Challenge: Develop Competitive, Performance-Oriented Compensation Growth-oriented “Tier Two” accounting firm needed to realign its compensation programs in order to compete more effectively with its larger competitors. Firm management was seeking a more competitive and equitable compensation system that would tie associate and staff pay ranges to performance goals. Solution: Market-Based Compensation Structure The Chatfield Group developed a market-based compensation structur

Challenge: Improve Employee Orientation A major, multinational corporation created from the merger of two key competitors needed a fresh, more sophisticated approach to New Hire orientation. At its inception, the company’s New Hire orientation and employee onboarding processes were dated, cumbersome and labor intensive. Solution: Streamline New Hire Orientation & Launch Comprehensive Onboarding Program To revitalize and strengthen employee orientation, The Chatfield Group rec

Challenge: Provide Communications & Training to Ensure Success of New Performance Management Software To create a high-performance culture, a major utility was seeking to 1) improve its ability to prioritize and manage goals, 2) strengthen the alignment between individual, departmental, business-unit and corporate goals, and 3) enhance its performance management process. To address these objectives, the company was turning to integrated performance management software and nee

Challenge: Align Incentive Plans for Management & Sales with Growth-Oriented Behaviors The sales and installation division of a Fortune 500 company needed to restructure its management and sales incentive plans in order to strengthen the link between pay and performance. The division operated out of 45 field offices across the US, each with separate sales, service, and installation functions. Incentive plans at these 45 field locations were hard to understand and calculate, m

Challenge: Facilitate Open & Transparent Communications about Compensation A Fortune 100 company wanted to equip its managers and HR professionals with the means to communicate more effectively about compensation. When employees have a good understanding of how they are paid, the company reasoned, they are likely to be more engaged. What’s more, employee survey data indicated that company employees were eager to gain a better understanding of compensation issues, and the comp

Challenge: University Needed Help Getting the Word Out on their New Pay System Faced with significant time constraints, a large metropolitan university needed comprehensive communications support for the rollout of its new compensation program. Solution: Outsource Rapid-Rollout Communications Support for New Compensation Program Knowing that time was limited, the university retained The Chatfield Group to produce the broad range of communications materials it needed to suppor

Challenge: Update Compensation Program A leading cultural institution well-known for its state-of-the-art attractions needed to bring its entire pay & total rewards infrastructure up to date. Solution: Compensation Overhaul In a top-to-bottom restructuring of the organization’s compensation program, The Chatfield Group: Rewrote 150 job descriptions and ensured compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) using multiple valid data sourcesMatched jobs to market, includin

Challenge: Create State-of-the-Art Website to Attract Rental & Real Estate Prospects A leading real estate company operating in a major metro market needed to totally revamp its website in order to compete more effectively. It also needed a new graphic identity. Solution: Develop Advanced, Interactive Website with Appealing Graphics As part of a comprehensive rebranding initiative, The Chatfield Group designed a technologically advanced transactional website featuring strong

Challenge: Reposition General-Interest Business Magazine A major professional organization concluded that its flagship magazine needed to be revamped in order to be more relevant to senior management readers. The organization, which serves an international marketplace, also sought to set the magazine apart from competitive publications. Solution: Create Forum for the Exchange of Strategic Insights To differentiate the magazine and strengthen its value to readers, the Chatfiel

Challenge: Strengthen a Best Place to Work A top-ranked employer in a major metro area wanted to know what it could do to enhance its already strong corporate culture. Solution: Conduct Employee Focus Group to Identify Areas for Improvement To determine how best to fine-tune an already strong culture, The Chatfield Group conducted a series of employee focus groups to pinpoint areas of opportunity. Feedback from these focus groups suggested the need to strengthen communication

Challenge: Boost Marketing Impact from National Survey of Practitioners A world leader in professional services had been taking a bare-bones approach to reporting on its annual survey of practitioners. The firm sought greater marketing visibility from the ongoing project. Solution: Create High-Impact Marketing Vehicle for Interpretive Insight The Chatfield Group suggested transforming the survey report into a high-profile marketing vehicle that would integrate the firm’s insi

Challenge: Share Business-Critical Insights with 200+ Global Locations A large multinational corporation needed to do a better job of disseminating key insights and information stemming from key bi-monthly business review meetings with employees at more than 200 remote locations around the world. Solution: Record, Edit, Produce & Distribute Meeting Content To capture and disseminate critical business insights from the company’s bi-monthly business-review meetings, the Chatfie