Angela is Senior HR Consultant with Think People Consulting, a Belfast based HR Consultancy offering outsourced HR services and leadership and management training to clients across Northern Ireland, England and the U.S.
Angela has broad experience as an HR generalist, accumulated over 15 years, beginning her career in Marks and Spencer. She successfully and notably managed a significant change programme and outsourcing projects at a time of upheaval for the retailing giant. Angela has in recent years operated as senior Consultant with Think People Consulting in Belfast, offering practical, hands on support to a wide range of clients across all sectors in NI and across the spectrum of HR matters including development of new policies, compliance with legislative changes, developing new performance management systems, measuring Engagement levels, implementing appropriate strategies and change projects and advising on more complex ER cases.
Angela is an experienced speaker, writing up to date and relevant materials for seminars on the Think People Consulting annual programme of events. She is regularly invited to participate in Legal-Island events, including their annual reviews of employment law in November each year.
Angela regularly writes seminar content for elements of the management and leadership programmes run by Think People Consulting, including the DEL Engage programme. She also writes a monthly newsletter called ‘HR Insights’ circulated to Think People Consulting clients on a monthly basis as well as to the Legal-Island readership. Topics relate to matters of particular interest to the HR community and business leaders, with practical tips and advice.
A CIPD member, educated to BA Honours level in Business Studies / Economics and further via Queens University in HRM, Angela also holds the CIPD advance certification in Employment law.
Q. We have a probationary clause in our contracts but are not utilising it. Can you advise on best practice and how to deal with an employee who is not performing well? ⚓︎
Recruitment and Selection processes have improved over the years, with the invention of more measured and targeted assessment of candidates such as assessment centres, psychometric testing and competency based interviews. We are in a much better position, statistically speaking, to be able to identify the candidate that will make a success of the position you are recruiting for, in a reasonable amount of time after their induction into your organisation. That said, we are yet to come up with perfect selection methods and unfortunately a proportion of
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