A shortage of the right talent is a top concern for CEOs in all industries and geographies. Our deep experience, proprietary tools, and focus on business outcomes help clients meet this challenge and turn talent into a source of competitive advantage.
We work with clients to:
Shape talent strategy to meet business needs: We help develop talent strategies tied directly to business plans—including actionable and segmented insights into talent strengths, needs, and economics. We shape clear employer value propositions focused not just on compensation but also on other key factors that matter to talented employees, including professional development. Our proprietary tools and dashboards help clients closely monitor talent plans and deployment.
Build world-class talent systems and culture: Beyond meeting immediate recruitment and succession planning needs, the most successful companies use talent management as a tool to drive strategic change, innovation, effective merger integration, and long-term organizational health. We help clients define a talent agenda to support their core competitive strengths, and shape talent practices—including development, rotation, reward and recognition—to deliver business outcomes.
Develop leaders to deliver and sustain performance and health: We work with you to customize experiential programs based on your need, and we integrate our business insights with proven development methodologies, embedding them in your real-life context for lasting impact. Learn more on the McKinsey Leadership Development website.
Understand and strengthen workforce dynamics: To enable our clients to compete through talent, we provide foresight into key socio-demographic, regulatory, and technology trends. We help clients shape an explicit workforce strategy that is cognizant of these trends, incorporating compensation, training, employee engagement, diversity, and regulatory compliance. A key focus is on understanding, measuring, and improving workforce productivity.
Build excellence in HR: We help clients turn the HR function into a highly credible business partner, driving strategic people initiatives while improving the cost, quality and speed of key services such as recruiting, training, and administration. Using our proprietary HR Navigator tool, we help HR set quantified targets, measure its performance, and demonstrate its contribution to business value.
