People and Change teams focus on the human capabilities and develop strategies for the attraction, development, motivation, retention and management of the right people with the right skill sets and right experiences to deliver on the goals of the organization. Focusing on the HR function, it develops the corresponding HR strategy, programs and plans that enable the HR function and line management — working together — to be able to deliver the strategy for the human capabilities.

Finally, when organizations need to accomplish major change and make it sustainable, the two are integrated to enable people involved with and affected by the change to become engaged, committed and competent in the new way of doing business.

People and Change teams can advise our firms' clients on:

Behavioral change management: Accelerating change and making sustainable it

Talent Management: Ensuring that strategies can in fact be implemented by identifying and developing the human capital 

Organization Design & Development: Creating effective and efficient organizational designs 

HR function optimization: Creating an HR function by developing leading delivery models for the implementation of the broader Human Capital strategy.

Workforce optimization:Providing an insight deep for strategic and operational workforce planning

Within these broad categories, the People and Change teams advise clients on transforming their organizations by:

• Align their top teams around their strategy and required performance
• Engage stakeholders
• Create a vision and case for change
• Align the various change levers, particularly HR
• Encourage cultural change
• Create effective performance management