Q. What does HCI Do?

Organizational and individual consulting; training seminars; conference / retreat speaking…

Helps people understand their strengths and limitations, enabling them to be effective, productive, and satisfied.

Helps organizations understand their people in order to maximize each person's strengths and potential. The organization can use this understanding when developing job descriptions, designing individual development programs, or planning career paths.

Helps people and organizations mesh together their goals, strategies, and talents in order to implement plans and programs in a cost-effective manner.

Helps clients (profit and non-profit) with people and organizational issues:

Selecting employees
Supervising people
Solving people problems
Team building
Career path planning
Forming Teams
Reorganizing
Long-range planning
Staff relationships

Q. What's DISTINCTIVE about HCI'S services?

1. The Approach. To understand the unique combination of strengths and limitations that each person has, HCI uses the Green Light Concept. This concept portrays how people function by using the three colors of a traffic light.

GREEN is a strength..what a person will tend to do most effectively
RED is a limitation…what a person will tend to do less effectively.
YELLOW is a mixed bag of Greens and Reds…caution is required.

Based on a Discovery Conversation (personal interview), a person's Greens, Yellows, and Reds are written up comprehensively in a 10-page report called an EFFECTIVENESS PROFILE.

2. The Goal. Our goal is to help people be more effective, productive, and satisfied. This has many by-products to the individuals themselves, the team associates, and the organization.

3. The Method. Fit the job to the person, rather than the person to the job. This avoids putting a square in a round hole.

BY-PRODUCTS OF GREEN WORK
A person is most apt to…

Have a positive attitude
Be a self-starter, does
Be cooperative
Have positive relationships
Be a team player, contributor
Have consistently high energy
Find meaning and purpose from their work

BY-PRODUCTS OF RED WORK
A person is most apt to…

Have a negative attitude
Be a procrastinator
Be less willing, reluctant
Have negative relationships
Be a withholder
Have few spurts of energy
Find little meaning and purpose from their work

Q. What is HCI's CONSULTING PHILOSOPHY?

1. Provide objective, fact-based recommendations and advice.

2. Focus on people in order to maximize each person's effectiveness.

3. Follow up individually with each person to facilitate his or her understanding of the on-going application of the Effectiveness Profile, and to develop his or her Life Purpose.

4. Be available to clients for on-the-spot problem solving and advice.

5. Help people at all levels in an organization to be successful in the light of their Greens, Yellows, and Reds…their Life Purpose…and their values and priorities.

Q. What KINDS OF ORGANIZATIONS USE HCI's services?

Large and small businesses, non-profit organizations, colleges, churches, and para-church and missionary organizations; also, individuals on their own use HCI's services.

Q. What is the BACKGROUND of HCI?

Richard Hagstrom has assisted organizations and individuals since 1976, when he founded HCI. Prior to starting HCI, Mr. Hagstrom majored in Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He spent 13 years doing management consulting with an international research and consulting firm when he specialized in selection, people development, training, and leadership. He assisted major corporations, taught management courses, and supervised consultants.

A published author, conference speaker, and lecturer, Mr. Hagstrom researched and developed the Green Light Concept. HCI operates on the premise that organization strategies and people's strengths need to be integrated to reduce costly turnover, increase individual productivity, and provide a climate for team effectiveness, team building, and personal growth.

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