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Our Approach to People Strategy
At SOAR Community Network, we developed a holistic approach to People Strategy, designed to align with your organization’s core mission, vision, and values. Through Purpose Mapping, we ensure each talent initiative supports your primary objectives. We leverage Employee Experience Surveys and Behavioral Insights to craft a tailored Talent Optimization strategy that meets your unique needs and strategic objectives. Our suite of services, including 360 Evaluations, Executive and Group Coaching, and Staff Retreats, is focused on leadership development, boosting employee engagement, and fostering a culture of innovation and teamwork.
Developing compassionate leaders, designing cohesive teams, and fostering collaboration within your organization is pivotal for creating a thriving workplace culture that not only attracts top talent but retains it. Compassionate leadership encourages an environment of trust and empathy, significantly enhancing employee engagement by making team members feel valued and understood. Cohesive teams, built on the foundation of mutual respect and shared goals, lead to higher productivity as members work seamlessly towards common objectives. Fostering collaboration across the organization breaks down silos, encourages diverse thinking, and leads to innovation by combining unique perspectives and skills. Together, these elements create a dynamic and supportive workplace where employees are motivated to excel and innovate, driving your organization towards sustained growth and success.
What Does People Strategy Encompass? How can SOAR programs support my People Strategy?
People Strategy Basics
Developing a People Strategy is crucial for growing organizations as it provides a structured framework for attracting, developing, and retaining the right talent aligned with the company’s goals and culture. This strategic approach ensures that the workforce is engaged, motivated, and equipped with the necessary skills to drive innovation and growth. By focusing on creating a supportive and dynamic work environment, organizations can enhance employee satisfaction and loyalty, leading to improved productivity and operational efficiency. A well-defined People Strategy also prepares organizations to navigate the challenges of scaling effectively, maintaining a competitive edge in the market, and achieving sustainable success. Through strategic talent management, businesses can unlock their full potential, transforming their human capital into a key asset for achieving long-term objectives.
SOAR can support if you’re wondering:
How can we align our team’s individual purposes with our organization’s overarching mission and goals to boost engagement and performance?
What strategies can we implement to accurately gauge our employees’ satisfaction and identify areas for improvement in our work environment?
How can understanding the behavioral styles of our team members enhance collaboration, productivity, and job satisfaction across our organization?
What tools are available to help us strategically align our talent management practices with our business objectives for more effective growth and scalability?
How can we utilize 360 evaluations to provide comprehensive feedback to our leaders, fostering their development and enhancing leadership effectiveness across the board?
In what ways can executive coaching support our senior leaders in navigating the challenges of rapid organizational growth and change?
Can group coaching sessions help in developing high-potential employees into future leaders, and how does it contribute to building a strong leadership pipeline?
How can organizing staff retreats contribute to improving team dynamics, enhancing creativity, and fostering a stronger, more cohesive organizational culture?
We want to hear your workforce and learning and development goals
Let’s explore which SOAR programs align best with your talent related strategy, goals and objectives.
Why Do I Need to Implement my People Strategy?
What is a People Strategy?
A People Strategy is a forward-thinking approach that aligns human resources practices with long-term business goals. It involves identifying, developing, and retaining talent that can drive innovation and growth, while also fostering a workplace culture that supports collaboration and adaptability. By focusing on employee engagement, leadership development, and strategic talent management, a People Strategy ensures that the workforce is not just a support function but a central driver of organizational success and sustainability.
How do I know if SOAR's C3 methodology is right for our organization?
At SOAR Community Network, we understand that choosing the right methodology to enhance your organization's culture and leadership is a pivotal decision. Our C3 Framework—centered on cultivating Compassionate leaders, developing Cohesive teams, and fostering Collaborative cultures—is designed to resonate with organizations seeking a profound transformation towards a more connected and purpose-driven workplace. If your organization values a holistic approach to growth, emphasizing not just the "what" but the "how" of achieving success, and you're ready to embark on a journey to deeply embed these values into every layer of your operations, then our C3 methodology is likely an excellent fit. We encourage a dialogue to explore your unique challenges and aspirations, ensuring that our approach aligns seamlessly with your vision for change and growth.
Do you offer ongoing People Strategy consultation?
Yes, we are committed to offering ongoing talent strategy consultation. Understanding the dynamic nature of talent development and employee experience, we engage with internal business leaders through monthly or quarterly strategy sessions. These sessions are meticulously designed to keep your leadership team aligned with evolving talent needs, ensuring that your organization's talent strategy remains robust, responsive, and results-oriented. By maintaining a regular cadence of strategic discussions, we ensure that your talent development efforts are continuously supported, adapted, and optimized to meet both current and future organizational goals.
