People First Operations
We help service-based CEOs create high performing teams to skyrocket their growth.
Visionary CEOs of 7 and 8-Figure Service-Based Businesses...
Searching for a more efficient way to identify and recruit top-notch talent for your team? Longing for clearer roles and responsibilities to avoid overlap and confusion so you can streamline productivity? Craving a strong company culture, aligned with your mission, vision and values that attracts and retains top talent? Or maybe you’re yearning for a way to create a stronger sense of purpose and alignment among your team members?
If you're nodding yes, let's connect!
Unleash Potential: Create a High Performing Team that Skyrockets Your Growth
You know how hiring, onboarding, training and managing the performance of your growing team is time-consuming, costly and often confusing? Or you feel like you’re finally making progress and then someone quits or you discover you’ve made a bad hire and you have to start all over - again. Navigating the people part of scaling a remote team brings real challenges.
In a study,* 34% of CFOs said that not only do bad hires cost them productivity, but managers also have to spend 17% of their time supervising poorly performing employees and contractors. Add in underdeveloped (or completely missing) recruiting, hiring, onboarding and performance management systems, not to mention other key people operations systems and processes, and you’ve compounded your cost and headache exponentially.
Ready to have clarity, direction and a plan to put your people first so you can grow with more ease? We can help!
While 41% of businesses place the cost of a bad hire around $25,000, 1 in 4 companies lost over $50,000 in this process. These figures are not just made up of the salary and training for each new employee but the compounding cost of the recruiting process, starting over, and toll on your company’s productivity and reputation.
Hirehive.com/high-cost-of-bad-hire
Meet Ashley Acker, Ph.D. - Your Growth Catalyst and Team Transformation Expert
Ashley Acker is a seasoned Director of Operations and HR Business Partner with a Ph.D. in Business Psychology. She partners with 7 and 8-figure CEOs to help them supercharge the growth of their coaching or consulting firm by attracting and retaining high-performing teams that truly shine.
With a career dedicated to optimizing service-based remote businesses, Ashley is your go-to expert for crafting teams that drive growth. Her passion lies in creating clarity, direction, and solid plans for executive leaders and their teams to grow and scale with more ease.
With extensive experience in operations, strategic guidance, talent development, culture building, recruiting and hiring, she has the tools and know-how to craft employee engagement strategies, restructure teams for success, and develop effective hiring and onboarding processes that can turn your business into a thriving powerhouse.
She leads the team at People First Operations with compassion, hope and believes there is always more. We believe all team members should be seen, heard and valued for their unique contributions – that’s what a people first culture is all about.
Let's take your business to new heights together! Reach out today to book a call, and let's unlock your team's full potential for unparalleled success.
You will never scale anything by yourself. Let's partner to effectively engage your team's talent to get you from here to there.
Solutions
You’ve done an amazing job growing your business, but if you want to scale and grow to the next level, you need people—the right people, performing their absolute best. Whether you're looking to expand your team, struggling to manage performance and set clear expectations for your current team or need strategic advice on the ideal organizational structure to achieve your vision, we can help!
Create Success with our Organizational Design & Hiring Expertise
Wondering who to hire next? It’s an important question that requires a strategic answer. Whether you're a budding team or a seasoned enterprise, nailing the perfect organizational setup is a game-changer for growth. Save precious time, resources, and hiring headaches as we partner together to design a tailor-made strategy.
🎯 Strategic Growth: Align your organizational design with future goals, setting the stage for sustainable expansion.
💰 Reduce Cost: Avoid costly hiring mistakes by pinpointing precisely the roles you need for success (and in what order you should fill each spot).
😌 Stress-Free Hiring: Our culture-fit approach boosts the likelihood you select a stellar candidate from the start, reducing turnover and boosting team performance.
Unlock Excellence with Our Tailored Talent Assessment
Is your team falling short of their potential, underperforming or drowning in missed deadlines or communication challenges? It’s time to unleash the power of perfect fits in every role. If your small team is falling short of expectations, our Talent Assessment is your gateway for transformation. Gain profound insights to fine-tune, align, and propel your team towards success.
✅ Precision Placement: Pinpoint and place the right talents in the right roles for optimal performance.
💡 Insightful Adjustments: Customize your team dynamics for enhanced productivity and results, getting to the root of challenges for transformational change.
🎯 Strategic Clarity: Streamline responsibilities and expectations to drive targeted growth.
Design Seamless Team Member Onboarding from Day One
First impressions matter and the initial 90 days set the stage for future success. Combat turnover with our expertly crafted onboarding process, fine-tuned for your unique needs. We’ll partner with you to craft the ideal team member onboarding journey, ensuring they are up to speed and a valuable, contributing member of the team as quickly as possible.
🚀 Rapid Integration: Propel new team members into action seamlessly, maximizing productivity from day one.
🤝 Minimized Turnover: Forge lasting relationships with new hires that align with your vision and values, securing your new partnership.
💡 Customized Strategy: Tailor the onboarding process to your business, creating a custom approach for sustained success.
Cultivate a Winning Culture & Manage Performance with Excellence
Fuel your people operations with a vibrant culture and peak performance. Craft a cohesive team united by purpose and driven by your mission, vision, and values. In the world of remote operations, effective performance management can be the linchpin. Don't miss this vital link to lasting prosperity. Partner with us to unlock engagement, amplify performance, boost retention, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
✅ Unified Purpose: Instill a shared mission, vision, and values that ignite a collective drive toward success.
📈 Performance Amplification: Optimize individual and team performance for outstanding results.
💼 Talent Retention: Keep your top talent engaged and invested, minimizing turnover and retaining vital expertise.
"I have worked in marketing, advertising, and instructional design for 30+ years and have never met a more talented, dedicated, and efficient leader than Dr. Ashley Acker. Whether she is spearheading the adoption of new strategies, herding creatives and clients toward a redefined culture, or reorganizing internal communications for virtual teams, Ashley establishes clear goals, tracks progress, holds team members accountable, and brings the project in efficiently, on time and on budget. I will jump at any opportunity to work with her again."
- Dave R., Leath Group
"Working with Ashley is a joy! She consistently creates a safe space to bring concerns and troubleshoot challenges, fosters growth and development and genuinely cares about those she works with."
- Emily A., M.Y. Enterprises
Discover how a people first culture can transform your business.
Let’s Connect.
ashley @ peoplefirstops.com
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