People and Organisation

Creating a future-ready workforce

The world of work is changing - fast.

The pressure to optimise costs and maximise productivity is always there. Today it’s made more complicated by disruptive technology, the increasing complexity of geopolitics, the constant tests of risk and regulation, and the ongoing race to find and keep the right talent with the right skills. These forces are reshaping the workplace and introducing new challenges that impact your whole organisation.

Making sure your workforce is ready for these uncertain times is essential to building trust in the marketplace. PwC’s community of solvers combines the breadth of strategic knowledge and hands-on implementation experience to help your business - and your people - adjust to change and thrive in an unpredictable world.

Our People and Organisation team will help to shape your organisation for the future, unleash the potential of your people, build trust in your market, and deliver sustained outcomes for your business.

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HR Consultancy and Transformation
Learning and development
Executive coaching
Employee engagement

HR Consultancy and Transformation

In a world of changing social expectations and rapid technological advances, organisations are reshaping their workforce experiences and employee propositions to maximise operational performance.

Supporting you with strategic thinking across a range of organisational transformation and HR topics, we will work together to drive change in your people areas, provide skills and tools delivering highly effective and scalable resource capability, and help you meet fluctuating HR demands.

Learning and development

Human-centred strategy, especially employee experience, is imperative for the organisations of the future. But, connecting and unlocking the potential of employees requires transformational leadership and upskilled executives who are ready for the challenges of today and tomorrow.

With unprecedented levels of social, technological, political and environmental change, the demands and expectations on leaders are increasing at pace. Prioritising leadership mindset, behaviour and skillset is imperative as this combination of qualities directly influences how engaged a workforce will be and the output of their performance.

Bringing extensive experience at executive and board level, our team will use a mix of strategic thinking and pragmatic decision-making to support your leadership team with bespoke and generic development programmes, and one-to-one coaching.

Executive coaching

Maintaining a reliable workforce and an attractive employee proposition involves continual training and development to ensure employees are ready to meet the increasing challenges of today’s business environment.

In line with your organisation’s changing needs, we will explore future core capabilities including your current skills and gap areas through a Skills Needs Analysis, ensuring the appropriate levels of skills, knowledge and behaviours are embedded in your workforce to position you as a market leader.

Working collaboratively with you, we will enable you to develop a learning and development strategy, and facilitate the creation of initiatives and solutions to bridge skill gaps, upskill your people and deliver solutions-led capability.

Employee engagement

Living in uncertain times means that businesses looking to reposition and establish business longevity need to embed the right culture as a key priority.

Combining our experience in culture and organisational effectiveness, we will work together with your business to evaluate the current culture and engagement of your people. Analysis will establish a plan for improvement and change with the goal of maximising business performance, and maintaining people engagement. This is aligned to individual career aspirations, as well as meeting the organisation’s long-term vision and goals.

Workforce solution

To be prepared for the future, you have to evaluate the macro environment, identify your needs as an organistion, define and plan for growth, and embed change effectively.

Our workforce framework highlights the transformation journey you can expect when you work collaboratively with PwC's workforce specialists.

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