Do you work with rapidly growing small to midsize organizations?
Yes, rapidly growing small to midsize organizations represent our primary focus. We recognize the unique challenges and opportunities that rapid growth presents, particularly in terms of employee and talent management. Without proper support and development during these critical phases, businesses may face challenges that hinder their growth trajectory and lead to negative outcomes such as decreased employee engagement, talent retention issues, and misaligned team dynamics. We specialize in crafting strategies that support your growth, by enhancing leadership capabilities, fostering cohesive team environments, and building a collaborative culture.
Our rapidly growing consulting firm needed a flexible executive coaching program with a roster of certified coaches. We needed a program that provided a high-impact to our leaders and required minimal administrative oversight from our lean Learning and Development team. SOAR provide exactly what we needed for our first cohort of executive coaching.
Mali and Victor are some of the best in the business. Your relationship starts because they are true professionals, but it grows because of the people they are. It's always the human connection that makes the difference to me, and Mali and Victor epitomize that reality.
The SOAR team put together a wonderful workshop for our Organization on a very short notice. It was amazing how it was tailored to the needs of our team and how useful it was for the personal and professional interactions among our personnel.
The way we all learned about the strengths of each other and the importance of the clear interactions between each other was key to keep having great results at work. Topics such as conflict resolution/ management, empathy, compassion, team types, etc. were addressed and learned on a very dynamic and interesting way. The whole team was very happy with the team-building activity, and we look forward to our next session. Fully recommend Mali for any team-building activity.
SOAR has interacted with my Leadership Team and separately with my full team. They is a focused, engaging, and prepared speakers. They helped encourage dialogue and moved us forward to look at short- and long-term objectives, our Guiding Principles, and what type of team we are, to name a few.
They also worked with me individually on my leadership style. The feedback from my team was very positive. I highly recommend SOAR’s programs to develop yourself as a leader and improve engagement with your senior team and your organization.
APC has 35+ independent and small philanthropic consultancy firms from across the nation as members. As consultants ourselves, many of our members are experienced in facilitating strategic mapping sessions but we needed outside guidance to help us come to a consensus on our association's vision, mission and DEIA commitments.
We engaged SOAR in a mapping process that was delivered virtually, due to COVID, over two days. The approach that SOAR and Mali took to survey all of us in advance, help us clearly understand the process, guide us to have deeper conversations and gather the information and provide it back to us in our debrief, post retreat, really helped us gain the clarity and consensus we were seeking.
From there, we had a much easier time finalizing our association's vision, mission, values and strategic plan.
Such a pleasure to work with Mali Phonpadith – Founder/CEO of the SOAR Community Network. Mali has been engaged with our Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Costello College of Business (George Mason University) – most recently she and her team at SOAR helped us detail out a Strategic Plan for the Center, now focused on Inclusive Entrepreneurship.
The plan SOAR developed was excellent - comprehensive, thoughtful and actionable! Mali, a thoughtful and thought-provoking professional, is a joy to work with. I look forward to a continuing partnership.
SOAR services supported our Ascend.Her Beauty cohort and provided them with business coaching during a pivotal time in the life of their businesses.
Working with the SOAR team has been fantastic! Their work with our clients was excellent and your communication with our team about the work has been very enlightening and helpful. We look forward to final reporting about the cohort.
I was really impressed with the high participation and engagement. I think people got super vulnerable because SOAR really set the tone with sharing your story. And I think that just made people very comfortable to let their guard down and be vulnerable.
And then just the genuine breakthroughs of having additional connections with your teammate outside of your day-to-day core functions. It was real team development. My team realized, “Hey, we’re doing this to get better together.” When I saw people interacting that way, I could see it pushing us forward.
The workshop made me want to focus on my caution areas more, where I’m flexing and how to be a better leader.
It has been a great experience working with the SOAR team. They answered all of our questions in a timely manner and working with them has been very easy, seamless and fun.
It was an excellent program! We will want to continue this work and show our employees that we’re going to invest in their leadership development.
The Association of Philanthropic Counsel engaged SOAR Community Network and Mali Phonpadith in July 2021 to assist with vision, mission, and values, and with operationalizing our goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We selected SOAR from a proposal process, and we are SO glad we did. Mali calmly facilitated two half-day sessions for us, which is particularly remarkable because members of APC are themselves all trained, experienced facilitators in group processes. With Mali’s guidance, we could focus on the content and make significant progress. She has stayed with us as part of our engagement with quarterly check-ins and counsel. This is important for an all-volunteer organization of consultants as we need someone to hold us accountable. Thank you, Mali and SOAR.
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