Too many businesses get to a point when their growth starts to slow. Often, this seems inexplicable, until they realise that they, as founders, have had less time to do what they do best. Instead, they find themselves investing more and more energy in fixing internal problems that ultimately lead to costly employee turnover rather than being able to continue their focus on growth and fixing the problems that they founded their business for.
People problems, unlike fixing a bug on a website, can take a long time to fix and a lot of investment (often emotional) so “if it ain’t broke, why fix it” doesn’t apply here - this is often in juxtaposition to founder mentality where ‘finding solutions to existing problems’ (normally) rules.
This may sound obvious, but most businesses (to their detriment but often understandably when trying to grow their business from a revenue perspective) wait to take a look at their People Strategy + Culture only once re-occuring or significant people problems have arisen.
That really doesn’t bode well.
Just as at early stage businesses create a Go-To-Market strategy, just as they build sales pipelines, just as they plan to get their finances and operations in order, early stage startups MUST plan to get their People + Culture right if they want to scale, fast.
Unleashed works with early stage startups (Seed & Series A predominantly) to build and execute on great People Strategy + Culture. By investing in simple but scaleable outcome driven processes and structures, businesses will be able to recruit, retain and engage better people to build a better and more successful business.
At worst, working on People + Culture at the outset will save and time money. At best (and most significantly) it will mean the difference between failure and success.
So, what does this mean in practice (you get the theory by now)...
Unleashed is a different kind of consultancy. Early stage startups don’t need traditional consultants. Traditional consultancy comes without the actual doing of the work (that is, delivery of actions) and without ex*****on. Paying a traditional consultant would potentially be an intense waste of time and money - of which startups have neither to throw away. Unleashed won’t provide founders with more work to do (at exorbitant costs).
Therefore, we not only consult but also execute on plans, provide training (particularly for fledgling leaders and managers) and most importantly, deliver ... saving startups time in those early and crucial days and significant amounts of money as they grow.
But how?
Unleashed focuses on these main aspects… Employee Experience (those all critical touch points) + Culture.
By understanding what works and what doesn’t and by being clear the most crucial and desired outcomes & priorities, actions can be identified and delivered for each startup - nope, one size doesn’t fit all. Based on desired outcomes (we are outcome focussed not process focussed) we implement easy & scalable structures and processes that make a meaningful, impactful and measurable difference as businesses grow.
In essence, Unleashed helps to deliver strategic plans and successful outcomes through People + Culture.
A new businesses first 20 hires have the power (although unlikely the intention) to break you. As a founder, you want them to help ‘make’ your business. Getting it right early will be the difference between making and breaking, the difference between the amount of funding at proceeding rounds and the difference between positive & healthy mental wellbeing and wellbeing in need of serious support!
How is Unleashed.Company different?
Although at Unleashed we are experts at what we do, we are not your traditional HR people.
We believe in Agile HR (yes, Agile is not just for tech delivery), we believe in working lean (thank you Eric Reis), we deliver MVPs and evolve to something formidable, we are data-informed, and actually we don’t believe in “HR” per se. Unfortunately, the term has come to define a transactional, reactive, process and policy driven, paper pushing cost centre; one that doesn’t add value.
That is not Unleashed.Company. We pride ourselves in adding value from day one. We know what great looks like, the impact that it will have on your business and we work with you to make great come to life, quickly.
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(Why) Vision:
Creating successful businesses, great places to work and fulfilled lives
(What) Mission:
Gearing up startups for faster and better success though People + Culture
High level strategy:
This is delivered through a focus on the People Experience and Cultural Aspects of a business to attract and retain the best people for each business AND to mitigate people + culture related problems that occur as businesses grow.
Client Principles & Cultural Values:
Driven by Outcomes
Creating Positive Impact
Delivering on Promises
Constant Learning
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If you are interested in having a chat to see how we can help you and your business, then please get in touch.
If you are interested in being part of the growing team, also get in touch.
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