Unlocking Potential: Paving The Way for growth in leading infrastructure construction company

Strengthening the HR function to become a value-adding partner in your business.

Unlocking Potential: Paving The Way For Growth In Leading Infrastructure Construction Company

Strengthening the HR function to become a value-adding partner in your business.

I. Introduction

Brief Overview of Mylestone HR Consulting

Mylestone HR Consulting is a leading provider of innovative HR solutions focused exclusively on the Infrastructure Construction and Manufacturing industries. By transforming complex HR challenges into strategic advantages, Mylestone empowers businesses to drive their performance, growth, and value forward.

The Context:

Frequent workforce turnover, skill stagnation, and excessive absenteeism within field operations can become severe issues for companies, hampering growth and eating into the bottom line.

Relevance of the Case Study

This case study explores how Mylestone devised and implemented a strategic HR solution for a leading Infrastructure Construction company, yielding substantial improvements in retention, skill development, and attendance. This serves as an insightful guide for businesses experiencing similar HR challenges.

II. Problem Statement

The Client

Our client, a leading Infrastructure Construction company with geographically dispersed offices, faced severe challenges in field operations - an area critical to their business success.

The Issue

The primary issues included a high attrition rate, low skill development, and significant absenteeism within field operation crews. These problems were damaging their operational efficiency and financial performance.

III. Our Solution

Our Approach

Mylestone stepped in to develop a strategic Career Path solution. We focused on creating a supportive infrastructure to facilitate the adoption of this strategy across various employee groups within the organization.

Action Plan

Leveraged insights provided by feedback from internal constituents, benchmarking, and analysis of policies, procedures, and practices (Promotion and Temporary Assignment, Skill & Competency Development and Assessment; Internal candidate data availability, access, and utility; Compensation, etc.), to develop action plan for a robust career path program, implementation guidance and tools, key program metrics, and additional core components.

VI. Implementation & Results

Execution

In close collaboration with the client, we implemented the Career Paths and their supporting infrastructure, focusing on transparent communication and ongoing support. We trained leaders to explain the new paths, creating a bridge of understanding and acceptance.

Outcomes

Seven months following completion and handoff of Career Path , Our client  a retention increase of 23% across critical field operation positions; skill development surged over 55% compared to the prior year; crew absenteeism improved by 2.7%; and internal promotions increased by 14% attributed to the new career path within the first six months.

V. Impact and Learnings

Business Impact

The strategic HR solution we implemented led to marked operational and financial improvements for our client, illustrating the power of transforming HR complexities into strategic advantages.

Key Takeaways

This case study underscores the value of strategic HR solutions in addressing key challenges. It also highlights Mylestone's capacity for developing bespoke solutions that yield significant business improvements.

VI. CONCLUSION

Summary

In partnership with Mylestone, our client was able to turn critical issue into strategic advantage, leading to improved retention, skill development, and reduced absenteeism.

I. Introduction

Brief Overview of Mylestone HR Consulting

Mylestone HR Consulting is a leading provider of innovative HR solutions focused exclusively on the Infrastructure Construction and Manufacturing industries. By transforming complex HR challenges into strategic advantages, Mylestone empowers businesses to drive their performance, growth, and value forward.

The Context:

Frequent workforce turnover, skill stagnation, and excessive absenteeism within field operations can become severe issues for companies, hampering growth and eating into the bottom line.

Relevance of the Case Study

This case study explores how Mylestone devised and implemented a strategic HR solution for a leading Infrastructure Construction company, yielding substantial improvements in retention, skill development, and attendance. This serves as an insightful guide for businesses experiencing similar HR challenges.

II. Problem Statement

The Client

Our client, a leading Infrastructure Construction company with geographically dispersed offices, faced severe challenges in field operations - an area critical to their business success.

The Issue

The primary issues included a high attrition rate, low skill development, and significant absenteeism within field operation crews. These problems were damaging their operational efficiency and financial performance.

III. Our Solution

Our Approach

Mylestone stepped in to develop a strategic Career Path solution. We focused on creating a supportive infrastructure to facilitate the adoption of this strategy across various employee groups within the organization.

Action Plan

Leveraged insights provided by feedback from internal constituents, benchmarking, and analysis of policies, procedures, and practices (Promotion and Temporary Assignment, Skill & Competency Development and Assessment; Internal candidate data availability, access, and utility; Compensation, etc.), to develop action plan for a robust career path program, implementation guidance and tools, key program metrics, and additional core components.

VI. Implementation & Results

Execution

In close collaboration with the client, we implemented the Career Paths and their supporting infrastructure, focusing on transparent communication and ongoing support. We trained leaders to explain the new paths, creating a bridge of understanding and acceptance.

Outcomes

Seven months following completion and handoff of Career Path , Our client  a retention increase of 23% across critical field operation positions; skill development surged over 55% compared to the prior year; crew absenteeism improved by 2.7%; and internal promotions increased by 14% attributed to the new career path within the first six months.

V. Impact and Learnings

Business Impact

The strategic HR solution we implemented led to marked operational and financial improvements for our client, illustrating the power of transforming HR complexities into strategic advantages.

Key Takeaways

This case study underscores the value of strategic HR solutions in addressing key challenges. It also highlights Mylestone's capacity for developing bespoke solutions that yield significant business improvements.

VI. CONCLUSION

Summary

In partnership with Mylestone, our client was able to turn critical issue into strategic advantage, leading to improved retention, skill development, and reduced absenteeism.

Mylestone HR Consulting: HR solutions Facilitating Business performance, growth, and value.

Strengthen Business Results With Focused HR Improvements Calibrated For Your Unique Business Situation.  

Mylestone HR Consulting: HR solutions Facilitating Business performance, growth, and value.

Strengthen Business Results With Focused HR Improvements Calibrated For Your Unique Business Situation.