Assessment for Senior Leadership Appointments
Considering candidates for senior leadership; especially how they might fit into, or change your organisation is one of the most complex aspects senior leadership recruit appointments.
Newgrange Consultants support Boards, CEOs, HR professionals, talent management experts and executive search consultants in leadership selection by offering expert analysis of leadership capabilities, style, and impact.
The Newgrange ASLA© Assessment for Senior Leadership Appointments process gives our clients an additional, objective, and expert insight into short-list candidates. We utilise our psychometric assessment capabilities together with competency interviews and other selection processes.
We work with clients to examine:
- How each candidate’s deep-rooted personality influences their leadership behaviour
- Their motivation, energy, and levels of resilience
- How their thinking skills, self-image and concepts of personal power influence their decision-making
- How their people skills and communication skills are expressed, and the impact they will have on others
- How they will lead their teams, and how they will respond as part of a leadership team
- How they cope with change themselves, and whether they can lead others in change
- Their instincts for opportunities and managing risks
- Their ability to support an established culture, or change and develop a new culture in an organisation
The Newgrange AELC© Assessment for Emerging Leadership Candidates process has been developed for our clients who wish to evaluate candidates for mid-tier and first-time leadership roles. The assessment process examines the same issues as our ASLA© process but is tailored for the challenges and opportunities likely to be faced by first-time leaders or those in mid-tier leadership roles.
We work with clients in scenarios such as:
- Providing an objective analysis of leadership competencies and styles for all short list candidates
- Delivering a second opinion when a single candidate has been recommended prior to or outside a search process
- Enabling a balanced comparison between internal and external candidates
- Assessing the potential, development opportunities and risks of appointing a high potential but not yet fully rounded candidate
The depth of insight in our assessment processes are matched with contextual knowledge of the challenges faced by candidates operating in c-level, senior executive and other leadership roles in complex organisations. We provide comprehensive reports and can join leadership teams and selection panels in their decision making. We can also support candidate feedback processes to enable our clients to manage candidate perceptions of the hiring organisation.
Our Leadership
Geoffrey Dobson
Partner
Geoff is a Chartered Fellow of the cIPD. He has an Honours Degree from the University of Leeds, a Masters in Organisation Consulting from Ashridge College and further post-graduate qualifications in HR Management.
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Doctor Mary Hanley
Partner
Mary was awarded her PhD from Queen’s University Belfast, where she also gained her MSc in Occupational Psychology and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology (First Class).
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Our Services...
Leadership Assessment
Newgrange Consultants work with their clients to assess current leadership capabilities and to objectively evaluate development potential.
Leadership Development
Newgrange Consultants recommend that leadership development is informed by rigorous and objective assessment of current capabilities, growth potential, learning and development needs and potential destabilisers.
Senior Team Appraisal
Investors, Boards and CEOs must ensure that the leadership team is equipped to meet the mission, strategic and operational goals of the business.
Assessment for Recruiters
Considering candidates for senior leadership; especially how they might fit into, or change your organisation is one of the most complex aspects senior leadership recruit appointments.
Career Counselling
Newgrange Consultants provide personalised career advisory services to senior executives. We have completed career advisory assignments commissioned by employers for their senior executives.