Katana Partners provides executive level human resources consulting services for clients to solve relationship, leadership and business issues and build and execute successful engagement programs.


Katana offers a unique and proven combination of products, services and solutions, deep expertise in labor and HR and a priority focus on execution. Katana Partners applies the full range of engagement services and solutions:

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  • Powerful research segmentation
  • Brand management techniques
  • Strategic communications
  • Engagement strategies
  • Human resource business consulting
  • Employee ROI Process ™, Engagement Workshops™, Negotiating Solutions Workshops™ and other customized products and services
  • Leadership development
  • Team building and goal alignment
  • Coaching
  • Facilitation
  • Mediation
  • Metrics development/tracking
  • Execution support

Based on your company’s priorities, Katana Partners consulting services focus on:

Building and Executing Engagement Programs

  • Creating employee engagement and leadership surveys
  • Conducting focus groups
  • Creating specialized questionnaires
  • Analyzing qualitative and quantitative data to understand your workforce
  • Identifying workforce attitude segment profiles by location/workgroup
  • Developing strategic recommendations and actions to drive engagement
  • Integrating engagement solutions with business objectives
  • Identifying measurable ROI goals for engagement and business performance improvements
  • Facilitating Engagement Workshops
  • Executing your engagement program
  • Setting continuous improvement goals for engagement and business performance

ROI*

  • Increasing employee performance
  • Improving retention
  • Improving customer service
  • Reducing unnecessary costs
  • Pursuing continuous improvement initiatives
  • Increasing employee engagement

Employee Relations/Workplace Environment

  • Creating a positive workplace environment
  • Mediation
  • Business to business negotiating support
  • Teaching managers how to engage employees and solve workplace issues
  • Facilitating work teams/problem solving sessions
  • Providing residential workshops to promote better relationships and negotiated solutions between business counterparts, e.g. buyer-supplier, labor-management and other business to business work teams
  • Creating specialized intervention plans for high risk work environments

Leadership

  • Facilitating team building and goal alignment sessions
  • Providing executive coaching
  • Building leadership skills development
  • Teaching leaders how to successfully manage and enhance performance
  • Supporting leaders in modeling and reinforcing appropriate engagement behaviors and listening and acting on issues of importance to the workforce
  • Creating strategic leadership communications and message platforms
  • Building leadership communications skills and routines for openly sharing business information with the workforce

Change/Branding Initiatives

  • Guiding cultural transformations
  • Managing through crises, restructures or other operational transformation efforts
  • Developing, expanding and reinforcing an employee brand
  • Creating a best place to work
  • Identifying and successfully incorporating the human side of change into business strategy execution

*Employee Return on Investment (ROI) Process is a trademark of Katana Partners.