Strategic HR

Strategic HR creates value for your business far beyond the HR department. When properly leveraged, Strategic HR will help you identify the organizational capabilities needed for long term growth, profit, and efficiency.

These capabilities will give your business robust advantages while offering intangible immediate value.

How We Can Help Your Organization
Thrive Through Strategic HR:

Business and HR Integration

For strategic human resources to be of value it must be driven by the short-and-long-term strategic needs of the business.

Linking the talent strategy and processes to the business planning processes ensures the talent strategy stays integrated, and is monitored and measured throughout the annual planning cycle.

When business strategy is formulated in the absence of organizational capabilities, execution of strategy is often “hit or miss.”

Our Business and HR Strategy Integration
solutions will help your organization:

  • Collect business information and align human capital and business planning calendars.
  • Create assurance of strategic plans that identify success metrics.
  • Create dialogue to understand business strategy
  • Gain executive approval for strategic plan investments.
  • Translate business priorities into human capital capabilities
  • Customize human capital communication plan for all stakeholders.
  • Assess the current state of human capital effectiveness and critical capabilities.
  • Measure and report progress toward strategic goals.
  • Prioritize human capital initiatives based on business strategy and capability.
  • Adapt human capital strategy as business conditions change.
  • Unify human capital solutions into an integrated plan.
  • Adapt human capital strategy as business conditions change.

High Performance Culture

High

Performance

Culture

Corporate culture is why people join a company and ultimately why they stay engaged in a company. Your talent should only feel passion when they think about their employee experience. A passionate employee translates to higher productivity and retention. But that’s easier said than done.

Our High Performance Culture solutions
will help your organization:

  • Determine the existing cultural characteristics, in contrast to ‘what are the desired’.
  • Implement holistic organizational assessments.
  • Align culture with vision, values and business strategy to drive performance.
  • Improve organizational effectiveness and identify priority people initiatives.
  • Share insight into critical behaviors and how these impact on business performance.
  • Align the organization processes and systems to embed culture change.
  • Identify critical success factors for cultural integration of the hierarchy and teams.
  • Analyze stakeholder feedback to optimize support functions.
  • Provide strategies and practical recommendations for reinforcing the desired culture.
  • Develop business partnering capabilities and implement initiatives for improvements.
  • Enhance engagement levels by targeting specific motivational factors/areas.

Strategic Workforce Planning

Workforce planning is an on-going process used to align the priorities and needs of the business with those of the workforce. It anticipates current and future staffing, competency and demographic needs, identifies gaps, and delivers gap-closing action plans to meet strategic business goals.

Our Strategic Workforce Planning solutions
will help your organization:

  • Stabilize staffing levels of all departments with the right skills in the right positions.
  • Identify and overcome internal and external barriers to accomplishing strategic workforce goals.
  • Align workforce requirements directly to strategic and annual business plans.
  • Link the WFP process with the strategic plan and business plan to reach short and long-term goals.
  • Hire industry top talent and stay one step ahead of your competitors at all times.
  • Develop specifications for the types, amounts, and locations of talent needed to accomplish strategic requirements.
  • Analyze skill gaps of your future employee needs to provide insights to reach organizational goals.
  • Determine what gaps exist between the current and projected workforce needs.
  • Drive business forward and ensure performance improvement for current and future objectives..
  • Implement the action plan and ensure resources, marketing, and coordination are in place.
  • Prepare for potential and unexpected problems to save time and revenue in the long run.
  • Monitor progress against milestones and assess for continuous improvement purposes.
  • Making decisions about how best to structure the organization and deploy the workforce.
  • Adjust the plan to make course corrections and to address new workforce issues.
  • Evaluate talent and performance to prevent workforce needs surprises.

Functional Structure
& Technology

The right technology is critical to the success of the organization’s execution of business and people strategies. According to recent studies, 78% of executives believe upgrading their systems is critical for their organization’s ability to maintain a competitive advantage. Yet, 63% also said their organizations are slow to adopt new technology. Part of the reason they hesitate is that although new technology is capable of producing huge gains, many companies don’t realize the full benefits due to poor implementation.

One of the main reasons why companies fail is a lack of planning. You can’t just expect employees to take on the challenge of integrating a new tool into their workflow; you have to first provide proper training and messaging.
Luckily, we’re experts in the process.

Our Functional Structure & Technology
will help your organization:

  • Conduct a well-defined vision for the company’s processes and technology.
  • Engage project team members efficiently and effectively.
  • Set the course for the project's goals, priorities, timeframe, and budget.
  • Start Change Management activities at the start of a project to lay a solid foundation for success.
  • Understand the strategic business requirements that are vital to the business’ success.
  • Build high-performing and process-based end-user training to ensure understanding of new technology.
  • Determine the implementation plan, and provide a framework for making trade-off decisions as the project progresses.
  • Develop training materials specific to your organization and talent to provide the most comprehensive and easy to understand process.
  • Evaluate software based on future scenarios goals rather than what the vendor wants to sell.
  • Measure adoption to ensure your users are prepared for success.
  • Apply rigorous project management skills to achieve milestones, resolve issues and track progress.

Talent
Acquisition

In most organizations, talent is the essential resource. In fact, your talent is the one thing that can distinguish you from competition. We can help you identify and select people with the right values, qualifications, skills, capabilities and experience to drive your organization’s growth going forward.

Our Talent Acquisition solutions will help your organization:

  • Define the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) individuals must possess to perform effectively.
  • Identify the tools and channels to find and reach target candidates.
  • Create a multi-phase onboarding program that begins when the candidate accepts the employment offer.
  • Develop the recruiter’s personal brand and create an online social presence.
  • Build a talent acquisition and recruiting team and structure model.
  • Hone outreach strategies and organize cold calls, voicemails, emails, and text outreach for optimal response rates.
  • Create an exceptional candidate experience process.
  • Verifying application and resume information.
  • Determine and create interviewing strategies.
  • Engage new hires with the company’s culture and core values.
  • Assess a candidate’s potential organizational culture fit.
  • Determine what hiring metrics matter and create systems to collect and analyze the data.
  • Identify current and potential talent pools.
  • Integrate a TRM/CRM (Talent/Candidate Relationship Management) system.
  • Build pipeline management tools and technology.
  • Conduct a SWOT Analysis.
  • Utilizing content marketing to build communities.
  • Create and conduct candidate assessments using the role’s KSAs.
  • Develop the sourcing strategy.

Talent Value Proposition

The Talent Value Proposition and employment brand are essential in an organization attracting and retaining the talent it needs to achieve its organization’s strategic business goals.

Components of the employment brand and TVP include compensation and benefits, work environment, work–life balance, company culture and environment, and product/company brand strength.

Our TVP solutions, we can help your organization by:

  • Identify TVP attributes using tools such as labor market research and employee surveys.
  • Target “employment brand” variations to internal labor micro-markets.
  • Promote the TVP to internal and external audiences with employment branding.
  • Create and deliver talent management policies and processes to support the TVP.
  • Deliver promises with TVP and HR alignment and measurement of TVP delivery effectiveness.
  • Embed the TVP into high-influence moments in the candidate and employee experience.
  • Prioritize future HR investments by diagnosing existing employee preferences and perceptions.
  • Increase the credibility of the TVP in the labor market.
  • Identify appealing compensation (and non) parts of employment offers for valuable employees.
  • Identify where in the action plan potential and current talent have contact with the TVP.
  • Market the company's recruitment brand to clarify features of employment offer to employees.
  • Create attraction and recruitment touch points.

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Human Resources To The Next Level

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