Custom Leadership Standards & Custom Change Tools

You can do better than the usual “competencies” adopted by many organizations.

Our firm collaborates with top management, including HR, to define standards of leadership aimed at shaping the leadership culture, which in turn drives the strategic agenda.

The challenge is to involve the CEO in coming up with the standards and to collaborate with the CEO in refining the end-product. Our consulting skills have enabled us repeatedly to meet that challenge.

The distingushing features of our approach consist of:

Standards authored by top management. We partner with CEOs to choose standards for the organization’s managers or for all employees. We bring out the CEO’s thinking and then help shape it. The product is a short and memorable set of standards or values, not a long list of competencies. It is stated in plain, jargon-free language, often in the CEO’s own words. The product is owned by the CEO and senior management, and known to be owned by them, as opposed to being widely viewed as the work of a consulting firm or HR.

Standards informed by deep knowledge of the leadership field. The end-product is built upon the latest knowledge and best practices and techniques. We also import innovations from our own pioneering R&D. But the end-result is anything but a repackaging of what everyone else has. Kaplan DeVries’ strength is delivering a hand-crafted solution carefully designed to meet your strategic-leadership needs.

Standards translated into assessment tools that managers find useful and easy to use. We have translated our own leadership model into a an effective user-friendly assessment tool, we have done the same thing for organizations, and we can do that for you. Download this document for details.

Contacts

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