Sometimes Companies Struggle to Get the Best from their People Teams – Here’s Why… 

Imagine this: A company is growing fast, hiring new people, or trying to keep pace with a tough market? In the best companies, leadership expects HR to be a strategic force—driving leadership ability, culture, and performance. But sometimes, People Teams find themselves buried in processes, compliance, and administration, stuck in the whirlwind of the day job.

Instead of being a driver of business success, your hard working People Team can easily become a transactional function—reacting to Employee Relations issues, fixing mistakes, processing payroll, handling policies, and filing paperwork. It’s disconnected from operations, lacks the insight to impact performance, and struggles to influence real change.

Sometimes, leadership doesn’t even realise this is happening or is what they think should be happening —because they don’t know what they don’t know. They assume ‘HR’ is functioning as it should, unaware of the missed opportunities, inefficiencies, and untapped potential within their people.

Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Organisations can fall into this trap. A People Team, when not empowered, becomes reactive rather than proactive, missing opportunities to shape strategy and support real business outcomes. They power through days focusing on the day job and not enough on the things that build the culture and actually make the organisation great.

At Jolly People, I can change that.