HONED

Creating the competitive edge for SME businesses

Start with the challenge. Get the right senior support around your team.

HONED introduces carefully chosen specialists who work alongside your leadership team on a fractional basis, when and where you need them.

Talk through your challenge

Fractional specialist support

One place to start

Running a business often means making decisions across people, wellbeing, performance and growth at the same time.

You may know something needs attention without knowing which specialist to call. HONED gives you one place to start. We listen to the challenge, then help you find the right expertise to put around your team.

Some support is ongoing. Some is a focused piece of work. You choose what fits your business.

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HONED

Senior support, when you need it

Start with the challenge

Bring the issue you are facing. HONED helps you find the people who can work alongside your team.

Ongoing supportFocused project

PeopleWellbeingPerformanceGrowth

Talk through your challenge

Start with the problem. We will help you find the right expertise.

Business challenges rarely fit neatly into one category. HONED helps ambitious SMEs understand where to start and connects them directly with carefully selected specialists who can help.

Specialists: 28
Organisations: 28
Areas of expertise: 9

For organisations

Practical support without having to diagnose the problem first.

Start with what is getting in the way.
Know who will deliver the work.
Access specialist expertise without building every capability in-house.

Talk through your challenge Meet the specialists

For specialists

Build your visibility, relationships and opportunities through a trusted peer network.

A dedicated profile on the HONED website and directory.
Direct introductions with no referral or introducer fee.
Monthly opportunities to build relationships and exchange referrals.

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How we help

Senior support, shaped around your business

HONED helps you start with the challenge and identify the right specialist support. Once you have chosen to work together, the commercial arrangement and delivery terms are agreed directly with the specialist.

Senior expertise without a full-time hire

Bring in an experienced specialist for the time and the tasks you need, rather than creating a permanent role.
Start with the issue, not the job title

Tell us what you are facing. We help you work out what kind of support would be most useful.
Support across the areas that matter

People, wellbeing, leadership, performance and growth, from one place to start.
One team around your business

When a challenge touches more than one area, specialists can work alongside your leadership team and each other.