The SeekBuild System
What we do about what the diagnostic finds.
Six components. Which of them you need depends entirely on what your own people told us.
It always starts with the diagnostic
We do not arrive with a framework and look for places to apply it. Half the work below is unnecessary for any given company, and the only way we can know which half is to ask the people doing the work. The diagnostic is where that happens.
The whole system
The first and the last always happen. The four in between run only if the evidence says you need them.
Listen and diagnose
Always first
We talk to your people and turn what they say into evidence you can audit. Everything below depends on it.
Clarify values
If they are unwritten, or written and unused
We build them out of what your people already told us, which is where the buy-in comes from once they go live.
Align direction
If nobody can say where you are heading
We help you get clear on what the company is for and where it is heading, then make sure your people can actually say it.
Embed execution
If decisions stall on the way to getting done
We install a repeatable way to run new work and train it into your top layers of leadership.
Align people systems
Once the pieces above are in place
Hiring, onboarding, performance conversations, and career paths start running off the same evidence.
Sustain or hand off
Always last
We stay on as your partner at a lighter cadence, or we train someone inside your company to own it.
Sometimes what a company needs is not a better hiring process but someone to run the hiring itself. That is Retainer Recruiting, our recruiting company.
What you end up with
- Values people can name, drawn from what your own team said
- A stated direction and the near-term priorities that follow from it
- A repeatable way to run new work through to done
- Hiring and onboarding aligned to both
- Performance conversations and career paths running off the same evidence
None of it is a guaranteed sequence. We offer you the next step that fits what we found, and sometimes the honest answer is that the quick wins from the diagnostic are enough for a while.
Not sure where you are on this?
Bring us what you are seeing and we will work out together whether a diagnostic is the right starting point.