Growth Framework®.
For recruitment businesses.
Imagine a world where your vision comes to life, your people thrive, you consistently delight your customers, and your business grows.
That’s exactly what the Growth Framework® can deliver for your business, focused on the three crucial pillars that most impact growth:
1) Vision & values, 2) Customer & standards, 3) Talent & culture.
And it starts when every element of these is elevated quality-wise, and ensuring they are joined up, and fit for scale-able growth.
It’s a team effort! Because it’s not the Growth Framework® alone that creates the magic — your mindset and careful implementation are equally important.
You bring the passion, determination, and effort to learn from, and apply the programme. We bring the Growth Framework® plus the know-how for you to roll it out well — without imposing change!
Starting with the top team together, you’ll tailor the Growth Framework® for your business, clarifying what good look like for you and encompassing the brilliance you already have between you. This kick starts your bespoke version. You’ll also be introduced to important growth essentials that are typically missing, enhancing your collective knowledge and understanding as you go.
When you’re ready to involve your next tier leaders, and then everyone else, our Getting started and guidance will help you to use a careful change management approach. This is to inspire, educate and enhance buy-in from everyone — all whilst capturing every ounce of remaining business-wide brilliance into your bespoke Growth Framework®.
This effectively brings everyone on the “journey” together, empowering them to up their game — not only in terms of new growth essentials, but also to immediately benefit from any existing internal expertise they had previously been unaware of.
Finally, when your bespoke Growth Framework® is reflected onto all your systems and processes, you’re all set for replicable, scalable growth.
Getting started & guidance.
1. How to get started.
2. How to create your project team.
3. How to create your project.
4. How to consult & feedback.
5. How to consult & coach.
6. How to consult & learn.
7. How to harness & embed.
Pillar One. Vision & values.
For the focus you want:
Collaborate on defining and embedding your vision for the quality business you want, plus the strategy and tools to achieve it.
What’s included:
8 carefully curated, inter-linked Vision & values growth module templates.
9 detailed guidance films with full instruction, tips and techniques for ongoing quality management of your Vision & values growth pillar.
Pillar Two. Customer & standards.
For the quality you want:
Collaborate on defining and embedding your customers’ complete journey, ensuring delight at every step, and delivered by all your people, every day.
What’s included:
15 carefully curated, inter-linked Customer & standards growth module templates.
16 detailed guidance films with full instruction, tips and techniques for ongoing quality management of your Customer & standards growth pillar.
Pillar Three. Talent & culture.
For the behaviour you want:
Collaborate on defining and embedding your teams’ employee journey, empowering them to thrive and develop their potential, ongoing.
What’s included:
9 carefully curated, inter-linked Talent & culture growth module templates.
10 detailed guidance films with full instruction, tips and techniques for ongoing quality management of your Talent & culture growth pillar.
With you and relevant, every step of the way.
Whatever the stage of growth you’re at — whether launching a start-up, growing to a comfortable size, or planning an exit strategy, the Growth Framework® can make all the difference. That’s because it enables you to flex and adapt as your business evolves, so that it remains continuously fit for purpose.
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You have the perfect opportunity to get your Growth Framework® securely in place from day one.
And it’s worth it — because although starting out can be exciting, strong focus with clearly joined up operations will get your where you want to be a lot faster than otherwise.
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At this stage, you’re likely to have enjoyed traction and gained some market share.
Now you have something proven to build on — and just like building a house, the strength of your foundations for growth needs to be fit for purpose, to avoid diluting that early success in an attempt to grow.
The Growth Framework® will help you to shore up on your current brilliance, and give you what needs to be introduced to your three growth pillars.
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As your business matures, maintaining core values while avoiding complacency becomes crucial.
Strategic thinking (and good strategy management) helps to refine your focus, while exploring new growth opportunities and preserving the standards that define your success. (Leaving this to chance can seriously dilute what you stand for).
Additional resources like account management strategies, and "lemon-squeezing" techniques, help optimise existing markets while identifying complementary expansion areas.
This creates an in-built habit of continuously fine-tuning your approach, to fit your markets as they evolve and change — so that your business can remain agile, competitive and “ahead of the curve”.
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Scaling up requires crystal sharp clarity and structure, just like when starting up.
Ensure your business maintains focus and cohesion as you expand into new territories and markets. And replicate and tailor your business model, adapting it to suit new environments.
With strong planning and execution, your business has the best chance to scale efficiently with shored up resources that you will identify through the processes — all while preserving its core identity.
Plus, because you’ll be carefully assessing the downside, as well as upside of opportunities , you’re in the best position to mitigate risk.
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Whether planning an exit or considering acquisition, a structured, timely approach strengthens valuation and opens doors to strategic opportunities.
The seeds for an exit can be set right from start-up stage, but while that’s ideal, it’s not essential. Bear in mind that it typically takes three years to be ready for a sale, and that benchmarking against investor criteria is an essential starting point — a great way to understand value accelerator factors and assess your own position now and how to shore it up.
A stand-out factor is a strong, replicable growth model; if you’ve created this, with clear evidence of its success, and the related MI, and your leadership team have been empowered for succession, your attractiveness for mergers and acquisitions is likely to be enhanced.