Overview
As part of this Architectural and Logistics Solutions Firms’ recent acquisition, the CEO and executive leadership team were driving a new go- to- market strategy. Their goal and challenge were to bring the two firms together to create a strong and successful organization.
As part of the firm’s strategy and commitment to growing leaders and building bench strength and driving performance in the new organization, the CEO and Head of HR, with the support of a Board member familiar with our firm, engaged us to develop and implement a Talent Review process.
The Project goal was to create and implement a Talent Review framework to assess leadership performance across the organization, uncover talent gaps, identify high potential and make strategic talent decisions to support future success.
Opportunities
- Identify how the talent review process would contribute to the larger strategic goals of the business.
- Establish a strategy for developing an ongoing talent management review and workforce planning framework.
- Identify the key stakeholders and influencers in the process to offer varying perspectives and ensure a relevant and supported plan.
- Identifying high potentials and individuals interested in growth or with identified development opportunities in specific areas of the company and potentially across the organization.
- Explore leveraging current assessment and related tools and incorporating them into talent reviews and future development plans.
- Identify technology solutions that would integrate with existing systems and explore needed changes or alternative solutions.
- Identify anticipated changes to the organization and how they might affect future success of the talent review process.
Results
- Conducted comprehensive stakeholder analysis to identify alignment gaps and operational barriers hindering the CEO’s market expansion strategy.
- Led cross-functional planning sessions that established clear workforce requirements, performance targets, and leadership structure to support new business direction.
- Partners with executive leadership and HR team to effectuate and embed change, develop data-driven measurement tools, technology upgrades, and capacity building roadmap.