What key challenges are you currently facing in your role?

What key activities are you currently completing in your role?
My biggest priority at the moment is onboarding the newest member of my team in Mongolia. We're also setting up a new entity in Vietnam and so am in the process of moving our local teams over to new local contracts.

What key challenges are you currently facing in your role?
Our Mongolian office is growing the quickest however we have a lack of senior presence out there and very inexperienced management. I completely second Robey's observation - there is a real gap in management skills in general and it's hard to convince a small business to put money into this (even though I believe it would have an incredible impact). In the UK, we've managed to plug this a bit with Apprenticeship levy funds but where we're growing our offices internationally, this is proving a lot harder and it's taking up a huge amount of time in growing ER issues and is really affecting the potential of the local teams. People want to do a good job and to do the right thing but for a small HR team, it's hard to get out of the weeds to pull something wider together (and training is very much not my strength!).

What challenges can you see coming around the corner in the next few months?
Funding. I believe we'll start looking ahead to 2025 and making adjustments to our plans in order to keep momentum going. We've made various cuts over the last 18 months so finances are always top of mind (which also speaks to the current challenges above).

What is keeping you up at night?
How to improve the effectiveness of my team so that I don't feel the pressure is constantly sitting with me.

What key activities are you currently completing in your role?
My biggest priority at the moment is onboarding the newest member of my team in Mongolia. We're also setting up a new entity in Vietnam and so am in the process of moving our local teams over to new local contracts.

What key challenges are you currently facing in your role?
Our Mongolian office is growing the quickest however we have a lack of senior presence out there and very inexperienced management. I completely second Robey's observation - there is a real gap in management skills in general and it's hard to convince a small business to put money into this (even though I believe it would have an incredible impact). In the UK, we've managed to plug this a bit with Apprenticeship levy funds but where we're growing our offices internationally, this is proving a lot harder and it's taking up a huge amount of time in growing ER issues and is really affecting the potential of the local teams. People want to do a good job and to do the right thing but for a small HR team, it's hard to get out of the weeds to pull something wider together (and training is very much not my strength!).

What challenges can you see coming around the corner in the next few months?
Funding. I believe we'll start looking ahead to 2025 and making adjustments to our plans in order to keep momentum going. We've made various cuts over the last 18 months so finances are always top of mind (which also speaks to the current challenges above).

What is keeping you up at night?
How to improve the effectiveness of my team so that I don't feel the pressure is constantly sitting with me.