In this week's podcast, I work through the often-thorny topic of recruitment and onboarding, and, at the opposite end of the spectrum, outline my approach when a hire is just not working out and facing down the challenge of letting staff go.

You'll hear all about:

• How promotion of strong content and a creative approach to recruitment can pay off for both recruiters and applicants

• Why going with your gut instinct is key (hint: don't ignore those red flags!)

• Why I believe oversharing on information and expectation levels, right from the very beginning, is key to matching the needs of the business with your hire (because the former should always come first)

• How to fire effectively and manage an exit in the best way possible

• Why hiring slow and firing fast is a mantra I am now firmly subscribed to.

I also offer some simple tips on:

• Making sure you stand out to potential employees in an incredibly competitive market

• Putting together a polished, supportive, and professional onboarding process

• Considering how accessible you need to be as a recruiter, and once your hire is in post

• Embedding performance management from day one, giving your new joiner the best possible opportunity to flourish in their role

About Tara Humphrey and The business of Healthcare Consulting:

With nearly a decade of experience in healthcare consultancy, Tara Humphrey, founder of THC Primary Care, has successfully supported over 200 Primary Care Networks across England. Now, Tara is here to help you take your healthcare consultancy to the next level.

Whether you're in the early stages of building your consultancy or you're looking to expand and secure more clients, Tara offers practical guidance, proven tools, and actionable insights to boost your confidence and grow your business in a way that aligns with your values and goals.

Ready to level up your consultancy?

Visit www.thebusinessofhealthcareconsulting.co.uk for more information and to start your journey today.

Follow Tara on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarahumphreythc/

Ever felt the sting of comparison and insecurity in the business realm? We get it. Join Tara Humphrey, as she delves deep into her personal brush with these feelings. Using her experience with her website and blog performance as a measure, Tara unearths the pitfalls of sizing up our success with others'.

The focus of this episode is to remind you to celebrate your victories and not to be swayed by others' accomplishments.

We would love to hear your thoughts, so do drop a review and connect with us on our social platforms.

About Tara Humphrey and The business of Healthcare Consulting:

With nearly a decade of experience in healthcare consultancy, Tara Humphrey, founder of THC Primary Care, has successfully supported over 200 Primary Care Networks across England. Now, Tara is here to help you take your healthcare consultancy to the next level.

Whether you're in the early stages of building your consultancy or you're looking to expand and secure more clients, Tara offers practical guidance, proven tools, and actionable insights to boost your confidence and grow your business in a way that aligns with your values and goals.

Ready to level up your consultancy?

Visit www.thebusinessofhealthcareconsulting.co.uk for more information and to start your journey today.

Follow Tara on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarahumphreythc/

In the episode, I am going to take you behind the scenes of how I plan my time for the next few weeks in my health care consultancy,

I have been running THC Primary Care providing interim management, consultancy, training and facilitation to Primary Care Networks & Clinical Commissioning groups which are now called Integrated Care Boards (ICBs)

Each week I look at my diary for the next 2 weeks, and I split my time in time in 5 broad areas.

1. Family commitments

2. Team

3. Client deliverables

4. Diary commitments

5. Brand building activities

About Tara Humphrey and The business of Healthcare Consulting:

With nearly a decade of experience in healthcare consultancy, Tara Humphrey, founder of THC Primary Care, has successfully supported over 200 Primary Care Networks across England. Now, Tara is here to help you take your healthcare consultancy to the next level.

Whether you're in the early stages of building your consultancy or you're looking to expand and secure more clients, Tara offers practical guidance, proven tools, and actionable insights to boost your confidence and grow your business in a way that aligns with your values and goals.

Ready to level up your consultancy?

Visit www.thebusinessofhealthcareconsulting.co.uk for more information and to start your journey today.

Follow Tara on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarahumphreythc/

In this podcast, Tara takes us behind the business of THC Primary Care and shares her quarterly review along with candidly sharing what she stopped, started and will continue doing moving forward.

1. The course and training portfolio

2. The Interim primary care network management portfolio

3. The increase in facilitation and consultancy

4. Wins for the quarter and achieving 100,000 website views

5. Improving team communication

6. Challenges relating to managing expectations, what to say yes and no to and how to keep things moving at pace at all times.

We hope you appreciate our honesty and transparency and the range of services we provide.

