Client’s Challenge
A leading global manufacturer of residential ventilation products, with over 2,500 employees worldwide, faced a critical need to invest in innovative talent development practices to gain a competitive edge. The company's global Human Resources team sought to identify and prioritize key initiatives that would carry the highest positive impact toward organizational goals. However, aligning these initiatives across stakeholders with a practical, executable roadmap was a significant challenge.
Talent Growth Solution
Talent Growth Partners embarked on a strategic HR initiative assessment for the company:
Interactive Workshops: Conducted three workshops focused on assessment, ranking, workload estimation, degree of positive strategic impact and KPI’s, along with implementation timelines of HR projects.
Strategic Roadmap Design: Collaborated with the HR leaders to design a three-year roadmap, facilitating prioritization and goal alignment.
Resource Assessment and Recommendations: Provided realistic estimates of time requirements against resources available for each initiative, giving insight to adjustments or augmentations per project.
Outcome
The engagement with Talent Growth Partners led to substantial improvements:
Global HR Strategy: Developed a strategic and actionable three-year HR roadmap and communicated with the senior leadership team.
Clarity in Prioritization: Enabled the HR team to clearly understand what each initiative required to be accomplished with excellence, allowing deprioritization of low-impact/high-capacity work along with a clear business justification for all initiatives.
Efficient Use of Capacity Planning: Advised on optimal resource allocation, ensuring the execution of initiatives within realistic timelines.
Empowered HR Team: The roadmap significantly improved team engagement and focus, as acknowledged in their recent engagement survey.
“The quick assimilation of Talent Growth Partners in understanding our business and modifying approaches to meet our needs was impressive. They held us accountable to our goals and helped us create a roadmap that was a game changer. This roadmap not only clarified our priorities but also empowered our team to efficiently manage and execute our strategic HR initiatives.”