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Level up your HR strategy

A diagnostic HR assessment can be a game changer

June 30, 2025
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Labor and workforce Dayforce Human capital Management consulting

HR should power your company forward

Are your human resources capabilities meeting expectations? If you’re experiencing pain points like a heavy reliance on manual processes, payroll errors, system integration breakdowns, high employee turnover in HR or the inability to extract the data you need to run your business, it’s time to get a new perspective. An external advisor can shine a light on your potential weak points and provide insight into leading practices. Gaps and risks in your organization’s capabilities that are brought to light by a thorough HR function assessment can be effectively and efficiently addressed at the root.

An HR diagnostic assessment provides an unbiased third-party evaluation of your current HR state in eight key areas:

  • Recruitment and selection
  • Employee engagement and satisfaction
  • Performance management
  • Training and development
  • Employee relations and communications
  • Compensation and benefits
  • Workforce planning and succession management
  • Systems and technology

The value of an HR function assessment

The HR function makes up the connective tissue between processes, people, technology, controls and policies. In today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, companies must continuously mature their offering to keep up with new developments, meet goals, retain productive talent, reduce overhead costs and grow the business. Securing an independent evaluation is a best practice. It is an ideal method for benchmarking and then receiving actionable recommendations and insights that can quickly generate improvements. Some of the benefits you can experience from a formal HR assessment include:

  • Reduced administrative burden
  • Better managed spend
  • Fresh opportunities for efficiency
  • Right-sized functions
  • Higher use of automation

Benchmarking your HR maturity

Once you complete our initial HR diagnostic survey, we rate how mature your HR model is compared with competitors in your industry. We identify high-priority areas that need improvement and share recommendations based on industry-leading practices that can enhance your HR function. 

RSM offers:

  • Meaningful recommendations: The depth and width of our industry-informed knowledge means your HR assessment is detailed and includes recommendations specific to your business.
  • Actionable items: We don’t just assess, hand you a roadmap and disappear. Based on our understanding of your business, we translate everything in the assessment into actionable recommendations based on leading practice.
  • Implementation advice: We can help you bring the plan to life, whether the recommendations include:
    • Implementing a tool or solution
    • Building out new processes or policies
    • Considering a new organizational structure
    • Optimizing your current systems
    • Moving to a new system

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