Graduate students in the WIDE GEN Lab have contributed to a number of consulting projects including:
- Implementing an enterprise-wide organizational design and effectiveness initiative for one of Canada’s Big Five banks
- Building and developing a simulation tool to assess senior leaders (C-suites and Executive Board Members) on their leadership capabilities
- Conducting quantitative and qualitative data analysis on employee retention and engagement surveys
- General consulting for start-ups
- Facilitated performance review meetings and refined organizational performance management systems
- Designing employee well-being interventions
- Building competency-based hiring solutions
- Designing and facilitating employee training and workshops
- Published government white papers on best practiced in performance-oriented structured interviewing
- Developed and led training workshops for managers to develop their skills in conducting structured interviews
- Developed competency models and hiring tools for managers
- Created systematic and structured evaluation procedures and materials for managers to receive feedback and coaching after initial training sessions
- Developed strategic workforce plans for the University of Guelph, projecting workforce resources and demands
- Administered and evaluated work samples and critical reasoning test batteries
- Designed microlearning-based training modules for managerial training
- Led and conducted focus groups to help inform the development of a leadership competency framework
- Proposed a methodology for to evaluate the fairness of selection tools by looking for evidence of bias and adverse impact in measures
