We help businesses achieve growth through people

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GR Consulting helps business owners, HR Managers and in-house Talent Teams to overcome your people challenges and realise your growth ambitions.

We provide training and consultancy services that help you hone your hiring intentions, accelerate your talent acquisition strategies and take ownership of your workforce development objectives.

Coaching & Consultancy

Whether you’re planning your first hire or building a talent pipeline, scaling to sell or succession planning for exit, we’re specialists in people planning for ambitious businesses. We provide one-off coaching and project consultancy services at all stages of your growth journey.

For Start-ups and Micro Businesses

For Scale-ups
and SMEs

For HR Managers and In-House Recruitment Teams

People Planning for Ambitious Businesses

At GR Consulting, we work with you to tackle your people-related challenges and achieve your growth ambitions.

CIPD-qualified, APSCO-accredited and ISO-certified, we use our expertise to equip you and your team with the knowledge and practical tools to take control of your hiring plans, save time and reduce costs.

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Training Courses

If you’re looking to do more in-house, upskill your existing talent team or learn new strategies to develop your workforce for the future, explore our GR Training Series. We deliver half-day or full-day courses bespoke to your organisation or as part of our regular sessions for individuals or small groups.

Social Recruiting Courses

In-house Recruiter Courses

Growth Through People Courses

Feedback from our clients

Caroline’s approach is very much appreciated – highly supported, professional and highly motivated in her work – thank you for everything you have done Caroline!

John, Managing Director

Amazing training session on all things social media today – thank you again! Looking forward to putting it into practice on our social media platforms

Janine, HR & Recruitment Manager

Really engaging trainer and a wide range of topics covered. Challenged to think about the why, not just the how. Caroline facilitated discussions really well and made us challenge our own ideas.

Karen, HR Resourcing Lead

Caroline is true professional. She prepares well and is very thorough in her work. She is a good speaker and presenter and is clear in getting her message across… Reliable and hard-working and can be thoroughly trusted to get results.

Ann, HR & Operations Manager

Thanks so much Caroline – you’re a superstar and the presentation was brilliant

Steve, CEO

Our experience working with Grassroots has been excellent. Caroline takes time to understand our business really well and ensure she has absolute clarity on [our] requirements… She asks great questions to further her understanding too, which in turn helped us to understand our own requirements even better. She is really open and receptive to feedback.

Nicola, Director of Colleague Support

Resources & Insights

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    Can You Afford to Hire in 2025? Top tips to Calculate your Hiring Budget

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  • Make your job adverts stand out this January with our quick wins and storytelling tips

    How to Make Your Job Adverts Stand Out This January

    Every January, the hiring rush begins. Lots of employers are advertising new vacancies and there’s a tonne of online hiring posts to compete with.…

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  • Find out how to time your job ads to maximise responses over Christmas and New Year

    Timing Your Job Ads: When to Post Over New Year and Early January

    If recruitment is on your January to-do list, you may be thinking about opening up your laptop over the next few days (or when…

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    Launching an Apprenticeship Scheme | Employee Handbook and Onboarding Support

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  • Becoming an employer for the first time - Case Study on coaching from Grassroots

    Becoming an Employer | Training, Coaching and HR Set-Up for Social Enterprise

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  • SES Escrow

    Workforce Planning Strategies and Talent Academy Launch for ambitious Software Company

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For Scale-Ups and SMEs

We help MDs and business leaders grow their business through people.

We help you design and implement workforce planning strategies to develop your current team, acquire new skill-sets and scale-up to meet future demand.

We work with you to reduce the risk from losing valued colleagues, identify and upskill rising talent and ambition plan for what comes next.

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We have worked with Caroline for the past 10 years. She has helped us build our business from a team of 5 to 5000 and has been critical to our success.

Richard Branson
Virgin Atlantic

For HR Managers and In-House Recruitment Teams

We help HR and Recruitment practitioners develop their resourcing expertise.

We work with you to build on your existing recruitment strategies to improve candidate attraction, streamline in-house processes and meet your headcount targets.

We equip you with advanced knowledge and expert techniques to target niche applicants, boost candidate engagement, optimise cost-per-hire and reduce external agency spend.

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Caroline Patten. Founder of Grassroots Consulting

I’d love to learn more about you and your business needs. Get in touch for an initial consultation to find out more about how I can help.

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