The Small Business People Resources
How It Works
Practical people support for growing businesses.
You don't need a full HR or L&D department to start building better people practices.
I've created practical tools to help small business owners understand what's happening with their people, identify where their systems need attention, and decide what to tackle next.
Start With What You're Dealing With
Two ways to figure out where to focus:
Not every people problem is a systems problem. And not every growing business knows which systems it needs to strengthen first.
Choose the starting point that sounds most like your situation.
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People Challenges Assessment
Something keeps happening with an employee or team — but you're not sure what's really behind it.
This assessment helps you work through three real examples from your business and break each one down to uncover the likely root cause.
It helps you move beyond:
“Why won't they just do what I asked?”
and start asking:
“What's actually causing this to happen?”
The assessment helps you diagnose the problem. It doesn't prescribe the solution.
That's intentional because the right solution depends on what you uncover.
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People Systems Health Check
As your business grows, the informal ways you've always managed people can start to create problems.
This health check helps you look across the key people systems in your business — from role clarity and onboarding to management, performance, development, documentation and knowledge dependency.
You'll be able to see where your people infrastructure is strong, where gaps may exist, and what areas deserve attention as you grow.
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Knowing what's wrong is only the first step.
Once you've identified a people challenge or a gap in your systems, you may want practical tools to help you start fixing it.
The Small Business People Toolkit
A collection of practical guides, worksheets and templates designed to help owners tackle common people challenges without needing to build a formal HR function.
Resources cover areas such as:
Role clarity • Delegation • Hiring • Onboarding • Manager readiness • Performance • Development • Knowledge dependency • Decision-making • People systems planning
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Get The Small Business Toolkit
Everything you need to start tackling your people challenges — practical guides, templates and resources designed for busy business owners.
Practical guides, templates and resources to help you handle people challenges, support your managers and build stronger people practices as your business grows. Includes 35 useful documents to get started.
1. Build the foundations
Role clarity, delegation, hiring, onboarding, performance, development and knowledge-sharing resources.
2. Become a more confident managing people
The First-Time Manager Starter Kit, with guidance, worksheets and practical tools for everyday people management situations.
3. Identify what to work on next
The people-systems roadmap and resources for understanding problems, identifying gaps and prioritizing improvements.
Want help figuring out what to do next?
You don't have to figure it all out yourself.
If you've completed one of the assessments and want help making sense of the findings, you can book a focused session with me.
We can use the time to:
Talk through what you've uncovered
Identify the most important issue to address
Think through possible approaches
Prioritize what to tackle first
Create a practical next-step plan
You bring the problem. We work through it together.
Book A Support Session
Bring your assessment results, your questions, or the people problem you've been wrestling with. We'll work through what's happening, what might be behind it, and what you could do next.
People Problem Support Session — 60 minutes
Understand: What is happening, who is affected and what has already been tried.
Unpick: Explore likely causes, including role clarity, expectations, management, processes, knowledge and communication.
Prioritize: Identify the most plausible cause or causes and what needs attention first.
Next steps: Leave with practical actions to consider, and clarity about whether further support is needed.
Get In Touch
If you're interested in working with me, complete the form with a few details about your project. I'll review your message and get back to you within 48 hours.