With over 20 years of management, leadership, and consulting experience, Jerry Olson of Olson HR Consulting has an established track record of leading change and getting results. Both as a human resources executive and as a human resources & leadership development consultant, Olson has helped client organizations accomplish their mission and objectives through:

• improving human resource systems and processes;
• aligning employee benefit plans with organizational mission and objectives;
• improving employee relations through individual management and supervisory skills training; and
• improving individual and organizational effectiveness through leadership training and development.

Leaders in client organizations have become more effective and gotten results through leadership training and development programs offered by Olson HR Consulting. Topics include performance management, communication, presentation skills, time management, supervisory and coaching skills, conflict management, goal achievement and personal effectiveness.

Clients have seen positive results from work done in designing, developing, and implementing human resource strategies, systems, policies, and practices ranging from performance management systems to compensation practices to recruitment and selection processes. In addition, Olson HR Consulting has developed and implemented various employee benefit programs for clients ranging from 401(k) and ESOP retirement plans to vacation and sick leave policies to health and welfare plans.

A variety of organizations have also seen results from Olson HR Consulting's facilitated strategic planning guiding them in clarifying their values and mission as well as creating supporting strategies and specific objectives.

Results in client organizations include:

• Reduction in turnover and increase in employee satisfaction through improved recruiting, selection, and placement processes.
• Improved productivity and management-employee communications through improved performance management systems.
• Improved employee relations resulting in defeats of union organizing attempts and improve employee satisfaction and retention.
• Control of benefits cost increases while at the same time maintaining employee satisfaction through innovative changes in health plans and other employee benefits.
• Improved attendance and productivity through designing and implementing changes in attendance and paid time off policies and practices.
• Improved leadership skills in supervisors and managers resulting in enhanced employee relations, improved employee satisfaction, and increased productivity.
• Business strategies and objectives better aligned with mission and values to drive higher organizational and individual performance.

Jerry Olson, a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Minnesota. He has completed business management programs through the Executive Development Center at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Jerry is also a graduate of the Blandin Community Leadership Program and was the Executive Director of Leadership Red Wing, a community leadership development program. He also has extensive strategic leadership experience serving on numerous boards for a variety of business and community organizations.

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