HR Notebook Strategy & Projects
HR Notebook will work alongside you to develop your people plans including leadership development, organisation restructures, recruitment approaches, policies & procedures & outsourcing.
HR Notebook Services
HR Notebook will work with you and your teams with Employee Relation Issues, Contracts, Onboarding, Appraisals & Settlement Agreements etc.
Confidence Coaching
Confidence coaching is a way that helps individuals and groups identify and achieve their goals and achieve real results.
Improving employee performance
Increasing employee engagement
Developing leadership skills
Create a positive & action orientated culture

An effortless way to manage your people

HR Notebook

Welcome to the greatest decision you will make today!

Are you awake all night worrying about the next employment problem?

Let us help you keep all things HR on the straight and narrow. We can be your safeguard from difficult Employee Relations claims and fines.

HR Notebook will keep you protected & legitimate, your safe pair of hands.

We can also help you build your personised people plans for your future.

You will get immediate and thorough answers to all your people challenges, leaving you to focus on what you are good at, building your business.

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HR Strategy & Projects

HR Services

Confidence Coaching

About Me

After 25 years working in various HR departments in the Commercial World, I decided to create my own company, HR Notebook.
I wanted to do the things I love helping businesses build and grow whilst navigating the sticky world of Human Resources, so that happy productive employees are doing the best they can in their jobs. By providing this support I would be using my experience, wisdom, and technical knowledge. I can help businesses avoid the banana skins of employment law and get the best out of people.

Raised in Rye on the Southeast Coast, ambitious and ready to take on the world, I moved to London with no plans for a career in Human Resources.

In 1995 I found myself a single parent, with no home or job, so I started again. I believe the tenacity, decision making and the ability to spin plates during this time allowed me to realise my strength of character. When life gets tough, you have got to dig deep. I made sacrifices, I built a home and secured my first job in HR.

Eager to be an example of an inspirational woman with a strong work ethic for my daughter, I worked hard to develop my skills which resulted in several promotions, I was placed on talent courses, I was headhunted into new companies. I worked my way up the ladder by taking on complex ER issues, including disciplinaries, grievances and settlement agreements. I built and delivered training packages to employees new to people management.

I led on various Human Resource programs including, redundancies, building closures in the UK and Europe and led over 150 insource and outsourcing projects. I gained a huge amount of experience (and scars) on what works well and what should be avoided when dealing with growing businesses, people, and change.

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HR Services

Core Values & My Vision

Authenticity

We are honest, genuine, and sincere. We build real and trusted longstanding connections with everyone we meet.

Caring

We are always giving, interested and friendly, as HR professionals we will also offer you our time and expertise to help you make a difference.

Accountable

We take responsibility for what we do and how we do it in all aspects of our lives. We are reliable, we do what we say we will do.

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My Vision

To provide a relevant, commercial, and helpful HR resource to businesses. By creating a comfortable and inspiring relationship with my customers, we can facilitate meaningful discussion with leaders to build their vision for the future.
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Testimonials

Working with Dawn I not only found a confidante and sounding board; I found a pragmatic, knowledgable advisor, implementor and all round safe pair of hands. Dawn is capable of overseeing all aspects of human resource management and industrial relations and takes a collaborative approach in deciding appropriate HR policy and procedure ensuring that she does not lose sight of the complexities, nuance and pressures of the organisational goals and objectives.

Dawn anchored her guidance heavily within the legal requirements and regulatory considerations of a complex and highly regulated industry. Dawn is competent in anticipating, identifying and mitigating risk and was successful in advising and implementing internal guidelines, tools and systems efficiently across multi functional and diverse directorates.

Dawn is a concise and confident communicator and an exemplary relationship builder who exudes a spirit of 'can do,' 'do with,' and 'do well'.
How would I best sum up Dawn? Quite simply: 'Dawn does what it says on the tin'.
You can't ask for more than that!
When we worked together Dawn managed to find a great balance between focusing on colleagues and delivering against business objectives. Dawn had a pragmatic approach to the issues at hand and was always a great support.
I have worked with several Senior HR Business Partners over the years and if you want someone who 'walks the talk' then look no further! Dawn has that special blend of pragmatism and strategy that cuts through the white noise and gets to the essence of what the business problem is that the organisation is trying to solve so that the leadership team makes the right people decision. Dawn also builds effective relationships quickly and has a whole raft of experience to draw from. I would not hesitate to recommend Dawn at all.