Bolstered by more than 14 years of experience in the fields of learning and personal development, South Africa-based company Grow Right Edge Solutions is acutely aware of the challenges organisations face in a modern setting, and strives to help them in fostering progressive, impactful, and sustainable learning solutions, thus enabling them to remain up to date with the freshest technology and any changes in learning behaviour reflected by the wider sector. Primarily, this is achieved through the implementation of solutions that are tailored to client needs and impactful at every touchpoint. All training programmes and initiatives that are delivered are compliant with BBBEE (Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment) requirements, and positively contribute to an organisation overall. We speak with Michelina De Benedictis, in order to learn more about the company and its award-winning solutions.
One particularly noteworthy area specialised in by Grow Right Edge Solutions is the securing of recruitment and employment for learners with disabilities. To this end, the company has proudly undertaken an array of interventions in this area, partnering with such multi-national organisations as Hub Parking Technology, Niterra, Bidvest Bank, WSP, Kuehne + Nagel, and Hudaco, to name just a few. When it is not busy implementing large-scale change in industry, Grow Right takes pride in consulting with organisations on vital areas such as corporate culture, strategy, team performance, disability awareness, diversity, equity inclusion, and belonging, successfully bringing companies up to speed with the modern way.
A Unique Understanding of Human Behaviour
What really serves to separate the business from others in the field is its extensive understanding of human behaviour, offering obsessive attention to detail as a result of the company’s status as certified enneagram practitioners as well as master neuro coaches in a broad range of brain integration techniques. It is this unique ability that allows for the nurturing of client relationships that are impactful and sustainable, ultimately inspiring trust from the excellent service and quality delivery that every client is sure to receive.
Further driving success is Grow Right’s adherence to its values and overall mission across every element of the business, with these values comprising compassion, creativity, courage, and coherence, and each of these are demonstrated to the highest calibre. Grow Right sees its mission as something more, with Michelina referring to it as a “higher purpose”, one that entails having the courage to take on complex challenges, creatively developing the next generation of connected leaders that will serve to curate a bright future for South Africa.
Client-Centric Strategy for Sustainable Impact
Upon tackling new projects or beginning working with a new client, Grow Right’s strategy is a success-driven one, revolving around its commitment to provide bespoke and personal solutions to clients, as well as transparent communication, in what Michelina calls an “unwavering dedication to excellence.” Any new journey is initiated through the conducting of a comprehensive assessment of needs, thus allowing the company to garner a greater understanding of what unique challenges and expectations the project is likely to hold. From there, clear goals are set, and milestones and objectives are effectively managed to assure clients that things are heading in the right direction.
The company’s aforementioned dedication to transparency is paramount and displayed throughout an undertaking, with a clear and open line of communication fostered every time. Aware that circumstances change in this ever-evolving landscape in which we find ourselves, Grow Right remains agile and flexible, underpinning its commitment to building trust by consistently managing client expectations and adapting to changing needs. Moreover, the organisation happily offers post-project assessments, with these empowering the team to refine any elements of its processes that may need adjustment, once more ensuring client satisfaction is achieved across the board.
Michelina often tells the team, “We do not chase our competition, we chase impact”, and this ultimately serves as Grow Right’s approach to managing its standing with industry competitors. Nevertheless, it does possess a keen edge that separates it from the rest, and this is the unrivalled breadth and depth which it covers to promote change on both an individual and company level. This, combined with an unmistaken and deep-rooted passion for the work that it does, the clients it has garnered, the one-of-a-kind team it has nurtured, and the lives it changes, make Grow Right the only viable solution for learning and personal development.
As the clear embodiment of change in its region, the company operates well beyond its comfort zone, and when asked what they do, Michelina always responds with, “we make magic happen!” Driven forward by unique and powerful methodologies which cement the foundations of its noble work, the team gladly inspires behaviour change at every turn, delivering demonstrable results that drives business forward. Michelina explains, “We are an organisation that never arrives but [is rather] continually learning, growing, and lifting others as we rise.”
Internal Culture Rooted in “L.O.V.E. Layers”
With an innate knowledge of learning and personal development to boot, it is no surprise that Grow Right’s leadership team have cultivated an internal culture that is very much defined by its values. This has extended to the adopting of “L.O.V.E. layers”, an acronym for Layers of Valued Expertise, an umbrella term that favours such qualities as gratitude and connectedness. Furthermore, open-mindedness, curiosity, and a laser-focus is sought out, as well as dedication, courageous leadership, integration, trust, and balance, with these again being extensions of the company’s governing values.
In regard to the leadership team that Michelina herself is apart of, they similarly strive to expand and grow, making sure that the methodologies and leanings the company has implemented filter down throughout the organisation, reaching teams and suppliers. For the team, consistency is essential in their day-to-day operations, and when they recruit talent, consistency is too key, along with the same passion, attention to detail, accountability, curiosity, adaptability, and authenticity that the wider organisation has become famed for.
Looking to the Future: Expansion and Hilarion Global
When it comes to the future of Grow Right, Michelina and the team have a saying, “explore, experiment, experience, expand – we are movement.” It is this ethos which is largely governing the company for the foreseeable future and has also led to the launching of a sister organisation, Hilarion Global. In a similar vein, this endeavour is built on likeminded cornerstones and values, with this new organisation offering a comprehensive digital and online learning platform that is centred around three distinct pillars of business and 12 elements, with the end goal being to reach one’s highest self and access the optimal state of wisdom.
Hub Parking Technology CEO Barney Beukes has been a client with the organisation since the very beginning, and as an esteemed mentor and entrepreneur himself, the praise he affords Grow Right serves only to solidify their claims. He states, “there is tremendous energy when dealing with Grow Right Edge Solutions, a small medium enterprise that doesn’t look at how big the problem is, they rather look at what must be done to change the world, which is massive in today’s world and economies. […] I believe this small medium company found a magic bullet to help companies understand their people, touch their lives and make them believe they can change the world to become a better place.”
Ultimately, as a result of its boundless pursuit of personal mastery, corporate development, and neuro coaching for clients, Grow Right Edge Solutions has successfully established itself as an industry frontrunner, and an organisation that is committed to making the world a better place. With these qualities in toe, the company is more than worthy of this award, championing it as the definitive pioneer in the field of learning and personal development.