Are you acquiring and developing the proper talent to meet the future demands of your organization? Are you supporting your team effectively within the key areas below as needed?
Leadership
Have you developed a diverse enough set of leadership styles to handle all situations?
Are you effectively developing tomorrow’s leaders? Are their successors present?
Is there reliable, candid feedback consistently available to senior leadership members?
Change | Adaptability
Does your team constantly challenge the status quo, even after great success?
Is there an acceptance of failure? Is innovation and creative destruction supported?
Do you have a systematic, actionable method to identify early market shift indicators?
Focus | Effectiveness
Does your staff spend enough undivided attention on the most important issues?
Do your team member's roles align well with each individual's respective strengths?
Are you fostering a high performance environment on a team and individual basis?
Company Culture | Global Workforce
Is there a well thought-out company credo? Are organizational values taken to heart?
Do you need to manage a multicultural environment?
Have you created the right culture? How do you measure and improve it?
Training | Professional Development
Are executive skill sets adequate: decision making, delegating, problem solving etc?.
Is there an individualized personal development curriculum for each key employee?
Are the levels of self awareness and emotional intelligence where they need to be?
Recruiting
Have you developed a full pipeline of qualified candidates with the lead time required?
Are you firmly established as an employer of choice? Do you think of HR strategically?
Do you have effective selection methods and on-boarding processes in place?
Compensation | Incentives
Are your reward systems properly calibrated with strategy and profit, as well as growth?
Is your compensation system flexible, yet easy to administer and understand?
Are incentive systems yielding the desired result? Are motivation levels sufficient?
What Do You Think?
Is this an area of strength waiting to be better leveraged? Or is improvement needed that will allow the organization to progress overall?
How long has this been true? What are the best options for addressing it? What outcomes are realistically possible?
What other areas of the business need to be focused on to support initiatives in this area?
What approaches may be valid?
Are you building the leaders of tomorrow?
Are you maximizing return on human capital? Is employee engagement high?
How do you manage and lead in an increasingly global and diverse environment?
Do you excel at choosing the best candidate and maximizing their contributions?