Client’s Challenge
A state government entity responsible for managing retirement, insurance, and disability benefits for public employees needed to modernize their workforce planning and performance management programs, which had been in place for over 40 years, to better align strategic objectives and future talent goals
Talent Growth Solution
Talent Growth Partners developed a comprehensive multi-year strategy to transform the entity's talent management:
Strategic Workforce Planning: Mapped out a 5-year Strategic Workforce Plan, encompassing over 20 HR projects, identifying the highest impact initiatives.
Performance Management System Implementation: Guided the introduction of a new Performance Management System.
Competency Development: Established clear job families, Core, Leadership, and Functional Competencies with agency input.
Change Management: Facilitated agency-wide adoption of new practices.
Employee Engagement: Actively involved employees across functions to ensure diverse perspectives were considered.
Empowered HR Leaders: Through advisory work with HR, they led the initiative with executive leadership support.
Leadership Coaching: Accelerated leadership progress through the facilitation of coaching cohort and 1:1 coaching
Outcome
The transformation led to significant improvements:
Updated Practices: Overhauled 40-year-old performance management practices.
Enhanced Leadership: 67% of participants were elevated with new responsibilities, enhancing the agency's leadership capabilities.
Agency-Wide Engagement: 70% of employees gave input which contributed to the program’s success.
High Adoption Rate: Achieved a 98% on-time adoption rate for the new system.
“Talent Growth’s approach was very well-planned. It was very thorough, very thoughtful work. I want people to know how committed and dedicated they are to their clients. They are part of the team and they want the project to succeed just as badly as we do - if not more!”