Spectacular Places to Work Have a Clear Perspective on the Amazing People + Culture They Need to Win.

The talent planning process at these companies is a central ingredient in their plan to compete and win. Too often, these are check-the-box task to satisfy an HR requirement rather than something that brings the company to life.

A well-designed Talent Management process ensures your company has a steady flow of future leaders – the kind of talent pipeline that companies who get written about in magazines always seem to have. The right people processes energize your company, and your people are rewarded with spectacular careers that make your company hard to leave.

Your company’s Talent Management processes are a reflection of who your company really is. So, it might be a good time to step back and evaluate who’s on your team, how they got there, and what their futures look like.

i.SUCCESSION PLANNING

The right time to plan for the inevitable succession of your leaders is before you need to – and likely much earlier than you want to. Like now. We bring years of leadership succession planning experience with companies in multiple industries to make sure that you find and develop that next generation of leaders to take your company to its spectacular future.

• Succession Roadmap (competency development, pipeline analysis, assessment of internal candidates, leadership risk assessment, estimated hard and soft costs of replacing key individuals). Our Talent Planning Checklist keeps the process focused and on track.

• Our Spectacular Talent Profile provides a comprehensive analysis and objective assessment of your leaders and their development needs, your talent planning practices, your employment brand, identification of your talent development hot spots + flat spots, and your leadership risk assessment.

II. TALENT REVIEW + LEADERSHIP RISK ASSESSMENT

We bring a tested Talent Review process that evaluates whether you have the right people in the right roles, whether you have a deep and diverse enough bench, whether you have the right people to drive critical transformation, and whether these people can help you create a sense of belonging for everyone. Our techniques help your leaders and teams more realistically evaluate your talent base.

Losing a valuable leader can be hard on your company, hard on your clients, and hard on your culture. Companies often have difficult people decisions to make – who to promote, who to develop, who to hire to strengthen a team – and they often do so without good information about the people risk associated with these decisions. Our Leadership Risk Assessment helps you understand the depth of your bench – a valuable tool when making these decisions. Knowing your leadership risk allows you to plan for and mitigate it.

III. TALENT STRATEGY

What if your people strategy was a critical component of your business strategy, not something separate?

We work with companies at all stages of their strategic planning process to evaluate their needs and determine next steps, so their people strategy directly supports their mission and goals. Using our Talent Planning Checklist, we take a structured approach to determining what’s distinctive about your company and how to end up with the right people to get it all done. Weaving people planning into business planning is critical to achieving great, sustainable results (unless you run an AI company where the robots have already taken over).

IV. BUILDING YOUR EMPLOYMENT BRAND

Attracting and retaining the best of the best is so much easier when you can let the world know you’re a spectacular place to work.

Being deliberate about your employment brand takes thoughtful work, instead of just ending up with a brand that happened to you (and that might not sound so hot on Glassdoor). We help you think through and build a brand that reflects the culture you’ve got, the culture you’re working towards, and the culture that people want to be a part of to help you reach your lofty goals. We lead the evaluation of your company’s people practices + culture and help organize them into a clear and compelling message. Delivering on this employment brand promise is what will help you attract and retain the right people with the right skills for your mission.