Achieve Better HR Effectiveness

Your people strategies should help you achieve your business objectives. We're experts in developing actionable HR plans that impact the business to achieve intended outcomes.

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"As we began to expand our operations and bring on more people, we managed HR and did the right things to be a good employer, but we didn’t have a specific people strategy. We realized that we needed to be more thoughtful about it, but as a relatively small organization, we required some professional external support...From the very outset of our engagement, Laura has taken charge to shape our idealistic view of what our people-first strategy should be and put it into practice. She is part of the team now and has done an amazing job fitting in as a coach and mentor to our people."

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Hugh Gorman

CEO

Get From Intention To Implementation
With Clarity.

Establish a clear roadmap and understanding of the team you’ll need to build, support and achieve your business outcomes.

Understand the Environment

Respond to disruptive forces and implement agile processes to adapt quickly to changing market conditions and organizational needs.

Prioritize
& Focus

Define your HR priorities and establish a roadmap for achieving your goals with HR programs aligned with your organizational strategy.

Drive
Change

Manage change effectively, building buy-in and support for new initiatives and processes.

Achieve
Results

Build performance management systems and identify KPIs to monitor results.

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Research and Stakeholder Input

When you are so focused on your product/service delivery, it is easy to lose sight of changes in the external environment and inefficiencies in the internal environment that could disrupt your business.

Acting as an extension of your HR team, we like to start with an analysis to help you identify and respond to emerging trends, market opportunities and HR-related challenges.

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Define the Desired Future State

To improve company performance, you need to make progress and focus on initiatives that drive business results.

We bring the experienced external perspective of HR and business strategists to support and challenge the organization to clearly define what success looks like.

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Develop Your HR Strategy

How you organize and facilitate your HR strategy development can impact the plan's quality and your ability to achieve desired results. Having an objective facilitator to help manage, lead and inspire strategic planning development can take your organization to the next level in less time and effort.

Our phased, structured and efficient approach to HR strategic planning and implementation saves time and resources by streamlining the process, eliminating inefficiencies, and ensuring that the HR strategy aligns with the company's vision, goals, and resources.

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Operationalize Your Plan

Implementation is by far the most important part of your strategic plan and is where most organizations fail. Executing your vision requires a solid operating plan that includes clearly articulated resource, investment, and time requirements and a team committed to delivering.

We help organizations operationalize their HR strategy and lean in to help them deploy and run HR and talent management programs. We have a wide range of tools, technologies, and methodologies that accelerate the planning and implementation process, resulting in faster and more effective results.

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Accountability & Progress Reviews

Measuring and understanding how you're doing against your objectives is key to knowing if you're making progress or if you need to pivot.

We help organizations put in place performance management systems and KPIs to monitor results and accountability and achieve results.

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“We strive to ensure every building solution we create positively contributes to communities where people live, work and play with the ultimate goal of being the industry benchmark for customer excellence. As we continue to grow our business and carve out our space as a product leader, it was critical to focus on our people and to ensure we had the right skills, capabilities and culture. Stratford was the perfect partner to help us develop a strategic workforce and cultural integration plan that aligned with and supported our business strategy. As an extension of our team, they lead us through the entire process, providing us with an actionable and implementable roadmap so we could build on what we had and focus our resources to successfully implement our strategy.”

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Jennifer Horrocks

Vice President, Human Resources

Know the Money HR Edition

Bolster the reach and capabilities of your people strategy by tapping into available funding opportunities to help grow and scale your business.

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Attraction & Retention Audit

Align your talent strategy with a personalized audit to help you identify gaps and build your attraction and retention strategy to help scale your business.

Ready to Achieve Better HR Effectiveness?

Develop, Optimize & Implement HR Programs That Will Enable Your Business Strategy - And Your Success.

Engage Stratford

Your team of trusted business and HR advisors

Participate in HR Strategy Development

A phased, structured and efficient approach

Implement Your HR Strategies & Programs

Supports to operationalize and measure results

Achieve Results

Performance management systems and KPIs to monitor results and accountability

Achieve Better HR Effectiveness

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