For each business transition, business owners are guided in building their human capital readiness with a map that navigates each of these six human capital elements:

Clarify direction and values to unite your team and ensure everyone pulls toward your top priorities. This includes communicating strategy, defining roles, and ensuring each person understands their impact on success.

Organize work, job roles, and processes so your team can deliver results. Well-documented systems, smart role structure, and providing the right tools/ processes help everyone perform their best.

Ensure every person in the business has the ability, skills, and motivation for both today’s needs and tomorrow’s demands. This covers hiring, onboarding, development, and honest review of capability gaps.

Foster a culture of high performance, accountability, and scalable results. Build feedback loops, expectations, and recognition that keep the team on track for your goals.

Uncover the people, compliance, or proprietary risks that could derail a sale, succession, or scaling plans. This means recognizing intellectual property preservation, key person dependencies, reinforcing compliance, and building systems to reduce lead/key person risk.

Institutionalize knowledge, maintain continuity, and develop next generation leaders so your business keeps succeeding through transitions and into new chapters.