A professional services firm engaged us to align their talent strategy with their corporate and business strategy.
When the CEO of a growing professional services firm in the middle-market reached out to TalentSum, they needed help addressing challenges related to attracting and retaining top talent. To create a talent strategy and plan that aligned with their business goals, TalentSum partnered with the client and undertook a process of discovery, research, and insights development.
Through a series of sessions that mixed strategy work and research work, TalentSum extracted data points and developed insights into the client's business strategy and objectives. These sessions involved multiple Q&A conference sessions with the client.
Targeted research followed to expand on the materials developed in the discovery stage. TalentSum primarily led this stage, with potential support from the marketing team, to gather additional information about external factors such as competition and emerging industry trends.
Using the insights gathered in the discovery and research stages, TalentSum developed sets of ideas and themes through online interviews, focus groups, and meetings. The objective was to organize critical issues, business strategy, objectives, goals, and current talent gaps into strategic themes.
The client was then involved in structuring goals and strategies that aligned and supported their business strategy, with TalentSum developing sets of tactics to support each strategy. The final structure sets were reviewed with the client.
Finally, TalentSum presented the basic conclusions and recommendations, followed by revisions and the final presentation and handoff of the talent strategy and plan to the client. Thanks to this plan, the client was able to attract and retain top talent while aligning with their business goals.
