From our experience using a robust assessment approach is well worth the investment and client levels of satisfaction speak for themselves.
Strategic Organisation Solutions
Strategic Organisation Capacity Assessment
T
he capacity for any organisation to achieve growth, address challenges and deliver on core strategic objectives relies on having a flexible, focused and informed workforce.
Fox Leadership’s Strategic Capacity Review offers a cost effective resource to assess how well equipped each department is to deliver on strategic objectives.
The three main components of the capacity review are as follows:
| Strategic | Managing Delivery | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|
| Setting strategic direction | Customer Service & delivery | Performance measurement |
| Providing leadership | Continuous improvement & innovation | Customer & stakeholder feedback |
| Creating shared understanding | Managing resources | Input into policy and strategy |
| Culture and communication strategies | Defining core technical & behavioral competences | Reward and Recognition |
| Implementation of project mgt approaches |
Approach
Fox Leadership Capacity Reviews involves a Consultant being on-site for a period of time to gather information and understand current practices, strategic needs and identify the gap. The culture of the organisation and its levels of complexity are taken into consideration and all recommendations are tailor made to suit the organisation. The time taken will depend on the required outputs of the Capacity review.Potential steps could include:
| Step One | Step Two |
|---|---|
| Visionary interviews | Preparation of recommendations and approaches |
| Gathering strategic documents | Design of departmental people management strategies which define roles, responsibilities, Kpi’s, measurable s and assessment methodologies. |
| Job analysis | Implementation of a project management system to oversee new approaches and ensure success. |
| Defining behavioural competencies | Succession planning |
| Understanding customer needs | |
| Benchmarking competitors |
Strategic Recruitment Interventions
R
ecruitment and or promotion can be very costly to a business. Getting it wrong can make have a major impact on your profits and your growth. Talking the time to reflect on your strategic needs and the mix of skills / competences needed in the role can be time strategically invested. Fox Leadership offer various interventions at cost effective prices to help you Assess the suitability of potential candidates. Therefore multiplying the opportunity for success.
Our tailor made solutions may include some of the following:
Competency Design / Analysis
D
esigning a bespoke competency model provides organisations a unique opportunity to develop a culture of self- development aligning roles and responsibilities with the core skills needed to drive the business forward. All businesses go through different growth stages and different challenges. Ensuring flexibility in roles and people and adapting to the changing demands of the market is essential to stay ahead. The key stages are outlined as follows. If the organisation has already completed a Capacity Review then some of these steps will have already been completed.
The three main components of the capacity review are as follows:
| Strategic | Operational | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|
| Identifying key changes in the market place | Defining appropriate hierarchies and levels of responsibility | Staff involvement |
| Identifying key skills needed to meet the demands of the market | Defining cultural competencies | Staff benchmarking |
| Defining technical competencies | Reviews of productivity and objective setting | |
| Defining behavioural competencies | Succession planning | |
| Defining measurables and outputs |
