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Organization & Talent
Role-to-Value Alignment matches your Top Talent to the small percentage of roles that generate the majority of strategic enterprise value — rarely the roles with the largest teams — and shows where the wrong person holds one.
Where value sits
What you receive
A ranked agenda of where your value sits, and which roles carry it
The figures behind each place on the agenda, in terms your CFO can check
What each value-critical role must deliver, in terms a CFO would accept
A card per critical role: the person in it against what it must deliver
Whether the right people hold those roles today
The order to act in, with the value each role puts at risk, costed role by role rather than rolled into one company figure
A senior advisor answers for the agenda from start to finish and agrees its rules with your leadership team in working sessions, so you are never shown a ranking whose rules you did not see.
Role-to-Value Alignment finds the few roles that bring your value, writes down what each has to deliver, and asks the uncomfortable question: is your Top Talent in them? Where the answer turns on the person, it draws on parts of Leadership workshops, Talent Mapping and Talent Assessment.
Most of what goes wrong between two departments that are each doing their job goes wrong in the space between them, where no single person owns the result. That space is not on your org chart, it is in nobody's objectives, and it is where the delays your customers notice are made. Every handoff between value-critical roles gets one owner, by name.
The rules are agreed with you and set against your own numbers, so you are never shown a ranking whose rules you did not see. Where the question turns to the person in the role, parts of Leadership workshops, Talent Mapping and Talent Assessment answer it. Each place on the agenda shows the figures it rests on.
Where value sits: the value-critical roles, which are rarely the ones with the largest teams or the highest titles. For each of them, Role-to-Value Alignment sets out what the role must deliver, in terms a CFO would accept, and asks whether the person in it is doing that.
Because there is no honest way to add the roles up. Role-to-Value Alignment costs the gap between each role as defined and the person in it role by role, not rolled into one company figure, so every value-critical role carries a figure of its own. Each of those roles gets a card setting the person in it against what the role must deliver.
Yes. Much of what goes wrong between two departments that are each doing their job goes wrong in the space between them, where no single person owns the result. That space is on nobody's org chart and in nobody's objectives, and it is where the delays your customers notice are made. Role-to-Value Alignment gives every handoff between value-critical roles one owner, by name.
Role-to-Value Alignment is about roles; the other two are about people. It finds where value sits and what each value-critical role must deliver. Talent Mapping places everyone in scope on skill and willingness. Talent Assessment checks readiness and values for a person you are about to promote or keep. HR Strategy Advisory joins all three with Organizational Diagnosis.

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