About Tara Humphrey and The business of Healthcare Consulting:

With nearly a decade of experience in healthcare consultancy, Tara Humphrey, founder of THC Primary Care, has successfully supported over 200 Primary Care Networks across England. Now, Tara is here to help you take your healthcare consultancy to the next level.

Whether you're in the early stages of building your consultancy or you're looking to expand and secure more clients, Tara offers practical guidance, proven tools, and actionable insights to boost your confidence and grow your business in a way that aligns with your values and goals.

Ready to level up your consultancy?

Visit www.thebusinessofhealthcareconsulting.co.uk for more information and to start your journey today.

Follow Tara on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarahumphreythc/

In this episode, I share my perspective on what it feels like to deliver bad news. People in leadership positions go through this all the time, but their perspective is often not documented and it is just as hard to give bad news as it is to receive it.

Join me as I share my planning and thought process on how to go about it. I share the questions I ask myself as I approach it. I talk about how to do it whether it's a formal conversation or chat over coffee, how I prepare and gather evidence and I talk about how to move on from it in a positive and constructive way.

Key points to listen out for;

• My planning and thought process when giving bad news.
• How to raise the issue.
• What you can do to be prepared ahead of the conversation.
• How to look at your part in the problem.
• How to move forward once you've given the news.
• Looking at what you want to happen next.

Read the blog in full here

About Tara Humphrey and The business of Healthcare Consulting:

With nearly a decade of experience in healthcare consultancy, Tara Humphrey, founder of THC Primary Care, has successfully supported over 200 Primary Care Networks across England. Now, Tara is here to help you take your healthcare consultancy to the next level.

Whether you're in the early stages of building your consultancy or you're looking to expand and secure more clients, Tara offers practical guidance, proven tools, and actionable insights to boost your confidence and grow your business in a way that aligns with your values and goals.

Ready to level up your consultancy?

Visit www.thebusinessofhealthcareconsulting.co.uk for more information and to start your journey today.

Follow Tara on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarahumphreythc/

Let's get event planning!

We are all well versed in mandatory training and where development within our individual roles is measured by the 'must do' workplace-based courses but when it comes to the events we choose, how do we target those which are most likely to make the biggest impact on our personal growth, and in our learning and progression as businesses and business leaders?

I bring to you a podcast episode focused on my own approach to events planning; both in terms of benchmarking and recognising my own personal development goals, and when considering the design and delivery of THC Primary Care's own events.

Listen on to hear my advice and experiences about:

• Why not to book events too far in advance (unless there are more complex travel and logistical implications
• When timing matters (especially when it comes to release of new guidance or embedding new process locally)
• How attending events which are not necessarily role or sector-specific can also be incredibly empowering
• What to consider when choosing your events, and thinking carefully about what you really want to get out of them, be it; opportunities to network or connect with peers, access to industry insights and policy development, completion of formal professional development, and / or marketing your product or services

About Tara Humphrey and The business of Healthcare Consulting:

With nearly a decade of experience in healthcare consultancy, Tara Humphrey, founder of THC Primary Care, has successfully supported over 200 Primary Care Networks across England. Now, Tara is here to help you take your healthcare consultancy to the next level.

Whether you're in the early stages of building your consultancy or you're looking to expand and secure more clients, Tara offers practical guidance, proven tools, and actionable insights to boost your confidence and grow your business in a way that aligns with your values and goals.

Ready to level up your consultancy?

Visit www.thebusinessofhealthcareconsulting.co.uk for more information and to start your journey today.

Follow Tara on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarahumphreythc/

This week Tara is sharing our experiences from Best Practice, strategic planning, being bold, brave and ambitious and our thoughts on if we knew we couldn't fail what would we do!

Please do check out our below blog where all of our Best Practice leadership episodes can be found.

https://www.thcprimarycare.co.uk/post/our-primary-care-leadership-masterclass

About Tara Humphrey and The business of Healthcare Consulting:

With nearly a decade of experience in healthcare consultancy, Tara Humphrey, founder of THC Primary Care, has successfully supported over 200 Primary Care Networks across England. Now, Tara is here to help you take your healthcare consultancy to the next level.

Whether you're in the early stages of building your consultancy or you're looking to expand and secure more clients, Tara offers practical guidance, proven tools, and actionable insights to boost your confidence and grow your business in a way that aligns with your values and goals.

Ready to level up your consultancy?

Visit www.thebusinessofhealthcareconsulting.co.uk for more information and to start your journey today.

Follow Tara on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarahumphreythc/