HR Services for Private Equity
Private equity firms need their portfolio companies to have solid HR infrastructure, but most don’t. ERC helps you strengthen HR practices and reduce risk across your portfolio, whether you’re conducting pre-investment diligence, making an acquisition, or preparing a company for exit.
Workplace Practices
Most portfolio companies run on informal (or no) HR practices, creating some very real financial, compliance, and even valuation risks. Getting these practices right early protects value and makes everything else easier.
What we offer:
Workplace Practices Questionnaire
A diagnostic tool that quickly identifies where HR practices are strong and where they’re exposing you to unnecessary risk.
- Covers 39 critical areas from onboarding and performance management to documentation and workplace policies
- Completed in under an hour
- Delivers a prioritized roadmap of what needs attention now versus later
HR Compliance
Compliance issues often aren’t immediately visible, they show up during DOL investigations or buyer due diligence when it’s expensive to fix them. We help you find and address HR compliance gaps before they affect valuations or delay exits.
What we offer:
HR Risk Assessment
A comprehensive review of HR policies, documentation, and practices that identifies what’s exposing a company to regulatory risk.
- Virtual assessment minimizes disruption to portfolio company operations
- Surfaces gaps in recordkeeping, policies, and employment practices that trigger fines or lawsuits
- Prioritizes findings by risk level so you know what needs immediate attention
- Includes a one-hour debrief with clear remediation guidance
- Provides documentation you can share with buyers or auditors to demonstrate proactive risk management
What we offer:
Form I-9 Review
An audit of I-9 compliance that protects against penalties that can reach thousands of dollars per form.
- Reviews all I-9s within the required retention period
- Identifies errors and missing documentation before government audits find them
- Creates a clear compliance record for due diligence or exit preparation
Employee Engagement
You can’t fix talent retention problems you don’t see coming, and casual feedback from company leaders rarely tells the full story. Measuring engagement early, especially after acquisitions or during transitions, helps you address issues before top performers leave or productivity drops.
What we offer:
Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS)
A two-question survey that quickly measures employee loyalty without survey fatigue.
- Takes employees less than two minutes to complete, resulting in high participation rates
- Administered confidentially by ERC via email, QR code, or kiosk to encourage honest feedback
- Provides clear scores you can track over time and compare across portfolio companies
- Open-ended responses surface specific issues leadership needs to address
Compensation
Compensation problems are expensive, whether portfolio companies are overpaying and hurting margins, or underpaying and losing critical talent. Early-stage companies rarely have current market data, which means pay decisions get made inaccurate data or outdated benchmarks.
What we offer:
Market Pricing Study
Market-based compensation analysis gives you current market data for one or multiple jobs based on the most current and reliable data.
- Uses current data from reliable, employer-reported compensation databases
- Analyzes base pay, bonus, and total cash compensation by geography, industry, and company size
- Identifies which roles are significantly over or under market before they become retention or cost issues
- Provides defensible data for compensation discussions and board presentations
- Helps you make strategic pay decisions during acquisitions or pre-exit
What we offer:
Form I-9 Review
An audit of I-9 compliance that protects against penalties that can reach thousands of dollars per form.
- Reviews all I-9s within the required retention period
- Identifies errors and missing documentation before government audits find them
- Creates a clear compliance record for due diligence or exit preparation
Leadership
Weak leadership teams drain value faster than almost anything else, but most portfolio companies promote from within without assessing whether someone can actually lead. Objective assessments help you make better decisions about who to develop and where to invest in strengthening the team.
What we offer:
Leadership Assessment
A validated assessment tool that measures leadership capability, emotional intelligence, and core competencies across individual leaders or entire teams.
- Uses the TTI assessment platform, a reliable, research-backed instrument trusted across industries
- Identifies leadership strengths and developmental gaps before they become performance problems
- Provides team-level reports that reveal dynamics, alignment issues, and capability gaps across the leadership group
- Gives you objective data for succession planning, coaching investments, and leadership changes
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