People Planning for Start-Ups and Micro-Businesses

If you’re a business owner or MD, you’ll be used to wearing different hats and teaching yourself to become an expert in everything from accountancy to web design. But when the time comes to entrust a new hire with holding the reins or adding another person to your established team, the stakes can feel pretty high.

That’s where GR’s People Consulting Services come in. We help you add recruitment expertise to your business-owner skill-set. 

With GR Consulting, you’ll discover an easier and simpler way to launch or grow your team.

We help you plan the how, when, why and who to recruit. We work with you to consider the costs, infrastructure and resources required, helping you to design the right role for you based on your business needs and by understanding the local talent pool.

Providing one-to-one advice and coaching, we help you design and implement your own recruitment processes, from HR systems to legally compliant documentation. And our team of experts will be on hand to inform and support you every step of the way – from advertising and assessment to offer and onboarding.

Risk-free Recruitment Coaching

Our coaching and consulting services for start-ups and micro-businesses take the risk out of recruitment decisions 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:

  • Recruitment Planning and Costing
  • Job Design and Market Assessment
  • Candidate Attraction Campaigns
  • Job Board Advertising and Social Recruiting
  • Career Webpages and HR Software
  • Screening, Shortlisting and Decision-Making
  • Interviewing and Assessments
  • Candidate Communications and HR Paperwork

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.

We’ll provide one-to-one coaching, on-site training and bespoke resources to help you achieve your short-term goals. You’ll develop the skills and expertise to implement and maintain robust systems for the long-term. 

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

Introduction to Recruiting and First-time Hires

With our half-day training course for Business Owners and MDs, you’ll learn how to create the right environment for your first hire(s) and how to deliver a successful recruitment campaign.

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Hiring Salespeople and Performance Management

Our full-day training course helps Business Owners and MDs scope out your desired business development strategy, set targets and incentives, and prepare to hire your next sales superstar.

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Setting up your In-House Recruitment Process

If you’re preparing to hire and need help setting up your internal HR systems, legally-compliant processes and documentation, our half-day course covers everything you’ll need to know to manage your recruitment in-house.

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Feedback from our clients

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

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

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

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

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

Jennifer, Recruitment Coordinator

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