Leadership Transition Assessments^TM

Increases the chances of successful external recruitment of leaders

Externally recruited leaders will from day one to another be role models for other employees in the organisation and you need them to deliver results already within the first three months.

Unfortunately, we often see the success ratio of hiring externally experienced leaders being too low. This results in high extra cost to the organisation as they need to go through a new recruitment process not to mention the loss in productivity and frustration among people reporting to the leader in question.

When recruiting experienced leaders externally, some of the most common things to assess are functional capabilities, personal characteristics, cognitive abilities, cultural fit and leadership capabilities. The functional capabilities are normally best assessed by having functional specialists from within the company interview the external candidate. Personal characteristics and cognitive abilities are best assessed using various psychometric tools and cultural fit can be addressed through a life story interview.

That leaves us with the leadership capabilities. This is where the People and Organisation function can make a significant contribution by using Leadership Transition Assessments. The Leadership Transition Assessment provides an opportunity to thoroughly map to what extent a leader successfully has transitioned into their current leadership level.

Given that development for the leader is cumulative and a successful transition into one leadership level enhances the probability of successful transition into the next leadership level this is a critical element of predicting success for external candidates for leadership positions.