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Managing change at The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

Integrated HR has been supporting the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) with a selection of recruitment and training initiatives in support of its recent restructuring and relocation programme.

AHDB was established in April 2008 merging five existing organisations from around the country, creating a number of new operating divisions - including DairyCo, the Meat and Livestock Commercial Services Limited (MLCSL), the Potato Council and the Horticultural Development Company - and bringing together a range of very different approaches and ideas. In order to help smooth the transition and ensure the new organisation would work effectively, Integrated HR was asked to provide training and workshops in leadership, team development and communication skills, as well as supporting the new organisation with internal and external recruitment.

The Integrated HR team began by working with individual DairyCo Senior Management Team Members at a personal development level and this then led to a wider team programme. The success of this activity then led to an internal recruitment initiative with MLCSL, to identify divisional managers for the organisation’s abattoir process management scheme across the UK.

Despite the unusual nature of the project, Integrated HR actually found many similarities with recruiting for manufacturing and engineering positions.

Henry Noteman, Operations Manager, Integrated HR, explains: “While our recruitment expertise is traditionally in industries that design, build and make things, we actually found that the skills and competencies required in these divisional manager roles were surprisingly similar to a lot of other business management roles we support. We were therefore very well qualified to identify the kind of candidates MLCSL were looking for.”

Following this, Integrated HR completed a team development day with the DairyCo communications team and also provided selection support in recruiting a new Head of Research and Development. This position is highly specialised and attracted significant international interest so Henry and the team developed a range of online selection tools as part of the assessment process.

Debbie Murphy, HR Manager at AHDB, said: “Integrated HR has delivered the practical training and development programmes and support we needed in a number of areas of the organisation. We have been able to forge a successful partnership with the team and know that they can respond quickly and effectively to our needs within tight timescales.”

The AHDB HR and Corporate Services Division has now asked Integrated HR for support with its own team moving forward.

henry.noteman@integratedhr.co.uk