HR at the speed of business

What is it?

The Strategy Accelerator is a 5-day facilitated process to usher an HR team through discussing, devising, and developing their strategy. Using design thinking principles, getting input from key people in the organization, and collaborating up front, the team will walk away on Day 5 with a strategy, a communication plan, and a to-do list for what’s next.

Currently looking for progressive companies willing to pilot the program!

  • Are you THE strategic one?

    If you’re leading the HR function and have a small but mighty group of ‘doers,’ the HR Strategy Accelerator can help get your team quickly bought-in, and focused on the project plan, timelines, milestones, and measurements, mobilizing the team around sound and smooth execution.

  • Are you a NEW leader?

    If you’re new to the organization, you need to prove yourself to the CEO, understand the voice of the business, and assess your team’s capabilities. The HR Strategy Accelerator combines these three elements, allowing you to understand, create, define, and plan your strategy, while getting to know your team in the process.

  • Is it THAT time of year?

    If you’re leading the HR function, it’s likely that during “strategy season” you’re tasked with making the plan for the year ahead, asking for budgets, and convincing the CFO she should give it to you! The HR Strategy Accelerator can help drive the planning process, getting you to budget planning quicker and with more data around needs, challenges, and potential impact.

The Strategic One:

Let’s face it, not everyone can be a strategic thinker or leader. Perhaps you’re leading a small, streamlined team (read: under-resourced), where their focus needs to be on getting things done, and your focus needs to be on higher-level strategy, board prep, or even C-Suite management. You’ve got the plan, you just need them to execute on it.

Why not get aligned up front?

As part of the plan to speed up execution, build more autonomy on the team, and ensure all pieces of the strategy are covered, you can bring your team together for a few days, center around building execution plans, roadmaps, and milestones, and send them off knowing they’re all bought-in to the plan, and ready to “ship” the work.

New HR Leader:

When you first start, the pressure is ON. Not only to begin delivering HR services to the organization, but to build credibility, to learn the nuances of the company, to show the CEO she made the right choice in hiring you, and to solve whatever challenges were waiting for you.

Why not kill a few birds with just one stone?

As part of your own onboarding, you can bring your leadership team together for a week, coalesce around the making of the strategy, learn about the business from them and other employees, all while enabling you to assess their capabilities in real time.

Strategy Season:

At some point, strategic planning for the company takes place, causing a cascading effect down the organization, culminating in CEO presentations, budget proposals and requests, cost/benefit analyses, quota creations, and more. We’ve all been there; it can be stressful, lengthy, and take us away from our day-to-day work.

Why not knock that out in just a short 5 days?

As part of the strategic planning process in the organization, you can bring your team together for a week, collaboratively build the next year’s strategy, identify budget needs, and walk away ready to present the plan, the measurements, and the expected impact.

From Start to Strategy in 5 Days

“…she asked the right questions and took the time to get to know our business, company values, leadership team, and the ins and outs of each discipline and each role, which was key…”

-Kristin Daversa | SVP, People & Culture @ Big Spaceship