JRock Consulting is a New York based firm with core competencies in aligning business and talent strategies, facilitating organizational change, and optimizing all aspects of talent management. We customize our services to meet the unique needs of our clients. We pride ourselves on our commitment to our client’s success and on delivering strategic solutions that provide high value.
Organizational Capability
Senior Team Effectiveness
Based on a time-tested model of team effectiveness, we assess the strengths and weaknesses of management teams and engage them in designing and running small or large-scale team meetings and offsites designed to align team members on key strategic issues, address business challenges, and lead organizational changes. Read More…
Team Building
We work closely with our clients to select or design an optimal team assessment and action learning and training approach. We don’t believe in a “one size fits all” approach and custom design the team building process to help the team meet its most critical short term objectives and adopt best practices for long term team success. Read More…
Change Management
Although change is the constant feature of any organization, something that leaders have come to accept and factor in their work, it is something that few organizations consciously plan and manage effectively. Whether an organization is facing incremental or radical change, driven by external or internal factors, we offer a set of qualitative and quantitative assessment instruments for gauging the extent to which a team or an organization is ready to approach and implement the range of changes that will allow it to survive, thrive, and demonstrate breakthrough work closely with our clients to select or design an optimal team assessment and action learning and training approach. Read More…
Organizational Design
Our organizational design methodology emphasizes strategic alignment, engagement of key stakeholders and data-based decision making. We work quickly with our clients to clarify the key criteria the future organization must meet, generate design options and their respective trade-offs, and select the optimal design for the future. Read More…
Designing Talent Strategy
We believe that organizations that successfully develop and manage their human capital possess a true and robust competitive advantage. In order to help our clients achieve this goal, we engage them on activities that allow them to surface their personal views on the kind of talent they see as essential to the success of their organization. Read More…
Employee Life Cycle Management
Defining and Deploying Competency Models
When competencies and associated ways of doing the work are unclear or no longer appropriate, we engage our clients in identifying new leadership requirements and competencies that are clearly aligned with the business strategy. Read More…
Selecting and Hiring Talent
Using a variety of assessment methods including extensive interviewing, personality and leadership measures and 360 for internal candidates, we create a competency based selection program that ensures you are hiring the best people for the right role. We also create customized role-play based simulations for hiring into certain roles. Read More…
Selecting High-Potentials
High potential employees sometimes derail before reaching their full potential. By using our assessment techniques described above we help identify your high potential employees. The assessment process helps us to help them understand what their strengths and developmental opportunities are and how to develop those areas of opportunity. Read More…
Onboarding and Transition Management
In a context where new leaders are more than ever expected to “hit the ground running”, more than a third of these leaders fail to integrate in their new environment and leave the organization within 18 months. Read More…
Performance Management
JRock helps your company create a performance management culture through the use of our cutting edge performance review and 360 survey programs. We provide a soup to nuts solution and unbeatable service in the execution of your review. Read More…
Succession Planning
For organizations that face higher risks of losing critical talent – after a merger, in highly competitive markets, or because of retirement – we help design and run talent reviews with senior management to create targeted. Read More…
Engagement For Organization
Every leader who has had to face a significant crisis or to steer her organization into a radically different direction will tell you that clarity of vision and strong capability won’t do without the essential ingredient of a deeply engaged workforce. Read More…
Leadership Development
Coaching
We customize our coaching process to our client’s development needs, focus and timeline. Coaching programs range from just-in-time consulting to regularly-scheduled bi-weekly or monthly sessions, face-to-face or on the phone, depending on geographical and scheduling constraints. We operate as expert listeners, careful observers and challenging. Read More…
Leadership Development Training Programs
When leaders feel ill-equipped to drive the business strategy and talent management activities appear to be disconnected and failing the strategic agenda of the organizations, we leverage assessment data to help our clients design targeted and practical development programs made up of coaching, project assignments, and stretch roles. Read More…
Management Training Programs
We provide specialized training and development solutions for new to mid-level managers that equal senior executive development programs in quality and impact. Read More…
Learning Solutions and Training
Learning solutions & Training
We design and administer customized training solutions to meet the learning needs of your organization. Courses use multiple methods to engage employees in the learning process. Both in person and online training can be implemented. Read More…
Private Equity Solutions
Optimizing The Talent In Your PE Firm
JRock assists PE Firms in creating high performance cultures that optimize profitability. Your firm’s success is dependent on your team. Pick the wrong investment opportunities and you will have more reds than greens. Mismanage your portfolio companies and you will take yellows to red. You need the best talent to find the right opportunities, install the right strategy, pick the right management team, and insure execution. Our proven talent management processes can help you to select the right investment professionals, manage the talent pipeline, develop your high potentials, and promote the right investment professionals to Partner.
Optimizing Your Portfolio Companies
While PE firms traditionally invest their energy in optimzing the business strategy of their portfolio companies, they frequently under-invest in optimizing the talent strategy in these companies. As a result, operational and strategy execution are compromised and performance is hindered. Too often the only talent decision PE firms make is to retain or fire the incumbent CEO. The expectation is that the CEO will handle all of the talent management issues. JRock provides intensive post-deal talent and operational assessments in order to provide with the PE firm with data and recommendations on how to quickly improve the company’s.