Initiative Based Development™
We develop and employ an initiative based approach because research and our experience demonstrates that leaders develop best when they are working in real projects with real feedback from their teammates. These initiatives need to be important enough to demand people's best efforts, and for the company to hold itself accountable for results. The teams achieve many times the investment with real business results.
We are development focused because the real-time cycle of performance -- observation -- feedback -- improvement as it occurs in initiative-based development teams is, simply, the most effective way to develop leaders.
Our Recent Engagements
Global Pharmaceutical
We have enjoyed a multi-year relationship with a large pharmaceutical company. We are currently completing a very innovative leadership development pipeline program in Japan where we are working with their entire senior management and HR team. As a part of the program we are implementing Initiative Based Development™ and are working to dramatically improve recruiting, planned movement, talent assessment, succession planning, performance management, and other key systems.
At the same time we are helping leadership to:
- Build a new global leadership model.
- Reinforce cultural beliefs, values, and practices.
- Create a genuine learning community.
- Connect leadership development with empowering others to succeed.
- Test and develop the next generation of potential leaders.
The pharmaceutical company gives us their highest marks, telling us they are absolutely delighted with this effective, integrated program.
Medical Device Corporation
We worked with a major Medical Device company on their leadership development and global human resources long range plan. We assisted in the re-design of HR processes to align and accelerate their leadership pipeline, and re-designed their HR processes including: recruiting, development, succession planning, compensation and incentive programs, performance planning and executive education.
The initiative was designed to:
- Place the best potential leaders and managers in the pipeline.
- Use a “Leaders Develop Leaders” approach
The company is a global leader in the medical technology industry with more than 11,000 employee-owners worldwide. The company has also been named a Fortune “100 Best Company."
Financial Services Organization (Confidential Project)
We worked with senior management in an $80 billion dollar investment management organization (in a confidential project) to identify executive leadership competencies that predict financial market performance.
We completed a global, in-depth assessment and data collection on the top players. We integrated the research data and created a strategy execution and executive competency model that was linked to performance.
Healthcare Experience
Additionally, in the past we have worked with many leading organizations, including Amylin Corporation, Abbott Laboratories, Aetna-US healthcare, The American Hospital Association, Astra-Merck Pharmaceuticals, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, Illinois, and Florida, The Cleveland Health Network, Dade-Berhring Medical Diagnostics, Kaiser Permanente Health System, Lilly Pharmaceuticals, LifeSpan Hospitals, New England Medical Center, The National Pharmaceutical Council, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, PacifiCare, United Healthcare, Value Health, the VHA (Novation) and 25 academic medical centers and integrated delivery systems.