AUDIENCES

BUSINESS LEADER | HR LEADER / CHRO / VP OF HR | TEAMS | HR BUSINESS PARTNER

HR BUSINESS PARTNER

70%

of transformations fail due to insufficiently high aspirations, a lack of engagement within the organization, and insufficient investment in building capabilities.

McKinsey Consulting

“We can’t control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!”

Donella Meadows

“The performance of the whole is never the sum of the performance of the parts taken separately, but it’s the product of their interactions.”

Russell Ackoff

At Sherpa HR, we’re very aware that every organization is a dynamic social system where people and groups interact constantly. We recognize that the ecosystem you operate in is influenced by many factors, from expectations and perceptions to mindsets, agendas, and interpretations. These elements have a tremendous impact on the organization’s direction, decision-making, and execution, as well as its reactions to change.

We don’t just sit back and watch the show, though. As your partner, we take a proactive approach to engaging with your ecosystem and driving your success. With our extensive expertise and experience, we can help influence your ecosystem in a positive direction, building alignment, buy-in, and commitment to your goals.

When you team up with Sherpa HR, you can trust us to help you navigate complex social dynamics and achieve sustainable success.

For Business Leaders

YOUR CONTEXT

Perhaps you are re-working your strategy to improve your competitiveness; shaping a culture of innovation; revamping the customer experience; scaling your organization for growth; improving productivity and efficiency.

No matter your agenda, you realize that the people dimension is critical for a successful transformation and strategy execution in your organization.

YOUR GOALS

Alongside strong operational performance and making your transformations a reality you need to align the HR strategy and organization design with your business objectives.

You need the right talent in place, close critical competency gaps, re-allocate resources to your strategic initiatives, build a high performing and diverse leadership team, shape a purposeful & inclusive culture and solve the most important people challenges to enable your organization’s objectives.

Alongside strong operational performance and making your transformations a reality you need to align the HR strategy and organization design with your business objectives.

SHERPA HR SOLUTION

Sherpa HR is your trusted advisor that your organization deserves. Our model is designed to put your business challenges at the center of attention.

Sherpa HR partners with you to engage with your stakeholders, empathy for the employee experience, analytical approach to understand root causes of your business problems, ability to co-design impactful solutions, and establish accountability to deliver sustainable results.

You are an HR Leader / CHRO / VP of HR

YOUR CONTEXT

Your team…
You realize that the people dimension of the transformations and strategy execution are critical for the success of your organization.

The feedback from business leaders is getting stronger that your HR team needs to step up on their strategic capabilities to meet the complex challenges of these transformations.

Yourself…
You are initiating, preparing, analyzing, designing, or executing on strategic engagements. You need impulses to unlock or move forward.

It is hard to analyze the data across silos and functions and get to the bottom of the root causes. You need to navigate demanding and perhaps resisting stakeholders and the expectations are high that you deliver sustainable results.

YOUR GOALS

Your team…
Your team delivers excellence in operational execution AND takes on the strategic challenges of the businesses that they support.

They focus on the most important business problems, engage with empathy, demonstrate self-awareness and influence effectively, they are analytical and diagnose before designing impactful solutions and deliver results while navigating barriers and resistance.

You are preparing your successors and a great leadership bench for the HR function.

Yourself…
You have built strategic muscle throughout your career but you have the desire to be more intentional on how you show up in the strategic sphere rather than relying on your intuition.

While you have a track record of solving complex problems, each problem is different and you need to question your previous approaches and find new ways of solving problems in an ever-changing context.

You also look for a more intentional framework to be able to coach your team on developing their strategic capabilities.

SHERPA HR SOLUTION

Your team…Sherpa will spend time to really understand your context, strategy, transformation, people implications, challenges. Moreover, we do an evaluation of your team’s strategic capability baseline. These data points allow Sherpa to tailor our learning and coaching solutions to meet your needs and expectations of measurable progress.

With Sherpa’s ‘real-HR-life-experience’ you can rest assured that we are able to put ourselves into the shoes of the participants and take them on a genuine development journey.

Yourself…
Sherpa thrives on coaching leaders facing complex problems and we have the track record to explore solutions relying on empathy, thorough diagnosis, creativity, and the experience to navigate the challenges of a global, matrixed, uncertain world.

With plenty of experience facing C-suite stakeholders and juggling complex stakeholder environments, Sherpa works towards co-developing a direction that is in sync with your personal values, addresses the core intentions of solving for the root causes, and acknowledges constraints and your space to manoeuvre.

For Teams

YOUR CONTEXT

You and your colleagues are operating in a competitive and ever-changing environment facing a range of challenges related to achieving your goals.

The pressure to perform can be intense and you are under pressure to deliver results quickly and efficiently.

You must stay close to your customers and be able to adapt quickly to changing conditions, make decisions in uncertain situations, and continuously innovate to stay ahead of the competition.

YOUR GOALS

You want to ensure that your teams objectives and your own work aligns with your organization’s purpose and strategy, and that you are making a meaningful and impactful contribution.

You want to work in a collaborative environment with competent and engaged colleagues who can rely on each other and where you as a team are empowered to make the right decisions.

You learn every day, making progress towards your career and development goals, and you are supported by a manager who cares, recognizes and coaches you to exploit your full potential.

SHERPA HR SOLUTION

Sherpa HR engages with your yourself and your leaders to ensure that there is alignment between strategic intentions and how you make things happening in the field.

In many of Sherpa HR’s projects, you will be invited to interviews, focus groups or surveys to ensure that your perspectives are shedding light on root causes and your expectations and ideas are shaping your organization’s future.

YOU are the target customer and end-user of the solutions that we design for employee experiences, talent practices, high performing teams, leadership development and desired culture.

You are an HR Business Partner

YOUR CONTEXT

You are running a solid HR operation within your business. You have good relationships across the organization and you are eager to learn about the business. You have had conversations with your leaders and stakeholders and received the feedback that you should get more involved in the strategic conversations and more exposure to the transformations and contributing more to solve the tougher more persistent challenges that the business is facing.

YOUR GOALS

You are ready to shift the balance from operational to strategic. You want to be the trusted advisor to the organization. You want to show up at the table where the strategic conversation is held, you seek to influence, shape and challenge. You are ready to be accountable for the success of the business.

SHERPA HR SOLUTION

Sherpa HR will help you up that mountain of being more strategic. The SHERPAs have a track record of being successful in HR partnering with the business. They know what it is like to juggle the operational day2day and moving the needle of adding value in the strategic space. The SHERPA has a passion for developing and coaching HR talent to make that climb and exploit your full potential.

Read more about the state of the art learning and coaching experience to systematically develop your strategic HR muscles

AUDIENCES

BUSINESS LEADER | HR LEADER / CHRO / VP OF HR | TEAMS | HR BUSINESS PARTNER

BUSINESS LEADER

HR LEADER / CHRO / VP OF HR

TEAMS

HR BUSINESS PARTNER

For Business Leaders

You are an HR Leader / CHRO / VP of HR

For Teams

You are an HR Business Partner

Why work with Sherpa HR

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