Manifesto

Do you want to love your experience with work?

Are you a business owner seeking A-player support? Or a talented professional looking for the right opportunity? If so, we're here to help you unlock your potential.

While we've called ourselves a staffing firm, business owners and talented professionals call us "growth partners." Here's why.

If you're a talented professional…

We help you discover your dream job. Imagine each morning, you wake up with a sense of peace and joy that feels hard to describe. You go to work in a role you love so much, you get lost in your work, so focused that hours pass unnoticed. By the end of the day, you feel recharged, with more energy than you had at the start. You clearly understand your purpose and your place in the grand scheme of things. Your work supports this purpose, bringing you deep contentment and calm.

Obstacles, both big and small, appear along your journey, but you see them as opportunities to grow stronger. They challenge you, like a sharpener to a blade, helping you become your best self. You keep moving forward with determination, trusting in what you want to achieve without being attached to the outcome. There are moments when it feels like you're riding a powerful wave, as if the universe itself is working alongside you. Doors that seemed closed suddenly open, and amazing coincidences seem to guide your way. You achieve extraordinary things, things you never thought possible. But even if you hadn't, you'd be just fine. You accept praise with grace, yet stay true to your own path, following the rhythm that's uniquely yours.

This is the vision we have for you as a talented professional. To make this a reality, we actively coach you throughout your journey. We elicit guidance from your manager. We provide structure with KPIs or big quarterly goals that get you and your manager on the same page, bringing clarity and predictability to both of you. We help you and your boss navigate difficult conversations, ensuring that each of you attacks problems instead of (as occasionally some people are inclined to) attacking each other.

We help you chart your career path a year into the future, and potentially many years into the future. You grow over time, and your income grows. We coach you, helping you set worthy personal goals, address big challenges, access helpful learning, and remove obstacles along the way.

We know that the right person in the right role can be immeasurably rewarding to everyone involved. We also know that we are the right partner only if you align with our principles: entrepreneurship, attentiveness, curiosity, and a hunger for growth.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship means always striving to create value and finding opportunities even in challenges. It's about resourcefulness and a mental model that sees the possibilities within problems, leading to a more rewarding, joyful work experience.

Attentiveness

Attentiveness starts with paying attention to the details, building trust, and creating a warm, supportive environment. It's about showing up, being present, and ensuring that things are done with care and consideration for others.

Curiosity

Curiosity drives innovation. Asking "what if?" to improve processes, solve problems, and find better ways to do things helps us move forward, together, as a company.

Hunger for growth

A hunger for growth means we strive for continuous development—individually, as teams, and as a company. Whether through personal learning or by encouraging others, growth is at the heart of everything we do.

We elicit guidance from your manager and provide structure with KPIs or big quarterly goals that get you and your manager on the same page, bringing clarity and predictability to both of you. We help you and your boss navigate difficult conversations, ensuring that each of you attacks problems instead of attacking each other.

We help you chart your career path a year into the future, and potentially many years into the future. You grow over time, and your income grows. We coach you, helping you set worthy personal goals, address big challenges, access helpful learning, and remove obstacles along the way.

If you're a business owner, or manager…

We help you discover talent you didn't think existed at a fee you may not have thought possible. We'll facilitate challenges and opportunities faced by you and your hired talent. We bring a structure to your hiring, onboarding, management and the many facets of your business.

With a system that has guided thousands of small- to mid-size business owners, we'll guide you and your talent on running world class meetings, crystallizing and aligning your organization around a single clear vision, cultivating accountability, running quarterly and annual planning sessions.

As you hit the series of ceilings along your path, we'll help you break through those ceilings with tools, frameworks and disciplines proven over decades by similar organizations. Whether you seek stronger process throughout your organization, an organizational structure that will enable the growth you're capable of, or root-level solutions to the myriad of problems you face, we will partner with you to guide the way.

If what you read here resonates with you, let's connect. Email our team at support@helm.ceo.