Small business employment support

As a former HR manager of long standing:

• I offer a good Human Resources (HR) service for small businesses who cannot afford such a function in-house.

• I can be called in to facilitate between company and individual or advise the business on the best way to deal with disputes and any other HR function.

• I can save your business time and money by ensuring that staff issues are dealt with before they become costly problems that go outside the business to be resolved.

• I have other professional colleagues upon whom I can call to provide specialised support where needed (such as NLP)

I can act on a fee per visit basis or we can agree a small monthly retaining fee, allowing you to call on me as and when required. I make no charge for discussing your tailored requirements and providing you with an estimate of my costs. You would be under no obligation, after our initial meeting, to contract my service.  You can download my business support brochure here

Employee screening and interview

I can do ‘first’ interviews and CV sifting only recommending appropriate applicants for further interview or I can join an interview panel.

Disputes

Note that as a professional within this field, I am only able to work within what is laid down by law – I can, however, be very successful at getting both sides to discuss the issues openly. 

Because I am not an Employee of the business, I can give my advice without prejudice, but the company will always have my findings explained to them first.

Coaching & mentoring individuals within businesses

I can provide this function with a number of important objectives. Staff may have personal issues which are affecting their working lives – often resulting in sick leave where the note says ‘suffering from stress’. In this case I help to find the individual a way forward, with the understanding that the personal issues would only be discussed with the company with the person’s agreement
Resolving this situation can be of major benefit to the business as well as to the individual concerned.

Another benefit of coaching is to assist newly-promoted or prospective candidates for promotion to move seamlessly into their new roles. A significant problem can be issues of confidence– e.g. staff becoming the ‘boss’ of others they have previously worked ‘alongside’. Listening now becomes a larger part of their working life.

I approach this by training the individual to really listen Not just to what is being said, but to what can be inferred . Using coaching techniques I can train an individual to ask powerful questions that call for a definite answer.

Working with business groups & teams 

One of the most common issues holding back business progress is the failure of a
team to work well together. Many things can go wrong: poor leadership; lack of effective communication or simply failure of key individuals to engage with the team’s objective or the other team members.

I can encourage teams to understand that working together and keeping each
other informed is more satisfying and rewarding than working in isolation and resorting to a “blame game” when things go wrong..

Let's get that bottom line moving . . . Call Jill Geisow 01278 734900 or contact me through this Website.