{"id":179915,"date":"2024-02-08T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/?p=179915"},"modified":"2024-02-08T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:32:54","slug":"outsourcing-made-easy-spectras-bespoke-interactive-stress-free-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/outsourcing-made-easy-spectras-bespoke-interactive-stress-free-service","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcing Made Easy \u2013 Spectra\u2019s Bespoke, Interactive & Stress-Free Service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spectra founder Stuart Beaumont is helping SMEs offload the time-consuming aspects of their operations where they lack expertise, giving them the time to focus on growth.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

The average SME owner has their fingers in many pies including dealing with things they may not be experts in such as HR, compliance, health and safety, and more.<\/p>\n

The list of responsibilities mounts up, leaving many without the time to grow their business efficiently. While this makes outsourcing a great option for time-poor SME owners, off-the-shelf solutions aren\u2019t good enough, explains Stuart Beaumont, director and co-founder of Spectra, a business consultancy that offers firms top-tier solutions that take the edge off. \u201cWe identified a gap in the market to create a hands-on consultancy to compete against the bigger players offering a very generic and impersonal service.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Human resources aid, health and safety help, ISO management consultancy, or a CDM Principal Designer Service for the pre-construction phase of a project, <\/span>Spectra <\/span><\/a>covers them all via a hands-on \u201cbusiness-focused\u201d approach. \u201c<\/span>We take the time to understand a client\u2019s needs and then formulate a service offering that meets their requirements.\u201d Flexibility, adds <\/span>Beaumont<\/span>, is in-built; \u201cwe have clients that we see once a year for an audit and others where we actively manage their health and safety, HR and ISO requirements daily.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whether firms are crying out for help, or just need a second opinion on their existing processes, the fact that Spectra<\/a>\u2019s client retention rate sits at over 95 percent is all you need to know about its level of service. Beaumont explains that some of these clients still need advice on \u201ca specific project or simply a sounding board when they have difficult decisions to make.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A successful business is built upon a talented workforce, and Spectra is no exception. The team consists of commercially focused industry specialists who are allocated to clients on \u201cthe basis of their expertise and knowledge\u201d and give \u201cpractical and pragmatic advice.\u201d They keep abreast of legislative changes and good practices, meaning clients are contacted on a six-month basis with their documents updated every twelve months if there are changes.<\/p>\n

Although recruiting this level of talent takes time, it\u2019s worth it as solutions are specialised, with no cookie-cutter models in sight. Drop a line to Spectra, adds Beaumont, and there\u2019ll be \u201cno call centres,\u201d but a \u201cdedicated consultant to work with from start to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the last two years, Spectra <\/a>has expanded its service offering to include ISO Consultancy and Certification, which is a \u201cmassive marketing and sales tool for SMEs.\u201d Spectra\u2019s ISO services include the 9001 Quality Management System, the 14001 Environmental Management System, and the 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System, and \u201care a must for growing SMEs who want to get onto tender lists, work with bigger organisations, streamline their business and make it more efficient and profitable.\u201d Luckily for them, the ISO certification process with Spectra is fast, with an average completion time of around three months, although it has helped an SME achieve certification in as little as 30 days.<\/span><\/p>\n

As much as Spectra\u2019s impressive client retention rate is down to its talented workforce, it also says a lot about its leadership. For co-founder Beaumont, employing \u201cquality staff who are customer-focused\u201d is a major reason for Spectra\u2019s success which includes \u201csolving client problems and working with them rather than putting barriers in their way.\u201d At the helm of the business and armed with a strong consultancy background, Beaumont certainly leads from the front; \u201ceverything that I ask my staff to do I have done myself at some point or still do.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Spectra, its ultimate business goals, as well as its staff standards, are high. In addition to a growing sales and marketing team, there\u2019s the new website <\/span><\/a>which Beaumont hopes will help double its client base over the next three years. In five years, he would like to see Spectra become \u201ca major player of business consultancy services throughout the UK,\u201d considering how happy SME clients are with its services already, it\u2019s likely not far off\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spectra founder Stuart Beaumont is helping SMEs offload the time-consuming aspects of their operations where they lack expertise, giving them the time to focus on growth. The average SME owner has their fingers in many pies including dealing with things they may not be experts in such as HR, compliance, health and safety, and more. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":179919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews"],"views":1172,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}