Consulting Services
Strategic Staffing and Organizational Analysis
In order to determine your staffing needs a gap analysis will be conducted to understand what skill sets may be missing from your organizational talent for strategic growth and business development. A proposal of phased initiatives for new hire selection would be presented. The option of a current organizational structure and revision of job descriptions can be created along with a futuristic outlook of the organization to meet staffing needs.
What does a strategic and organizational analysis offer?
Pulse Survey to Capture the Organizational Culture/Climate
In organizations, the pulse can be used to describe the health or well-being of the organization's culture, climate and employees. It is focused and geared toward collecting data on a limited number of questions or gathering data from a certain number of employees. The goal is to produce a measure from which to track trends and monitor the well-being of the organization over time and track movement on key cultural indicators.
What do Pulse Surveys offer?
Deep Dive on your Organization Culture/Climate
Through interviews and surveys we will bring invaluable data to understand the challenges that your organization may be encountering and how best to strategize for the future. We will assist you by providing a deep dive into your organizational culture and climate in order to understand the motivation of your employees and provide suggestions to engage them in the vision of the organization. The goal with this project is to utilize your organizational core competencies to look at the strategic initiatives for the future and provide recommendations for growth and development.
What does a Deep Dive offer?
Intercultural Training and Cross-Cultural Coaching
Studies have shown that, without proper preparation before departure and assistance following arrival, adjusting to a new culture is more difficult and can lead to a premature return home. The purpose of intercultural training is to prepare the employees and their families for the international assignment.
Pre-Departure Training Moving to a New Culture
The pre-departure training will provide the participants with a realistic understanding of what to expect on the assignment. In addition to creating an understanding of the new culture, it provides practical living information, specific business-related information and an understanding of the cultural adjustment process. Ideally, the pre-departure training should take place 2-4 weeks before departure.
Post-Arrival Training Moving to the USA
The post-arrival training is designed to assist the international assignee and family make a smooth transitions to life in the United States. It is similar to the pre-departure program and can be freestanding when a pre-departure program was not offered before departure. Ideally it will be offered in conjunction with a pre-departure training and should then take place 2-6 weeks after arrival.
Individual Coaching The Cross-Cultural Coach Program
Individual coaching is entirely customized according the specific needs of the participants. It can help executives accelerate the adaptation to a new business culture, as well as help the accompanying spouse create a personal plan for his or her life in the new environment. It can be freestanding or used as extra support after other training.
Repatriation Training Moving Home
Returning home from an international assignment may seem like an easy thing to do. However, studies show that this is not the case. In fact, moving home can be more difficult than moving to another country, and the adjustment can be as demanding. When an employee and family are sent on an international assignment they know that they will encounter a different culture, language and lifestyle but when they return home they don’t expect things to be different In order to help the international employees assimilate back into their own culture, specific repatriation training has been shown to help make this process easier.
In order to determine your staffing needs a gap analysis will be conducted to understand what skill sets may be missing from your organizational talent for strategic growth and business development. A proposal of phased initiatives for new hire selection would be presented. The option of a current organizational structure and revision of job descriptions can be created along with a futuristic outlook of the organization to meet staffing needs.
What does a strategic and organizational analysis offer?
- Define critical staffing issues/areas of focus.
- Clear delineation and coordination of staff roles
- Organizational structure and processes to guide staff toward achieving the vision
- Stronger understanding of current job function and areas for development
- Clear direction for strategic hiring approach and growth opportunities
Pulse Survey to Capture the Organizational Culture/Climate
In organizations, the pulse can be used to describe the health or well-being of the organization's culture, climate and employees. It is focused and geared toward collecting data on a limited number of questions or gathering data from a certain number of employees. The goal is to produce a measure from which to track trends and monitor the well-being of the organization over time and track movement on key cultural indicators.
What do Pulse Surveys offer?
- Stronger awareness of organizational climate and culture
- Measures for improvement in employee engagement
- Provides an index score to gauge well-being and organizational health over time
- Provides additional information on the specific actions that should be taken as a result of the survey to determine if progress is being made on employees' action plans
Deep Dive on your Organization Culture/Climate
Through interviews and surveys we will bring invaluable data to understand the challenges that your organization may be encountering and how best to strategize for the future. We will assist you by providing a deep dive into your organizational culture and climate in order to understand the motivation of your employees and provide suggestions to engage them in the vision of the organization. The goal with this project is to utilize your organizational core competencies to look at the strategic initiatives for the future and provide recommendations for growth and development.
What does a Deep Dive offer?
- Determine what people really think about the organization, what motivates them, what’s rewarded and punished, and what are the “unspoken rules” and corporate stories that they believe best illustrate acceptable and unacceptable behavior
- Distinguish and describe the important subcultures within the organization
- Identify what is really being heard by employees and areas for improvement
- Determine your organization’s strengths to provide growth and development suggestions.
- Opportunity to update job descriptions and suggest important strategic hiring approaches for future talent.
Intercultural Training and Cross-Cultural Coaching
Studies have shown that, without proper preparation before departure and assistance following arrival, adjusting to a new culture is more difficult and can lead to a premature return home. The purpose of intercultural training is to prepare the employees and their families for the international assignment.
Pre-Departure Training Moving to a New Culture
The pre-departure training will provide the participants with a realistic understanding of what to expect on the assignment. In addition to creating an understanding of the new culture, it provides practical living information, specific business-related information and an understanding of the cultural adjustment process. Ideally, the pre-departure training should take place 2-4 weeks before departure.
Post-Arrival Training Moving to the USA
The post-arrival training is designed to assist the international assignee and family make a smooth transitions to life in the United States. It is similar to the pre-departure program and can be freestanding when a pre-departure program was not offered before departure. Ideally it will be offered in conjunction with a pre-departure training and should then take place 2-6 weeks after arrival.
Individual Coaching The Cross-Cultural Coach Program
Individual coaching is entirely customized according the specific needs of the participants. It can help executives accelerate the adaptation to a new business culture, as well as help the accompanying spouse create a personal plan for his or her life in the new environment. It can be freestanding or used as extra support after other training.
Repatriation Training Moving Home
Returning home from an international assignment may seem like an easy thing to do. However, studies show that this is not the case. In fact, moving home can be more difficult than moving to another country, and the adjustment can be as demanding. When an employee and family are sent on an international assignment they know that they will encounter a different culture, language and lifestyle but when they return home they don’t expect things to be different In order to help the international employees assimilate back into their own culture, specific repatriation training has been shown to help make this process easier.