SERVICES

We at Werner Associates have a significant history in working with individuals on getting the most from their career and with professional services firms in helping them maximize their human resources. Here are some of the services we provide:

Outsourced Hiring Services
If you are a managing partner at a law firm, or a principal at a professional service firm, hiring new professionals, or replacing a member of your team is time consuming and expensive. And, if you are not a large firm with a professional recruiting team, it is likely that one of your top billing members is responsible for this task. We at Werner Associates can help you find the right person in a cost effective manner. We will:

• Meet with you to assess your hiring needs.
• Write job descriptions and place listings with appropriate candidate sources.
  
• Receive all correspondence and serve as candidate contact.
  
• Screen resumes and select candidates for initial interviews.
  
• Conduct screening interviews and write candidate evaluations.
  
• Meet with your hiring team to discuss candidates and next steps.
  
• Assist you in making hiring decisions and help you develop employment packages.
  
• Follow up with you after your new employee is on board.

Marketing Strategy Development and Coaching

Professional services firms must create marketing plans that fit your needs and image.

• Is your firm attracting the clients that best meet your practice needs?
  
• Have you created marketing materials that are congruent with your firm’s mission and vision?
  
• Have you assessed your current client files and decided whether or not you have the client mix that maximizes profit?
  
• Do you know how your firm is perceived in the community?
  
• Are you leveraging your successes across lines of business?
• Are the junior members of your firm learning the skills necessary to market your practice?
• Are partners effectively marketing to current and prospective clients?

If individuals, departments, or your entire firm needs assistance in developing marketing plans, Werner Associates can work with you to create plans that meet your needs.

Performance Coaching

• Do you have an employee who could be one of your highest performers, but some behaviors are getting in their way?
  
• Have you put together a performance improvement plan for an employee but you don’t have time to monitor their success in implementing this plan?
  
• Do you have someone in a supervisory role who is alienating people on his or her team? Or you do you have a supervisor who needs an independent person to with whom they can discuss their new role?
  

When people are in positions that match their talents, and they receive performance coaching to learn new skills – they are more satisfied, productive and more like to stay with your organization.

It’s worth spending time now to insure employee performance and job satisfaction
in the future.

Employee Development and Supervision

• Is your employee performance assessment process meeting your needs and those of your employees?
  
• Are you experiencing turnover in key positions and you don’t know why?
  
• Do you need to create employee performance standards and want to create consensus among decision makers?

Let us help you develop employee standards that will enable create a higher performing organization. We are skilled in interviewing employees and conducting focus groups to insure that all the members of your organization can understand and maximize performance expectations.
We would be happy to assist you in assessing your performance appraisal instrument and creating an instrument more closely aligned with performance expectations.

Outplacement Assistance

Werner Associates provides outplacement services through employers as a service for employees. Clients receive assistance identifying and marketing their skills, talents and achievements in order to secure a new position. Unlimited individual consultation is provided for a time-limited period or until re-employed, and includes strategic and tactical job search support focused on individual priorities and needs.

Due Diligence

Hiring Decisions – A Potentially Costly Decision

Industry experts indicate that the cost of a bad hire can be upward of one and a half times the cost of the employee’s annual salary, taking into account time spent writing job descriptions, paying for advertising, using other members of your firm to pick up the slack, interviewing costs, orientation, training, and the impact on clients of having the wrong person working on their issues.

You’ve assessed your hiring needs, you’ve contacted your best hiring sources, you’ve written a job description, posted your position, screened candidates and conducted interviews. You’ve drafted your candidate evaluations. Rely on Werner Associates to provide the last piece of Due Diligence to help you validate your work.

Why Werner Associates?

We have been interviewing lawyers for over 17 years. We are familiar with your industry, the demands of the positions you fill, and the importance of a right fit that goes beyond skill identification to dovetail with your culture. Because we have a background in counseling, we are able to get behind the answers to assess the motivation that is critical to be a top performer in your organization.