Our Core Values are to:

• Understand your organization in order to provide practical solutions
• Provide reliable service and expert support to all of our valued clients
• Offer flexible and customized solutions tailored to client organizations and their specific needs
• Deliver high impact results ON TIME and ON BUDGET

Our Story

Colter HR Inc. provides organizations like yours with human capital solutions where in-house human resources (HR) and labour/employee relations support is not available, practical, or is undergoing transformation.   We also assist larger organizations where the HR department may require temporary or project support.  Our team is able to provide accessible HR and labour/employee relations advice to front-line supervisors, managers and senior leaders, ensuring legislative compliance in employment related matters and providing advice based on HR best practices.

Led by Brock Colter, President and Managing Consultant, Colter HR consists of a team of independent subject matter experts who possess a wide range of intensive HR and labour/employee relations experience at the generalist and senior management level.  This experience includes exposure to a wide variety of business sectors including healthcare, public transit, construction, food services, shelter and public housing, social services, non-profit and government with union and non-union employees.

Our Recent Accomplishments

• Interim HR leadership for a large healthcare facility, successfully restructuring the HR function and service delivery
• Interim HR leadership for unionized non-profit organization
• Developed and implemented attendance management policies and protocols cutting costs by approximately 30%
• Developed and implemented new master HR policy templates with various clients
• Provided management training programs across the province increasing management capacity to deal with HR and labour relations issues
• Representation on management bargaining committee successfully negotiating a 4-year collective agreement
• Negotiated collective agreements complying with wage restraint legislation
• Assisted in the implementation of a regional HR service framework
• Creation and implementation of HR processes and procedures for a growing commercial business
• Management training programs for various teams improving efficiency and compliance
• Provided Chief Negotiator for multiple collective bargaining negotiations in 2010 that met client mandates and respective budgets
• Stepped in for clients at conciliation and reached ratified agreements avoiding labour and service disruption

To remain competitive, our business model engages subject matter experts and consultants based on the needs of the client and/or project and led by a member of our team, always providing one single point of contact for you.  This helps us to truly understand the inner workings of our clients’ organization and to build effective working relationships while delivering expertise to best support the organization’s business and human capital needs.  Our model allows clients to maximize professional expertise when they need it while minimizing client fees by managing unnecessary overhead costs.

We offer a variety of costing arrangements to meet your needs including hourly, daily, monthly and project-based fee structures.

Our Clients

Our clients are diverse and span to include the following sectors: