Mission Critical Solutions
Productivity Improvement
Unlock your organization's full potential with our productivity improvement solutions. Picture a finely tuned internal engine, streamlined and agile, powered by clarity on deliverables, priorities, and anticipated outcomes. We equip you with the skills to leverage objective and key results (OKR) methodology, transforming your strategic vision into actionable steps that resonate throughout your company. From top-level objectives to grassroots initiatives, we align every effort to drive maximum impact. Our approach doesn't stop at theory – we provide and implement cutting-edge digital tools to track progress in real-time, ensuring you stay on course to achieve your loftiest goals. With our seasoned guidance, we discern between productivity-boosting elements and obstacles, refining your processes for optimal efficiency. It's a journey tailored to your unique context, encompassing everything from vision and values to communication and team dynamics, whether you operate in a remote, hybrid, or global setting. Elevate your productivity game with our comprehensive approach – because success is built on the details.
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Special Project a la Carte Offerings
In the event you have a working HR function but would like support to address mission-critical projects to jump-start your people strategy and set you up for success.
Discovery & Assessment
We undertake an extensive review of your existing people strategy, from the bottom up, to first understand your commercial vision and target operating model, then overlay talent requirements, phasing, and employee value proposition relative to the market.
We then examine every aspect of the employment journey – from the perspective of new and established team members – accurately discovering the strengths and weaknesses of the entire employee lifecycle. Finally, we compare your current state with your desired state and suggest gap remedies that will bridge your people strategy with your commercial strategy. Our report will set your entire HR scale-up agenda.
- Typical Duration: 2-3 weeks
Culture Creation & Integration
This is a mission-critical requirement for any scaling business, and we ensure a thorough, highly collaborative process to pull down your most vital, DNA-level core cultural values through an exhilarating design-centred approach.
We work with founders and their leadership teams to capture, curate and codify the most poignant and impactful values that are driving their commercial mission – and turn those into measurable performance guideposts, against which everyone will be assessed, paid and promoted. ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’ – as Peter Drucker said – and it’s proven to be one of the most essential truths of our time. We will unpack, clarify, test and design your Magna Carta – and bring your cultural values into the everyday lives of your people…Meaningfully.
- Typical Duration: 2 months
Employer Brand Building & Launch
- Typical Duration: 3-4 months
Delivering Your Recruitment Engine
If fast-growth is required, we’ll implement a plan to increase volume of quality-sourced superstars, drive your brand and EVP messaging to methodically-mapped talent markets, ensure great candidates are engaged with well-trained hiring managers and interviewers using a compressed 3-4 week timeline from sourced to offered.
We will reduce fees substantially by providing exclusive, globally positioned mini-RPO vendors and bring impact up, improve ratios, push great experience through the roof, and meet your demanding phasing requirements. Importantly, we’ll make sure they are the right people, right fit to accelerate your growth and market aspirations. We have delivered 300% growth annually and built entire companies on a global scale in 12-18 months.
- Typical Duration: 6-18 months – depending on requirements
Creative Onboarding
Using the latest, coolest and most engaging digital tools, we’ll design and implement fully-automated pre-boarding and first 90 days onboarding experiences that will have your new hires buzzing about for years.
Negative attrition in the first 12 months of a new employee’s tenure is most often attributed to poor onboarding and not setting up the conditions for their success. We call this process ‘Speed to Full Productivity’ as we seek to reduce a new hire’s typical 3-6 month learning curve down to no more than 1 month. Increased retention, team impact, productivity boost and engagement scores are our success metrics. You provide the testimonials and ‘special sauce’ to a string of introductory and instructive videos – and we’ll map those to our digital experience, which is reusable, scalable and effective – all highly available anytime, both before and just after your new employees start. It’s a game-changer.
- Typical Duration: 2 months
HR Digital Tooling
Understanding which tools will positively impact, automate, delegate and enhance your business’ ability to attract, recruit, onboard, train, educate, improve performance, listen, pay and benefit your employees is challenging.
Adding deep insight via people analytics to make data-driven action planning a science rather than an art is the value-added ROI. We will, based on a detailed requirements review, project manage identifying and implementing the best, most relevant, and reasonably priced HR technology appropriate for your company’s maturity now and into the next three years.
- Typical Duration: 3 months
Creating the Performance/Development Infinity Loop
We replace the dreaded and often useless annual performance review with a comprehensive 360° real-time feedback engine where peers, direct reports and line managers can input regularly into their team member’s performance journal.
- Typical Duration: 2 months
Creating Open Career Paths
Using a terrific new online tool, we help you shape and career map your entire organisation, for every team, right down to each role within your company.
Regardless of how your organisation is structured, we can lead your team leaders through a design process that effectively breaks down each role, the required skills and capabilities, at what level (1-5), and then assign those to every employee in your company. Everyone can self-assess against these skills and create developmental pathways to their next promotion. Performance, training and coaching can then be targeted to specific goals and everyone will benefit from clearly visioning their futures.
- Typical Duration: 1-3 months
Compensation & Benefits Benchmarking
- Typical Duration: 2 months
Goal Setting & OKR Adoption
- Typical Duration: 1 month
Innovative Design for Improving People Systems and Experiences
Borrowing directly from product, software and user design methodologies, we provide game-changers in your organisation to learn and embrace rapid result design methodology – which engages real end-users in an expertly facilitated workshop to pick apart any aspect of their businesses, professional and personal experiences – and identify current-state flow, relative satisfaction with that state, and to identify and prioritise the most urgent areas for improvement.
- Typical Duration: 1-2 months
