Today I bring you a highly upbeat and practical conversation with Nikki Beaumont, CEO and Founder of recruitment specialists Beaumont People. The topic of conversation is ‘Leading People before Profit’ and how a ‘Placing People First’ culture creates both the business and people success.
Here are a few of the golden nuggets gleaned from our conversation:-
• The ‘must keeps’ and ‘let go ofs’ when creating a recruitment company from scratch
• Tough decisions in tough times
• The challenges of sticking to a ‘placing people first’ policy in difficult times
• Turning the support tables in the pandemic
• How the 4 day work week came about and what (or rather who) influenced Nikki to make the change early in 2020
• Beaumont People’s gender neutral parental leave scheme
• The elements of company culture that make the policies work
• The importance of measuring outcomes and conditions requires to focus on outcomes over hours worked
• Sound advice on where to start
• How Nikki and team landed the best place to work and moved up 7 places in a year!
The Beaumont People website is here
Nikki and the team have saved over 320 charities more than $30 million in recruitment fees. Read about it here
The meaningful work profile tool that Nikki mentioned can be accessed here
Nikki and Beaumont people feature in a number of books and publications
Let’s Talk Culture – Shane Michael Hatton
For Love & Money – Carolyn Butler Madden
Breaking the Gender Code – Danielle Dobson
You can connect directly with Nikki on LinkedIn here