Owners and leaders come to us with problems like these. Each one is a people problem, and each one is something we work on with you, inside your company, until it is solved.
Hiring and recruitment. We find out what’s preventing you from attracting and hiring the right people and help you change it. With Performia, you can assess each candidate’s potential and predict their performance before hiring them, reducing the risk of bringing in someone who becomes a burden rather than an asset. We stand beside you in the entire process and your HR people learn to keep doing it.
Onboarding: thorough preparation and organization of each team member so they can perform their role effectively. We call it establishment on post. One of the key reasons people are not efficient and viable in a post is that they were never put in their post properly. We help your HR people onboard new (and existing) personnel and establish them in their post, so they become efficient and viable. We put the steps in place and train your HR people to run them.
Alignment and cooperation. Nothing works when people pull in different directions, so alignment is one of our concerns from day one. It starts with the leader: you can’t align a company while you are misaligned in your own life. Then the top executives (very common in family businesses), then each member of the team. We work on it hands on, person by person and as a team.
Brand DNA and strategy: who you are, what you stand for, what your purpose is, where you are going. It is the foundation the right people join for, and stay for. You can’t have alignment or a real team without a clear and agreed-upon direction.
Organization and efficiency. People cannot operate as a team and be efficient without a workable organizational system. We provide you with the tools and install the organizational systems that put a company in order: a clear organizing board (who is responsible for what, and how communication and products flow), written job descriptions (we call them “hats”), and policies your people can work by. Your people become a better team, and your company runs more efficiently, without you holding every thread.
Training, coaching and mentoring for high performance. Most people want to do a good job, to perform well and to be valuable. Poor performance is due to a lack of understanding or training 80–90% of the time. We train you, your executives and your staff in the areas you need, through seminars, workshops, practical exercises and drills. For you and your top management, we add leadership coaching and mentoring on the real work of your company. Then we don’t leave it there: we apprentice your people on the job, person to person, until the training shows in how your company works. Training is a key ingredient in creating a real team!
Personnel evaluation. There will be some people who will never change, because they don’t want to. These people will harm your team and your company. With Performia’s precise tests and our professional evaluators, we evaluate your existing people as well as candidates, with emphasis on what they can actually produce, so you know where each one stands, what you can expect, which post fits whom, and what each one needs. And we train your HR people to evaluate.
Creating a real team. Team building. A real team is not created in a day. It is not a seminar or a day out; it is a process. It takes know-how, and steady, systematic work by the leader. If you are willing and dedicated to do what it takes, we work with you to put in place the tools and systems that bring out the best in your people, and turn them into a team that is engaged, reliable and effective, and pulls in one direction. A real team. Team Trustability.
Building the HR function. Most HR departments are buried in payroll, compliance and the paperwork of hiring, and never find the time for the work that actually builds a real team. An HR department has about 40 different functions to perform; most do not perform even a quarter of them. That is the gap we close. We build your company’s HR function, working hands on with your HR people, and deliver it fully operational. Your HR may be a department, one person, or you. Whichever it is, we build the function around it.
Succession. There comes a time when a business owner decides to step away from the business and begin a new chapter, whether to create something new, take a break, or retire and spend more time with family and on things they have always wanted to do. We prepare your business for this transition and help you find the best way forward. Succession →
Everything a consultant, a coach, a mentor or a trainer would give you is part of our work. The difference is that we don’t stop there. We stay inside your company and work with you, your managers and your people until it is implemented and working. Then we hand it over. That is Active Management Support.
Over 60 experienced specialists across Europe, a number that keeps growing, are ready to work with you, in your own language, to help you create Team Trustability in your company.
How we work →
We help business owners and leaders with everything to do with the people in their company: hiring, establishing new people, evaluation, team building, alignment, leadership, training and development, organization, and building the HR function. Through Active Management Support, a project manager works with you inside your company until it is implemented and working, then hands it over.
Everything a consultant, a coach, a mentor or a trainer would give you is part of our work. The difference is that we don’t stop at advice. We stay and work with you and your people until it is done. We are and operate as your Strategic Partner.
It is the name we gave to the way we work, because there was no name for it. Traditionally, companies in our field provide Management Support: services that help business leaders manage their companies, such as consulting, training seminars, coaching, mentoring, and similar services.
The problem is that most Management Support providers deliver their service and leave. Most advice remains theoretical: it is delivered but never put into practice. Until now, there was no alternative. GA Strategic Partnerships provides that alternative. And because there was no name for this approach, we gave it one.
Active Management Support: Management Support services where the professional does more than deliver the service and leave. They stay and work alongside you until the intended result is achieved. A project manager, backed by a team of top professionals, works with you inside your own company, on site, until the objective is done. Not advice, not a report: hands-on work with you and your people until it is implemented and working. Then we hand it over to you and your HR people, so it keeps working after we leave.
It is what we create: a real team of people you can trust, who are able and effective, and who want the team to succeed. And when you have such people, the whole company gains stability. Trust + Ability + Stability = Team Trustability.
Yes. We find what is blocking your hiring and build a hiring system that works. Performia, an international company that specializes in hiring and evaluating people, in more than 26 countries since 2001, provides complete solutions. With Performia, you can assess each candidate’s potential and predict their performance before hiring them, reducing the risk of bringing in someone who becomes a burden rather than an asset. We stand beside you in the entire process and your HR people learn to keep doing it.
Yes, the kind that lasts. Not an event: we put in place the tools and systems that turn your people into an engaged, reliable and effective team, and train your HR people to keep it that way.
Absolutely. Alignment is one of our concerns from day one, because nothing works without it. We work hands on with the leader, the top executives and each member of the team, personally and as a team, until everyone pulls in one direction.
Yes. We install organizational systems and tools (an organizing board, job descriptions we call “hats”, and policies) and train your people to use them. Each of our five projects puts more order in place, because there is no real team without it.
Yes. Performia specializes in this. Using highly accurate tests and methods for measuring performance, our experienced evaluators determine how each employee is doing and what support they need to perform better. We also train your HR people to carry out the evaluations themselves.
Yes. George Aslanis speaks at conferences, conventions and company events. For your company, we train you, your executives and your staff in the specific areas you need, and then apprentice them on the job until the training is part of how they work. Training runs through all five projects.
Our founder, George Aslanis, and our company are based in Greece, but we provide our services throughout Europe. Through a growing network of more than 60 experienced specialists across the continent, we can serve clients in most European countries in their local language. Our approach requires us to work on site, alongside you and your team. Initial discussions and certain stages of the work can take place by video conference.
Small, medium or large, from 10 people upwards. Every company will go only as far as its people take it.
A partnership runs in months, not sessions. How long depends on the size of your company and the state it’s in today, and we won’t put a number on it before we’ve seen it. That’s what the first meeting is for.
One meeting, in person, or by video if that’s easier. We ask questions and look at where your company actually stands. No presentation, no proposal deck. At the end of it, we both know whether there’s a fit.
One meeting — in person, or by video if that’s easier. We ask questions and look at where your company actually stands. No presentation, no proposal deck. At the end of it, we both know whether there’s a fit.
