Maximizing Performance Through People
Defining the Win
How do you define the word “Winning”? More importantly, how do you define it when it comes to your business or organization? Winning is a matter of outperforming your competition, accomplishing your core objectives and remaining true to your core values. It’s about performing at a level where you are actively driven, highly focused and fully committed to reaching your goals.
As a business leader, you’ve set your focus and, on a daily basis, you defy the status quo in order to move that business forward. You’ve chosen this path fully knowing it’s a challenge, because you believe in an extraordinary future. Your belief in what could be propels you far past what is. There is no exact template for you to follow. You create it. You drive it. You stand up, move forward and do the work necessary to achieve the results you’re after.
You realize that when it comes to winning, there is nothing more powerful than a highly talented team, aligned, engaged and committed to exceeding their objectives, especially when it performs under effective leadership. The business plan is created. Now it comes down to putting the plans in motion…hiring, training, engaging and retaining a diverse group of individual performers and focusing their collective efforts to achieve the vision that you have created.
You lead, understanding the weight of your decisions and the challenges of that role. You focus your efforts on ensuring that you position others for success because, when your team is successful, you are successful. You work tirelessly to overcome the obstacles that stand in their way. You’ve lost more sleep than you care to admit and spend every waking hour looking for solutions, because that’s what it takes to win.
Winning in business takes more than a financial strategy, a slick marketing process or even a great product or service. Winning requires you and your team to be operating at the highest level. The keys to reaching that level include:
- Clearly defining and communicating your vision for how business is to be conducted
- Planning your HR needs in advance and creating a strategy that will guide your decisions
- Creating the core administrative structure that provides direction, amplifies team capabilities and minimizes risk
- Hiring, training and motivating talented individuals with the capability to reach far past basic expectations
- Cultivating a culture that drives performance, engagement, trust and collaboration
- Managing employee performance in a manner that helps you identify who to maintain, develop or safely exit
That's where HR Strategies Now comes in - moving your business forward through solid Human Resources consulting services that cover the full HR life cycle.
Choosing to Help You Win
Recently I realized that I had a choice to make. I could either continue pouring all of my effort into managing Human Resources practices for established businesses or actively partner with small to mid-sized organizations and help them create their HR practices, often from the ground-up. I chose the latter because I believe this is the best opportunity to make a solid impact on the lives of others.
My focus is on the tactical rather than big theory that often comes from major consulting firms. With over 25 years of HR experience including 17 years in a management capacity, I have actively driven strong Human Resources practices and witnessed their impact on business performance. Business growth, positive financials, operational success and world class customer experience - they are outcomes created by organizations who focus heavily on hiring, aligning, developing, managing, motivating, engaging and retaining high quality talent.
I’m passionate about creating environments where organizations and their employees can thrive long term. When I take on a new client, I make every effort to clearly understand the business operating model, mission, vision and core values. I explore the leadership imperatives and the challenges at hand and then create plans to methodically solve problems and improve performance across the HR spectrum.
Often, this requires a fresh start with a clear analysis of the current state, the development of the HR strategy and then the installation of initiatives to drive better results in workforce planning, compensation and benefits, talent acquisition, on-boarding, training and development, performance management, employee relations, talent management and off-boarding.
I’ve had the great fortune of working with teams ranging from 8 employees to over 18,000. I’ve carried full responsibility for HR operations within the United States and have partnered with international teams in Canada, Brazil, Australia, Norway and Turkey. My functional experience includes work in the finance, manufacturing, oil and gas, technology and medical industries.
I look forward to working with you toward improving the performance of your business. If you believe your team has greater performance potential than what you’re seeing, let’s talk. Call HR Strategies Now.
July 9, 2021
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