HR Strategy And Talent Development
Executing a truly game-changing talent strategy for your business
Whitehawk Associates
Bringing people and technology together to steer your business forward
No matter how much effort your organization takes to improve existing processes or how many new technologies you rope in, nothing will change till the time the goal of your organization and your human capital precisely match each other. Your team may be highly efficient and competent, but a robust culture needs to be incorporated to innovate and associate one’s success with the organization’s success, for which we can help you with a dependable HR strategy.
Get accelerated with the rapid changes within your organization because a successful business puts people first. WHA’s team of veterans ensures our clients reimagine their interaction with people as the first strategy and help you develop talent, create a culture to accelerate the change, and deliver HR services.
WHA - The Best Talent Management Consultants For Your Business
Successful businesses thrive on their talent, but it’s being observed that Talent Management remains a critical issue worldwide. Thus, companies must bring innovative HR programs and initiatives to develop talent.
The right talent management strategy gives you the power to bring the right people with the right skills at the right time and place to grow together to meet evolving business needs. WHA’S talent strategy team works with you to ensure that people strategy aligns with business strategy.
WHA’s Services Within This Context Include:
- Strategically defining talent management vision
- Defining critical workforce segments
- Designing talent management process map
- Using people's analytics
- Reinventing work culture
Our HR Strategy and Talent Development Consultation Services To Establish Your Talent-First Organization
Strategic Change Management
You are not alone if your company is driving growth, innovating, and navigating constant disruptions. Changes are an essential part of the modern business world, and to remain a competitive advantage, an organization must have a strategic management plan to adapt to change. With WHA's strategic management framework, you can understand why your organization is seeking change, your aptitude to handle change, and design a personalized change program to transition smoothly.
People Analytics
Businesses cannot run on guesswork and thus need reliable data and insights to make clear decisions. People Analytics, therefore, sources data from multiple sources to aid in decision-making. Our people analytics services help collect the correct business data, use statistical analytics to assess risks and opportunities, and provide visibility through powerful reporting. With experienced practitioners, WHA helps you maximize the potential of people's data and deliver more value to your business.
Talent Strategy And Development
Thriving in a competitive environment demands adaptability. Organizations need to cultivate a culture of continuous learning to empower employees. WHA helps build skilled talent for current and future work by creating cultures of continuous learning enabled by AI and digital capabilities.
Leadership And Culture Reinvention
What motivates employees? It's not bigger paychecks. It's flexible. Many workers are ready to leave the job if the culture doesn't meet their expectations. It's time for organizations to wake up and reinvent the culture that benefits employees and the organization itself.
Strategic Workforce Planning
Businesses need highly skilled employees to thrive now and in the future. Weak talent can crumble the entire foundation without any signs. That's where WHA workforce planning helps. Our planning forecasts risks, identify talent gaps between the current workforce and future needs, balances the quality, quantity, and location of critical talent, and finally comes up with an actionable solution to resolve the issues.
HR Strategy and Transformation
HR transformation isn't a one-term thing. It's a long-term journey that keeps on evolving with future needs. WHA's advisors develop a strategy that best fits the organizational needs and is something you can rely on. So, whether you are looking to redesign your HR strategy to work better or build the skills to transform HR, WHA can help.
Make talent development your secret weapon to drive business growth and stay ahead of the curve.
WHA's Process For Talent Strategy And Development
Analysing the talent implications
Nurturing the right infrastructure
Gap analysis and priority setting
Design people processes and systems
Strategic Decision-Making (Buy or Build)
Building talent
Skill Enhancement
Analyse Impact
WHA is Successfully Formulating HR Strategy and Talent Development With Winning Numbers
WhiteHawk brings end-to-end HR strategy and talent development experience focusing on people and purpose at the heart of change.
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The Benchmark.
Recognize all valuable leadership skills needed for a high-quality, well-performing workforce.
Assessment of Potential
Make a shortlist. One for potential staff that has the relevant skills and abilities for the current job at hand.
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This is the stage at which you can now start the Whitehawk Associates
Talent Development Process. Using the chosen employees on your shortlist.
Measuring Progress
Implementing the Whitehawk Associates digital scorecard. This will enable you to track and measure all your finalizing results. Boosting motivation and maintaining momentum.
- Identify skill gaps in your company
- Hire the right people to fill those gaps
- Bring new staff and employees completely up to speed
- Engage your workforce and provide them with the tools they need to succeed
- Keep your skilled talent and provide them with opportunities for growth
Whitehawk Associates will help develop your Talent Strategy by:
- Pinpointing talent implications of your business strategy.
- Creating the right infrastructure for your company and workforce to grow.
- Identifying all pivotal job roles and problems that need fixing.
- Defining in very fine detail all successful staff profiles.
- Make the decision about “Buy 'v' Build” to complete the circle in any talent gaps. This will save your company so much financial cost.
- Growing your skills by recognizing how to keep, grow and promote your talented workforce. Turning them into a valuable winning long-term successful team.
HR strategy development is a very important document. One which sets out the way forward for HR for the next few years. This will show how HR Management will focus on the design and development of its HR Strategy.
