Our Solutions

No matter what kinds of talent initiatives you’re anticipating, we can help. Each organization’s needs are unique, and so are our solutions.

Alignment of talent initiatives with business strategies

Every successful talent initiative starts with your business strategy. Whether it’s revenue growth, increase in market share, or expanding products and services, your “people strategies” must line up with your business needs. We have worked with business leaders in many industries to:

• Analyze stakeholders and stakeholder groups to understand their priorities and potential “pain points”
• Create an Outcome Model to pinpoint the impact you intend to make for the organization as a whole, for work teams, and for individual employees
• Create a communication plan that can identify the key messages you need to get across to your employees and managers
• Develop an integrated talent strategy project plan to keep project team members accountable for getting results

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Building a skills framework

A solid skills framework – or competency model – should support all your talent management initiatives. If you already have a framework or model in place, we can help you validate or customize it so it will provide a strong foundation for hiring, developing and engaging the people you need. Or, if you’re just getting started in competency management, we can help with research, data collection, competency model creation and validation. Since we have done this many times before, we can help you avoid costly mistakes and get to a model you can use more quickly and efficiently than if you go it alone. We have put our planning and implementation skills to work to help our customers pinpoint the critical skills that drive success through:

• Educational workshops and project management and an extra “set of hands” for competency initiatives
• Design, implementation and evaluation of critical event interviews, focus groups, and online surveys
• Evaluation and customization of commercial and industry-specific competency models

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Employee Selection

Every time you hire a new employee, you have the opportunity to add to your organization’s talent pool – or to drain it. Competency-based employee selection can help you find the new employees whose skills and interests will “fit” and to filter out the ones who won’t. Sound hiring decisions depend on practical processes and tools that will work for your organization. We have worked with hiring managers with a wide variety of hiring needs to:

• Create competency-based hiring profiles for key positions
• Develop employee selection tools such as behavioral interviews and candidate evaluation tools
• Train hiring managers in the real techniques needed to gather valid candidate assessment data

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Learning and Development Strategies

Today’s organizations can’t afford to provide one-size-fits-all or sporadic training to employees. Learning is an ongoing development process that does not’t begin and end in the classroom. Smart organizations view employee skills as the most critical component of their talent supply chain. They define their critical skill requirements carefully, identify gaps at the organizational, work group and individual levels and provide a wide array of development opportunities. We have put our wealth of strategic learning and development experience to work helping organizations to:

• Create an automated skills assessment and individual development planning process
• Create and implement learning strategies such as career development initiatives, mentoring programs, and blended learning
• Map curriculum to a competency model, identify curriculum gaps, and locate cost-effective alternatives to filling them
• Find the right Learning Management System (LMS) with the features and service you need
• Design and deliver a wide array of leadership and professional development courses

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Performance Management

Ultimately, it all comes down to performance. Unless your talented staff can focus clearly on the results you expect, receive ongoing feedback and coaching, are engaged in their work, and rewarded for performance, their skills are likely to go to waste. We have learned what works and what does not from our experience with performance management in organizations of all sizes, stages and in all sectors. We can help:

• Design a performance management process that will fit your business needs and culture and make a meaningful impact on key organizational results
• Select the right performance management tool based on your needs and integrate performance management with your development planning process
• Train leaders, managers, and employees on the specific skills needed to reach and sustain high performance in your organization

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Nonprofit Executive Searches

For the nonprofit organization or association of any size, finding the right executive is the most critical decision the board can make. The Source One Strategies team uses our competency-based selection tools and extensive experience in executive selection to find the best fit for your organization. Our unique high-value, low cost executive search services include:

• Development of a role success profile, key selection criteria, target compensation range, and custom selection tools
• Candidate sourcing, screening, and coordination
• Facilitation of interview and selection processes
• Follow up to support onboarding for selected candidate

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