HR stopped being something you could fit around everything else.
Someone quit. Someone isn’t working out. A manager isn’t managing. A role has been open for four months. Here are two ways I can help.
HR projects
One problem, scoped, owned, and finished, including the ones happening right now.
What I take on
Hiring
From defining the role to a signed offer.
Examples: Your first sales hire. A hard-to-fill role. Replacing a leader quietly.
Terminations
The decision, the paperwork, the conversation, and what you tell the team.
Examples: Someone everyone loves who isn’t performing. A first termination nobody has done before.
Manager coaching
The conversation your manager is avoiding, practiced before they have it.
Examples: A first-time manager. Feedback that never gets given.
Pay
Pay ranges and a raise process with logic behind them.
Examples: Your first pay ranges. Pay that drifted after a growth year.
Performance reviews
A process your managers finish and your employees believe.
Examples: Replacing a form nobody fills out.
Onboarding
The first 90 days, planned.
Examples: Bringing on a senior leader. New hires quitting early.
Handbook and policies
Rules your team can read and your managers can use.
Examples: Your first handbook. One that’s years out of date.
Employee feedback
A survey your team answers honestly, and a plan for what it says.
Examples: Why people are leaving.
Not on the list? Bring it to the call.
Part-time HR
I’m your HR person on a regular rhythm. You bring me whatever comes up, and I handle it. Benefits renewals, reviews, onboarding, employee issues, and the deadlines that come around every year.
A regular rhythm
It starts with a kickoff call on day one. Every week you get a status update.
Backup for your managers
The person they call before a hard conversation.
Service questions.
What is fractional HR?
It’s another name for what I call part-time HR: a senior HR person on your team on a regular rhythm.
Can you work with my office manager or the person who handles HR?
Yes. In many small businesses, HR sits with an office manager, a bookkeeper, or the owner. I back that person up: they handle the day-to-day, and I handle the calls that need senior judgment.
Is Grove a recruiting firm?
No. I run your hiring by the hour, with no placement fee.
Not sure which one you need?
Book a free 30-minute call. No pitch, and you’ll leave with a clear next step.