We can help small businesses with outsourced HR support!
We understand exactly how it works with small businesses, because we’re a small business ourselves.
So, we know that HR can be just one of the many additional ‘hats’ you collect along the way as a startup founder.
But you didn’t start a business to spend all your time bogged down with people problems did you?
So, let us take all those distractions off your hands, so you can work on-the-business, not in-the-business!
As Peter Drucker, the ‘father of management consulting’, said “Do what you do best, outsource the rest”!
We can help the ‘unofficial HR people’ within a small business!
We get it, employing a fully-qualified and experienced HR person is an expensive overhead for a small business, and there are many other priorities when first starting out.
Which means that often either the business founder or one of the early employees ends up with the role of ‘unofficial HR person’ by default, in addition to all their other responsibilities.
And typically this person comes from another area of business support such as administration, finance, or the like, rather than being a fully trained HR expert.
So, wouldn’t you feel better if your current ‘unofficial HR person’ was able to call on a whole team of highly qualified and experienced career-HR professionals to back them up whenever things got tricky?
If that’s the case, we’re the people for the job!
We can help small businesses with legal compliance!
We make sure to keep our finger on the pulse of the ever-changing world of employment legislation, and so maintain extensive access to all the latest guidance, case law, and legal reference resources. Which means that we know well ahead of time all about employment law updates that are coming your way, and so are fully equipped to ensure your HR policies and processes remain fully up to date and legally compliant.
We can help small businesses with current workforce issues!
Are you managing fine with day-to-day workforce management but now suddenly have a tricky employee issue to resolve?
Then let us take it off your hands!
We charge on a straightforward and transparent time-spent basis, so are ideal for dealing with those time-consuming one-off HR jobs, such as disciplinaries and grievances.
We can help small businesses with management training!
In our experience, many of the HR issues that we’re called in to assist with would have been a great deal easier to resolve had managers identified them earlier and felt confident and empowered enough to ‘nip them in the bud’. But we understand why they don’t, because, as with ‘unofficial’ HR people, early employees often become ‘accidental’ managers as a fast-growing startup expands.
So, that’s exactly why we offer an extensive range of training for managers.
We can help small businesses with forward planning!
Whilst we spend a great deal of our time helping clients fire-fight immediate workforce issues, we’d much rather be working with them on more positive forward-looking projects that help their business get to where it ultimately wants to go.
Many of our consultants have had previous HR careers within big business, so are well versed in working on strategic projects, such as restructuring and culture change.
And that means we fully understand how HR can act as an investment which provides a great ROI for your business, rather than simply the necessary cost of ‘insurance’ that many small businesses view it as.
So, let us be your HR business partners and see what we can achieve together!
We can help small businesses recruit in-house HR staff!
As your company continues to grow, you will inevitably reach the point where you feel like you need your own in-house HR professionals, as opposed handling employee matters yourself or via ‘unofficial’ HR staff, or outsourcing them altogether.
We find this often occurs when you start introducing an additional layer of management in between yourself as the business founder, and the employees at the sharp end of your business.
But recruiting HR professionals can be a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation, in that you need HR expertise in order to recruit HR expertise!
Otherwise, how can you tell if your candidates can actually ‘walk the walk’, as opposed to just ‘talk the talk’?
Which is where we come in!
We know exactly what competent HR professionals need to be able to do, because our HR consultants are both extremely qualified and experienced, and also handle the trickiest parts of HR on a daily basis.
So, we can take the entire recruitment process off your hands, and you can be fully confident that we’ll find you the right person for the job.
And what’s more, since we’re an HR consultancy rather than just a recruitment agency, we can provide a hybrid solution where you can recruit a less experienced, and therefore cheaper, HR person to be your internal HR person for routine day-to-day issues, whilst we step in on an outsourced basis to deal with the infrequent tricky issues that would usually require recruiting a more experienced, and therefore more expensive, HR professional.
We can help small businesses with outsourced HR support!
Already know what you want?
Great, let’s get to it!
Not sure exactly what you need?
No problem!
Our friendly and down-to-earth HR consultants will point you in the right direction. We’d love to have an informal chat to find out more about your business and so help you identify the areas most in need of attention.
We’re not after a quick sale, we’re all about building long-term relationships. In fact, we don’t even employ any sales people. Which means that right from the start you’ll be talking directly to someone who can actually help you.
We’re ready and waiting, so just get in touch!