Integrating Human Resources Workshop A 5-day Workshop on Job Evaluation, Compensation Management, and Performance Management featuring the Community

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1 Integrating Human Resources Workshop A 5-day Workshop on Job Evaluation, Compensation Management, and Performance Management featuring the Community Platform

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3 It is our firm belief that the Human Resources is the most critical function that focuses the organization s ability to reach and effectively deploy talent. Since 2014, Birches Group has delivered its training program to help strengthen human resource professionals across the different public and not-for-profit communities we serve. We have offered workshops on Job Design and Evaluation, Compensation Management, and Recognition and Reward. All three courses consistently highlight the importance of standards and clarity in human resources. We are pleased to offer a workshop that integrates the core concepts of our three 3-day workshops into an intensive 5day course. We invite you to learn more. Who Should Join this Workshop? Headquarters, regional, and country-level HR decision-makers who want to learn how to optimize their HR programme and maximize its impact. Human resources professionals who seek to build an understanding of the science of Human Resources. Non-HR professionals and leaders who want to extend their skills by learning critical people management concepts. Page 1 Building a community of practice.

4 Human Resources is often asked to be a strategic partner in delivering the organization s mission. It is tasked with securing the talent, building the workforce, and enabling performance. The challenge has been not just how to accomplish all of these but how to do it in an integrated way. In the span of five intensive days, workshop participants will learn the fundamentals of how to link four critical areas of Human Resources: Evaluation of Jobs Design of Salary Scales Assessment of Skills Measurement of Performance Learn from the experience and expertise of our facilitators and from other participants. *Dedicated hours after the workshop will be available for participants who wish to discuss any organizationspecific issues in a more in-depth setting. Slots will be limited and are on a first come, first served basis. Page 2 The Challenge. The Workshop Flow Let s begin with jobs. The job evaluation framework is the foundation of effective compensation design, skills assessment, and performance measurement. The module on Jobs will focus on examining jobs using the simple, three factors of Community : Purpose, Engagement, and Delivery. Translating job structures to pay structures. Capturing knowledge and recognizing experience. Measuring and rewarding achievement. The module on Markets will be about creating pay structures that can attract, retain, motivate, and exit staff, ultimately aligning the external market to the internal workforce. The module on Skills will use the same three factors in job evaluation to measure growth in skill that can be linked to growth in pay. The module on Performance will again use the three factors to measure performance in a simple, multi-rater way to celebrate most of staff s contribution to the organization.

5 While the Workshop covers a Learning requires being able to broad range of foundational apply principles and concepts in principles and concepts, it has practical exercises. been designed to maximize the number of practical exercises that The five-day workshop will feature will allow participants to quickly interactive plenary sessions that apply their learnings. will allow participants to share their experience, learn from the Daily diagnostic activities will help trainers, and learn from each other. participants examine their own organizations based on the Learning activities and materials practices raised for each module of are developed to make the workshop. Lastly, a case study of a fictional international NGO country office has been developed based on Birches Group s extensive work in this sector. This fictional organization, WeHelp, will serve as a common reference for the different practical exercises. Page 3 Hands on.exercises. Practical Practical. Learning Activities Job Evaluation. Salary Scale Design. The concepts from the Jobs module will be supplemented by guided evaluation exercises using job descriptions taken from Birches Group client organizations. Participants will learn the fundamentals of design and how to develop and discern roles across a team consistently based on principles of equivalent worth.. Participants will be given an Excel based tool and be guided on how to design an effective salary scale that targets organization position and composition, further supporting internal team cohesion while attaining market competitiveness. Skills Assessment. Performance Evaluation. Participants will examine fictional individual employee profiles aligned to job descriptions and job levels, to determine each person s level of proficiency across multiple skills indicators, and overall skills stage. Carrying over the fictional employee profiles used in the previous module, participants will then assess their level of achievement against job expectations within a given performance period. Hands on analysis for all the learning activities are enabled by the CommunityTM platform

6 The Integrated Solution. The workshop is built on Birches Group s integrated Human Resource platform Community. Page 4 Enabled by Community Community Jobs Community Markets The Community application will be used across the job evaluation, skills assessment, and performance evaluation exercises. Data used in the salary scale design module will be extracted from Birches Group salary survey reports that have the Community job levels at their core. Access to the Community system will be provided for participants to use during the workshop. Community Skills Participants are encouraged to bring laptops with Microsoft Excel for use during the salary scale design exercises. Community Performance

