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General
Beyond Consulting is an Industrial Psychology practice, established in 2006 by Melandi Raftopoulos. Beyond Consulting strives not only to provide professional consulting services that will benefit the client at the present moment, but to introduce and implement solutions that will:
- Reduce operational costs;
- Improve service delivery;
- Improve productivity and effectiveness; and
- Reduce staff turnover.
Beyond Consulting is a practice, registered with the Board of Health Care Funders (registration no: 0860000294136). As a registered Industrial Psychologist, I have the passion and drive to lead my team to provide an extraordinary service.
Vision
To provide extraordinary consulting services
Values
- To provide consulting/industrial psychology services to clients with the highest degree of integrity and adherence to ethical principles;
- To ensure that Human Resource activities are aligned to HR best practice and relevant legislation; and
- To pay sufficient attention to the client’s specific requirements to exceed the client’s needs and expectations.
Services
Beyond Consulting has a strong focus on Human Resources and Management Consulting services as relevant to the Industrial Psychology field:
- HR Audit/HR best practice
- HR Outsourcing
- Drafting of competency based job descriptions
- Drafting and managing the implementation of policies and procedures
- Counselling
- Recruitment and selection (with the use of psychometric assessment if suitable)
- Establishment and management of induction programmes
- Career development (including psychometric assessment)
- Establishment and management of succession planning programmes
- Co-ordination of training and development
- Developing and facilitating the process of conducting performance appraisals
- Mentorship programmes (with the use of psychometric assessment if suitable)
- Establishment and management of bursary programmes
- Team building interventions
- Management development
- Employment equity
- Skills development
- Career counselling
- Psychometric assessment
Beyond Consulting can consult to your organisation on a project basis to address your needs in the one/more of the above services. The other option is to outsource your entire HR function to Beyond Consulting in order to ensure extraordinary service and a well-integrated HR function that will benefit the operations of the entire organisation. Please contact me for more information in this regard.
Beyond Consulting work in close association with Attorneys specializing in labour law as well as other areas of the law and can refer you to relevant professionals to obtain specialized advice/services in legal matters.
Beyond Consulting is proud to be affiliated not only with clients in South Africa; but also clients in Perth, Western Australia! Beyond Consulting is involved in the recruitment of the employees, the contracts of employment and other labour related issues, as well as the human resources aspects (e.g. policies and procedures, HR manual etc).