The Pursuit NHA Strategic Workshop has been designed to ensure that your Senior Management Team is aligned and focused on the activities which will help them drive best practice.

The one day workshop focuses on the five key areas which are essential for success:

• Strategy
• Operations
• Structure
• Human Resources (HR)
• Leadership

The team is asked to vote on a series of statements/questions. Each participant’s voting intentions are known only to them but the group result is shown on screen.

The role of Pursuit NHA is to explore areas of consensus and opportunity.  Throughout the day an average team will identify 30-40 actions which need to be taken. These activities are prioritised and assigned to team members who want to tackle the issues identified.

The output of the workshop allows the senior team to:

• Review and agree the forward strategies for your business
• Recognise and build upon the key strengths of your organisation
• Benchmark your team against the world’s most effective sales teams
• Identify and resolve any potential issues

In order to fully understand what it is like to work for your organisation, Pursuit NHA has developed a tool which will give real insight into your organisation across the following six key areas:

• Job Satisfaction and Motivation
• Internal Communication and Contact
• Role and Responsibilities
• Personal Development and Training
• Time Management
• Customer Management

The Team Self Analysis is sent to your team(s) and will capture their level of motivation and satisfaction, how well and how often the organisation communicates to them, the clarity of their role, how well individuals are developed and trained, where their time is spent and what the processes are to manage the customer’s business.

All the individual feedback is collated and pulled together as a final report, providing recommendations as to what are the critical steps moving forward.

Our research indicates that some HR professionals can suffer from the following:

• Feeling undervalued as HR isn’t taken as seriously as Sales, Marketing, Research, Operations and Finance
• The challenge of trying to influence is a real challenge trying to influence highly intelligent (clever), technical people
• Frustration that technical and scientific abilities and competencies are valued higher than leadership and communication skills
• Disappointment that line management doesn’t take enough responsibility for people issues
• Lack of airtime and challenges can mean HR professionals feel threatened at team meetings

We have been working with HR professionals from both large and medium sized organisations across the globe for over 10 years.

A typical comment from an HR Manager is:

“I deal with some very clever people who know their subject so well. They have brains the size of planets and love to demonstrate how important they are. They don’t exactly look down on me but I do sometimes feel about 10 stories below them – I need help.”

Since completing our first project our Consultants have been helping HR Directors and Managers to develop their own strategies for building their professional credibility and influence within the organisation (and sometimes their industries). Our Consultants have helped them put themselves and HR firmly on the credibility map.

Virtually all of the HR professionals we encouter have experienced the pain of low credibility at least a couple of times in their career. This is such a recurring threat that one of our Consultants decided to build a coaching programme around it and write a book about it.

At Pursuit NHA many of our consultants are qualified by the British Psychological Society and can administer and give feedback in ability tests and personality profiles.

These tools can be used as part of consultancy, recruitment or training projects.  They are not necessarily an end in themselves but can give invaluable insights into behaviours and outcomes.

Tests are administered on line and face to face. Feedback is given individually or as part of a team development session.

The British Psychological Society