We help our clients and their people succeed together through workforce and HR transformation by assessing needs, and designing, implementing, communicating, and administering solutions.

Total Rewards and Analytics

Hewitt's total compensation strategies and solutions help you measure results, performance, and competitive market practices for executives, sales forces, and the general workforce.

Our consultants provide a wide and timely array of data, information, and diagnostic measurement services that enable organizations to integrate strategic, operational, and competitive factors into all facets of compensation and rewards.

The total rewards team designs and implements diagnostic tools, employee surveys, and compensation and benefits studies for a variety of benchmarking and decision-making applications.

The focus is:

• Total rewards strategy consulting supported by competitive analysis
• Market pricing and analysis
• Custom survey development and implementation
• Audits of existing pay programs
• Compensation administration outsourcing

By closely integrating data with strategic and diagnostic services, our consultants help clients transform information into measurable solutions, including:

• Definition of pay philosophy and objectives
• Development of short- and long-term reward systems
• Development of sales incentives
• Broadbanding

Talent, Leadership, and Engagement

Finding, keeping, and motivating talented employee are top priorities in business. If your are looking for more effective people management programs, policies, and processes, look no further than Hewitt.

More and more companies agree that their employees are the only source of lasting differentiation in the marketplace. Thus, it comes as no surprise that the attraction, retention, and motivation of talented employees rank among most CEO's top business priorities. This makes the practice of human resource management more critical to accomplishing business results than ever before.

For decades Hewitt has worked with leading companies around the world to develop and implement people programs that focus, engage, and reinforce employees' contributions to organizational performance. Our talent and reward initiatives are focused on driving superior business results through people by:

• Attracting the right people to your organization
• Aligning HR programs, policies, and processes to business goals
• Motivating and rewarding employees' efforts in innovative ways
• Keeping employees fully engaged in their work
• Identifying and developing leaders

Our Expertise

Our consulting services can be applied to broad-based workforce needs, or targeted to key segments such as executives or the sales force.

Employee Engagement

• Why do employees stay with organizations and why do they leave?
• Why do some employees give significantly greater effort in support of their company's (or team's) success than others?
• Can employees' behavior be predicted and influenced?
• What allows organizations to create a competitive advantage through their people?

Employee engagement is represented by behavior. Employees are engaged when they "say" (consistently speak positively about the organization), "stay" (desire to be a member of the organization), and "strive" (exert extra effort that contributes to business success).

If you are looking for assistance in making sure your people are contributing to the bottom line, look no further. Hewitt consultants partner with clients to define the business results and identify what specific behaviors, and from whom, are needed; look at critical people processes, structures, and systems to ensure these are encouraging desired behaviors; and create a measurement approach that focuses on key behaviors.

Our analyses allow us to identify and measure the engagement drivers that have the most impact in inspiring employees to stay, to recommend their employer and their products, and to perform beyond requirements.

Leadership Development

More than ever, the success of today's organization relies on effective leadership. Does your company have the leadership talent necessary to drive your business results?

At Hewitt, we approach leadership strategically, drawing the critical link from business strategy to leadership strategy. We believe that an organization's leadership programs need to align with and support its business strategy in order to maximize results. Our leadership consultants assist organizations with:

• Sourcing
  Have the right executives been placed in the right roles?
• Aligning
  How do leaders' goals connect with the business strategy?
• Developing
  What skill sets are needed to drive the business and how will executives be coached?
• Rewarding
  How will leaders be rewarded and held accountable for results?

Our consulting services include succession planning, executive coaching, leadership training, and leadership strategy development. We can apply our leadership acumen to a range of business situations—from intact leadership teams to organizational changes such as a merger, acquisition, reduction in workforce, or shift in business strategy. Whatever your business situation, Hewitt can help you increase the effectiveness of your leaders to drive results.

Communication

Hewitt's communication consultants provide our clients with the communication tools necessary to enhance their relationship with employees and encourage behaviors that build business success. Our consulting team develops communication strategy, communication design, content development, and employer branding communications.

We can help clients communicate a particular program or initiative, such as benefits, compensation, or performance management programs, and can develop communications that change employee behavior, such as improve job performance, increase retention, or build effective working relationships after a merger or acquisition.

Our services include writing and editing, production management, personalized communications, employee listening (focus groups and surveys), electronic communications, and translation services. Our products include promotional materials (posters, postcards, paycheck inserts), brochures, newsletters, training materials, benefits and total compensation statements, summary plan descriptions, and Web sites.

Based on the specific results you want to improve—growth, productivity, quality, service, innovation, or return on investment—we can help you determine the specific actions you need to take.

