We can supplement your HR expertise, work on special HR/OD projects, and assist with sensitive HR matters that require an outside, objective viewpoint. We use invitational education and organizational development (OD) principles to guide or support your major educational initiatives, including strategic planning and accreditation.

We can help you to:

Improve Organizational and Individual Performance

Align HR/OD planning with your institution's strategic, accreditation, and/or institutional effectiveness planning

Identify and address organizational/individual factors that impede performance

Conduct an effective operational improvement process (work flow/business process analyses to guide change)

Develop a succession planning process for leadership continuity

Conduct workforce analyses to support HR planning

Conduct job analyses to update/create position descriptions that can serve as a sound basis for hiring, compensation, performance management, and termination decisions and actions

Assess and improve your performance management/evaluation process

Utilize invitational education principles to build a collaborative educational environment

Result: A stable educational institution that is poised for change.

Anticipate and Resolve HR Challenges Quickly and Effectively

Access seasoned, objective HR expertise when needed

Make every HR/OD decision and activity count

Update HR documents and practices to improve compliance and effectiveness

Correctly classify your exempt & non-exempt employees and independent contractors

Result: A proactive educational environment that reduces employee problems and related liability.

Develop Effective Employee Relations/Communications

Attract and keep good employees

Develop user-friendly HR documents and processes

Utilize invitational education strategies to achieve respect, intentionality, trust, and optimism

Build effective leaders and teams

Provide HR services and documents in Spanish

Result: Employees who exemplify your institution's mission by making ethical decisions, supporting your institution's goals, and helping coworkers as well as students to be successful.

Summary of Services:

As-needed HR/OD expertise

Special HR/OD projects

HR documents, compliance, and problem-solving

Customized professional development programs for administrators, faculty, and staff

Teambuilding/diversity initiatives, including workplace harassment prevention programs

Affirmative action plans

Occupational Analyses to identify/confirm vocational/technical program competencies and update course outlines (using an established College Occupational Analysis Model