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9 Steps to Implement a New Post-COVID19 Office Environment

Your company sent office workers home in March in a mad scramble to protect them from COVID19 and to keep your business alive. Now, as you plan the reopening of your office, it is clear that the future success of your business is at stake and the old normal is obsolete. A hybrid workforce and future office is at hand.

It is time to create the hybrid workforce that works for your organization and a new standard for a productive, innovative, less expensive, and safe and newly designed office environment.

HR Audits

Many companies discover that their HR capability limits the organization’s potential to grow profitably. It may be that the outsourced HR model, which met their needs at first, has now become limiting and too costly. Or that your HR practices, policies, and technologies have become outdated.

Whatever the reason, our comprehensive HR audits will improve your ability to recruit, motivate, and retain great talent–with a fantastic return on its investment.

Unlock the factors that block your innovation and business success

We use a scientifically developed assessment to measure, benchmark, and improve your company’s culture and capability to innovate-and drive business results. The InnovationOne Health Index© identifies your company’s strengths and weaknesses that block the innovation of your employees and external partners. We will work with you to plan and implement strategies to improve your innovation and financial success.

Executive Coaching

Leadership coaching is extraordinarily helpful to executives (director and above) who are transitioning through a new leadership passage, need to improve some aspects of their leadership style, or making adjustments to their operating norms and mechanisms.

Recruiting Audits

Recruiting enables a company’s top and bottom line. Every excellent recruiting organization has a great employer brand, lean recruiting process supported by digital technology, trained interviewers, validated assessments, and metrics. Our recruiting audits will uncover your strengths and weaknesses and improve your recruiting with a great ROI.

Workshops

We have executive and leadership workshops designed to improve strategic focus and innovation, nurture transparent and collaborative cultures, build leadership capability, and unstick your stuck teams and kick off new teams.

How to succeed with succession planning

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021by victorassad6

One of the most high-risk decision organizations make with talent is selecting new leaders, from the first line to the CEO. It is a discussion many executives have had with me. Just as often, they make the same mistake beginning…

Leading innovation in the post-pandemic world

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021by victorassad6

Even in the normal times of the 2010s, before the pandemic, the business world was disruptive and innovation was difficult. We had many vice presidents of research and development, digital transformation, innovation, and marketing come to us asking, “Can you get our…

Five hallmarks of excellent candidate experience for the 2020s

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021by victorassad6

Last year was a year like no other. The pandemic nearly shut down recruiting in the Spring and dramatically changed how leading companies recruit, use digital technology, and communicate with candidates. Companies that ignore these winning trends to improve the…

How to find the sweet spot between micromanaging and too hands-off?

February 2, 2021February 2, 2021by victorassad6

Behaviorism has long taught us that immediate and direct feedback is critical to reinforce the behaviors and outcomes we want. It has been the source of breakthrough books on leadership, such as the One-Minute Manager. But too much of a…

Seven practical lessons to make a hybrid workforce engaged, productive, and innovative!

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021by victorassad6

Executive teams deserve high praise for their excellent leadership implementing safe COVID-19 policies, complying with new laws, and the quick pivot to remote work in mid-March 2020. As one said to me, “It all went smoother than we thought. Now,…

The good, the bad, and the ugly of recruiting — and five components of success.

January 19, 2021January 21, 2021by victorassad6

I have been involved with recruiting for more than 30 years and have never before seen a disruption in recruiting (and HR and leadership practices) as serious as the one in the past tumultuous year. I led recruiting and human…

Victor Assad provided us a broad and thorough HR assessment which identified several areas for us to improve our HR processes and drive business success. We appreciate how he also offered us practical steps to implement his recommendations and showed us the return on our investment for doing so. His expertise in all areas of both regulatory and applied HR has been of enormous help to us.

Ellen Aigner, Monterrey Tile Company

Victor Assad has worked with us to integrate state-of-the art digital technology and to align our work process with the new technology. The result has been improved employee training, work processes and sales.

Ron Mnieckowski, Partner, Operations, Maximus Real Estate Partners

Victor Assad brought invaluable experience from a solid corporate legacy position to help me better understand the US environment and the challenges I would face when making investment decisions on optimizing my customer-facing organization to execute on my company’s commercialization strategy.

In an easy approach and highly collaborative manner he proactively developed tangible solutions to issues such as ‘healthcare compliance’, ‘pay and commission structures’ and ‘recruitment policies’ that I faced as I developed the sales organization.

Victor excels at grasping the complexities of a specific situation and then applying his experience to bring solutions that are simple to understand and to implement.

I would strongly recommend Victor as somebody who would add value to a leadership team eager to bring a fresh insight to their sales organization or as someone to give pragmatic guidance to an executive working through a specific HR related challenge.

James Hallums, Chief Commercial Officer – Claret Medical Inc.

Vic is a strategic HR leader with a deep and broad understanding of HR and a strong business acumen. He is very good at aligning HR strategies to business imperatives, as well as developing and driving creative programs and change initiatives that truly have an impact on the business and talent. I partnered with our sales organization, and Vic offered good advice on how to maximize the performance of sales with employee engagement, compensation, and talent management efforts.

Nicole Beech, Senior Human Resources Manager, Medtronic Cardiac and Vascular Group

Victor is the consummate professional and provided outstanding leadership related to all aspects of human resources. He found creative solutions to manage challenging problems and was always a great thought partner.

Mitchell Sugarman, Vice President of Health Economics, Policy and Payment at Medtronic Cardiac and Vascular Group

Victor was a very helpful and collaborative HR business partner who understood the needs of the business and implemented practical solutions and strategies to attract, retain, and motivate employees. His leadership on flexible workplace and implementing the Northern California wage adjustment were most recognized among his many contributions. He helped me tremendously on the diversity and inclusion work that I led for the business.

Vipul Sheth, Vice President Corporate Quality, Medtronic

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The pandemic, hybrid workforce, digitization, and unending changes present unique challenges to companies on how to lead their workforces and upgrade their HR operations.

We work with companies to enable their profitable growth by transforming HR and recruiting, transitioning to a hybrid workforce, and developing extraordinary leaders, teams, and cultures of innovation.

If you are serious about overcoming today’s talent challenges, contact us!

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