LSA Global Delivers People Team Prioritization Session to Combat Massive Change

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced completion of a highly customized People Team Prioritization Session to improve strategic clarity and People Team commitment during massive organization-wide changes.

This technology and consumer packaged goods company wanted to create senior HR Team alignment in the areas of attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining the top talent to required enable the company’s growth targets during massive change.

The People Team faced a few complications:

• The Executive Team that they needed to support was not on the same page with an agreed upon vision of of how to handle internal and external disruptions.
• New strategies, competitive pressures, leaders, products, and approaches were changing and increasing rapidly.
• People Team goals, roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned.
• People Team members were storming and working “hard” in silos, but not “smart” or collaboratively.
• People Team members reported feeling high levels of burnout, frustration, ambiguity, and underappreciation.

While simultaneously creating a longer-term People Team strategy, The Chief People Officer, wanted the People Team Prioritization Session to create more focus, relief, and commitment in order to:

• Design an amazing and aligned employee/human experience
• Minimize bureaucracy while designing clear workflows and building foundational processes
• Have change mean growth while creating “movements” not “moments”
• Ensure a better balance and capacity while actively involving teams in creating their own outcomes
• Identify a clear line of sight while increasing intentionality and accountability
• Increase agility and embrace flexibility while creating joy
• Have the right people in the right job

To create executive team alignment, LSA Global:

1.  Assessed the Current Situation

• Reviewed previous business plans, employee feedback, and key HR processes
• Conducted 360-degree interviews with key People Team leaders and influencers
• Designed and administered a custom online team effectiveness assessment across the entire People Team

2.  Designed and Facilitated People Team Prioritization Session

The highly customized executive strategy retreat facilitation session focused on:

• People feeling heard, understood, and appreciated
• Getting everything out on the table for discussion
• Having constructive debate in a safe environment
• Understanding business context and priorities for the next quarter from the CEO
• Understanding the Chief People Officer’s vision of success
• Breaking down silos and improving teamwork
• Prioritizing and rationalizing every People Team project for the next quarter
• Shifting from a “victim and reactive” mindset to an “accountable and proactive” mindset
• Allocating resources to increase confidence and motivation that the next 90-day projects make sense
• Running effective People Team Leadership meetings

About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is the leading performance consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned.

Tristam Brown

Tristam Brown is an executive business consultant and organizational development expert with more than three decades of experience helping organizations accelerate performance, build high-impact teams, and turn strategy into execution. As CEO of LSA Global, he works with leaders to get and stay aligned™ through research-backed strategy, culture, and talent solutions that produce measurable, business-critical results. See full bio.