Workforce Consulting

In today’s fast-paced and digital world, organisations that prioritise people in driving change are more likely to achieve successful outcomes. Businesses are faced with the challenge of delivering successful transformations, whether it’s across the entire organisation or within their HR department, driving adoption and achieving benefits of digital transformation, building internal capabilities, or addressing the human side of cybersecurity.

However, relying solely on strategies, processes and technology isn’t enough to achieve the desired results. Your people must accept, adopt, drive and sustain change if your organisation is to see a positive impact from its change initiatives. Our people-centred approach to change focuses on unlocking business potential through the power of people.

Organisations face various challenges as they address issues around organisational design, HR due diligence, culture and behaviour change, and diversity and inclusion initiatives. Often, the solution is to make a strategic hire at the board or executive level. However, many businesses struggle to hire talent to deliver on the recommendations of large change projects.

Our Workforce team partners with CEOs and board members in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors to find and hire top talent.

Most business leaders understand company culture’s crucial role in achieving success, growth and retaining top talent. However, it can be challenging to understand and optimise organisational culture, as it is implicit rather than explicit and emotional rather than rational—but this is what makes it so powerful.

Our global Katzenbach Center has conducted extensive research in this area, providing us with the expertise to help you address your culture challenges. We can help you:

• address situations where your culture clashes with your strategy;

• bridge the gap between your leadership aspirations and the actual day-to-day actions you want to see in your organisation;

• focus on critical behaviours and leverage informal leaders to achieve success; and

• identify measurements to track your progress.

Organisations are increasingly prioritising diversity in all its forms. However, many need help translating their inclusive values and aspirations into practical, effective actions that yield positive results. We can provide support with issues and challenges such as:

• developing strategies, policies and processes that enhance and promote diversity and inclusion;

• assessing your organisation’s gender pay gap, creating a narrative to inform stakeholders about the results, and taking the right steps to close it;

• establishing the appropriate talent structures to build a more diverse workforce;

• implementing visible diversity initiatives and effectively communicating the outcomes; and

• realising the advantages of a more diverse workforce through inclusive actions.

The workforce is evolving due to the impact of technology, changing demographics and shifting employee expectations. In building your workforce for the future, providing a sense of purpose and an excellent people experience will be vital to attracting and retaining talent. Today, businesses encounter several challenges, such as:

• understanding the impact of emerging technologies and automation on required skills, talent and capabilities;

• introducing digital tools that enable robust data modelling for both current workforce analysis and predictive modelling; and

• incorporating data analytics within HR functions to drive people analytics.

Strategic workforce planning has been shown to have a significant impact on ensuring long-term organisational success through talent retention, agility and more. We can work with you to ensure you have the workforce capabilities and capacity to face the future with confidence.

How we work, and the role of work in our lives is changing rapidly. Organisations need the right resources, skills, behaviours, structures and governance to keep up with this change and prepare for the future of work. However, businesses might find it challenging to:

• evaluate how their operating models can tackle the impact of digital disruption;
• assess the technological advancements affecting their staff;
• ensure their organisational structure aligns with their strategy and is fit for growth; and
• address any unnecessary complexity in their corporate model that has developed over time.

The ultimate goal for many organisations is to improve their performance and achieve sustainable growth. That’s where our team of organisational design experts comes in—we have extensive experience working with both local and international clients to develop, design and implement organisational transformation.