Whether you need to focus on staffing, retention, pay for performance, performance management, succession planning, becoming a best employer, or other people-related issues, Hewitt provides the necessary skills and tools you need to make your programs succeed.

HR Effectiveness

Once your company's HR strategy and business strategy are linked, you can add more value to your company by increasing efficiency, decreasing costs and allowing HR to be an effective business partner.

Delivering HR services is recognized as one of Hewitt's core competencies. We combine our thought leadership in organizational design with experience in world class delivery to help clients align HR with organizational strategies, accomplish their HR delivery targets, meet customer expectations, and realize return on investment.

Our tool which has been specifically adapted to the culture of Latin America is also available in Spanish.

Today's tighter budgets make it an ideal time to consider making changes to your HR services or operations. Hewitt consultants can help your organization redefine what HR does, and how it does it, to yield:

• Dramatic improvements in HR's performance (more cost-effective delivery of more or better services)
• Enhancements to the perceived role and contribution of the HR function to the organization
• A stronger and more engaged HR staff
• A more engaged employee population, established through proven employee relationship management techniques and tools

Corporate Restructuring and Change

Undertaking corporate change? Hewitt's merger and acquisition strategies and due diligence processes—including transition management—increase the efficiency and synergy between organizations and help manage overall organizational change. In Latin America, we can integrate corporate change support with our Outplacement Services, and support our clients before, during, and after corporate change.

Hewitt consultants partner with clients to manage complex workforce issues in times of change, such as a downsizing, merger, acquisition, divestiture, joint venture, or bankruptcy.

Our record of success working with clients around the world is based on our underlying philosophy: You will achieve superior results when you align people strategies with the objectives of the change. Once that is established, our comprehensive and integrated approach ensures that every part of your workforce is ready for what lies ahead.

We work with you to:

• Identify your strategic business focus and the business objectives of the change
• Assess the effectiveness of your HR programs
• Identify gaps and priorities
• Design the ideal set of HR programs, aligned with your objectives
• Create an action plan to achieve short- and long-term results
• Communicate effectively
• Measure progress and monitor engagement
• Assist in any identified transition process which can include coaching, downsizing consulting, outplacement support

Hewitt TransAction Manager ™ helps the HR professional manage the deal process.

Hewitt TransAction Manager™

Hewitt TransAction Manager™ is a highly secure Web application that provides the following high-level capabilities:

• Expert Content and Tools—The Web-based solution contains a comprehensive set of tools and content to help companies manage the full M&A process, from target screening through due diligence. Tools are provided for each area within HR (benefits, compensation, organizational design and staffing, leadership, and culture assessment) and areas outside of HR (program management, communications, change management, and board material). For global organizations, we have also included a frequently updated library of information for more than 65 countries, including information on government structure and the labor environment.
• Collaboration and Project/Program/Deal Management Capabilities—We've integrated our platform with leading collaboration, project management, and program management capabilities. Project management functionality includes task, issue and scorecard tracking, cross-project reporting, and a project and user portal. In addition, capabilities are provided for filtered checklists, due diligence data requests, and related target document libraries.
• Flexible Customization Platform—We provide a customized company-branded site that includes your own processes and tools as well as other industry leading tools. Our flexible content delivery structure takes into account the different ways users expect to be able to access information (geographic, process, subject, and full-text search into file content).

We've worked closely with numerous HR organizations, as well as corporate development leaders and business developers, to design a flexible and easy-to-use system that can be leveraged among all teams during a transaction.

Our Outplacement services help support employees who are leaving and motivate those who stay.

Outplacement

Hewitt's Outplacement Practice has been recognized as a leader in outplacement and transition management services. Our goal is to assist our clients before, during, and after a downsizing event.

Outplacement Services do not only support affected employees—they can also serve to motivate employees who remain and create goodwill for the company and its business goals.

Our outplacement services include:

• Pre-Downsizing Transition Services
  We can assist you in determining the appropriate services to offer affected employees, the timing and location of delivery, and in managing the process. Modules include Job Search, Self-Employment, and Retirement; fees are designed competitively for each module.
• Career Transition Program for Executives and Managers
  We have developed individual career transition programs for executives and managers.
• Group Outplacement Services
  Our group outplacement services include activities that give individuals personalized attention and group interaction.
• Hewitt Career Center
  Hewitt can provide support to participants for a designated period of time. Our support includes the necessary office equipment and materials that allow for a successful career transition.
• Placement Efforts
  We conduct an aggressive search to discover potential job opportunities for affected employees.