Is It Time For An HR Focus to Spring into Growth?

In the present climate finding good staff that will stay and be productive is a hard task in many industries so ensuring you retain them with a great culture, good processes and are able to motivate them is critical.

As we rapidly approach Spring, always a time associated with growth, is this a focus for your business as we finally seem to be emerging into a more ‘thrive’ rather than ‘survive’ state of mind?

Increasing your staff has an impact on the level of resource required to manage HR and in fact all the people related elements of your business.

If your business is not yet large enough to have a dedicated HR person or department, your approach to this area of management may well be to get by with the minimum required. Enough to ensure you are compliant with legislation both from a generic employment focus but also to abide by any laws related specifically to your industry, but that’s where the focus stops.

After all, your managers can probably recruit and performance manage alongside their core role?

Or maybe HR currently falls to you as the overall business leader and there are only so many hours in the day?

We’ve created this graphic representation of the many elements that actually make up HR to give you some food for thought if you are looking to grow this year. Having an HR strategy can go a long way in a candidate-driven market to ensure you retain your people, rather than lose them to the competition.

While some of these may not be relevant for your business right now, being aware of them and having a strategy to implement them as your business and staff headcount grows is something you should be considering.

There is so much more to HR than ‘hiring and firing’ and we wanted to demonstrate how many aspects there are within HR and the vastly different ways you could utilise them within your organisation. The idea being that you are prepared if it is time to spring into growth for your business as we head very rapidly through Q1 of 2022.

And you don’t have to hire someone in-house to manage your HR as one person working for a few hours a month will be able to handle all the day to day HR duties of your business right now. And there are a number of things that HR professionals can implement to positively drive your bottom line.

In all honesty, you’ll save time – and likely money – in the long run by using some kind of HR expertise or, perhaps an online tool right from the start of employing any staff. Imagine the relief of having some expertise on tap to take that hefty, time-consuming item off of your to-do list?

Our HR Consultancy means you can choose just those ‘apples’ that you need to add to your HR basket as your organisation evolves.

And if you’re not sure which one, or which combination would really help you to achieve your business goals: