Leadership Assessment
Newgrange Consultants work with their clients to assess current leadership capabilities and to objectively evaluate development potential.
The building blocks of our assessment process include
- Validated, best-in-class psychometric assessment processes to evaluate the participant’s personality, leadership competencies, cognitive skills problem solving and decision-making capabilities, personal motivators and behaviour drivers, personal resilience, communication style and impact, people skills, leadership style and effectiveness
- Competency interview processes to examine the participant’s self-awareness of their strengths, learning and development needs, skill and knowledge gaps and the factors that can destabilise and undermine them as effective leaders
- Business simulation exercises to assess leadership capability, judgement, potential and development needs across investment and financing, people leadership, change leadership, marketing, and operational challenge scenarios
- Career evaluation exercises to examine the participant’s career to date, satisfaction, stretch and effectiveness in their current role, and future career preferences
Configuring your processes
We work with our clients to configure assessment processes appropriate to business circumstances and leadership selection and development scenarios including
- With investors, for pre-investment selection decisions and post-investment leadership development
- CEO, C-suite member, and senior executive effectiveness in current role
- Assessments for first time CEO appointments, including alignment to the chair, the board and toe leadership team
- Assessment processes to support assessments across leadership teams
- Assessment of high potential emerging talent and future leaders for growth roles and development projects
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.