Your People Systems Need Growth Too!
As business owners, it can be easy to push forward so rapidly that the cracks start forming in our people systems.
The desire to grow is there, but the desire to protect your people infrastructure needs to be there too – especially if you want to maintain the momentum that propelled your growth to this point.
Growing fast is good, but if you want that growth to be truly great, it cannot come at the expense of your people structures. If it does, you risk:
Low Engagement: According to Gallup, globally, only 21% of employees are engaged in 2024
Disengaged Managers: Manager engagement has fallen to 27%, according to Gallup. That’s alarming because a manager’s behaviour is one of the strongest predictors of team engagement, and team engagement is directly tied to retention, performance, and profitability.
Departures: Gallup has also found that 42% of voluntary departures could have been avoided by better management or intervention earlier. Losing great talent is costly, plain and simple.
Poor Hiring. A study of Canadian small businesses, published in the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, found that companies without HR leadership were less likely to use effective interviewing techniques, link pay to performance, or deliver formal training, resulting in loss of talent, higher turnover, and decreased engagement.
The takeaway? If your people infrastructure is weak, you risk loss of productivity, performance, profits, and people as you grow.
Fortunately, Fractional HR can help you fill the gap without breaking the bank. We provide services that scale as you grow, providing hours on your terms, so that you can have someone who is thinking about your people as you think about your growth. This allows you to:
Proactively prevent turnover: By implementing great recruitment, engagement, and benchmarking strategies. We also coach managers to spot disengagement, run meaningful conversations, and build retention strategies.
Uplevel your leadership: Weak leadership is a chronic bottleneck. We work with your leaders to build emotional intelligence, feedback skills, decision frameworks, and accountability.
Strengthen your people systems: From structured interviewing to linking pay to performance, and even helping you implement actual HRM systems, we help with HR infrastructure that growing companies often neglect.
Policy Development: To set you and your people up with systems and processes that scale as you do.
We help you move from reactive fire-fighting to sustainable people operations that make the most of your business. If you’re ready to stop patching HR gaps and start building strength, let’s talk.