7 Page 5 A Few Words from Our Participants "Overall, the course is quite rich because it covers all aspects of HR especially organization management of staff within different aspects of the organization- from when you formulate the job to evaluating and looking at the skills assessment and performance appraisal. What I found innovative was the skills assessment- I would like to look at this further and see how we can adopt that. I also liked the simplicity of the performance evaluation- it does not complicate the process and it is easy to understand. There is very little training needed and it is quite straightforward. It helps us see what we can adopt and what we can do differently to make our work much easier" -Beatrix Gacho, HR Organization Development Manager, World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) "As a new HR person, I liked the entire concept and because of this workshop, I really started to appreciate the bigger picture of Human Resources. When we start using the Birches model, this workshop will facilitate better understanding and better implementation and clarity in the organization. We really need to start defining and clarifying the jobs" -Imelda Abalos, Asia HR Coordinator, EDUCO The integrated approach makes it clear for everybody so it is great for transparency. It is also great for accountability and it is very empowering for the HR function and for the employees because you can see how we ve taken you through the journey and what are the next steps. We can now look critically at what we have so far and say maybe we need to change this. -Sophie Paradis, Global Compensation and Benefits Analyst, VSO International

8 Page 6 We Are Global. Over 400 Human Resources, Support Services, and Programme Personnel representing over 120 organizations have attended Birches Group s public workshops! Where We ve Done Training We ve held 27 public workshops in 9 countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, and USA! Over 10 organizations have asked us to do customized workshops for them! Interested in other locations? Interested in a customized workshop for your organization? Let us know! Public Birches Group Workshop Client-Sponsored Workshop

9 Page 7 Meet Our Team Gary McGillicuddy Gary is the Managing Partner of Birches Group based in New York. He also leads Birches Group s international consulting services team, and has advised clients including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Union, among other major international, bilateral governmental, and international NGOs. His background is in organizational design, job design, and compensation policy design. Prior to establishing Birches Group, Gary served in various HR leadership functions in the United Nations Development Programme for over 20 years. Jeffrey Slater Jeffrey is one of five Birches Group partners and is based out of Bangkok. He manages major client relationships for Birches Groups and leads its Information Technology function in the development of Birches Group s Community platform. He worked with Gary in the United Nations Development Programme as part of the Compensation Survey programme, as well as led trainings within UNDP and now with Birches Group. Jeffrey is fluent in French and Spanish. PJ Manalo PJ is the Training and Advisory Services Manager based in the Philippines. He specializes in Job Evaluation and Organization Design, and has been deeply involved in the design and development of Birches Group s Community platform as well as its training programme. He has trained Birches Group staff and clients since 2007.

10 Page 8 About Birches Group Birches Group is an international human resources consultancy that works extensively with clients from the public and private sectors, working with national governments as well as non-governmental organizations. We provide advice on varied aspects of human resources policy and management. We also conduct salary surveys in 156 high-growth and developing country labour markets globally. Through our expertise in the study of work and our experience in designing and deploying simple and practical solutions to complex Human Resource challenges, we have developed our integrated Community Human Resources platform. It is the foundation of Birches Group s organization design, job design, training, information technology solutions, and salary surveys.

11 Page 9 Workshop Fees The workshop fee is 2,000 USD per participant. The workshop fee includes workshop materials, a USB drive with soft copies of the presentation and other supplementary documents, and the case study materials. Also included are coffee and tea and lunch meals for all five days. Excluded from the fee are visa, travel, accommodations, and other fees incurred by participants. Payments may be made through bank transfer or credit card. We implement a strict No Payment, No Participation policy. Other terms and conditions may apply. Register early and take advantage of additional discounts! Discount coupon codes will be released through newsletters. Available coupons are limited and registrants that successfully apply coupons will be given a 2-week window to complete payment. Register now using one of the links below! Location Dates Registration Link Johannesburg, South Africa May 20-24, 2019 Register Here Nairobi, Kenya July 29-August 2, 2019 Register Here Dubai, UAE October 14-18, 2019 Register Here

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