A fractional HR practice · by referral
At PRISM one senior practitioner works inside your company two to eight days a month, settling how people are hired, paid, managed and — when it has to happen — let go. Placeholder line for the page that confirms what you were already told.
The practice, in one sentence
Nearly everyone who calls is in one of two rooms. Pick yours — the page will follow you. Placeholder line, plain and warm.
Offers were made on instinct, the second manager has never managed, and every awkward conversation still ends on the founder's calendar. At PRISM the answer is not a handbook — it is the four or five structural decisions that make the next thirty hires survivable. Placeholder paragraph.
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The shape of the company written down: who reports where, what each level means and what it pays. Done once, properly, it removes a year of improvised answers. Placeholder description.
A loop that does not depend on one person's calendar or one person's instinct: scorecards, a short defensible interview, and a decision made the same way twice. Placeholder description.
Most first-time managers were promoted for being good at the other job. At PRISM they are given the sentences to use, a cadence to hold, and someone to call before the hard conversation rather than after. Placeholder description.
Handbooks, contracts and the exposures nobody has had time to read. Not a compliance exercise — a short list of what would actually hurt, in the order it should be fixed. Placeholder description.
Someone leaves every year, and how it is handled is watched by everyone who stays. At PRISM the conversation is prepared, the paperwork is right, and nobody is made to improvise it. Placeholder description.
Twenty years inside companies rather than beside them: a first HR hire, a head of people through two hard years, and now one practitioner working for a handful of founders and firms at a time. Placeholder biography, plain and warm.
At PRISM there is no bench, no associate assigned to the account, and no report that arrives instead of a person. The work is done by the person you met. Placeholder line.
ErinFounder · PRISM
She wrote down what everyone already knew and nobody had said.
Four weeks in we had levels, bands and a way to say no. Placeholder quotation.
The first person we have worked with who made the hard conversation easier, not longer.
03 — how a month goes, what it costs, what gets asked
A month at PRISM
Week 01
Time with the people who carry the friction, and nothing written yet. Placeholder.
Week 02
What is true, what is exposed, and the four things worth doing first. Placeholder.
Week 03
Levels, loops, documents — made with you rather than handed over. Placeholder.
Week 04
Your managers run it; PRISM stays reachable on the difficult week. Placeholder.
A day, borrowed
One day a month for a company that mostly knows what it is doing and wants one senior head to check it. Placeholder.
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Inside the company
Two to eight days a month, a written view in the first four weeks, and everything after it built with your managers. Placeholder.
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One hard thing
A restructure, a departure, an investigation — scoped, held and finished. Placeholder.
Fixed fee
No. PRISM takes no placement fee and no commission of any kind. Placeholder answer.
Usually within two weeks, occasionally the same week if something has already gone wrong. Placeholder answer.
Then the work is usually to support them rather than replace them, and to say so plainly. Placeholder answer.
The discipline is the same; the vocabulary, the seasons and the partnership are not. Placeholder answer.
Thirty days' notice, either side, and everything written down belongs to you. Placeholder answer.
Erin. There is no bench and no one else to hand you to. Placeholder answer.
The answer is usually simpler, and less comfortable, than the one you were hoping for.
04 — start a conversation
Thank you — placeholder confirmation.
A reply comes from a person, usually within two working days.
