• Interact with senior management in the assessment and diagnosis process
• Gather information through the use of surveys, interviews, focus groups and personal observations
• Define the roles required to execute to the strategy
• Analyze each role's exact requirement
• Match those requirements to the most appropriate core competencies for each role
• Apply proven assessment tools to identify the gaps between where you are now and where you want to be ... the places where alignment is lacking and disconnects occur.
  

Humanatek brings method and objectivity to the assessment and alignment process.

Performance Management
Performance management and appraisal processes are pivotal to improving performance. Best of breed programs turn them into motivational planning exercises and use the lessons of the past as coaching hints and tips for future successes.

We develop performance management processes based on business strategy and the key enterprise performance metrics. This is translated into pragmatic accountabilities and goals at all levels. These programs tend to offer clear challenges and to set the stage for individuals to work to their fullest potential.
Humanatek Performance Management programs pay particularly strong attention to incorporating metrics that focus attention on both the means and the ends of work habits. By incorporating references to key metrics which measure the broader success of the teams that people are part of, the Performance Measurement program motivates individuals to reach out and improve performance beyond the narrower scope of individual personal roles.

Career Pathing
Career paths represent the roadmap for personal and professional growth within your enterprise's culture. By laying out both the paths and the qualifications for growth within each internal discipline, the enterprise removes the mystery and establishes motivational challenges. Management can then easily discuss educational, experiential, and participatory requirements for future promotion in all coaching contexts.

The establishment and maintenance of clear Career Paths (graded families of job descriptions) also helps members of the team consider lateral movement among associated or aligned functions. Humanatek's Career Pathing methodologies seek to optimize for such flexibility and to ensure that members of the team are motivated to explore related roles that offer different potential uses of their core talents.

Compensation and Rewards
Compensation and Rewards programs are one of the most challenging elements of the human resource strategy. The return on your investment in human capital is optimized when employees are significant stakeholders whose individual needs and expectations are clearly defined. An appropriate reward strategy begins with a clear definition of both employer and employee expectations and needs. There are many factors involved and Humanatek's consultants partner with you, offering services which include:

• Competitive benchmarking
  
• Custom market surveys
  
• Strategy assessment and definition of performance goals
  
• Sales incentive plan design
  
• Variable and team-based incentives (MBOs)
  
• Pre and post IPO stock programs
  
• Executive compensation
  

Employee Communications
The flow of information among your people is critical. They need to know what you're thinking and you need to know, just as much, what they're thinking.

Specifically, Humanatek can help you:

• Map a custom communications success plan
  
• Define and develop a communications strategy to foster maximum employee engagement
  
• Organize local "town meetings", "brown bag lunches", or large-scale events with both live and remote audiences
  
• Enable state-of-the-art Internet-based communications
  
• Create high impact written communications
  
• Newsletters
  

Employee Satisfaction
Employee Satisfaction Surveys aren't a popularity contest among managers or Executives. The core value of the Satisfaction Survey is that it answers deep questions about motivation, goal alignment, and the effectiveness of business operations. Properly designed, an Employee Satisfaction Survey can provide key metrics that call out clear actions at all levels of the organization.

The real challenge is to design an instrument that provides a "balanced scorecard" reflecting the needs and satisfaction of all the key stakeholders. Our clients use our surveys to measure how different work groups, departments or business units compare with one another, to establish "people metrics" and targets for improvement. Humanatek offers a complete range of survey services including design, translation, statistical analysis and report generation.

Employee Assimilation
Employee Assimilation is critical to your return on investment in human capital. Whether it means the successful assimilation of new hires for improved productivity and retention or to increase the success factor for Mergers and Acquisition activities. Humanatek can provide the following:

New Hire Orientation and Assimilation

• Create an orientation program tailored to your organization,
  
• Create a new hire orientation manual,
• Create a Mentor program that fits the culture of your organization, and
  
• Partner with your business unit managers to provide departmental briefings and keep them involved in the assimilation process.
  

Merger and Acquisition Assimilation

• Assess cultural fit before M&A and integrate a newly merged culture
  
• Establish a specialized merger integration team
  
• Develop a communication plan that focuses on employee issues
  
• Realigning people against required competencies
  
• Retain key employees during the M&A process