We Provide Character Based Human Capital Management Consulting

Character-based human capital management is the essential new reality of successful private and public enterprise.

Today it is more critical than ever before that you are able to measure and understand the degree to which an employee or member of your leadership team can manage themselves.

The ability for an individual to exercise personal leadership in conducting their behavior can affect how well your organization does. Why? Because people are the organization.

It is your staff who have access to private, proprietary information. They must interact well with each other and represent the company in public settings. You expect them to be engaged on your business during their time at work. You expect their life to be under control both on and off the job.

In a thousand and one ways, their thinking, beliefs, attitudes and actions affect the organization and its success.

The ability for you to predict how individuals in your workforce can exercise self-leadership across the whole spectrum of life experience translates into improved performance, productivity and profit. For nonprofits it means well delivered services, increased impact and community confidence and trust.

Bottom line - Individuals determine success ... Personal leadership is:

• The ability to lead yourself before you lead anyone or anything else.

• The critical factor that determines how beneficial an individual will be to the organization.

• The key element that will spell the success or failure of projects, programs, companies and causes.

G.E. Wood and Associates uses a highly specialized set of tools and services that allow you to make the best talent acquisition, employee development and succession planning decisions that have a positive impact across every measurable area of the organization.

To successfully achieve these critical and foundational business objectives each requires the personal leadership capabilities and integrity of people. People (human capital) are vital to the success of any organization!

Organizational and Team Success Is Dependent Upon Individual, Personal Leadership

Fact: The bottom-line for any organization to achieve maximum sustainable performance results, regardless of industry sector, product or service mix is dependent on each individual’s capacity for leading themselves first. We call this “personal leadership effectiveness.”

This statement holds true regardless if it is the CEO/President, C-level leaders, managers, supervisors or the people that comprise the general employee population.

Fact: When dealing with the subject of personal leadership, we are dealing with the subject of a person’s character and behavior.

It is imperative to have “character-based business solutions” that have the capacity of being integrated into an organization’s overall culture as well as more specific applications for talent acquisition, employee development and retention.

A Person’s Character and Behavior Are Critical
To Any Organization

The capacity an individual has for personal leadership - the ability to lead themselves - will determine whether or not they are a benefit to the organization.

Is the Individual an Asset?

• They are in alignment with organizational culture
• They achieve expected performance results
• They are retained as a reliable team member
• They contribute to empowering team performance
• They contribute to customer satisfaction

Is the Individual a Liability?

• They are not compatible with the culture
• They are underachieving in expected performance results
• They are a high risk for turnover
• They actually hinder team performance
• They cause customer dissatisfaction

G.E.Wood Maximizes Corporate Performance Through
Use of MERIT Integrated Solutions

To maximize performance and productivity (which equates to bottom-line net profit), it is critical that organizations establish viable processes and applications that will “improve the predictably of human capital decisions.”

In other words, organizations need to be able to predict and act upon indications of how well an individual will exercise personal leadership across the broad range of activities and interactions they will be involved in at work.

Our MERIT Solutions do this by providing a significant Return on Investment impact on an organization’s culture, talent acquisition, employee development and succession planning initiatives.

Benefits Include:

• Alignment of organizational values to determine “fit” of employees to the culture, in advance of hiring
• Reduction of overall hiring expenses and costly turnover
• Enhanced trust, confidence and communications between leadership and employees
• Reliable evaluation process to help identify “gaps” in current job positions or promotional career paths.

Attention Corporate and Nonprofit Organizations!
Here is the Human Capital Success Formula That Directly Contributes to Your Success or Failure

People Determine Performance and Productivity.
They are Your Most Important Asset

Human capital is the most important asset to any organization when the leadership and employees are aligned with the mission and vision and committed to operate at a high level of performance and productivity.

What Empowers Performance and Productivity in Leaders?

• Vision
• Passion
• Leadership skills
• Effective use of power
• Mentor / coach
• Recognition
• Great character
• Embraces empowerment
• Organizational skills
• Rewards contribution
• Defines roles / responsibilities
• Manages challenges
• Feels valued
• Elicits feedback
• Good relationship skills
• Encourages contribution
• Cause / mission focused
• Goal oriented
• Balanced life
• Desire to succeed
• Committed to develop others
• Knowledgeable
• Clear communication
• Resolves conflicts

What Empowers Performance and Productivity in Employees?

• Receives recognition
• Supported by leadership
• Feels valued
• Advance career track
• Makes a contribution
• Empowered
• Passionate
• Clarity of goals
• Mentor / coach relationship
• Great character
• Clear planning / direction
• Understands vision
• Likes work environment (culture)
• Organizational skills
• Clarity in roles / responsibility
• Positive reinforcement
• Fits with others
• Cause / mission mindedness

Performance and Productivity of Any Organization Will Be Determined By The Personal Leadership Efficiency of Its Human Capital (People) Assets!

G.E.Wood uses Merit Integrated Solutions for improving the predictability of human capital decisions. This directly contributes to achieving critical business results!

Helping Organizations ...

• Streamline Operational Efficiencies
• Mitigate Human Capital Risks
• Reduce Unnecessary Financial Expenditures
• Empower Performance-Based Leaders

We offer organizations highly specialized predictive character-based human capital solutions. The tools and expertise we can bring to bear in your organization directly impact performance and growth and minimize risk and expenses.

The MERIT Integrated Solutions™ technologies and learning applications will have a significant R.O.I. impact on an organization’s culture, talent acquisition, employee development and succession planning initiatives.

When Organizations Hire or Retain People With Poor Character and Behavior, it Directly Impacts the Financial Bottom-Line

Benefits of Using our MERIT Integrated Solutions

Selection (Talent Acquisition Benefits)

• Streamlined interviewing process (enhanced accuracy for selection equals less time/cost).
• Improved turnover ratios (minimize wrong hires due to lack of compatibility and fit).
• Minimized disruptions (extraneous communications / conflicts that arise with new hires).
• Mitigated hiring risks (avoid frivolous employee lawsuits for unexpected terminations).

Intervention (Employee Development Benefits)

• Integrated development process for leaders and employees.
• Enhanced trust and confidence regarding direction and leadership of the company.
• Increased retention of key employees, which will result in fewer turnovers.
• Strengthened communications between leadership and employees (fewer conflicts).
• Empowered workforce leveraging their strength areas and improving upon identified personal development needs (enhancing a person’s personal leadership coefficient).

Retention (Succession Planning Benefits)

• Reliable evaluation process to determine an individual’s career path to a new position within the company.
• Predictable analytics for identifying “gaps” that may be needed to fill the void of a senior worker’s departure (baby-boomer exodus).
• Sustainable process to engage senior workers to remain part-time with a company to provide leadership and coaching support, for the purpose of mentoring newly recruited employees regarding their job skills and the character values of the organization.

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