Q3 2024

Empowering Leaders to Transform Businesses Any business is only as good as the people who work there. However, building a high-performing team isn’t easy. It takes great leadership to build a culture that instils accountability, fun, collaboration, and achieve results. This is why investing in great leadership and HR is giving small and medium-sized businesses a competitive edge. Modern HR helps with exactly this. From our signature Leadership Accelerator Programme to Gallup Strengths Coaching and a Virtual HR Director service, we make accelerating your leaders and propelling your business easy. Modern HR is for ambitious SMEs who want to develop their leaders, improve their internal cultures, and drive overall business performance. Founder Mandy Hamerla brings over 20 years of HR experience to her role as an awardwinning leadership mentor, certified Gallup Strengths Coach, and industry consultant. In Mandy’s words: “Modern HR to me is all about balancing commercial thinking and empathy towards employees to help companies attract, motivate, and retain talented people. People now have high expectations about what employers offer, so it’s important to invest in strong leaders who can set clear expectations, drive accountability, and make employees feel valued. That’s what I offer through my virtual HR services and leadership training.” “By enhancing leadership capabilities, we strive to improve team performance, increase job satisfaction, and foster an environment where both leaders and their teams can flourish, using positive psychology.” One of Modern HR’s popular offerings is the leadership accelerator programme. This is a 12-week programme which combines one-to-one coaching, training, and HR resources. It’s designed specifically to drive a rapid improvement in leaders. Training and support are accessible on-demand, and by the end of the curriculum, leaders are instilled with greater confidence, gravitas, improved problem-solving skills, and so much more. It is designed to work with any schedule, offering accessible resources to accommodate for today’s fast-paced workplace. “The truth is most people don't have access to the right leadership training and support to set them (& their team) up for success. I wanted to offer a programme that would change this” Modern HR also offers a Virtual HR Director service, where Mandy works closely with CEOs to help create and implement the People & Culture Strategy. This service means you feel like you have a HR Director as part of your team, but on a flexible basis from just a few days per month. This is a done for you service and covers everything from recruitment, performance management, managing staff issues, bespoke leadership training and more. One particular client, Alister Harris, CEO of Lokulus, says “Mandy is a key part of my leadership team and has enabled Lokulus to become a top company to work for.” The client praises Modern HR’s “cultural and people strategies” and Mandy’s refreshing approach. “I can always rely on Mandy to tell me hard truths which only makes the business better. I think she is quite unique in the HR world, as she brings innovative ideas and aligns closely to what the business needs.” Mandy partly owes her start in HR to the inspiration of her father, who ran many startup businesses throughout her childhood. “Although it was incredibly inspiring to watch him build businesses out of nothing,” she says, “I also witnessed first-hand the challenges and sleepless nights that come with running a business and managing people.” With a business studies degree from Nottingham Trent University and plenty of ambition, she had an impressive career, achieving her first Global HR Director role at Pearson plc at the age of 30, leading a team of 25 HR professionals across the UK, US, India and Hong Kong. Today, Mandy runs her business with a focus on integrity, trust, and empowering leaders to step up into their leadership role. Her clients have had some incredible successes, such as scaling from 10 to 100 people within a year, winning Best Company Awards and seeing a huge improvement in employee engagement results. Mandy’s advice for SMEs in the UK is to “hire strategically, and intentionally.” She emphasises being “clear on the expectations you have both in terms of outcomes and behaviours.” She closes by adding, “remember, the people that work for you are humans. Treat them well and build loyalty, and it will pay tenfold in return.” It’s according to this valuable advice that Modern HR brings Mandy’s passion to the table and brings out the best in every leader. Contact: Mandy Hamerla Email: [email protected] Company: Modern HR Web Address: www.modernhr.co.uk

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