The Role of HR in Strategic Growth for Kent Based Businesses

Many Kent based businesses don’t necessarily associate HR with growth, but in fact, the two can go hand-in-hand in so many ways. With a strong and functioning HR department, this means the whole organisation is tied together in the most effective way possible. Here are just a few of the ways that HR and business can work together to achieve growth.

Effective recruitment & The Role of HR in Strategic Growth

A good HR team will help out with recruitment, handling the whole process from conception to completion. Essentially, this means that they will write the job adverts, go through the applications, shortlist the candidates, and help to conduct the interviews in the most official way possible. This means that you are more likely to recruit the right team in the first place rather than employing staff members that simply don’t work out.

Better employee retention 

As well as helping out with recruitment, the right HR consultancy will play a central role in employee retention. This is for all sorts of reasons. To begin with, they can work to provide effective training and development courses. Not only this, but they can also assist with employee conflicts, ensuring that they are dealt with in the most effective way possible. Plus, they can simply provide a good sounding board for business leaders to help gage the mood of employees and suggest ways to improve employee satisfaction.

Shape a better culture 

While the ultimate culture of a business comes from the top, there is no doubt that the HR team can play a big role in this. They have their ears on the ground, but they can also measure it through more official means such as surveys. As an organisation grows, it is all too easy for it to get out of control in terms of the culture. The right HR team can help to keep this firmly on track, ensuring that it aligns with the vision that you had set out for it. Essentially the bedrock of a high performance culture is an organisation that blends efficient management processes with inspirational leadership and HR plays a pivotal role in designing its inception, ensuring engagement and uptake and then enforcing accountability that yields results. 

Help with strategic planning 

Once you have found a HR team that you are truly happy working alongside, this can then mean that you bring them on board with your strategic planning, helping to establish growth. Of course, this doesn’t mean that you have to outsource every single decision to them. However, it does give you yet another sounding board that can provide some useful insights that you wouldn’t get otherwise. It is statistically proven that organisations who blend their overall company vision to a strategic people plan that is based upon your staff producing customer service excellence yield x3.5 additional revenue and x2.1 additional profit. 

Help with employee development 

As has already been touched upon, a good HR team can help to organise training and put in place some more formal development systems. This can then have a knock-on effect on growth as staff members feel like they are able to contribute new ideas, and that they are working to their best level too. Another way, is specific staff development plans, again bespoke plans for your staff that feed into developing both your offering to customers as well as the individual employee performance. 

As you can see, there are plenty of ways in which an HR team can have a positive impact on the growth of a business. Ultimately, they are all more than worth embracing as they can end up helping your company to move in the right direction and boost its bottom line.

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