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10:23The AI Paradox: A Small Business Champion Worried About Perfect TechSean O'Shea: So the second one is shared experience. I think one of the most powerful things you can do to get people together and bond people in the smallest amount of space-time possible is to put them in a way where tEP 309 · 11 Jun 2026·interview· 10:23–14:567:17Kitchen table to 24 employees in 5 yearsRachel Harris: Oh no, it's only been 5. Yeah, 5 years Al Elliott: 5 years. So, you went kitchen table to 24 employees, 5 years. Talk me through those 5 years Rachel Harris: Of course. And I think specifically within the EP 299 · 7 May 2026·interview· 7:17–9:5151:02Workplace Surgery — Small business culture vs. £15k pay riseLeanne Elliott: Oh, now that is the title of a great Oh, there's, there's so many little clues in this, isn't there? Al Elliott: Yes. Lee, unpack like, like it's Christmas morning Leanne Elliott: I wanna, I wanna just taEP 296 · 28 Apr 2026·workplace surgery· 51:02–58:1242:31Workplace Surgery: Should small businesses hire younger workers?Al Elliott: Dead easy. Right, next one. Should I hire younger workers? Don't answer. I know what your answer is, but don't answer yet. This person, they've got some legitimate concerns. They run a small business and lotsEP 274 · 10 Feb 2026·workplace surgery· 42:31–46:1742:07Workplace Surgery: Occupational health for small UK employersAl Elliott: Okay, so on to question number 2. Do I need to offer occupational health as a small UK employer? So this person says, I've just taken on my first employee. I'm a small business in the UK. I want to try and woEP 252 · 25 Nov 2025·workplace surgery· 42:07–47:2435:16Workplace Surgery: Managing hiring chaos without spending a fortuneAl Elliott: Bet they're a pain in the arse to work with. Bet they are. Anyway, we're on to the World Famous Weekly Workplace Surgery where I put your questions to Leanne. By the way, are there any links in the show notesEP 244 · 28 Oct 2025·workplace surgery· 35:16–40:570:00The 50-employee breaking pointLeanne Elliott: Picture this. You've built something special. Your team of 15 feels like family. Everyone knows everyone. The culture just works. But now you're staring down growth, maybe to 50, maybe to 100 employees, aEP 239 · 9 Oct 2025·interview· 0:00–3:4927:09Practical advice for leaders of 75 peopleAl Elliott: I can imagine someone perhaps sitting there going, I've— listening to this going, I've got 75 people. I don't have an Amy in my organisation. It's all me. What Amy is telling me to do now, I've already got enEP 233 · 18 Sept 2025·interview· 27:09–30:1514:58Employment law, small businesses, and the 13th hireLeanne Elliott: I'm not an expert in employment law, but my understanding is it doesn't matter how small or large your organization is. Your first employee, these employment laws apply. And that's why for small businesseEP 224 · 19 Aug 2025·other· 14:58–22:0146:16Workplace Surgery Q2: Best recruitment tools for small businessesAl Elliott: Okay, great. So question number 2, is there actually a good recruitment tool for small businesses or are we stuck with job boards? Interesting. Interesting. I run a small business team of 7. We're trying to hEP 216 · 22 Jul 2025·workplace surgery· 46:16–50:0546:59Workplace Surgery — 30 employees and zero HR policiesEmma Djemil: Gotcha Al Elliott: Now we've had a few similar to this, but I wanted to bring it back because I think that it asks a really interesting question. So, our startup is about to hit 30 employees. I'm suddenly paEP 188 · 15 Apr 2025·workplace surgery· 46:59–50:593:23The origin story of CharlieHRBen Branson-Gateley: I'm CEO and co-founder of CharlieHR, and we're all about supporting small businesses, um, with everything that relates to HR within their company. Been doing that for about 7, 8 years. We have a coreEP 89 · 11 Apr 2024·interview· 3:23–5:5833:06What big companies get wrong (and small ones can fix)Leanne Elliott: The good news for small organizations listening is that even these big companies are getting it wrong, terribly, badly wrong Nora Burns: We're very willing to give out our employee information to other emEP 74 · 18 Jan 2024·interview· 33:06–35:4220:28The massive opportunity for small businessesAl Elliott: Now, Ross went on to explain that this provides this massive opportunity for small businesses who are pursuing talent. Because if you imagine like huge companies, IBM, the likes, Amazon, they're like juggernaEP 42 · 7 Jun 2023·panel interview· 20:28–26:192:00Meet Leanne — Business Psychologist and co-founder of OblongLeanne Elliott: Yes, it is. So, I'm a business psychologist. I've been working with small businesses throughout my career, the odd large business as well, such as DWP, the NHS, on a consulting basis. But really, my experEP 02 · 12 Jul 2022·other· 2:00–5:00
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