This important document must be clear and very precise. Motivating the HR employees to work on its full implementation. Resulting in a stress-free successful happy working environment.
1. Directing A Happy Workspace
Always keep your staff enthusiastic while at work. This will keep a safe, happy stress-free atmosphere. You want your workforce to feel relaxed. Like they do when they are at home.
A good idea is to do surveys to capture their thoughts and feelings. Ones about how they feel working in the office.
2. Employee Performance Bonuses
Rewarding your staff for doing an amazing job is always a good way to keep them happy.
It is a good idea to let your staff understand, that bonuses will only be paid if certain goals have been achieved. Either as a company, a team, or an individual. This will always keep the most hungry and talented staff in the office. Trying to achieve these very goals.
3. A Superb Management Feedback System
Create a feedback system in the company for all the staff. From office juniors to high-ranking management. Doing this is a little bit like letting out the steam from a heated pressure cooker. Resulting in a fun stress-free working environment.
4. Visible Displays of High Scoring Performers and Staff
The best performance by your staff must always be kept prominently on display. This should always be done for the whole company to see. Whether it be on display boards or on websites. This practice always gives the workforce a well-needed boost. It keeps them trying to strive and constantly do better for themselves and the company. Especially when they know that everybody else knows that they are performing well.
5. Surprise your Workforce with the Un-expected
One very successful practice is surprising your staff with unique things in the form of a reward. Surprise the best performers with a gift or a certificate. And also reward a few others who may need a bit more motivation. This will spur them on to do their very best.
Firstly, the team here at WHA will start by asking your company the correct questions. Plus, we will look at all data received from every part of your company. These questions and data will need reviewing for us to deliver all your required objectives.
Now we have examined your information, and data. The next thing we need to look at is your analytics and requirements. We will analyze that data and turn it into valuable insights.
These in turn will help us answer those all-important questions. Helping us to achieve your goals?
An important part of data-driven HR is making sure all key insights are delivered. Especially to the correct people in the right way at the right time, so that the right actions can be taken.
We will then present you with valuable insights. All this with the innovative Whitehawk Associates dashboards.
Our qualified team of data analysts has real-time access to data through simple reports. Sharing key insights and then presenting them to you as very easy-to-view visuals.
This is the point where we make a plan of action. One that will turn your HR data strategy into a full-blown reality.
HR transformation strategy redesigns the HR functions to pave the path for growth. This can include several changes such as automation of repetitive tasks, cutting the old process that eats too many processes, and training the HR for change.
Some of the most critical drivers for HR transformation are:
- Automation
- Improving data quality to make data-driven decisions
- Identifying hidden opportunities
- Reducing overhead costs, etc
HR transformation consultancy services help your organization make substantial changes to its overall HR strategy and HR processes. Although human resources keep changing, organizations often implement fixed strategies that go stale over time thus reducing their impact and end results.
WHA's HR transformation and talent management service can help you with:
- Aligning your HR processes with your vision.
- Discover hidden opportunities in talent programs to pave the path for growth.
- Automating repetitive HR tasks like resume screening so the team can focus on what's important.
HR transformation has several benefits for all kinds of businesses including
- Simplifies processes
- Improved employee experience and keeping them engaged
- Reducing overhead costs
- Data-driven decisions instead of assumptions
Attract and retaining better talent
Testimonials
I took Dr. Carter's Strategic Management course my senior year, and it has been my favorite class to date. I have never met a professor who cares so much for her students. Her class was challenging, and she always demanded creative and intellectual work. The concepts and values I learned in Dr. Carter's class will continue to be applicable and useful in my career. Her passion for management and people are inspiring. I highly recommend Dr. Carter as a professor, leader and mentor.
Kelsey Bagwell Senior Project Engineer at Lockheed Martin February 14, 2013, Kelsey was a client of Suzanne’sMr. Bhavdeep Singh is a leader with enormous intensity, dedication, and passion. He is a tremendous team builder and a rock-solid anchor who can make his team stay goal focused and accomplish seemingly impossible goals. A Guru par excellence, he is a great mentor, guide, and has mentored several leaders. I find him to be extremely transparent, trustworthy, and a great human being.
Chetan Agarwal CIO | IT Industry Veteran | Chief Technology Officer at FetchmypaymentsMichael is an excellent strategist. He developed and implemented plans to open 18 big box grocery stores within a 12-month period. As a member of the team that accomplished this task, I can attest to Mr. Mike's leadership skills in providing great direction so that the process was both effective and efficient. The stores all opened on time, were complete, and ready for business. I would recommend Michael as a key component to any group that wants to be successful in creating a multi-store strategic plan.
Amy Schwanke Customer Logistics/ Customer Service March 12, 2009, Mr. Mike Carter was senior to Amy but didn’t manage directly“Mr. Bhavdeep Singh is an exemplary leader with an ability to do both Macro and Micro thinking. He has a diverse experience in consumer facing industries. His experience of these industries in the most developed markets has given him vision, financial understanding and strategic skills to transform the Indian market which is at the early stages of development in many of these industries currently. He is a leader with his feet firmly on ground despite having achieved so much. I wish him all the best.”
