Our practice areas

Gravitas engages its consulting community to provide its consulting clients with talent and expertise across three complementary practice areas.

Strategy & Organization

We provide hands-on support to our consulting partners in organization strategy and governance, organization and job design, as well as operational excellence. Our team housed in the Strategy & Organization practice encompasses highly skilled consultants who combine experience in top-tier consulting firms with expertise in specific industry sectors. We work closely with our consulting partners to support the successful implementation of their client engagements while ensuring consistent value in delivery.

Corporate Strategy & Planning

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We help businesses better structure their organizational resources to support their business priorities and identify actions needed to achieve longer-term goals.

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We design business activities as seamless processes that are adequately governed to ensure efficiency in organizational implementation and compliance with regulatory standards.

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We adopt a sequential process for delivering workforce and budget plans, combining the bottom-up approach of gathering demand sheets, benchmarking externally, and validating the results top-down.

Organization & Job Design

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We identify structure shortfalls through current state analysis, leading practices review, and external benchmarking, drawing recommendations to realign the structure in what best fits business realities and improves efficiency.

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We adopt a systematic process of collecting and analyzing information about job roles to create job descriptions and job families, measure jobs’ relative size and worth, and establish equitable grade and pay structures.

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We follow a rigorous approach of synthesizing inputs from the client internally and against external practices to identify and define behaviors and skills which contribute to workplace effectiveness.

Operational Excellence

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We follow a comprehensive framework with a set of processes, tools, methods, and principles aimed at efficiently managing the planning, analyzing, developing, and implementing of change in organizations.

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We review, update, create, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and processes through rigorous benchmarking exercises, tapping into our existing database of leading practices and the implication of subject matter experts.

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We provide dedicated consultants with specialized skills and knowledge to ensure governance, oversight, and leadership in executing projects from planning to completion.

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Job Descriptions & HR Policies and Procedures

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Organization Transformation

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Technical and Behavioral Competency Mapping

Assessment & Development

We provide in-depth expertise in assessing and developing workplace behavior across job functions and organizational levels. Our team housed in the Assessment & Development practice encompasses seasoned and credentialed assessors, coaches, and facilitators who converge their knowledge, training, and experience into talent assessment, leadership coaching, and team development. Our practitioners seamlessly integrate with our consulting partners’ proprietary methodologies and within their project teams.

Talent Assessment

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We provide organizations with the clarity they require to make the right hiring decision that fit both the job and the culture, leveraging scientifically-proven assessment tools which provide objective, in-depth data.

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We measure the present capability and future potential of professionals, identify their key strength and potential development areas, and advise on how to bridge the performance gap and capitalize on leadership potential.

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We help organizations advance their succession agenda and safeguard business continuity by identifying critical roles, defining success profiles, and ensuring that the right talent pool is lined up for the business to be future-ready.

Leadership Development

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We work closely with both individuals and teams to raise awareness and enhance performance through coaching engagements geared towards change in behavior and fulfillment of potential.

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We support team development by providing them with customized, targeted, and structured training and leadership facilitation programs to address their group development needs.

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Talent Assessment

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Leadership Development

Business Bureau

We provide our consulting partners not only with front-end project support but also with the equally critical back-end support system, without which even the most sophisticated consulting practices fail. Our team housed in the Business Bureau practice encompasses project managers, data analysts, business translators, and support administrators. This ensures that our consulting partners are provided with end-to-end support both with their client organizations and in their business operations.

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Business Support

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Project Management

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Data Analysis

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Business Translation

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Project Management

Recruitment Process Outsourcing

We provide our strategic partners and clients with recruitment turn-key solutions spanning talent sourcing, screening, selection, and onboarding. We set up end-to-end recruitment functions to enable an applicant-centric and a business-driven experience. We equip recruiters with digital solutions, assessment tools, IT setup, mentorship, administrative support, and/or other requirements needed for them to succeed in their hiring journey.

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We help our strategic partners and clients in identifying the right talent through various channels,
including but not limited to, social media platforms, academic recruitment events, access to alumni, and referrals. We also put at their disposal Gravitas’s CV database.

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We support our strategic partners and clients with shortlisting applicants through different stages spanning vetting calls, technical interviews, behavioral interviews, psychometric assessments, Microsoft Office testing, etc. Our multi-faceted approach to talent screening minimizes biases and reduces recruitment sunk costs.

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We work with our strategic partners and clients on selecting candidates through thorough, objective, and scientific reporting following the talent screening process. Talent selection helps in identifying candidates in alignment with job vacancies and associated requirements.

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We extend offers to successful candidates and manage their seamless and engaging onboarding which entails three dimensions: the contractual elements (e.g., agreements, policy acknowledgment), the
technical elements (e.g., IT equipment, data storage and sharing), and the administrative elements (e.g.,
expenses, medical insurance).

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Outsourcing Hiring for an American Company to Lebanon

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Outsourcing a Recruitment Team for a Talent Consulting Firm