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Making strategies work– it’s all about people

On average, top executives hold 10 different positions throughout their career - and marry 1.3 times.

1 out of 5 senior managers has interrupted a date for work reasons.

8 out of 10 senior managers see strategic challenges as their first priority when they change jobs.

In the 80’s, people changed jobs on average every 4 years.Today, the rate is every 2nd year.

Before talking about us – let us talk about the essence of it all: Modern man

Modern man is on the move. And the better we know him, the better we will be able to support you. It is all about understanding what drives him, what is important to him and what his dreams are.We believe that understanding people gives a head start in getting the right people to work together, whatever competitive situation your organisation is in. After all, real change is carried out by real people. Strategies and theories alone will never do the work. But the right people on the team can bring your strategy to life and make real changes in your company. That is why we are so overwhelmingly interested in people. People do matter – and understanding the modern man is likely to be the key to your success.

Understanding youUnderstanding your strategy. Analysing your strengths.

Step 1: Understanding your strategy By familiarising ourselves with your strategy, vision and company culture, we get a head start in knowing the direction of your organisation in the near and distant future.At the same time, we evaluate your company, your challenges and your goals from a benchmark perspective. Then, your resources – ”your human capital” – have to be assessed. Finally, we recommend changes intended to strengthen your teams and thus prepare your company for the future. Together we can assemble the ideal winning team for your company.

Step 2: Analysing opportunities and challenges Our approach is to focus on your company’s core competences and identify the areas where people can make the biggest difference. Then we work on building the skill set of existing employees and recruiting new people if necessary.By focusing on the objectives that drive your business, we are able to provide qualified sparring and solid recommendations on how to attract, develop and retain the right high-potential employees. In other words, we can help you master the fine art of making the right human capital investments that lead to the strongest possible team implementing and executing your strategy.

Step 1: Understanding your strategy

Step 2: Analysing opportunities and challenges

Step 3: StrategicRecruitment

Step 4: Capability Management

Step 5: Successful strategy implementation

Understanding peopleStrategic Recruitment

Step 3: 40 years experience in qualified selection Often experience is the most valuable asset. In our case, we offer more than 40 years experience in supporting our clients by identifying and recruiting the most talented and suitable people. We call it qualified selection. And we know that this experience is worth nothing without the ability to adapt to our rapidly changing world. Because tomorrow’s successful companies demand local people with a global perspective and vice versa. Our core competence is Strategic Recruitment. By this we mean fully understanding a candidate’s ambitions, motivations and personal goals as well as his or her potential for development. When combined with our knowledge of the company’s values and strategic challenges, our Strategic Recruitment approach allows us to achieve faster integration and higher performance – instantly.

Experts in creating winning teams We are specialists in identifying what kind of people will fit into your kind of company, at all levels. Not only from an educational point of view but, more importantly, from a personal point of view. We strongly believe that success is about finding the true team players – people that are excellent on a personal level and people who can work with and inspire clients and colleagues.

The right people at all levels For decades, we have found not only top executives, locally and globally, but the most suitable people at all levels. We are specialists in finding and selecting the right people. Using our experience and knowledge to assemble the right teams and find key players can make a real difference to your result.






Understanding potentialDeveloping people capabilities

Step 4: Capability ManagementOne of today’s major challenges is the alignment of your organisation with your strategy. Our assessment of your employees’ capabilities and potential and how that fits with your focus areas and future challenges allows you to understand how you can further develop your people and organisation.

Development begins with key insights Growing people is all about understanding the important insights into what drives people. Firstly, our consultants are able to relate to everyone, regardless of where they are in their career, and focus on how to make them develop in their existing challenge. Secondly, they prepare them for next level positions with more responsibility and bigger future challenges.

Step 5: Successful strategy implementation We believe that talented people recognise a great strategy when they see it. Also when it comes to a recruitment strategy or a people management strategy. Our way of performing Strategic Recruitment offers a more holistic way of securing successful implementation of your company’s people management strategy. It allows you to run a much more cost efficient work force with a trustworthy approach allowing talented people to realise that their development is in everyone’s best interest.

Coaching – making a difference Business coaching is about fine-tuning your organisation’s talent. Our coaching consultants are trained to engage in dialogue leading to insight and reflection which enable the person to see solutions to a difficult situation. We believe that the right people, to a great extent, have the answers within themselves – our coaches merely guide them towards the right answers and their required actions.






As global as your business

We offer local insight balanced with global perspective on tomorrow’s challenges. We are represented in more than 20 countries around the world, which means that there is always a Mercuri Urval office at your service. Mercuri Urval has more than 1,000 employees, and for more than 4 decades, we have cooperated with local, national as well as global companies and organisations to achieve more than they expected. To find out more and to contact your nearest office, please visit: mercuriurval.com

Karen Tobiasen, Senior Vice President HR & Transformation, SAP EMEA:

“SAP has been cooperating with Mercuri Urval globally for more than 12 years because of their consultants’ ability to support our business needs. Mercuri Urval has helped SAP clarify which capabilities are necessary to fulfill the strategy and how such capabilities can be further developed within the organization and recruited outside the SAP eco system.Recently, Mercuri Urval designed a new recruitment training program (Topgrading) for 200 of our managers from which we expect a lot in the near future’’.

Over the past three years, we have been able to present a second to none result on employees staying in their new job*. More than 90% of all the people we have recruited for our clients are still with the same company after two years. With a global market estimate of 60%, we think that speaks for itself.

* Each year Mercuri Urval recruits more than 10,000 people worldwide.

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