Sometimes a firm wants a quick and effective scan of their entire portfolio to triage Human Capital process optimization opportunities. Sometimes it’s within a specific company, usually one newly acquired. Lodestone has designed an efficient survey which can be deployed to human resources professionals and/or managers/customers of the Human Capital processes to uncover areas of opportunity. Additionally, when used with an entire portfolio, the audit highlights “bright spots”—which companies are leaders/particularly innovative in certain areas so that the portfolio leaders can learn from each other. Frequently, a review of the audit results is partnered with an often inaugural Human Capital leader forum, bringing the portco HR leaders together.

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The Science of Assessing for Successful Fit Whether you're replacing executives or adding to the team, you can't risk a bad hire. Lodestone starts with the foundation of understanding your specific business, the associated investment thesis, and the top three business imperatives an executive must execute. This Understanding Business Context process is essential for our ability to “wire” validated, scientific assessment methods, competencies, and personality characteristics into the specific candidate assessment designed for your executives. We then provide you information on competencies, personality (including risks of derailing!), and likelihood of success in meeting your business imperatives. The cost of a bad executive hire is simply too great to leave to chance, your gut, or the word of an executive search firm who is overly eager to sell you on their candidate. Our robust executive assessment process is not just for selection. Many organizations use it as the foundation for executive development and in succession planning.

FAQs Archive - Lodestone People Consulting

Q: Vision, Mission, Values

Half day session (often combined with Knowing Me, Knowing You™ ) in which the team engages in multiple activities to intentionally, thoughtfully craft and hone their vision, mission, and values. Importantly, the team (and/or a slice of their organization) identifies specific behaviors which represent their values. This important step allows for values to “stick” in an organization as they are cleanly and clearly operationalized, identified, and rewarded throughout the organization.

Q: Knowing Me, Knowing You ™

Half-day session after each leader has taken the Hogan leadership inventories and received individual feedback. The Lodestone facilitator walks the team through its “team mosaic” including shared strengths, any shared blindspots, and then the team discusses how to manage decisions, meetings, and workstreams with this new insight about team members and the team as a whole.

Q: New Leader Assimilation

As the name implies, a newly hired C-suite leader often is looking for the fastest path forward to understanding his or her new organization, team, and business challenges. We start by providing every executive feedback on their assessment process, if we played a role in assessing them. We collect input from and on their new team and create a team workshop with the C-suite leader to accelerate their understanding and a 100 Day plan with respect to team norms, priorities, and cultural nuances.

Q: Culture and Engagement

Increasing Productivity through Engagement Whether it's merging a new acquisition into your platform, executive or other team dynamics, an organizational engagement survey and action plans, or general leadership advising on more effective Town Halls... organizational culture encompasses a lot, and our experts will help your company leadership through all of it... both the proactive parts and the "sticky problems" that can quickly drive efficiency down and turnover and discord up. Lodestone has seen them all and will help you navigate them.