HR Strategy Accelerator

“Strategy is about making choices and trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.”

- Michael Porter, Author | Expert | Harvard Business School Professor

HR at the speed of business.

  • Are You a New HR Leader?

    If you’re new to the organization, you need to prove yourself to the CEO, understand the voice of the business, and assess your team’s capabilities. The HR Strategy Accelerator combines these three elements, allowing you to understand, create, define, and plan your strategy, while getting to know your team in the process.

  • Are You the Strategic One?

    If you’re leading the HR function and have a small but mighty group of ‘doers,’ the HR Strategy Accelerator can help get your team quickly bought-in, and focused on the project plan, timelines, milestones, and measurements, mobilizing the team around sound and smooth execution.

  • Is It That Time of Year?

    If you’re leading the HR function, it’s likely that during “strategy season” you’re tasked with making the plan for the year ahead, asking for budgets, and convincing the CFO she should give it to you! The HR Strategy Accelerator can help drive the planning process, getting you to budget planning quicker and with more data around needs, challenges, and potential impact.

While tailored in length and approach for each situation, the Strategy Accelerator is a facilitated process that moves a group through all phases of strategy creation…quickly.

New HR Leader

When you first start, the pressure is ON. Not only to begin delivering HR services to the organization, but to build credibility, to learn the nuances of the company, to show the CEO she made the right choice in hiring you, and to solve whatever challenges were waiting for you.

Why not kill a few birds with just one stone?

As part of your own onboarding, you can bring your leadership team together for a week, coalesce around the making of the strategy, learn about the business from them and other employees, all while enabling you to assess their capabilities in real time.

The Strategic One

Let’s face it, not everyone can be a strategic thinker or leader. Perhaps you’re leading a small, streamlined team (read: under-resourced), where their focus needs to be on getting things done, and your focus needs to be on higher-level strategy, board prep, or even C-Suite management. You’ve got the plan, you just need them to execute on it.

Why not get aligned up front?

As part of the plan to speed up execution, build more autonomy on the team, and ensure all pieces of the strategy are covered, you can bring your team together for a few days, center around building execution plans, roadmaps, and milestones, and send them off knowing they’re all bought-in to the plan, and ready to “ship” the work.

Strategy Season

At some point, strategic planning for the company takes place, causing a cascading effect down the organization, culminating in CEO presentations, budget proposals and requests, cost/benefit analyses, quota creations, and more. We’ve all been there; it can be stressful, lengthy, and take us away from our day-to-day work.

Why not knock that out in a short 5 days?

As part of the strategic planning process in the organization, you can bring your team together for a week, collaboratively build the next year’s strategy, identify budget needs, and walk away ready to present the plan, the measurements, and the expected impact.

“[She] is not only a creative and exceedingly credible thought partner in team and organizational dynamics, she also has the unique ability to take on something seemingly complex and make it simple.”

— BRIAN H., CLIENT