Growing Your Business Using the Associate Model

A podcast for independent HR and people, professionals, and the businesses they support. Hosted by Charlotte Allfrey and Mary Asante of HR Independents Ltd. DATE: 30th October 2023 Episode 10: Growing Your Business Using the Associate Model Guest: Claire Watt of Ditton HR In this episode we chat to Claire about how she has very successfully built her HR consultancy using associates. Claire took on her first associate 5 years ago and now has 18 associates supporting her. Hear from Claire about how she protects her business with really good consultancy agreements, provides inductions to ensure associates deliver to her standards and ensures they are in control and can say no. She carefully matches associates to projects and spends time mentoring and developing them.  A great episode for anyone wishing to learn more about an associate model for HR consultants. Thanks for listening to HR Voices!  If you enjoyed this episode, we'd love it if you could leave us a review.  www.hrindependents.co.uk   Join the HR Independents Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hrindies/    www.dittonhr.co.uk   https://www.spreaker.com/show/watt-about-hr   linkedin.com/in/⭐️claire-watt⭐️-chartered-fcipd-11b77730 About our Speaker:   Ditton HR is a Human Resources, Recruitment and Training Consultancy run by Claire Watt (FCIPD), supporting businesses in London and the surrounding areas since 2012.    Ditton HR helps with all aspects of employing and developing employees to bring out the best in people, resulting in high performing employees who drive businesses forward.​​ We support small businesses who do not have any HR function right up to larger organisations who have an HR team but need additional expertise or support. We pride ourselves on our relationships with clients where we very often become the trusted adviser to the CEO/HR Director.