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Organizational Development and Workforce Planning

Change doesn’t have to be an emergency. Organizational development and workforce planning gives you the tools to put the right seats and people on your team, so you’re better equipped for whatever is on the horizon.

Every engagement is a set of structured conversations about your industry and operations: how your organization works today, and what you need it to do next. Often a change on the horizon will reshape your team, like a merger, a downsizing, a period of rapid growth, or a strategic pivot. These conversations help you plan for it and explain it with confidence to your executives and your teams.

The conversations can take an afternoon or several weeks, depending on your executives’ time and the size of your organization. You come away with a clear Organization Work Plan, plus communication tools that show your stakeholders which roles and responsibilities are changing and which are staying the same.

Organizational development and workforce planning gets your team ready for change, so people adopt it faster, with as little disruption as possible for the team members you want to keep.

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What to expect

  1. 1
    We get to know your operations, challenges, and the change on the horizon
  2. 2
    We set the scope, timeline, and stakeholders for the working sessions

    Working sessions with your executives cover changes to:

    • Roles
    • Functional areas
    • Headcount
    • Reporting structure
  3. 3
    We complete and deliver the Organization Work Plan

    Your Work Plan covers:

    • Organization changes
    • Phases and timelines
    • Resources
    • Communication
    • Transitions

    We can lead or support the rollout of the plan, depending on the scope set in step 2.

Our promises

  • Get started fast

    Solutions ready in as little as 30 days

  • Scale as you go

    Just the right amount of support at every stage

  • Satisfaction guaranteed

    If we don’t meet your expectations, we’ll help you find another vendor.

Organizational developmentCapabilities

  • Change communication plans
  • Headcount & cost modeling
  • Insource vs. outsource analysis
  • Job architecture
  • Merger & acquisition integration
  • Organization design
  • Organizational readiness assessment
  • Reduction-in-force planning
  • Role & work mapping
  • Skills gap analysis
  • Spans & layers analysis
  • Staffing plans
  • Succession planning
  • Transition playbooks
  • Workforce planning
  • Workforce transformation

Organizational developmentReturn on investment

  • Faster change adoption with smaller productivity dips
  • Lower turnover of valued team members
  • Earlier readiness for market shifts
  • Clearer view of your bench before you need it
  • The right people in the right seats

Case studies

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Training & Development Team Transformation

Scoped and recruited a new operations learning and development team for a healthcare organization facing increased training demand as it brought dozens of roles in-house. The team expanded onboarding and development support to 10,000+ employees at 180+ locations and made training records more accurate and easier to access.

Healthcare · Training and development

Marketing Team Design & Recruiting

Designed a marketing team and recruited its talent for a fast-growing financial services company preparing to go public. After going public, the company acquired its nearest competitor and rose to No. 1 in its industry segment.

Financial services · Marketing, Product development

Training Company Reorganization

After a legacy training company was sold, worked closely with its new ownership to reposition the company’s internal capabilities so it could gain more visibility and business as a strategic, creative training partner.

Professional services · Training and development

Startup Go-to-Market Team Design and Recruiting

Stood up the first sales and operations team for an equipment manufacturing startup in the entertainment industry. Its product was adopted industry-wide, and the company earned recognition in top-tier media, including The Tonight Show.

Manufacturing · Sales, Operations

Marketing Team Redesign

Mapped the marketing capabilities a financial services company should move in-house and aligned them to staffing plans, enabling rapid brand growth and 99% talent retention over 2 years.

Financial services · Marketing

Marketing Consultancy Re-Organization

Built a new org chart, revised work assignments, and completed a gap analysis to staff a marketing consultancy scaling its production capacity after a surge in new business.

Professional services · Consulting operations

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