of reducing the candidates’ need to be flexible with a streamlined approach

  • We create a framework and standard operating procedure/approach, outlining a methodology that streamlines the interview process whilst also ensuring continuity and cohesion

  • We offer a review of your recruitment procedures and help draw up a recruitment template that will benefit both the business and the potential candidates. Long-drawn-out recruitment processes frustrate both hiring managers and candidates and cost valuable hours and talent. We will review how you source the candidates in the first place by explaining how sometimes less is more when engaging search firms and utilising job boards

Our goal is to save you time and ultimately money.

Client Branding

Before you commence writing a job advert or job description, this is the perfect opportunity to convey to the market what your organisation’s branding is. Leaving candidates interviewed with a positive, ever-lasting impression will help build your brand.

Increase Your  Online Visibility: Deploy a user-friendly, systematic approach to developing your online visibility. We will help you create traffic to your business including SEO keywords, allowing you to enhance the market perception of your business, inevitably giving you greater opportunities.

Engage At Every Stage: Use social media and marketing (videos, pics, release of articles) to drum up interest in your online profile. We will help you conceive and keep the content flowing. The ultimate goal is to get attract greater talent to your business and build the brand.

  • Message Development

  • Crystalising your message and mission statement

  • Power of Branding: how to brand your business professionally, impressively and objectively

  • Professional Enhancement

  • Innovation Strategy

  • Presentations and Speeches

Interview Prep to Hire the Best People

How many organisations have a trained and structured approach to interviewing?  Typically most hiring and HR managers are not trained in the art of interviewing and unfortunately take the approach that they will apply instinct and improvisation to the hiring process with little to no preparation. The cost of hiring an employee today is staggering and the cost of hiring poor employees can be detrimental, both to the organisation and to the careers of the managers responsible for them.

The harsh reality is that hiring the correct person for a job takes a tremendous amount of time before, during and after the interview process. Preparing for the interview and asking the right questions is key to reducing the chance of a failed hire. We can help you create a structure that includes a framework for:

  • Job evaluation, creation and architecture

  • Sharpening your interviewing skills and conducting a great job interview

  • Creating an effective and coordinated interview panel

  • Interview preparation: for questions to ask, answers to come, qualifying cultural fit

  • Diagnostic analysis and implication-based questions

  • Getting to green light/red light: bringing candidates from 1st interview to securing an acceptance

  • How to qualify and sell simultaneously, leaving a positive impact on all candidates