Empowering your organization with bespoke operational solutions
By prioritizing people and processes, Amethyst empowers your team to excel and drive meaningful impact.
Aligning operations with progressive values for meaningful impact
Our services are deeply rooted in our commitment to progressive values and operational excellence. We believe in creating intentional workplaces that support living wages, meaningful benefits, and inclusive practices.
By integrating seamlessly with your team, we ensure that our solutions are not only practical and efficient but also aligned with your organization’s values and goals. This holistic approach helps foster a supportive and thriving work environment, enabling your organization to achieve its full potential.
Key Focus Areas
Personnel
Organization
Leadership
Unique solutions built for you.
We take short and long-term strategic planning seriously, creating custom programs based on the needs of your organization. No solution we offer our clients is cookie-cutter.
We are creative problem-solvers for every single client.
Equitable hiring & employee onboarding
Ensuring a fair and efficient hiring and onboarding process is crucial for building a strong team. Our services in this area include:
Selection and implementation of applicant tracking systems (ATS)
Design of your hiring process, from job description to offer letter
Support for all parts of your process, including interviews, reference checks, and more
Coaching related to offer negotiation and all other aspects of the hiring process, including coaching employees on their role in the interview and hiring process
Building onboarding checklists and supporting materials for new employees
Benefits strategy & acquisition
Crafting a comprehensive benefits strategy is key to attracting and retaining top talent. Our services include:
Working with you to build your first benefits package, which may include medical, dental, and vision insurance and more
Creating fringe benefits programs, such as employee engagement initiatives, gym memberships, and more
Creating renewal calendars and navigating benefits renewals
Supporting your employees through open enrollment
Auditing your benefits enrollment to ensure you aren’t being overcharged
Creating or maintaining your benefits admin portals
Collaborating with your financial operations team to ensure all your benefits invoices are correct and paid on time
Compliant offboarding & terminations
Handling offboarding and terminations with care and compliance is essential for maintaining a positive workplace. Our support includes:
Building offboarding checklists to ensure employees are fully and completely offboarded
Ensuring offboarding employees are paid consistent with required local final pay laws
Working with leadership and legal teams to address challenging and urgent offboarding situations, including difficult conversations and contentious terminations
Collaborating with managers to develop plans to fill gaps resulting from employee resignations
Amethyst helped standardize processes for an organization with naturally high turnover. They’ve been a trusted partner in ensuring that our organization was set up to handle a large staff and are present for day-to-day questions and problems that naturally arise in this particular line of work. We (and me, personally) are super grateful to be working with them and look forward to continuing that relationship.
Workplace investigations
Conducting thorough and impartial workplace investigations helps ensure a safe and respectful environment. Our services involve:
Developing and implementing investigation policies and practices that are intended to protect employees’ privacy and safety, along with the long-term security of the organization
Conducting investigations or identifying the appropriate investigator in order to ensure objectivity and a fair outcome for both the involved employees and the organization
Reporting the outcome of investigations and collaborating with external investigators to interpret investigation results in an effort to improve organizational outcomes
Policy & procedure development
Developing clear and effective policies and procedures is foundational to organizational success. Our offerings include:
Building your first employee handbook, from scratch, to comply with relevant local, state, and federal laws
Updating your existing employee handbook to ensure your organizational policies evolve with your organization in real-time
Guiding your leaders through the thoughtwork of developing purposeful and useful organization policies that are meaningful to your employees
Ensuring that your handbook reflects your organization and culture alongside meeting legal requirements
Creating complementary processes that support your handbook policies
Ensuring your employees have a working understanding of your organization's policies and processes
Structure, design, & maintenance
Optimizing organizational structure and design is essential for enhancing performance and achieving your goals. Our services include:
Making recommendations for structural changes to increase organizational performance
Collaborating with you to build succession plans for key employees and roles
Creating supportive organizational structures such as performance reviews, compensation scales, and promotion guidelines to ensure your organization is practical and equitable
Coaching your management team to increase efficiency and ensure that employee relations issues do not go ignored
Collaborating and coaching managers throughout your organization on how to navigate the work of a middle manager
Payroll services
Managing payroll effectively ensures smooth operations and happy employees. Our services cover:
Selection and implementation of payroll services vendor based on the specific needs of your organization
Building or updating your payroll processes, including the selection of the pay schedule and implementation of regular payroll runs
Regular payroll reporting
Special payrolls for new hires, offboarding employees, or one-off situations
Collaboration with your financial operations, retirement and legals teams to ensure payroll is processed accurately, timely and errors are corrected promptly
Employer compliance
Staying compliant with employment laws and regulations is crucial for avoiding legal issues. Our services include:
Registration for relevant local and state agencies
Monitoring of regular local, state, and federal reports from your payroll system
Troubleshooting for notices and balances on existing accounts
Monitoring of employment laws and regulations and coaching when organizational action is required
Closure of local and state accounts as your organization changes
Coaching & development
Empowering your leaders and employees through coaching and development fosters growth and success. Our services include:
Leadership strategy and coaching designed to emphasize people success and work cohesively with mission-driven goals
One on one managerial coaching for organizational and people leaders including middle managers
Facilitating and coaching for performance and other hard conversations related to professional and organizational growth and development
Cross team collaboration
Effective collaboration across teams ensures cohesive and efficient operations. Our services include:
Collaboration with your internal and external teams, whether they are financial operations, legal, people operations or otherwise
Proactive communication and problem solving that incorporates the relevant organizational stakeholders
Thorough and methodical research and assessment of a challenge that includes appropriate diagnostic and exploratory groundwork
Union & CBA relationships
Maintaining positive relationships with unions and managing collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) is vital for organizational harmony. Our services include:
Thoughtful and considerate communication on behalf of employers with their bargaining unit(s)
Proactive planning and assessment of CBA documents, alongside thoughtful relationship building with stewards and other union leaders
Strategic review and collaboration in preparation for CBA negotiations, in an effort to balance organizational success and individual union member value
Bargaining on behalf of the organization in collaboration with legal, as needed and requested by organizational leadership
Retreat event planning
Planning and executing successful retreats fosters team building and strategic alignment. Our services include:
Advice and content planning for organization events such as all-staff and leadership retreats
Collaboration with strategic planning and long-term strategy vendors to achieve successful organization-wide meetings and retreats
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