Back to School – What Does It Mean for Employers?
Back to school means a lot of different things to each of us.
Level Up Solutions is about creating excellence through people. Sounds inspiring, right? It is, along with a lot of work. Our goal is to guide you through that work with consulting options, education, and more, to empower you, the business leader, to take your company and its workforce to the next level. In other words, offer you Level Up Solutions.
As workforce complexities increase, now more than ever, employers need business partners to help build a path forward. Learning and development is the starting point of that path by attracting and retaining qualified talent that makes your business thrive. HR consulting services offer value and a return on investment through establishing policies and practices to not only keep your business in compliance, but that work for the organization.
Level Up Solutions strives to create an experience that is conducive to success for our clients and their unique workforce. We accomplish this by listening to you, building lasting relationships, and understanding your business strategies, goals, and the needs of your workforce.
Terri Cummings is the President of Level Up Solutions HRD LLC. As owner and senior consultant, Terri works to leverage her 15-year career in human resources and workforce development to help small and mid-size companies across the country wishing to expand and align business strategy with people and development. Her human resource and learning and development background in industries such as education, manufacturing, construction, and the non-profit sector offers clients a well-rounded base of knowledge to measure workforce efficiencies and enhance operations. Terri also extends her knowledge and expertise as an adjunct instructor in the business programs at Guilford and Forsyth Technical Community Colleges and the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
As an HR consultant, Terri focuses on the client, including industry trends, strategic positioning of the organization, and current workforce, to identify practical solutions that align workforce strategy with the mission and vision of the organization. In her learning and development capacity, Terri incorporates professional and personal development strategies to achieve comprehensive results fostered in a learning organization and that increase performance efficiencies, retention, and engagement. She has worked with executives, managers, and employees to identify best practices and develop knowledge, skills, and behaviors that are an inclusive framework for business and career success.
Terri earned a bachelor’s degree in business with a concentration in industrial and organizational psychology and a master’s degree in leadership and human resource development with a concentration in workforce development. Additional education includes certificates in employment law, human resources management, and OSHA 10. She also holds PHR (Professional in Human Resources) and SHRM-SCP (SHRM Senior Certified Professional) credentials.
Level Up Solutions provides human resource consulting, employee learning and development, and career coaching solutions, in addition to an online learning portal for on demand training. Our mission is to support the organization in maximizing its competitive advantage by aligning business strategy with people and development.
Terri Cummings presented a Communication and Conflict Resolution training on-site to our group of team leads and supervisors. While our group had worked together for a long time, they had not had any formal training on communication skills or how to avoid and resolve conflict through better communication.
We invited Terri and Level Up Solutions in for our first group training. Terri intuitively picked up on dynamics within the group and offered insight for each individual to understand their role in the communication process and offered sound and practical advice. All agreed it was time well spent.
As Lightbridge Academy aims to provide a superior early childcare educational experience, professional development of our management team is an important piece to meeting these standards and to our success at large!
Thank you, Terri Cummings, for your partnership in implementing Management and Leadership trainings for our centers. The team and I appreciate your style and approach and find the sessions engaging and insightful…and we have already seen great results! We appreciate this unifying and empowering journey as a team.
Terri Cummings has served as a long-term, strong partner with the Women’s Resource Center of Greensboro, and has volunteered with our organization where she has acted as a professional workshop facilitator, offering education and information on employment and career-related topics in tandem with our internal Women to Work Program.
Throughout this partnership, Terri’s insights and expertise have been invaluable, as she consistently goes above and beyond to ensure that our clients receive her top-notch advice and support. Terri is a person of high integrity, and fosters an environment of open communication and trust, which makes partnering together not only productive but also enjoyable. We are grateful for her partnership and the contributions that she brings to the WRC!
I recently enlisted the services of Level of Solutions to provide a workshop for a cohort from She Built This City, a nine-week training program that introduces women to careers in skilled trades and construction. Terri Cummings delivered an engaging and insightful presentation that was both informative and empowering. She made complex concepts accessible and relevant to everyone in the room and covered it all with clarity and enthusiasm.
Thanks to Terri’s expertise and ability to connect, the cohort of women felt better prepared and more confident. Feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive. Her session was a valuable investment in the professional growth of attendees, and I highly recommend her to any group looking for inspiring and practical guidance!
This level of conceptualization refers to the values, goals, and available knowledge, skills, and abilities that influence the design of a business or career path plan, including mission and vision of the company and the individual.
This level of activity requires dedication to short and long-term objectives and other components of the business or career path plan. Investment of time and resources are required to make measurable progress.
This level of action-oriented strategy development allows the business or individual to establish market positioning that aligns with the objectives of the business or career path plan, including brand image.
This level of sustainable growth and direction is influenced by internal and external variables including economic climate, industry trends, and ability to achieve the competitive advantage through continuous improvement, innovation of products and services, and value of contribution.
This level of accountability encourages corporate social responsibility and connection inside and outside of the business. Ethical behavior and initiatives further develop brand image that results in becoming a destination employer for the business or sought-after job candidate for the individual.
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