Using quantifiable metrics, we conduct cultural assessments to better understand how your organization currently works. Our focus is to understand how decisions are made, how your organization communicates and how teams work together through the lens of nuances and tendencies of demographic groups within your current workforce. We then contrast your current state of operations against your desired state and focus on solutions to bridge gaps, resulting in better teamwork, communications, increased employee engagement, productivity, customer satisfaction, customer spend, customer retention and profitability. We utilize current, next-practice research correlating employee engagement to profits, through the lens of employee population diversity, and construct solutions to increase your key performance indicators.
Organizational Design & Development
Our subject matter experts will analyze how work is currently completed in your organization, conduct a thorough job analysis and evaluate your current structural design, after which time we will constrast the findings against your strategic plan and design, develop and implement a new, more efficient and effective design to meet your organizational objectives.
Talent Life Cycle Process Analysis and Improvements
We construct a model of how talent is currently attracted, hired, onboarded, rewarded, developed, engaged, retained and off-boarded, with a focus on increasing process efficiency and effectiveness. If you have a current process map related to the talent life cycle, we analyze it (or the newly developed process map) against your strategic objectives, seeking out quantifiable savings and process improvement opportunities. We measure our recommendations in a value-priced way showing you how your investment in this project returns the investment over a pre-determined period of time.
Change Management
Utilizing the results of very robust research in the area of change management from leading scholars and practitioners, our change management experts will customize a solution which will allow your internal change agents and project managers, facilitate organizational transformation related to new solutions of any size. We will develop a program to impart current, proven, and business related change management solutions to your internal stakeholders by partnering with them to implement our solution or a solution from any other consulting firm. Your organization will receive a proven methodology of managing change of any size.
HR Analytics
It is not foreign to most HR functions to measure human capital results. However, most organizations produce scorecards which report on efficiencies or processes such as time to fill, the percentage of turnover and absenteeism rates. Our human capital experts will work with your internal stakeholder teams to develop or enhance a HR scorecard which is quanitified to your profit & loss statement. Our analytics focus on nomenclature which will allow HR practitioners to have business conversation with business leaders and report human capital efforts in business terms. What is measured, gets done, and when efforts are reported to business leaders in language they understand, those efforts gets done faster!
Worforce Planning
It is a common practice within the HR profession to react to openings in an organization after hiring officials communicate a need. This is not a bad practice, however, this method of acquiring talent is much more expensive than having a workforce plan aligned to the strategic plan. Kaufman, VonStuben & Associates will work with your HR and business leaders to align a plan to your strategic objectives, focusing on competencies needed, competencies available in the labor market, current competencies, resulting in a combination of talent build, talent borrow (contingency, contract or project management), or talent buy forecast. We use current statistical and non-statistical methods to conduct workforce planning and will impart these methods to your internal stakeholders responsible for these activities.
Total Rewards Analysis/Design/Development
Utilizing certified compensation and benefits consultants, Kaufman, VonStuben & Associates will analyze your current total rewards offering and assist you in designing, developing and implementing a solution which will align with your market strategy of leading, meeting or lagging the market, to better attract, reward, motivate and retain top talent. Our approach starts with analyzing your market strategy, understanding your total rewards philosophy (meritocracy or entitlement), analyzing your current/future demographics, current usage, conducting a gap analysis and designing a solution to bridge any identified gaps in a legally compliant, motivating and business-related fashion. All of our solutions are aligned with your strategic objectives and based on research from your local markets of operations, to include international laws. Our solutions range from executive compensations to wellness programs to establishing employee assistance programs.
Other Solutions
When employees have challenges, they are directed to inquire of their managers or to human resources. When human resources have a challenge, to whom do they go? Kaufman, VonStuben & Associates have a plethora of proven solutions that will assist HR in becoming valued business partners. There is no project too small, complicated, big or simple for us to tackle, and ALL are value-priced. Listed above are our key offerings, however, we have a bench of experienced HR consultants and former practitioners who can help you solve just about any human capital challenge. Additionally, if we don't have the answer, we will refer you to someone who does.
