Expert HR & Coaching for Scaling UK Businesses with 50–100 Employees
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You’ve built something incredible, now let’s make sure your team is fully aligned to deliver it to its full potential.
At THETA WAVES, we help UK entrepreneurs with 50 to 100 employees turn technical brilliance into thriving businesses by building high-performing, engaged teams.
We understand that while your focus is on innovation and growth, managing the complexities of employee engagement and performance can be a challenge, that’s where we come in.
Through expert HR consultancy and executive coaching, we create tailored people strategies that drive performance, retention, and business success.
Our approach is simple:
Trust – Establishing strong HR foundations so your team operates with clarity, fairness, and alignment.
Talent – Developing high-potential employees, leadership pipelines, and performance strategies to fuel business success.
Team – Creating a culture of engagement, collaboration, and growth, so employees are as invested in your vision as you are.
With THETA WAVES handling your people strategy, you can focus on what you do best, scaling your business. Let’s build a team that makes your vision a reality!
Deep-dive Employee Engagement Audit
We will have informal 1-2-1's with every employee to ascertain their engagement levels using a control set of questions.
This allows us to have a thorough understanding of what is going well and where employee related improvements could be made.
Specifically:
Whether you have the right people in the right roles who want to continue progressing with the business.
A starting place for understanding training needs.
A clear understanding of which HR initiatives need to be developed to progress your business based on the current talent profile.
We offer 3 tiers of Performance Frameworks to ensure everyone is focused, motivated, and accountable, by aligning your employees with your company’s vision, purpose and values.
This enables you to lead with clarity so the business can grow faster whilst building a high-performing culture.
1) Essential - the creation and implementation of an Annual Performance Framework including:
working with leadership to define departmental goals,
training employees on how to write their own goals or OKR’s,
training line managers on how to conduct performance reviews.
2) Advanced - working with you and your leadership team to establish:
Vision - what you want the business to become.
Purpose - why your business exists.
Strategic objectives - your business goals for the next 1, 3 & 5 years.
Strategy - how you’re going to achieve these goals.
3) Total - working with your leadership team and employees to define and embed the Values, and therefore behaviours, that need to underpin your business in order for it to achieve it’s vision.
High Performance Frameworks
Talent Profiling & Succession Planning
Talent Mapping - We create a Talent Matrix to give you a clear understanding of your business talent profile, detailing:
Your high potential future leaders.
Those who just do their job for a monthly salary.
The spread of those in between.
As well as highlighting those who should exit the business in one way or another.
Succession Planning - working with the Business Owner and leadership team to establish:
Key role dependencies.
Who could progress to those roles.
The actions needed to develop those individuals to full readiness.
This reduces your risk of loosing high potential employees due to them not feeling recognised as such or given the adequate opportunities to develop.
Long-term Employee Development
Employee Development Plans - We work with employees to map out individually:
Where they want to be in 5 years time
The training and situations they need to experience to be ready to move into their desired role in 5 years. Mapped by:
Short -term - 1 year
Medium term - 2-3 years
Long term - 4-5 years
Learning Gap Analysis - We work with line managers to establish their perspective of the training and development needed by employees to:
Fulfil their current role
Progress towards their aspirational 5 year goal
If employees don’t feel that they are growing, they start to look externally for that growth, progression and development. This can be avoided by having the necessary development mapped and delivered against
Banding Framework - We work with your leadership team to map out clear career pathways for each area of the business.
The end result is a structure that translates across the whole business helping individuals understand:
Where their role sits in the structure of the business.
What they need to demonstrate consistently in order to be considered for a promotion.
If your employees keep asking how they can progress, this is a quick win to pre-empt those questions as well as deepening trust within the business as ambiguity is reduced.
Clear Career Pathways
Being the Founder of a fast-growing business brings a unique set of pressures that can be both exhilarating and overwhelming. While growth is often seen as a sign of success, it also creates complex challenges, especially when it comes to managing employees, that can stretch a founder’s emotional, mental, and strategic capacity.
Your daily reality might now involve:
Frequent decision-making under pressure,
Increasing leadership demands as the team grows,
Isolation; there are very few safe spaces to share doubts,
Pressure to maintain momentum and performance,
Reduced work-life balance,
Executive Coaching can help by:
Providing you with an opportunity to create clarity and focus amid chaos,
Develop your leadership skills for your growing team,
Acting as a trusted sounding board for tough decisions,
Building emotional resilience and mental stamina
Offering a confidential, non-judgmental space
Keeping you accountable to your goals — personal and business
Coaching gives founders the space to grow as leaders
Executive Coaching
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Interested in finding out more about how Theta Waves can unlock high performance in your business. Please contact us to discuss further.
We look forward to hearing from you!