Capability assessment of key talent (internal) and potential hires for a global Insurance company
Objective
- Asses and map critical talent on the basis of handling uncertainty and ambiguity
- Assess readiness from collective leadership standpoint to deal with emerging environment complexity
- Re-design internal top leadership development program on the basis of capability findings
Design
- Deploy globally researched MCPA™ to capture first level cognitive capability data
- Conduct a one to one discussion + life biography conversation to gain insights on current capability and future maturation of capability
- Capability output was mapped onto the organization complexity grid to determine future growth potential of participants
- For select hires (at senior levels), the MCPA™ was used to determine current and future potential
Impact
- The model ran successfully for multi years with increasing reliance on the capability assessment for all senior level hiring at the Regional office in Hong Kong
- Re-design of top leadership development program with cognitive capability as its foundation
Critical Success Factor – The commitment of the top Business and HR leaders to embed and leverage cognitive capability as a differentiated strategic lever