Human Capital Management

Services
Fisher Rock Consulting is a consulting firm with core competencies in organizational change, talent management and applied research and assessment. We customize our services to meet the unique needs of our clients. We pride ourselves on our commitment to our client's success and on delivering strategic solutions that provide high value.

Human Capital Strategy

Setting Talent Strategy
We believe that organizations that successfully develop and manage their human capital possess a competitive advantage; to achieve this goal, we help our clients organize, manage, and motivate talent in a way that supports their business strategy through effective practices in recruiting, selecting, developing, rewarding, and retaining talent. read more...

Defining and Deploying Competency Models
When competencies and associated ways of doing the work are unclear or no longer appropriate, we engage our clients in identifying new leadership requirements and competencies that are clearly aligned with the business strategy. read more...

Talent Assessment

Assessing Talent at All Levels
To help our clients see more clearly how their current talent pool fits their strategic requirements, we deploy a suite of assessment tools and a multifaceted approach for assessing individual leaders, building an aggregate view of the talent bench, and detecting gaps that risk undermining the longer term success of the organization.
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Selecting and Hiring Talent
Using a variety of assessment methods including extensive interviewing, personality and leadership measures and 360 for internal candidates, we create a competency based selection program that ensures you are hiring the best people for the right role. We also create customized role-play based simulations for hiring into certain roles. read more...

Selecting High-Potentials
High potential employees sometimes derail before reaching their full potential. By using our assessment techniques described above we help identify your high potential employees. The assessment process helps us to help them understand what their strengths and developmental opportunities are and how to develop those areas of opportunity. We also identify potential derailers and help the employee understand how to avoid those behaviors. read more...

Strategic Deployment

Managing the Talent Pipeline
For organizations that face higher risks of losing critical talent – after a merger, in highly competitive markets, or because of retirement – we help design and run talent reviews with senior management to create targeted retention plans for at-risk key talent, build succession plans for mission-critical roles, and conduct a Leadership Pipeline Audit. Our work helps ensure that “ready now” successors are in place and future successors are developed to assure business continuity and success.
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Onboarding and Transition management
In a context where new leaders are more than ever expected to “hit the ground running”, more than a third of these leaders fail to integrate in their new environment and leave the organization within 18 months. read more...

Learning and Development
When leaders feel ill-equipped to drive the business strategy and talent management activities appear to be disconnected and failing the strategic agenda of the organizations, we leverage assessment data to help our clients design targeted and practical development programs made up of coaching, project assignments, and stretch roles. read more... Learning solutions & Training We design and administer customized training solutions to meet the learning needs of your organization. Courses use multiple methods to engage employees in the learning process. Both in person and online training can be implemented. read more...	Coaching We customize our coaching process to our client’s development needs, focus and timeline. Coaching programs range from just-in-time consulting to regularly-scheduled bi-weekly or monthly sessions, face-to-face or on the phone, depending on geographical and scheduling constraints. We operate as expert listeners, careful observers and challenging questioners in a way that helps our clients maintain ownership of the process. read more...
Organizational Capability
Assessing Change Readiness We offer a set of qualitative and quantitative assessment instruments to gauge the extent to which a team or an organization is ready to approach and embark on significant change. read more... Designing Change Roadmaps Working closely with change leaders, we develop a roadmap for change, detailing key work streams, stakeholders, milestones and change metrics. read more... Redesigning Organizations Our organizational design methodology emphasizes strategic alignment, engagement of key stakeholders and data-based decision making. We work quickly with our clients to clarify the key criteria the future organization must meet, generate design options and their respective trade-offs, and select the optimal design for the future. We work with our clients to define a detailed transition roadmap and a process to monitor progress of implementation. read more...	Building Teams Based on a time-tested model of team effectiveness, we assess the strengths and weaknesses of management teams and engage them in designing and running small or large-scale team meetings and offsites designed to align team members on key strategic issues, address business challenges, and lead organizational changes. read more... Driving Strategic Communication How you communicate changes matters at least as much as the changes that are made. We work with organizations to clarify fundamental messages and tailor a communication plan for the various targeted audiences. read more...
Applied Research
Customized Organizational Assessments We design and administer organizational assessments based on simple and compelling models of organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, speed and innovation, and other topics of strategic interest to our clients. Our assessment may engage a cross-section of opinion leaders, mission-critical members or the entire employee population in a census format. Our feedback and action-planning session are designed to generate shared understanding and build commitment to problem solving and performance. read more ... Organizational Intelligence Solutions We design and conduct – often with the direct participation of our client – topic-specific research. We mine secondary data banks as well as conduct interviews with internal or external subject matter experts. The data we uncover are organized to respond to your most pressing questions and to inform key decisions. read more...	Benchmark Research Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's talent management processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries. Improvements from learning mean doing things better, faster, and cheaper, and with greater retention of top talent. read more...
Surveys
Organizational Networks And Social Capital Assessment Using cutting-edge analytical methods, we assess social networks and social capital. read more... Pulse Check Surveys Pulse check surveys are short, fast-cycle, targeted assessments our clients use to address issues that require immediate attention and for which there may be a limited set of diagnostic questions. read more...	Performance Scorecards A performance scorecard is a set of business and organizational measures linked to business strategies and goals. Our performance scorecards are easy to understand, and they help to quickly determine how close (or far away) targeted goals are for individuals, branches, departments and the company. Our performance measurements are SMART — specific, measurable, achievable (stretch), realistic and time-bound. read more...
Private Equity Solutions
Optimizing The Talent In Your PE Firm Fisher Rock assists PE Firms in creating high performance cultures that optimize profitability. Your firm's success is dependent on your team. Pick the wrong investment opportunities and you will have more reds than greens. Mismanage your portfolio companies and you will take yellows to red. You need the best talent to find the right opportunities, install the right strategy, pick the right management team, and insure execution. Our proven talent management processes can help you to select the right investment professionals, manage the talent pipeline, develop your high potentials, and promote the right investment professionals to Partner. read more...	Optimizing Your Portfolio Companies While PE firms traditionally invest their energy in optimzing the business strategy of their portfolio companies, they frequently under-invest in optimizing the talent strategy in these companies. As a result, operational and strategy execution are compromised and performance is hindered. Too often the only talent decision PE firms make is to retain or fire the incumbent CEO. The expectation is that the CEO will handle all of the talent management issues. Fisher Rock provides intensive post-deal talent and operational assessments in order to provide with the PE firm with data and recommendations on how to quickly improve the company's ability to execute the strategy. Fisher Rock remains involved with the portfolio company to assist them in executing on their talent management strategy. read more...