Senior Hire Integration
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Virtual & Interim HR Services
Your team of HR experts
Focus on your company’s business goals while simultaneously executing the HR operational and tactical requirements to scale and grow your organization successfully.
Growing and scaling organizations’ needs can change quickly, especially in the highly competitive job market we are in today. With our virtual HR team or our highly experienced interim HR professionals, you get the strategic and operational expertise you need when you need it!
Whether filling a role or acting as a full-time HR department, Stratford virtual and interim HR services partners with you to help you meet your business objectives and promote a company culture to attract, engage and retain employees.
Trusted and respected by leaders of growing organizations
Why Stratford?
The teams we’ve supported with virtual & interim HR services chose us because…
On-demand Expertise
Bring instant HR talent and experience to the table
Scaleable
Strategic and operational expertise adapted to your needs
Real Advice
Leverage the experience of experts who've been in your shoes
Relationship Driven
Build partnership between HR and business leaders
Value focused
Maximize business performance by increasing HR's potential & output
Featured HR Tools
M&A PLAYBOOK Checklist
M&A is a key lever to propel your company’s growth. Here is a checklist that covers the key “plays” necessary to find and execute a successful M&A deal.
M&A READINESS GUIDE
Selling your business is a complex, stressful and time-consuming process. To help you get started, here is a framework to help you navigate the many M&A variables.
M&A
Data Room Checklist
M&A data rooms can be an overwhelming task. To help you get started, here is a summary checklist of documents your organization will want to add.
Our Approach
Our interim and virtual HR services are built around your organization’s strategy. We help identify gaps and opportunities in your people strategy that can help propel your business results and maximize the output of your people and culture capabilities. Then we lean in to help implement them with proven and pragmatic HR supports.
With interim management, our team steps in on a part- or full-time basis to provide HR leadership in key functional areas. Acting as a member of your team, we assume responsibility for results — and lay the foundation for a successful transition to permanent staff.
With virtual management, our team of experts can be retained for as little as a day or two at a time, acting as your virtual HR department or team member. Your work gets performed cost-effectively by strategic and operational HR experts but without the overhead of employing permanent staff.
"As we began to expand our operations and bring on more people, we managed HR and did the right things to be a good employer, but we didn’t have a specific people strategy. We realized that we needed to be more thoughtful about it, but as a relatively small organization, we required some professional external support...From the very outset of our engagement, Laura has taken charge to shape our idealistic view of what our people-first strategy should be and put it into practice. She is part of the team now and has done an amazing job fitting in as a coach and mentor to our people."
Virtual & Interim HR Solutions
Virtual HR Services
Outsource your HR department and bring in the experience you need to attract, engage and retain your people.
- All-in-one HR department
- Recruitment services for HR talent
- HR audit
- HR roadmap development and implementation
- HR policies development and implementation
- Employee handbook creation
- Contracts standardization
- General HR compliance
- Recruitment support
Interim HR Support
Bridge periods of transition, cover short-term vacancies and the needs for expertise to maintain and increase the depth and performance in your organization’s skill set.
- CHRO, VP HR
- HR Generalist
- Compensation & Total Rewards
- Human Resource Business Partner
- Recruiter
- Employee and Labour Relations
- Learning and Development
- HR Coordinator
HR Resources
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Predicting this Year’s HR Trends and Focus Areas
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To Outsource HR or Not to Outsource HR?
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The Missing Tool in your Corporate Wellness Portfolio
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Look to the Leaders: Thoughts on a Post Pandemic Workplace
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Mike D’Amico & Alison Delorme to Speak at Toronto HRPA Event
On May 10, 2023, Stratford People & Culture team members Mike D’Amico and Alison Delorme will be speaking at a professional development event hosted by the West Toronto Chapter of
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Stratford’s work with STACS DNA featured in Ottawa Business Journal
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