Ashish Chauhan CEO at BSEI had the pleasure of working with Mr. Peter Bracher for most of my two years with Reliance Retail in India. He brought a wealth of diverse retail backgrounds to the head of operations. In a start-up organization nothing ever goes smoothly, and requires an ever positive attitude and the ability to course correct very quickly - Mr. Peter excelled in this environment. A strong leader capable of heading any organization.
Rick Boozell Sr. Retail Manager seeking job opportunity. December 22, 2008, Mr. Peter Bracher worked with Rick in the same groupMr. Peter Bracher and I worked together at the launch phase of the Reliance Fresh operations. During my several interactions with Mr. Peter Bracher, I realized the vast knowledge that Mr. Peter Bracher has of the retail business and how very calm, self-confident, and controlled his approach was to the new business. Mr. Peter Bracher has this amazing capacity for treating and welcoming all potential contributions on their merits and without prejudice. He has a strong sense of objectives, with an outstanding ability to respond to people and to situations and to promote team spirit. I remember how quickly Mr. Peter Bracher adapted to Mumbai and with what ease he could grab a working knowledge of the local language and the traditions in this country. It is without a doubt that Mr. Peter Bracher is full of humility, painstaking, orderly, and conscientious with a huge capacity for follow-through and perfection.
Praveen Pasricha CEO at C.A.P.E. Consulting, Center For Creative Leadership January 20, 2010, Mr. Peter Bracher worked with Praveen in the same groupMr. Mike Carter is talented, results driven leader. He clearly understands the connection between obtaining business goals and the absolute importance of having the right people. Mr. Mike Carter has been responsible for large and small businesses throughout the US. He consistently produced strong financials, developed high performing teams and created positive working environments. I would strongly recommend Mr. Mike for any senior leadership role.
Tony VanValkenburg President at Dutchbrothers September 24, 2014, Mr. Mike Carter worked with Tony in the same groupMr. Mike Carter is one of the most knowledgeable supermarket executives in the industry. In addition to his significant base of experience, he is also an outstanding manager of people. He is innovative and has a rare combination of vision with the ability to consider the practical aspects for implementation. He was a pleasure to work with at A&P and also HEB..
Victor Alessandro Global Business Operations Management, P&L. Six Sigma, Lean, Strategic Planning, Market Development, Customer Success March 3, 2009, Mr. Mike Carter worked with Victor in the same groupMr. Peter Bracher was this silent but potent source of energy and thought leadership for the Reliance Fresh Team. His practical and sustainable solutions to retailing issues in India were looked upon by each and every one. Mr. Peter Bracher has a special way of making things look simple and enjoyable. His people management skills are exceptional. I enjoyed every bit of interaction with him and learned a lot in exchange. His ability to understand and adapt to different cultures is commendable.
Rohit Anand Head HR CoEs October 12, 2009, Mr. Peter Bracher worked with Rohit in the same groupI have had the distinct pleasure of working with Mr. Bhavdeep Singh in the unparalleled business transformation of the A&P company. Mr. Bhavdeep Singh is a true champion of positive change and quickly engaged his organization and other parts of the enterprise in the launch of an aggressive customer-centric strategy involving the execution of organization redesign, values-based culture shift, and a behavioral philosophy of customer service at the leadership level - one that he already embodied. Mr. Bhavdeep Singh clearly "walks the talk" and is considered by all those who work with him to be a transformational leader.
Celeste A. Coruzzi, Ph.D. Managing Director and Practice Leader at Pearl Meyer“Mr. Bhavdeep Singh is a highly proficient leader with a truly global perspective and business acumen. Mr. Bhavdeep’s broad range of business skills and knowledge of different market segments was demonstrated during a recent collaborative health care project. He is a gifted international executive and a pleasure to work with.”
Rob Barrow Healthcare Operator, Investor & OwnerI had the pleasure of working with Mr. Bhavdeep Singh during the setting up of Reliance Retail in India - opening over 600 supermarkets in 14 states across India. Mr. Bhavdeep Singh is a skilled and passionate leader who has the ability to create loyal teams who will move mountains to achieve their objectives. Mr. Bhavdeep Singh has a very practical knowledge of retail and a natural ability to grasp financial data; which combined with his boundless energy and leadership skills makes him an ideal head for any business with ambitious international growth plans..
Mr. Peter Bracher New Market Entry, Operations, Food Safety, Public Health, Crisis Management, Retail, ASIC Technical Committee Member, Partner - TEAM Public Health, Partner - TREEE Marketplace
Mr. Peter Bracher is one of the most creative and intelligent men I have ever worked with. He has great insight, extraordinary stamina, and a wry sense of humor that makes working with him a real pleasure. He also delivers the goods in every sense.
David Edwards MCIEH Director Speakezi ltd, Director Bayesian Ltd. Director PH-7 ltd, Consultant January 7, 2010, David worked with Mr. Peter Bracher in different groups