Workforce pressure diagnostic framework for UK SMEs

Do You Really Need to Hire?


Before you approve another hire, clarify the problem it is supposed to solve.

We help SME leaders decide whether to hire, redesign the role or solve the underlying problem another way.

Your team feels stretched. Hiring hasn't fixed it.

- Things that used to move quickly now take longer.

- Decisions get stuck.

- The same people keep getting pulled into the detail.

- You’ve added people, but the pressure hasn’t really shifted. In some cases, managing the business has become harder, not easier.

For many SME leaders, the issue is not simply headcount. The pressure is being created by something underneath the workload that another hire may simply inherit.

Hiring fills roles. Structure reduces pressure.

Sometimes the issue is not the person you hired. It is the shape of the role they walked into.

You can run a flawless hiring process and still get it wrong, because the role was wrong before the advert was written. Then the business concludes it picked the wrong person.

Where to go next

Not sure of the cause

Five minutes, no preparation needed.

Run Workforce Health Check

What sits underneath

Structure, ownership or capability.

See Diagnostic Map 

What a Review looks at

The step before a role goes to market.

Before You Hire Review 

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