Client Case Study: The Colorado Health Foundation
Strategic HR Consulting | Performance Management | Career Development
Public Health Foundation | Colorado
The Challenge
The Colorado Health Foundation is a major philanthropic organization dedicated to improving the health of all Coloradans. With a mission driven team and high organizational standards, CHF needed a robust performance management process and clearly defined career development pathways for employees.
The organization had meaningful work to do on both fronts: building out a performance management system with consistent tools and language, and creating career lattices that gave employees a transparent view of how they could grow within the foundation. CHF was also introducing a new performance management platform, Lattice. The opportunity was to bring all of these systems together into something cohesive and useful for managers and staff alike.
How Turning the Corner HR Helped
Turning the Corner HR’s engagement with Colorado Health Foundation encompassed fractional HR support alongside two interconnected projects: an updated competency framework across different levels and departments to support the development of formal career paths for foundation employees.
Competency Framework
Turning the Corner HR updated and rolled out a competency framework built around CHF’s culture and the capabilities of the Lattice platform. This created a shared vocabulary for equitable conversations about work and growth across every department.
Career Paths and Lattices
Turning the Corner HR assisted CHF in creating department level career path frameworks, often called “lattices,” that gave CHF employees a concrete picture of how roles relate to one another and what growth could look like within the organization.
Rather than a one size fits all ladder, the approach reflected the varied structures across CHF’s departments and honored the different ways people develop professionally.
The work involved close collaboration with CHF’s internal team, including regular working sessions to refine language, align on visual frameworks, and build content that CHF staff could own and maintain going forward.
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The Result
CHF rolled out a full competency framework embedded in their new performance management system and linked to their career paths in a way that fueled more productive and meaningful development conversations between supervisors and their employees.
Colorado Health Foundation came to Turning the Corner HR with two complex, interconnected challenges and left with infrastructure designed to serve their team for years. It’s the kind of work Turning the Corner HR was built for: thoughtful, practical, and grounded in what employees actually need to thrive.
Hear From Colorado Health Foundation
Hear directly from the Colorado Health Foundation team about the partnership and how working with Turning the Corner HR helped them think more strategically about professional development and people operations.