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CHALLENGES
- Lack of clarity on roles & responsibilities and what is expected of them.
- Teams operate in silos, thereby increasing costs that could otherwise be controlled by sharing resources.
- Difficulty in tracking productivity & timesheets.
- First-line leadership deficit.
- Difficulty in building leadership tiers.
- Time of Principals utilized mainly on business processes, rather than design & client-facing.
- Hiring employees with the right skills is a challenge.
- Retaining good employees, is a bigger challenge.
SOLUTIONS
- Defining the work culture that is best suited for your Firm.
- Organization structure and workflows.
- Talent management - Recruitment, training, internships.
- Performance management.
- Leadership development - building the second line to the Principals / Partners.
- Stakeholder structure.
- HR technology - automating routine HR processes.
- Managed HR services - we run your HR department.
- Discovery phase
Understand current HR practices, your goals for the firm and create a plan to align current state with desired state. - Set-up phase
Build the foundation for a strong HR function. In this phase, we work with you to develop policies, formats and processes, so that the system runs on auto pilot mode. This saves senior people time otherwise utilized managing people’s issues. - Execution phase
The HR plan is brought to life in this phase. As an outsource engagement, we run it for you for the first few months and gradually build a system for you to take over & run it seamlessly. Review phase
A critical phase of the engagement is to monitor & analyse the HR function of your firm. Periodic reviews are conducted to ensure that there is no slip and implementation is running as desired.
People enablement for architecture and engineering firms is a large part of what we do at The Smart Architect. Our senior partners have built, led and managed teams, thereby helping firms to scale. In the post pandemic world, HR as a function has made a big shift and architects must adopt new ways of people management. We help you build and manage effective teams.
