Developing high potential leaders at a global healthcare company

Challenge

Our client is a science-led, global healthcare company that researches and develops a range of innovative products.

As part of their leadership strategy, the client wanted to ensure it had a strong internal pipeline of future candidates for executive roles.

They wanted to identify partners who could provide a cutting-edge development program that enabled leaders to understand their own development needs in relation to future leadership requirements and systematically address them through a blended program of individual coaching and residential programs.

They were also keen to develop these leaders as a group and encourage them to work together.

Solution

YSC worked closely with the client and another provider to create an integrated, two-year holistic development program. This was a global program with 32 high-potential future leaders taking part.

First, we researched the capabilities that would be required of the organization’s future leaders. The outputs acted as a guide for participants in the program as well as a basis to structure the residential components.

We then conducted executive assessment to give the individual and organization a read-out on how each leader measured up to the requirements of an Enterprise Leader in the future, including their readiness for Enterprise Leadership roles and their potential trajectory. The assessment was the foundation for the leaders’ personal development plan as well as an opportunity for the client to deepen its insight into its leaders.

Leaders received individual coaching support over the course of the two-year period to maximize their development and embed learning from the residential components. It gave participants the opportunity to focus on their unique development needs and achieve transformational change in their performance by addressing underlying blockers to performance.

The final component was a series of residential programs. The content was tightly aligned to the original research into the capabilities that will be required in future executives.