Khomotayon Consulting Business Support Services is special service that allows business and community organisations to outsource and tap into our pool of experience and expertise, certain circumstances often require that our personnel provide hands on experience to appropriately add value to your organisation.
Why We Offer Technical Support Services
Choose a role to Out-source
Human Resources (Hr) Management
Human Resource administration & labour advisory services
We provide specialist advisory services to corporates and non-profits regarding the day to day management of administrative functions of people management. These include but not limited to staffing, contract making, maintenance, development, terminations, conflict/dispute resolution, health, safety and wellness programs as well as general employment compliance issues.
Human Resource Outsourcing
The modern day knowledge based economy, coupled with rapid change at a global context, demands a shift towards investing in the organisation’s most priced asset - Human Resource (HR). Employee learning and development, blended with appropriate employment practices has become the single most source of sustainable and competitive advantage. Subsequently, short and longterm business survival strategies are being sought, chief among them being the need to “keep eyes on the ball” by focusing time and effort on the core activities of the organisation, contain costs by, among other things; outsource non-core business activities, HR included. The two competing priorities (core activities and growing importance of HR) can best be managed by bringing an outside HR Expert to provide cost effective and bias free strategic HR decisions/advice, including administration of non-core HR activities, leaving in-house HR department to dedicate its energy towards strategic issues of the business.
Human resource administration
Employment contracts, termination procedures,
codes of conduct, personnel policies, dispute settlement procedures, hearings, appeals, conciliations and arbitrations & application of collective bargaining agreements includinggeneral employment compliance issues. Payroll, recruitment, statutory returns, skills audit & training needs analysis and job evaluation.
Strategic human resource management
Attracting & retaining best knowledge strategic Resourcing/interventions, performance management, reward and benefits management, managing change. Business strategy formulation, employment shared services and OD strategies.
Technical Support For Community Development
In addition to our project management, project design and proposal writing services, research and documentation and M&E services, we also offer training services in the following areas of community development;
Training for transformation
Training for transformation - in collaboration with Training for Transformation Institute, we offer a powerful package for community development workers. The course, which is
based on the ideas of a renowned Brazilian practitioner and author Paolo Freire, produces
solid community workers who are skilled to facilitate community processes that help
people read their reality, come up with solutions for their challenges and challenge them
to act on these.
Entrepreneurship training
Entrepreneurship training - designed for
(i) people that are motivated to start small enterprises but have no concrete business idea
(ii) people that are running small to medium size enterprises but seek to formalize or grow their enterprises. We offer three packages that respond squarely to the needs of these groups;
The Generate Your Business Idea (GYBI), Start Your Business (SYB) and Improve Your Business (IYB).The three packages were developed by International Labour Organization (ILO) and we have trainers that are certified by ILO to deliver these trainings.
(i) people that are motivated to start small enterprises but have no concrete business idea
(ii) people that are running small to medium size enterprises but seek to formalize or grow their enterprises. We offer three packages that respond squarely to the needs of these groups;
The Generate Your Business Idea (GYBI), Start Your Business (SYB) and Improve Your Business (IYB).The three packages were developed by International Labour Organization (ILO) and we have trainers that are certified by ILO to deliver these trainings.
Technical support in gender mainstreaming
we are strong advocates of gender equality and equity across all socio-economic and political spheres.To that end, we support corporates, NGOs and public sector organizations in their work to address gender disparities. We offer support in the areas of gender audits, gender policy formulation, gender sensitization trainings, gender budgeting, gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation and gender mainstreaming.
Life skills education (training of trainers)
Life skills education (training of trainers) - in collaboration with Young Africa (YA), we offer Training of Trainers (ToT) in Life Skills Education. This package is designed for people
who work with children (above 10 years) and youths. The training is based on YA’s model
of integral development of youths.
Conflict management and transformation
targeting organized community groups, corporates, NGOs etc. The training equips groups with skills to manage conflict when it occurs and to mitigate its effects on their work as well as skills to transform relationships
post-conflict.
Project Management
Technical support in project design & proposal writing
We offer our expert project design and writing skills to non-profits that require support to develop sound and winning proposals. We believe in transferring skills, hence this training is accompanied by coaching and mentoring should organizations desire to develop their own key staff’s skills in project design and proposal writing.
Technical support in project implementation and monitoring & evaluation
Well-designed projects may fail to achieve their desired results owing to weak implementation capacities. We provide technical support to organizations, particularly of projects that we support in their designing. This support includes, but not limited to project reporting, designing and facilitating trainings and monitoring and evaluation. In addition to this, we also provide training to staff ceased with conducting project monitoring and evaluation. We also assist organizations develop M&E frameworks to guide their M&E work.
Project management training
Project management skills are becoming more and more essential in literally all people engaged in community development work or that are implementing for-profit projects. This training equips participants with essential project management skills to enable them to design, implement, monitor and evaluate performance of projects of various kinds.
Business plans/proposal drafting
We have a special interest in the growth of Small to Medium Size Enterprises. Our certified International Labour Organization (ILO) experts support start-ups and existing SMEs to develop sound and bankable business plans. This work is conducted through a training process, where, step by step, participants learn and develop their business plans. In some cases, business plans are developed by our consultants, in close consultation with project/business owners.