People solutions for mid-size businesses

Create a thriving workplace with highly engaged, aligned and productive teams

Set your teams up for success with HR solutions tailored for mid-size businesses.  

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The best leaders grow their people

Hitting increasingly challenging targets requires a significant step-up in resources and complexity. Often budget constraints make it hard to invest in expansion or workforce development initiatives. This limitation often leads to reactive measures that aren’t beneficial for long-term growth.

Through careful organizational design and strategic leadership development, you can create change to make the most of the resources you have. As strategic people consultants, we partner with managing directors, CEOs and HR directors to increase organizational performance internally.  

Mid-sized business challenges

Gain insights from our principal James Rutherford as he delves into the classic challenges midsized companies face, and the strategies required to tackle them head on.

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Leaders of subsidiary businesses

You’re leading the business making and managing head office expectations, but there’s a finding the balance of hitting your targets and looking to the future is a continual challenge. You know there’s always a better way of doing things and you’re more than ready for change.

Sometimes it’s just a matter of creating the right environment and structure for success. We can help you by assessing current leadership styles, with a focus on leadership development to help your teams hit those targets.

Leaders of privately held businesses

A positive workforce is important to you, but mid-management is escalating up too often, and it’s impacting your ability to focus on longer term issues.

You’re looking to your leaders to step-up, but lack of change management capability means it’s time to consider bringing in external support to alleviate the pressure.

We can provide executive and leadership support to challenge, guide, and advise you and your leaders to focus where it’s most needed.

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Chief People Officers

You have full autonomy and visibility on the changes needed for the business to thrive. But it is a challenge getting to them because resources are limited.

You need to feel empowered by your executive leaders and supported when big change is afoot.We can partner with you to help you execute solutions that position you as an authority and resourceful HR leader..

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Manager effectiveness

Strengthen your managers through a series of effective steps to drive team performance and engagement.

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Leadership team effectiveness

Create a tightly focused leadership team to build a robust culture and boost business performance and people outcomes.

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Culture assessment and improvement

Assess your company culture and implement practical and measurable changes that attract and retain talent.

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Organisational design

Identify the skills and the people to invest in for the future – and how to organise them for efficiency as the business evolves.

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Employee engagement

Gain a deeper understanding of the work environment and what’s most important to your employees, to provide insights into actions that retain staff and improve performance.

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Consultancy

Get advice when you need it to create the change you need that will take your business to the next level.

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Gain the competitive advantage as a great leader

Failing to develop your leaders and managers is a risk to gaining the competitive advantage that will elevate your business to the next level.

As strategic people consultants we partner with you to work through your people challenges and co-develop potential solutions that bring your business new capabilities.

With a proven track record, we’ve helped companies just like yours scale their teams and transform.

Change Management in Times of Uncertainty

Discover how we helped our superannuation client overcome uncertainty, low engagement, and complex challenges with comprehensive change management.

Let’s transform your business together

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Talk to us – bring your HR director along
Reach out and let’s discuss your business challenges together.
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Understand our approach to working with you  
Gain insights into how we tailor our services to align with your unique goals.
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Co-develop potential solutions
We’ll explore potential solutions, leveraging our expertise and your industry insights.
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Implement in stages as your capability grows
Collaborate with our people experts to smoothly integrate improvements into your operations one step at a time.
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Operate with newly developed capabilities
Drive your business towards operational excellence and performance well into the future.

What our clients says

“Rutherford Human Resources was engaged as part of a consortium to create and deliver a development programme for senior and high potential executives across our industry. Specifically, we looked to RHR to focus on the development of leadership skills appropriate to our changing market."
Shanny
CEO, Industry Lead Body, Life Sciences Sector
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"James played a critical role in refining our ideas, developed multiple practical outcomes, and delivered consistently to a high standard. Feedback on James from our senior team was that he was engaging and provided perspectives and solutions that met our needs. Rutherford HRs work contributed to us accelerating the integration and collaboration of our people."
Michelle
HRD, Property
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"…our organisation went through a significant change in organisational structure, and we identified during this time a need to improve our decision-making practices and address some of the legacy behaviours that were evident within our group."
Megan
General Manager, Supply Chain
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"James helped us to create a significant shift in team performance and make strides towards developing a more connected and motivated team culture.James has differentiated himself by the time he has taken to learn my business, invest time in building relationships with the team and – as a result – develop customised workshop and training content that is directly relevant to the environment we work in."
Nicola
Sales & Marketing Manager, Financial Services

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Ready to accelerate your journey to sustainable success? Our team of people consultants is here to empower you with the tools to help you reach your potential. Get in touch today and let’s start shaping your future.