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Many mid‑market IT consultancies and service providers start strong under a founder’s vision - until the team reaches 15 to 50 people and everything begins to fray.

Decisions bottleneck, priorities fragment, and communication slips. It’s no wonder 35 % of companies fail during this transition and most fast‑growing firms never scale successfully. These failures aren’t caused by market forces or capital - they stem from people problems and leadership structures that don’t evolve.

If HR leaders wait until turnover rises and clients complain, it’s already too late. Founder‑centric systems that fuel early success can become the very mechanisms that destroy the business at scale.

How can you spot the early warning signs and build shared leadership capacity before your growth stalls?

We’ll unpack this in our upcoming Talentuch HR Community webinar, Navigating Together: Building Shared Leadership Capacity in Growing Organizations. In this 60‑minute session, David Dial will introduce the Organizational Orienteering® framework - Compass, Map, and Navigation Skills - and the three predictable stages of leadership crisis:
Overload, Fragmentation and Crisis. You’ll walk away with diagnostic tools and a readiness assessment you can use with your team the very next day.

What we’ll cover:
- Early warning signs of leadership overload, fragmentation and crisis and why they’re so common between 15 and 50 employees.
- Why shared leadership isn’t a buzzword but a structural necessity for scaling service‑driven organizations.
- How to apply the Organizational Orienteering® framework - Compass (shared purpose and values), Map (decision authority, role boundaries), and Navigation Skills (communication rhythms and conflict norms).
- What research shows actually works (sustained, blended engagement) versus what fails (one‑off retreats where 50–90 % is forgotten within a month).
- A practical readiness assessment to determine whether your organization is at the optimal intervention point—typically six months before the urgency is felt.

Best for: HR leaders, people managers, organizational development practitioners and talent advisors within IT consultancies and service providers who need to preserve delivery, margin and client trust during rapid growth.

Our Speaker:
David Dial is a Strategic Business Advisor with over 25 years of experience helping high-growth companies build world-class teams. With a background as a CEO and senior executive across industries such as software, alternative energy, and agriculture, David specializes in delivering results through effective strategy. He has a proven track record in facilitating executive teams, coaching leaders from middle management to CEOs, and fostering inclusive workplaces. David uses practical approaches to create better workplaces and unlock team potential in Canada.

Host:
Anastasia is an experienced IT recruitment professional with 10+ years of success in closing niche roles, including MS Dynamics specialists, as well as general IT and C-level positions. In addition to her recruiting expertise, she brings 4+ years of experience as an Account Manager, partnering closely with hiring managers and stakeholders worldwide to build hiring processes from scratch and launch new locations.

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Many U.S.-centric IT consultancies and service providers continue to look to Colombia for nearshore tech talent because of its aligned time zone, strong technical talent pool, and competitive labor market. However, the employment landscape in 2026 requires a more precise understanding of labor costs, salary thresholds, and compliance obligations.

Colombia’s 2026 statutory minimum wage has increased, but this does not automatically drive compensation for most technology roles paid well above the minimum wage. Its main impact is related to salary-indexed thresholds, statutory references, transportation allowance eligibility, apprenticeship obligations, and the minimum threshold for integral salary arrangements.

At the same time, Colombia’s 2025 Labor Reform introduced changes that employers should understand before hiring or expanding teams. These include open-ended employment contracts as the general rule, stricter requirements for fixed-term and project-based contracts, changes to night work and Sunday/holiday premiums, enhanced overtime tracking obligations, and new rules affecting apprenticeships and certain outsourcing arrangements. In 2026, companies should also pay attention to the new Labor and Social Security Procedural Code and recent developments around labor intermediation and outsourcing.

For technology companies, the key question is not whether Colombia is becoming too expensive. The real question is how to model total employment cost correctly based on the role, salary level, work schedule, contract type, and hiring model. A software engineer working standard business hours will be affected differently from a support, operations, or delivery role that requires night shifts, weekend work, or overtime.

In the forthcoming webinar, Colombia Hiring Guide: How to Find, Hire and Retain Tech Talent, we will break down the practical impact of Colombia’s 2026 wage and labor changes so companies can make informed hiring decisions, protect project margins, and remain compliant without overreacting to headlines.

What we’ll cover:
- A practical breakdown of the 2026 minimum wage increase, key salary thresholds, and minimum integral salary threshold — and what they actually mean for tech hiring.
- How to calculate total employment cost for a Colombian hire, including salary, statutory benefits, employer contributions, payroll taxes, ARL risk level, and salary structure.
- Key provisions of the 2025 Labor Reform that matter for IT consultancies and nearshore service providers, including contract types, night work, Sunday/holiday premiums, overtime records, apprenticeships, and working arrangements.
- How recent changes around outsourcing and labor intermediation may affect contractor models, service-provider arrangements, and Employer of Record structures.
- Realistic scenarios comparing direct employment, contractor/service models, and Employer of Record solutions — including when each option may or may not make sense.
- Strategies for attracting and retaining Colombian tech talent in a competitive market, focusing on compensation expectations, career development, flexibility, culture, and retention drivers.

