LEADeR: Identify Potential, Cultivate Success

Volume 1 Issue 1 - 2008
Beyond Compensation | Battelle Prepares for Growth | LEADeR: Identify Potential, Cultivate Success 

Business speed and complexity has dramatically increased demand for high potential leaders. Rapidly emerging technologies, globalization of markets and virtual organizations put increased demands on what is required of business leaders. Plus, difficult economic conditions and the need to make complex business decisions have made leaders a premium in organizations.

While the demand for leaders has never been higher, the supply of leaders is increasingly limited. The baby boomer generation is now retiring. Companies are downsizing middle management and reducing investment in Leadership development. At the same time, today’s economy provides more employment opportunities for the best of the best.

The only realistic option for filling the Leadership shortage is to focus on Leadership development. But, organizations must demand a more focused approach to Leadership development that leads to a higher return on their investment. What organizations want is:

• Accurate assessment of leaders, especially high potentials
• Accelerated development of current and potential leaders
• Business-focused, results-oriented development programs
• Compelling, action-oriented learning opportunities
• Packaged “solutions” that fit their particular needs and situation
• Quick implementation with minimal impact on leader’s time due to increased workloads, time pressures, time zone differences and travel

Aon Consulting has worked with some of the world’s most successful companies to address these needs. The culmination of those efforts is LEADeR™, an efficient assessment and development process that:

• Defines leadership excellence – in your organization-specific terms
• Assesses current capabilities – in “day in the life” situations
• Identifies accelerated strategies for leader development
• Achieves advances in leadership performance

LEADeR brings together an array of resources to achieve these objectives:

• Aon Consulting’s webbased business simulations provide a realistic assessment experience. LEADeR “DayintheLife”. Business Simulations assess a wide range of skills and behaviors across multiple situations reflecting both “What did you do” and “What would you do differently.” Horizons “YearintheLife” Business Simulations (4 Role-Plays with immediate feedback) assess Leadership Versatility and provides targeted feedback and learning opportunities
• Personality and ability assessment provides standardized testing to better understand underlying capabilities. 16 PF (Personality Assessment), Hogan, or Occupational Personality Questionnaire provide insight on behavioral tendencies and predispositions to act in certain ways across situations. Business Reasoning Test measures professional and managerial level candidates’ ability to analyze and use information to solve problems.
• MultiRater assessment provides development insights from multiple perspectives. 360 (MultiRater Surveys and Feedback) assess leaders from multiple viewpoints: self, supervisor, peer, and direct reports. Plus, the assessment can also include customers and vendors.
• Interviews provide a range of behavioral, patterned, and situational interview options. Career Directions Interview provides a baseline self-report assessment of career goals, strengths and areas for development. LEADeR Debrief Interviews give insight into how participants approached the simulation, what they would do next, and what they have done in the past
• Executive coaching provides a range of individualized coaching solutions. Aon has coached over 2,000 leaders for over a decade. We have experience in a range of industries and have provided coaching services to the world's largest and most prestigious organizations.
• WebBased development resources supports tailored development plans.Development Resource Advisor™ helps users create actionable development plans. It is adaptable to each organization’s development and training resources and links to each competency model. Development Resource Advisor database of over 1,000 resources (e.g., books, seminars, on-the-job activities) are regularly updated and is available to all LEADeR users.
• Leadership and related training courses are tailored to the needs of the organization and the individual. In partnership with leading business educators, Aon Consulting assists in the design, development and delivery of customized executive education workshop. These workshops are staffed with an efficient blend of Aon Consulting trainers and world-class executive educators from leading business schools.

Aon Consulting has the tools, experience and resources to assist you with the development of your leaders of the future.

Contact

For more information about Aon Consulting’s LEADeR services in Asia Pacific, please contact Donovan Oliveiro in Singapore at +65 9845-9708 or email him at [email protected].