Total Rewards Design and Optimization

We specialize in how to think about a compensation philosophy, how to design incentive pay to optimize business outcomes, as well as perks, benefits, and time-off programs that give you a competitive advantage in hiring.  We’ve got deep experience across many sectors to help get the highest return on your total reward investments.

We also can help you with answering the important questions on equitable pay and broader market practices.

Organizational Effectiveness & Design

Let’s face it, you can organize a business a thousand different ways and get a thousand different results.  We can help you think about your long-term business strategy and based on your vision, help think through how best to think about skills, jobs, and the people who are best suited, and then build a plan to get from today to your vision of tomorrow.  We can also provide you with a systematic approach to critical retention plan using our workforce scanning methodology. 

HR Business Process Optimization

Documenting processes, finding efficiencies, leveraging Lean and Six Sigma principles, these are often not the strength of most HR departments.  Without doing this well, your systems and overall people practices often suffer with errors and disruption in workforce productivity as people work through the issues.  We’re here with swim lanes and ready to dive in on your HR processes when you need it, especially if you are thinking about implementing a new HR system.

Leadership Development Strategies

It’s all about the manager.  People don’t leave companies, they leave bad managers.  We can help you think about how to make management and leadership a strength to unlock more value in your organization.

Recruiting Strategies and Tactics

Cost per hire more than it should be?  It takes too long to find qualified candidates?  Having challenges closing the deal?  We know a thing or two about maximizing recruiting results as well as establishing important metrics to ensure you are optimizing your approach in building your most critical company asset, your people.

Workforce Analytics and Essential Reporting

There is a lot of data out there, it can be quite overwhelming.  There is also many (many) ways to interpret data and metrics across your workforce.  Turnover, stability, quality of hire, cost per hire, human capital ROI, not to mention transactional data, such as error and other disruption that slows down productivity.  We can help you think about how to build cascading scorecards and focus on the metrics that not only matter the most, but allow you to actually take action to get better. 

Performance Management Practices

Ratings or no ratings? Formal annual reviews or ongoing feedback?  There are a lot of options and choices you will need to think when optimizing performance management.  There are also a lot of opinions out there on what approaches are ideal.  In the end, there is no silver bullet, but there are a lot of effective ways to drive performance in your company based on your goals and we can help break down the pros, cons, benefits and unintended consequences of all of these approaches.

Human Capital Management Systems

Hey, we get it.  There are a lot of options you need to think about when you consider how to leverage HR systems across your business processes.  All-in-one system?  Best-of-breed model with integrations?  We can help you think through what is best for your organization based on your business needs and footprint.

HR Policy and Guidelines

The dreaded policy documents.  No one loves reading these things, let alone writing them.  Well, we are the HR nerds that actually do like writing these and do so through wanting to make them more digestible, and dare we say, even a little engaging?  Don’t think it’s possible?  Request a sample writing!