People Planning for Scale-Ups and SMEs

If you’re a business owner or MD, you’ll already recognise the value of having a great team in place when it comes to meeting demand, designing new products and delighting your customers. You’ll constantly have an eye out for the next opportunity to grow and know that having the right team in place is a key driver of your success.

But when the moment arrives to take that next step (or leap) forward, the cost of empty seats or the risk of losing valued expertise can loom large.

That’s where GR’s People Consulting Services come in. We help you plan for and deliver stable and sustainable growth through people.

With GR Consulting, you’ll discover an easier and simpler way to scale-up your team for growth, sale or exit.

Whatever your business ambition, we work with MDs, company directors and business leaders to achieve your next phase of growth. We help you design and implement workforce planning strategies to develop your existing team, identify and address skills-gaps, and scale-up your operations to meet future demand, whenever the time comes.  

Providing one-to-one advice and coaching, we work with you to map out a talent pipeline, identify and upskill rising stars, and get prepared for what comes next.

Risk-free Strategic Planning

Our coaching and consulting services for scale-ups and SMEs take the risk out of growing your business and put you in control of your hiring intentions. 

Working on a one-off project or as long-term partner, you can access expert support with:

  • Workforce Planning and Costing
  • Talent Acquisition and Growth Strategies
  • Internal and External Workforce Analysis
  • Talent Profiling and Skills Gap Analysis
  • Business Continuity and Succession Planning
  • Talent Academy and ‘Grow your Own’ Training Models
  • Employer Branding and Culture Workshops
  • People Strategy and In-House Recruitment Models

How it works

Scoping

Tell us about your people challenges and hiring aspirations.

We’ll start with a no-obligation call to learn about your business and discuss potential solutions. Our expert advisors will then send you some recommendations for next steps and outline how we can help.

Discovery

Design and agree a plan of action to make these a reality.

Once you’re ready to get started, we’ll meet with you and your team to dig deeper into your goals and obstacles. Through our discovery workshop, we’ll work with you to generate ideas and discuss key actions required.

Delivery

Get support to implement your immediate objectives.

Following a presentation of our report and recommendations, we’ll then work with you to provide one-to-one coaching, on-site training and bespoke resources to help you achieve your short-term priorities and long-term goals. 

Support

Measure your success and start planning for what comes next.

Offering analysis and insights, we’ll help you reflect on your progress so far. You’ll develop strategic plans to keep your business goals on track, making sure you’re ready to seize opportunities and ambition plan for future growth through people.

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Your first step towards growing your team


We’re ready to help you achieve your growth ambitions and solve your people-related challenges. Let’s talk about how we can help.

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Training
Courses

We also offer a range of training courses that can be delivered bespoke to your organisation or as part of our regular sessions for individuals and small groups

Workforce Planning and Scaling-Up your Team

If you’re ready to scale up your team, our one-day training course for business owners and MDs helps you learn targeted workforce planning strategies to assess demand, identify skills gaps and implement recruitment plans for growth and retention.

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Setting up an In-House Recruitment Function

As your hiring intentions grow, our half-day training course for HR, Business or Operations professionals will help you learn more about employment legislation, hiring best practice and operational recruitment to set-up your own in-house function.

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Hiring Salespeople and Performance Management

With our full-day training course for Business Owners and MDs, you’ll learn how to launch your own targeted sales strategy, create performance management schemes for high performing teams and recruit top talent to drive growth.

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Feedback from our clients

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

Thank you for a great session, really informative & well delivered. Looking forward to putting the learning into practice!

Jennifer, Recruitment Coordinator

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

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

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

Steve, CEO

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

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