The Portaris Organizational Partnership™
Experienced HR partnership for what’s happening in your organization.
Sometimes you know exactly what needs attention.
You may need to strengthen your hiring process, build a better onboarding experience, update a handbook, work through an employee situation, develop a training program, improve a process, or simply get something important moving.
Other times, you just know something could be working better.
Either works.
The Portaris Organizational Partnership™ gives you experienced, hands-on HR partnership around a particular challenge, initiative, project, or body of work that needs to move forward.
We start by learning what’s happening in your organization. We ask questions, explore what may be connected, and get clearer about where you’d like to be.
Then we shape the Partnership around what we discover, roll up our sleeves, and work alongside you to get it done.
You don’t have to know exactly what you need before we talk.
Maybe You’re Thinking...
“Open enrollment is coming, and we still have a lot to get done.”
“We have an employee engagement survey full of data. Now someone needs to figure out what to do with it.”
“We need to get ahead of workforce planning and next year’s priorities.”
“That compensation review has been sitting on the list for months.”
“We have policies, SOPs, and HR processes that need to be updated before year end.”
“We’re opening another location, and there’s a lot of people work that needs to happen before the doors open.”
“We need to build and deliver training, but no one has the capacity to take it on.”
“We have a major initiative moving forward, and HR needs another experienced pair of hands.”
Sound familiar?
Sometimes the challenge isn’t knowing what needs to be done. It’s having enough of you to get it all done.
That’s where an Organizational Partnership can help.
How an Organizational Partnership Works
We learn what’s happening in your organization.
You may come to Portaris knowing exactly what you want to accomplish. Or you may simply know there’s something you’d like to strengthen, change, or understand better.
We start with conversation.
We ask questions, learn how things work today, understand what you’ve already tried, and explore what may be connected to what you’re experiencing.
Sometimes the path forward becomes clear quickly. Sometimes what initially brought us into the conversation turns out to be connected to something else.
That’s why we start with curiosity rather than assumptions.
Once we understand what’s happening, we shape the Partnership around what makes sense for you and your organization.
That may mean providing perspective, developing something new, strengthening something that already exists, helping navigate a particular situation, or working alongside your team to carry an important piece of work forward.
Right sized partnership. Shaped around what you actually need.
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Every Organizational Partnership starts with what’s happening in your organization, not a predetermined menu of services.
Here are some examples of what Portaris may help carry.
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Sometimes recruiting challenges are about finding candidates.
Other times, something earlier in the process needs attention.
Portaris can help look at the team you have today, identify skill or capability gaps, and clarify what the organization actually needs before defining the role and candidate profile.
From there, we can help with job requirements, recruiting strategy and processes, interview guides, candidate evaluation, selection tools, and the overall experience for candidates and hiring managers.
Because a successful search starts with understanding who you actually need.
A new employee’s experience starts well before they understand all the unwritten ways an organization actually works.
Portaris can help develop, strengthen, or take on onboarding work across the organization, from frontline employees and managers to senior leaders and executives.
That may include designing the onboarding experience, building schedules and checklists, creating manager tools and new hire resources, developing communications, or pulling the different pieces together into a more thoughtful beginning.
Whether you need to improve what already exists or build something new, we can help carry the work forward.
Policies and handbooks should reflect how an organization actually operates and give employees and leaders practical guidance when questions arise.
Portaris can help develop, review, organize, or update employee handbooks and workplace policies based on the organization’s current needs and practices.
Where legal interpretation or advice is needed, Portaris will recommend involving qualified legal counsel.
Job descriptions can become outdated quickly as organizations, teams, and responsibilities change.
Portaris can help create, update, or strengthen job descriptions so responsibilities, expectations, requirements, and relationships between roles are clear and reflect how the work is actually being done.
And when roles have evolved beyond what’s on paper, we can help sort through the work and clarify who should be responsible for what.
Employee relations matters can take significant time and attention, especially when your team is already carrying a full workload.
Portaris can help navigate employee situations, conduct workplace investigations, strengthen documentation, identify patterns, and help determine a thoughtful path forward.
Whether you need perspective on a particular situation or someone to help carry the work itself, we can step in based on what your organization needs.
Employee Relations Investigation Credential
Portaris has completed specialized Workplace Investigative Interviewing Strategies for HR/ER Professionals training through Wicklander Zulawski & Associates.
Opening or establishing a new location creates a lot of moving pieces on the people side of the business.
Portaris can help think through and carry agreed HR work related to staffing, onboarding, policies and practices, employee communications, manager preparation, processes, and other people needs associated with getting a new location ready.
Managers are often expected to handle important people responsibilities without having practical tools to help them do it consistently.
Portaris can develop manager guides, conversation tools, checklists, templates, documentation resources, performance tools, and other practical materials that make people responsibilities easier to understand and carry out.
That may mean creating a specific resource your team needs or building a broader manager toolkit that brings important guidance and resources together in one place.
The goal is not more paperwork. It’s giving managers practical tools they can actually use.
Performance management should be more than a form completed once a year.
Portaris can help develop or strengthen performance review processes, performance planning tools, feedback practices, documentation, manager resources, and approaches for addressing performance concerns.
We focus on creating practical ways for expectations, feedback, accountability, and performance conversations to happen more consistently.
How employees experience organizational decisions often depends on how those decisions are communicated.
Portaris can help develop and execute employee communications around HR programs, workplace changes, new processes, organizational initiatives, benefits, policies, and other people related matters.
That may include developing communication plans, drafting announcements and employee materials, anticipating questions, creating FAQs and manager talking points, and coordinating how and when information is shared.
Whether you need help shaping the message or carrying the communication work itself, we can step in where your team needs additional capacity.
Processes often become more complicated over time. Extra steps get added, responsibilities become unclear, work gets duplicated, and something that once made sense starts taking more time than it should.
Portaris can help examine how the work happens today, identify bottlenecks, unnecessary steps, unclear ownership, or opportunities to simplify the process, and work with the people involved to build a better way forward.
That may include mapping the current process, clarifying responsibilities, redesigning workflows, developing SOPs and supporting tools, and helping implement the changes.
The goal is simple: make the work easier to understand, easier to manage, and easier to get done.
Portaris can help organizations identify training needs and develop practical learning experiences for employees, managers, and leaders.
That may include developing and facilitating training programs, creating manager or employee learning resources, supporting broader learning initiatives, and building job aids, facilitator materials, and tools that help carry learning beyond the training itself.
Training Credential
Portaris founder is a certified trainer with the DC Office of Human Rights to provide sexual harassment prevention training in the tipped wage industry.
Some priorities simply need additional capacity to move forward.
Portaris can help plan, organize, and carry important HR initiatives through implementation. That may include engagement survey follow through, compensation projects, open enrollment, workforce planning, program launches, annual HR cycles, or other organizational priorities.
We can work alongside your team or take ownership of an agreed piece of the work to help get it done.
Sometimes you know exactly what needs to happen. You just need an extra set of hands to help make it happen.
Questions About Organizational HR Support
Looking for Ongoing HR Leadership?
Sometimes what an organization needs isn’t support around one particular challenge, project, or area of work.
You may need experienced HR leadership over a longer period of time. Someone who can become part of the organizational conversation, learn your business and your people, work alongside your leaders and teams, and provide continuity as priorities evolve.
That’s The Portaris Fractional Partnership™.
Executive level HR support, without the full time hire.