Consulting Services
The success of any change initiative will rely 10% on your new technologies, processes or procedures, and 90% on your people. Finger Consulting will help you to prepare your people for change and will stay with you during implementation to address any “hot spots” of dissent.
Having a sounding board who is honest, direct and insightful can be invaluable and Finger Consulting provides all three. If you want a partner to work with your company on ways to improve retention, morale, and leadership effectiveness, contact Finger Consulting and learn more about how we can help.
Transforming Your Best Technical People into Great Managers and Leaders
People who are highly analytical and technically focused rarely come to the job with the management know-how necessary to motivate their teams. Transitioning into a managerial role brings many challenges for a technical person, including a change in relationship with those who were once peers. By having your high-potential candidates participate in this on-the-job training and development program, you will ensure that they have the "soft" skills necessary to achieve a smooth transition into the new role.
Organizational Assessments
Too often, businesses make the mistake of implementing organizational change initiatives without a thorough understanding of the root problems. Taking the time to assess your company's strengths and areas in need of improvement allows you to focus your resources and energy wisely. This helps you to get the most bang for your buck when implementing organizational change or creating new training and development programs. Finger Consulting uses a state-of-the-art organizational assessment tool that links the unique aspects of your company culture with bottom line performance measures such as return on investment, sales growth, quality, innovation and employee satisfaction and with it, are able to design your customized organizational improvement program.
Selecting, Developing and Retaining a Top Sales Force
High turnover and poor performance in your sales department come at a high cost. Opportunities are lost, morale plummets, customer service suffers and revenue drops. When selecting sales professionals, it is critical to determine whether they: (1) have personality profiles conducive to sales, (2) possess an understanding of the consultative sales process and, (3) are a good fit for your company culture and for their managers. When you have all of this information you are able to hire people who will produce for you immediately as well as in the future.
Succession and Promotion Planning
Do you have one or more managers or executives nearing retirement age and no one ready to take their place? Are you a family business that still has succession planning on your "to do" list? Finger Consulting helps you to define roles, understand the competencies needed in your executive positions and assess potential candidates. We will assist you with designing and implementing a leadership transition process that ensures buy-in from your key contributors and is aligned with your strategic business goals.
Hiring by Design
If you have ever made a hiring mistake, you know how costly it can be. Pre-employment assessments are one of the most efficient, cost-effective ways to ensure that you have the right people in the right roles at the right time. We help you design competency models for your positions that take your unique company culture into account and then help you to evaluate the goodness-of-fit of potential candidates. With a good hiring process in place, you will decrease unwanted turnover, have employees who are engaged and improve customer service.