
Case Studies
Creating strategic alignment
“When Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) completed its first
comprehensive business plan in 2004, we knew we needed a strategy to roll
the plan out to all CEO staff. Talent Strategy Partners worked with
CEO’s senior management team to create a communication and training
plan that was fully aligned with our business plan goals. Our partnership
with TSP has been crucial to our ability to build knowledge, buy-in, and
enthusiasm for the plan among our front-line workers and mid-level managers. This
has been a key to the plan’s success and we’re ahead of our goals.”
Mindy
Tarlow
Executive Director
CEO
- At a family-owned engineering company, TSP conducted a comprehensive executive compensation audit. In addition to helping the organization align its executive salaries with the market, we facilitated strategic goal setting and designed a management incentive program — based on a customized balanced scorecard — to reinforce corporate goals.
- TSP led an international shipping company CEO and a subset of the Executive Committee in a session to determine and articulate corporate strategy (vision, goals, values, metrics).
- For an international financial services firm, TSP designed and facilitated a process to articulate corporate values, using a team of high-potential, mid-level managers as a development experience.
- At a major university, we involved the cabinet in developing university-wide goals that became the foundation for a new performance management program.
- For a healthcare organization, TSP facilitated a design team to create a performance management program that incorporated the organization’s core values as competencies.
- At an engineering company, TSP facilitated strategic goal setting and designed a management incentive program — based on a customized balance scorecard — to reinforce corporate goals.
- For a major home improvement retailer, TSP led the HR leaders in strategic planning and setting fiscal year priorities to support the business strategy.
- We brought together a new corporate employee relations group and their key internal customers — field HR directors — at a major home improvement retailer. With our help, they overcame skepticism and concerns about the new structure and jointly developed operating procedures to make it work.

