Leading People before Profit - a Conversation with Nikki Beaumont of Beaumont People

A highly upbeat and practical conversation with Nikki Beaumont, CEO of recruitment specialists Beaumont People on the topic ‘Leading people before profit’.  Nikki has been approached frequently to share her experience of implementing a four day work week (pre pandemic), a gender neutral parental leave policy and to share the successes of Beaumont people in the charity sector and with their awards for ‘A best place to work’.

• 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!
• 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

The Beaumont People website is https://www.beaumontpeople.com.au/

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

 

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