We make your workplace a great place to work
The science team at QLL does research on what enables businesses to maximize their creativity, productivity, and effectiveness, and then we apply it at your company. Your people, ideas, and processes are what make your company excel, and QLL Consulting will propel them toward their maximum potential.
Our hallmark is creating bespoke workshops and customized solutions that fit your company.
Build Your Dream Team
Most hiring systems are built backwards: starting from job descriptions rather than clear conception of what top performance actually looks like. They rely on assessment tools (especially personality tests) that have criterion validity too low to justify the decisions made on their basis, and they treat hiring as a lock-and-key match rather than the beginning of an adaptive relationship between a person, a role, a manager, a company, a culture, and a mission.
QLL takes a different approach. We start from a rigorous definition of what great performance looks like in each role and work backwards to identify the knowledge, skills, and characteristics that actually predict it. We design assessments that measure these key predictors. We then help you build the onboarding and performance management infrastructure to track hiring outcomes and talent development.
The result is a talent system that gets smarter over time, reduces costly “miss-hires”, and builds a team whose excellence compounds.
Keep Your Talent [Happy]
Employee engagement is more than just a buzzword or collection of perks. It is a direct function of whether people can deploy their best capabilities in their work, grow professionally, and see themselves in the company’s future.
QLL analyzes your work and culture, aligns roles and management practices with factors that elicit high performance, and builds the conditions that promote and sustain engagement. The result is high performance from a committed workforce.
From Ad-hoc to Ad-roit
With the increasing complexity of work tasks in the Knowledge Era, companies rely more and more on teams. But, teamwork isn’t easy, especially when a company has to throw together a bunch of people who have barely met before.
We partnered with Dutch consulting firm Flow Concepts to create the Team Flow Monitor™, which we use to turn your ad-hoc team into an adroit team capable of tackling your company’s toughest challenges.
See Dr. Davis’s Lecture: Building High Performance Teams Out of Perfect Strangers
Build Sustainable Diversity/Inclusion
Most diversity initiatives fail because they treat diversity as an end instead of a means, focusing on optics, quotas, one-off trainings, and finger-pointing that often look good but accomplish nothing (at best!).
QLL builds sustainable diversity by starting where most initiatives end: with culture, management practices, and talent systems that determine whether diverse hires thrive or leave. We diagnose the real inhibitors of inclusion, redesign the processes that maintain homogeneity, and build the infrastructure throughout the talent system (recruiting, onboarding, performance management, and development) that makes diversity and inclusion sustained rather than litigated.
Bring Creativity to Your Workplace
Hiring for creativity means looking beyond a trait. The research is clear: creative production depends upon the context in which people work, psychological factors like safety and self-efficacy, the autonomy to explore, and respect for ideas.
QLL helps organizations embed those conditions into their culture. We assess your current culture for creativity blockers, redesign workflows and management practices that suppress innovative thinking, provide workshops on critical and creative thinking and how to manage it in teams, and build hiring and development systems that attract and retain top creative talent.
Sustainable Excellence
Productivity is about getting the right things done at the highest level possible with the least possible expenditure. Our research on flow, time use, cognition, and performance, along with the broader literature, has shown that contextual and cultural factors are key determinants in whether people excel or just look and feel busy.
QLL helps organizations build the infrastructure for high performance, including meeting culture, workflow, management practices, PTO, and environmental factors that enable employees to do great, meaningful work without burning out.
Pay Well, Pay Fairly
The global talent market is complex, especially with different pay structures, benefits, and systems throughout the world. We help you create compensation philosophies, policies, and packages that attract and retain top talent, including factors like paid time off, remote work, pay grades, bonuses, perks, and other compensation factors. We also help you integrate compensation into diversity/inclusion initiatives, career ladders, and performance management systems in ways that incentivize high quality work and increase retention.