Best for: Heads of Talent Acquisition, HR leaders, Delivery Directors, founders, and operations leaders at IT consultancies, nearshore service providers, and Microsoft/SAP partners who want to hire and retain Colombian engineers while understanding labor costs, compliance obligations, and practical hiring options in 2026.

Speaker:
Juan David Tovar Riscanevo is a Senior HR Generalist at Iron Mountain, supporting HR operations and employee processes across LATAM and international teams, including Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, the United States, and Poland.
He has experience in employee lifecycle management, onboarding, internal mobility, compliance, and HR support within global and tech-driven environments. Juan is also passionate about HR process optimization and automation, helping teams improve efficiency and employee experience through more scalable and organized processes.

Passionate about people and the future of work, he enjoys sharing practical insights about hiring and retaining talent in Colombia and Latin America.

Host:
Anastasia is an experienced IT recruitment professional with 10+ years of success in closing niche roles, including MS Dynamics specialists, as well as general IT and C-level positions. In addition to her recruiting expertise, she brings 4+ years of experience as an Account Manager, partnering closely with hiring managers and stakeholders worldwide to build hiring processes from scratch and launch new locations.

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Effective performance documentation is a critical tool for mitigating legal risk, supporting employee growth, and enabling fair, data-driven business decisions.

This webinar will provide you with a step-by-step framework for creating accurate, consistent, documentation that brings together both organizational and employee development goals.

Key Discussion Points:
- Purpose of performance documentation and its role in compliant HR practices.
- Aligning documentation with performance improvement, recognition, and promotions.
- What and when to document: defining critical events, achievements, and timing.
- Rules that make documentation a decision-driver and bring it business value.
- Common mistakes to avoid, such as bias, delays, and inconsistent terminology.
- Using documentation to support progressive discipline and performance improvement plans.
- Practical resources: ready-to-use templates, checklists, and HR software recommendations.

Best For:
HR professionals, people managers, and business executives seeking to strengthen their organization’s performance through consistent, structured, and analytical HR practices.

Speaker:
Cecilia Caraccioli, a senior HR executive with 15+ years of experience leading people strategy across technology, retail, manufacturing, and multinational organizations. As Country Manager and HR Director at Hitachi Solutions Costa Rica, she oversees national HR operations and talent strategy. Some significant achievements in Cecilia’s career include reducing training costs by 80%, increasing internal succession pipelines by 60%, and cutting candidate evaluation time by 25%. She has built and scaled full-cycle recruitment, performance management, and succession frameworks across multi-site organizations and holds an MBA in Finance from INCAE Business School.

Host:
Anastasia is an experienced IT recruitment professional with 10+ years of success in closing niche roles, including MS Dynamics specialists, as well as general IT and C-level positions. In addition to her recruiting expertise, she brings 4+ years of experience as an Account Manager, partnering closely with hiring managers and stakeholders worldwide to build hiring processes from scratch and launch new locations.

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AI is changing recruitment faster than ever before.

From writing job descriptions and sourcing candidates to screening resumes and scheduling interviews, new AI tools promise to make hiring faster and more efficient. But as adoption grows, so does one important question: Where should recruiters rely on AI, and where should people stay firmly in the driver's seat?

Finding the right balance is becoming one of the biggest hiring decisions organizations face today. Automate too little, and teams lose valuable time. Automate too much, and candidate experience, trust, and hiring quality can quickly suffer.

We'll discuss this in the upcoming Talentuch webinar:

AI in Hiring: What Should Stay Human and What You Can Safely Automate

In this session, we'll explore practical ways HR and Talent Acquisition teams can use AI to improve efficiency without losing the human connection that great hiring depends on. You'll leave with a clear framework for deciding what to automate, what to keep personal, and how to build an AI-assisted hiring process that candidates—and hiring managers—will trust.

What we'll cover:
• Where AI genuinely saves recruiters time throughout the hiring process.
• The hiring decisions that should always rely on human judgment.
• How to reduce bias while maintaining a positive candidate experience.
• Real examples of how recruitment teams are successfully using AI today.
• How to build a hiring process that combines automation with authentic human interaction.

Best for: HR leaders, Talent Acquisition professionals, Recruiters, Hiring Managers, and Business Leaders looking to use AI responsibly while improving hiring efficiency and candidate experience.

Speaker:
Michelle R. Stevens is the Founder and CEO of In Earth Consulting LLC, a full-service, faith-driven HR and workforce development firm helping organizations build stronger teams, scalable people operations, and purpose-driven workplaces.

With more than fifteen years of experience in human resources, leadership, and organizational development, she specializes in HR strategy, recruiting, payroll, benefits, learning and development, and fractional HR support. Passionate about aligning people, purpose, and performance, Michelle enjoys sharing practical insights on building healthy workplace cultures and helping organizations grow with integrity.

Host:
Anastasia is an experienced IT recruitment professional with 10+ years of success in closing niche roles, including MS Dynamics specialists, as well as general IT and C-level positions. In addition to her recruiting expertise, she brings 4+ years of experience as an Account Manager, partnering closely with hiring managers and stakeholders worldwide to build hiring processes from scratch and launch new locations.

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