Business Challenges

To successfully manage rapid business growth, organizations must ensure they have leaders with the right skills in place, and maintain a steady pipeline of leaders who can move up quickly. PDI Ninth House partners with you to:

• Define the unique success profiles your leaders need to lead in a growth environment.
• Quickly assess leaders against these requirements.
• Identify where and when you need the right talent.
• Put a systematic process in place to quickly identify up and coming leaders.
• Develop leaders earlier and faster.

As your organization expands into global markets, you need local leaders grounded in your company culture, strategy, and business principles. You also need a sustainable process for identifying, developing, and building local leaders. PDI Ninth House partners with you to:

• Define the success profiles you need in your leaders and markets.
• Provide assessment, feedback and development tailored to local culture and tied to your business strategy.
• Identify and develop local high-potential leaders.
• Build a sustainable process to make sure you have a strong bench in local markets.

Performance of your leaders ultimately drives business results for your organization. Leaders need to improve their performance when and where it counts. And you need accurate, proven ROI on your development investments. PDI Ninth House partners with you to:

• Identify where you’ll get the most leverage from improving leadership performance.
• Provide in-depth assessment to align leadership behaviors with business results.
• Detect where talent constraints are hurting business performance.
• Implement wide-scale development through our network of consultants across the globe.
• Minimize cost with scalable technology-based development.
• Design metrics to measure ROI for your leadership investment.

When your organization changes strategy, you need to identify new key leadership roles, then specify concrete behaviors that will help leaders support and execute the change. PDI Ninth House partners with you to:

• Identify which roles are most critical for success of the new strategy.
• Define the success profiles needed for those roles.
• Assess your leaders against the new requirements to identify gaps and determine how your leaders stack up.
• Identify where talent constraints could put the business strategy at risk.
• Develop and prepare your leaders to drive change.

Mid-level leaders are responsible for successfully driving the execution of their organization’s strategy. Listen to RJ Heckman, Ph.D., president and CEO of PDI Ninth House, introduce GreatLeaderGPS™, our revolutionary new assessment offering for mid-level leaders.

Already delivered in 64 countries, GreatLeaderGPS blends PDI Ninth House’s proven simulation-based assessments with innovative live and online elements, giving leaders and organizations the actionable insight they need to execute on their strategies and win in the marketplace.

In Part I, RJ Heckman, Ph.D., president and CEO of PDI Ninth House, introduces GreatLeaderGPS. In Part II, Stu Crandell, Ph.D., senior vice president at PDI Ninth House, highlights key features of GreatLeaderGPS™.

When your organization is driving an innovation strategy, you need to know exactly which behaviors will empower leaders to meet this goal. PDI Ninth House partners with you to:

• Define which roles are most critical to driving an innovation strategy.
• Determine the success profiles these leaders need.
• Assess and develop leaders against specific innovation behaviors and competencies.
• Ensure that you deploy the right people on critical projects.
• Coach your leaders to behave differently to build an innovation culture.
• Design development programs to create and drive an innovation culture in your organization.