ENTREPRENEURS

Employee Handbook and Policy Templates

Here, we aim to guide SME owners through a process that helps them make the right, strategic choices that will help their company grow. This begins with strong HR policies that entrepreneurs and executives tailor to their company’s specific needs and then actually use to create a high-performing culture and workforce. By adopting and implementing the Employee Handbook and accompanying policies, entrepreneurs and executives can take a significant step away from being an SME and towards becoming a world-class, gender-smart company.

As each fund and portfolio company are unique, these templates are meant to be adapted and fitted to individual needs of a fund manager’s SME portfolio. 

We recommend that entrepreneurs watch the Gender-Smart Exec’s Program training modules 5 and 6 (Execution and Management Teams), 7 (Running Effective Meetings) and 15 (Corporate Stewardship) for more information on the importance of implementing gender-smart policies and practices. These training modules can be found under the Entrepreneur’s Portal.