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HR and people teams

Development your people will actually take up.

HR teams carry the development promise for the whole organisation, usually with a budget that cannot cover everyone. Mentoring in 30-minute sessions gives every colleague something real, and gives you numbers you can put in front of a board.

Session length
30 minutes
Cost to the mentee
Free
Reporting
Live
The benefits

What hr and people gets out of it.

Development for everyone, not the top 5%

Leadership programmes reach a handful of people. A 30-minute session is affordable enough to offer across the whole workforce.

Engagement you can measure

Uptake, topics and volunteer hours are recorded automatically, so the impact is not a survey answer.

Retention where it is expensive

People leave when they cannot see a next step. Mentoring puts somebody in front of them who can describe one.

Social value evidence for tenders

Volunteer hours and sessions delivered are counted live and exportable.

What mentees ask

The questions that come up.

  • Running a fair promotion conversation

  • Coaching a manager through a difficult performance case

  • Explaining a career path to somebody thinking of leaving

  • Interview and selection practice without bias creeping in

  • Supporting people returning from leave

What your people can teach

Subjects only hr and people can cover.

How hiring decisions are really made

Walk a mentee through a shortlist, a scorecard and an interview panel, so they stop guessing what the other side of the table wants.

Writing a CV that survives the first sift

Ten minutes on structure, keywords and the gaps recruiters actually query.

How pay, bands and progression work

Explain grades, review cycles and what evidence moves somebody up a band.

What HR looks like as a career

Generalist, reward, employee relations, talent: what each day involves and how people get in.

How it runs

Four steps, no programme to build.

  1. 01

    Pick the programme

    Give for your workforce, Grow for a focused push, Redirect for candidates you turn down.

  2. 02

    Invite colleagues

    A branded invitation drops into the channels people already read.

  3. 03

    People book their own sessions

    30 minutes, no rota, no preparation, no day out of the business.

  4. 04

    Report it

    Sessions, hours and topics land in your dashboard as they happen.

Programmes

Three ways to fund it.

Give

Open mentoring across your workforce, funded as an ongoing commitment.

Grow

One cause, one target, one deadline, for a focused internal push.

Redirect

Offer a session to candidates you turn down, so a rejection still helps.

Questions

The things people ask first.

How much admin does this create for HR?

Close to none. There is no matching to run, no rota to keep and no training to deliver.

Can we target a specific group?

Yes. Grow is built for that: one cause, one target, one deadline.

What do we get for reporting?

Sessions delivered, volunteer hours, topics covered and reach, all counted live.

Ready to put this in front of your hr and people team?

Tell us the size of the team and what you want out of it, and we will come back with a price and a launch date.