Owners Need to Let Go to Grow: The Key to Building Your Business and Managing Work/Life Balance
Writted By: Jill Zappitelli – H2R Business Solutions Co-Founder, President & CEO
Jill Zappitelli is the co-founder as well as President and CEO of H2R Business Solutions Inc. From its beginning in 2016, H2R has grown from a team of 2 to over 30 professionals, providing businesses in Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener and Waterloo with outsourced and fractional HR support.
The pace at which the business has grown has been phenomenal, with much of the growth coming from referrals made by H2R’s satisfied clients. When they started H2R, Jill’s partner and her business partner, Matthew Spadafora, Broker of Record at RE/MAX Twin City Realty Inc., was to provide small to medium sized businesses with peace of mind when it comes to attracting, retaining and engaging top people, while also minimizing the risks associated with employing them.
Jill knows the pressures that business owners and leaders face. “Today’s economy makes it difficult for owners to achieve work/life balance as often it’s their family’s well being, as well as the families of those they employ that are dependent on the business’ success.
Many of our customers are concerned with keeping up with changing employment legislation, responding to the various and sometimes polarizing issues associated with the social and economic fabric of their business.” Jill understands the weight of this responsibility and emphasizes the value of providing the right human resources support to ensure the growth and success of their own business. “All business owners will struggle with the balance of working on and running a business and how all consuming it can become.
I have achieved a better work/life balance by having people I can trust and work with at our entire company. We have grown significantly and realized that, like my clients, I needed to bring in support to help me run the business well.”
We have a leadership and consultant team with the skills, attributes and experience to ensure that we offer support and meet all of our clients’ needs. In doing so, I created space and time to allow me to work on the business, not just in it.” She said many HR professionals and business owners avoid the delegation of HR responsibilities and see it as the last thing to let go of. As a leader, it’s not about always being the smartest or best grown the business, it’s always necessary to let go!”
Our consultants have deep generalist and specialist expertise to support clients with services ranging from dedicated on-site HR support to more complex consultative services such as policy development, workplace culture design, total compensation planning and strategic recruitment and succession planning strategy. Our outsourced HR support model offers practical solutions to allow your organization to focus on the things that matter most to your business.
Our mission is simple: We allow you to focus on what you do best — by taking care of what we do best — HR.