Leadership Challenges

Your board needs to define a complete process for succession--one that meets your immediate and long-term needs. PDI Ninth House partners with you to:

• Define critical success factors needed in a future CEO.
• Assess internal and external candidates with a rigorous, fact-based process.
• Coach internal candidates to develop, close skill gaps and prepare for CEO transition.
• Help the board navigate the transition process.

Your organization’s future rests on your ability to identify and develop high-potential leaders. PDI Ninth House partners with you to:

• Implement a high-potential strategy that seamlessly integrates with your organization’s business cycle.
• Define what high-potential looks like for your organization.
• Assess nominees to provide insight and objective data for development planning.
• Provide engaging experiential development programs.
• Determine when coaching is most helpful.
• Design a sustainable process to identify and develop high-potentials.

Leaders in pivotal roles are responsible for executing business strategy. You need to know which roles are most critical and how to close the gaps so your leaders will be ready when you need them. PDI Ninth House partners with you to:

• Implement well-defined processes and objective decision criteria for putting high potentials into roles when they truly are ready.
• Identify which roles are most pivotal and what skills and capabilities are needed to be highly effective in those roles.
• Assess leaders against these requirements with powerful, feedback-rich simulations.
• Make more confident key deployment and development decisions.
• Provide coaching to close skill gaps and equip leaders to handle new challenges.

A robust bench of highly effective leaders ensures sustained success. You need a systematic process for identifying and developing leaders at all levels across your organization. PDI Ninth House partners with you to:

• Design an enterprise-wide succession management process.
• Create a top-to-bottom competency framework that defines leadership at each level.
• Identify where talent constraints put the business at risk.
• Address key development needs to prepare leaders faster.

Your organization requires cost-efficient, targeted development that you can scale across large numbers of leaders. PDI Ninth House partners with you to:

• Define competencies that leaders need at each level.
• Increase performance of large number of leaders.
• Provide cost-efficient targeted development.
• Measure results to gain buy-in on investment.