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High Impact Recruiting Case Study

Situation

The core business the client performs is to drive sales results through improved training. How they do this is through their high-caliber Sales Consultants who provide the catalyst and knowledge to effectively train any companies sales forces. As The client focuses on only the top ‘Fortune’ clients, each of their Sales Consultants are the face of the company and are responsible for the success of every engagement. With millions of dollars on the line, The client was looking for a solution which would ensure they hire only ‘winners’ to their company and were extremely receptive in how we could ‘Crack the Code’ of what makes their top people perform and simply replicate this same profile.

Approach

The initial approach was to ‘Crack the Code’ of what made their top Consultants different from everyone else. We knew from a simple revenue generation report who the top people were but wanted to ensure we looked at everyone within the company to gain a valid perspective.

Solution

The first step was to develop a profile of the day-to-day success criteria necessary for the client’s Consultant to be successful in their position. This phase was customized to the exact requirements that The client required from their people and were 100% customized to their company and position. Once the core attributes of success were identified, we translated those into a stacked ranking of behaviors matching the most important attributes down to the least important. This enabled us the ability to completely customize this on The client’s behalf. Once the profiles were completed, we had each client’s Sales Consultant take the profile. Based on the results and correlating the top performers to the others, we were able to ascertain the exact behavior rankings and ranges necessary for the next hired person to be successful.

Client Benefit

The client’s Training Corporation now has a proven, tested behavior model to support them in their hiring initiatives. While the PeopleDNA™ model developed on their behalf is not the sheer determinant of hiring, as experience and skills play an important part, it does provide an insight into the future success and ability of the individual. Hiring mistakes are minimized if not avoided all together, people are on-boarded quickly and start producing faster and there is a clear plan for coaching people to improve all due to identifying their core behaviors prior to hire.

Financial Impact / Return on Investment

Since The client has implemented the use of this profile prior to any new hire, they have selected 14 new people with 100% retention for all employees, past their 3rd month. The hard-cost financial impact of this success, compared to industry average turnover is calculated to be over $300,000, outside of each person’s ability to generate additional client revenues.

Application of Strategic Resource Management

The following table depicts the core elements of Ray & Barney Group’s Strategic Resource Management that were applied to this engagement.

Maximize
Workforce Strategies
Find
Consultative Recruiting
Develop
Organizational Development

Business Goals & People Strategy Alignment

Capture therightDNA™

Prioritization Process

Human Capital Costs Assessment

Retention Analysis

Human Capital Dashboard

Retained Search

Outsourced Recruiting

Staffing

High Impact Recruiting

Topgrading

Succession Planning

Executive Coaching

Competency Assessment/Alignment