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focus is an integrated competency and skill-based process and software system, a recognized benchmark in Performance Management and Employee Development solutions.  Developed by Human Resources specialists to incorporate best practices, focus provides organizations and their employees with tools to intelligently manage performance, development, and career advancement.

What Does the focus Process Do?

• Competency/Job Profiling: Identify core competencies for your organization. For each job or job role, identify and prioritize critical competencies and technical skills.

• Multi-rater Development Feedback: Select a feedback team and complete assessments on-line.

• Current & Career Development: Identify realistic career opportunities. Enter on-line resume. Create Individual Development Plans for current and future positions.

• Succession Planning: Identify and develop back-ups for critical positions, roles or job pools.

• Performance Planning & Review: Develop organization goals and link to individual performance plans comprised of goals, standards, and/or behaviors. Track & evaluate. 

• Learning Management System: Provide on-line training registration. Conduct powerful training needs analyses that identify critical competency and skill gaps, and calculate the dollar impact. Evaluate and report the results of training at Levels 1-5.

• Organization and Team Metrics: Assess organization and teams on Employee Satisfaction, Commitment, Organization Climate, and more. 

• focus Library and Quickstart: Use the focus library of competencies, job profiles, & learning resources to get focus working quickly and easily.

• Strategic Analysis & Measurement: Conduct strategic evaluations on learning effectiveness and impact.

What Are the Benefits of focus?

• Powerful and comprehensive:  Bring all your performance and development processes under one “virtual roof”.
• Flexible • Easy to use • Scalable:  Bring focus modules online in any order or timeframe, or integrate your entire HR system. Move at the right pace for you.
• Cost effective:  Promotes employee self-serve. Reduces HR Administration. Pays for itself quickly and continues to produce ROI.
• Install focus quickly and easily:  Install within days.
• Customizable:  Create a system that meets your unique needs.

Some Clients

• General Motors • McDonald's Corp. • Trustmark Insurance • 
• Panasonic • Neumann Homes • Alliant Energy • Capital One • 
• Collins & Aikman • Chicago Public Schools • 
• Meridium Software Company • Great American Insurance • 
• U.S. Navy • Nestle • United Rentals •