Can you tell the good from the great? Can you get your people to the next level of performance? Can you specify the skills your people need?
It is no longer enough to rate someone relative to his or her own role. Roles change and people move far too quickly; it is necessary to
compare people to each other, to future roles, to successors – even to the demands emerging from a shift in strategy or a merger.
Measuring leadership skills
Egon Zehnder International’s scaled leadership competency model is uniquely suited to evaluating top leadership. In extensive analysis and testing, our simple, robust model not only captures 95 percent of client needs with regard to executive roles: we go beyond this to capture behaviors at the highest executive level – typically two to three levels higher than other models. On our 7-level scales, fewer than half the models examined go beyond level 4, and only 10 percent beyond level 5. No other model captures levels 6 and 7 on all our scales – the levels of exceptional, broad-scope, multinational executive leadership performance.
Because every level has specific behaviors of its own, instead of measuring only relative to roles (“meets expectations,” “exceeds expectations”) it is possible to measure the exact gap in behavior, what the behavior needs to be (or what it exceeds), and to compare any person against any role, on an objective scale.
Egon Zehnder International can predict executive promotability over a five-year span with 85 percent accuracy – a level that no one else can claim. This is partially due to our ability to measure executive capability to an unmatched level of precision.
Knowing who has real potential
We can help you with our assessment process, or help you do your own assessment better. We can offer:
- A rigorous appraisal against competencies relative to current or potential roles
- Documented gaps in behavioral terms
- Guides and tools to support scale-based assessment
- Licensing of our competency scales, with customization and mapping against your company’s core concepts, messages, and existing competencies
- Customized training and consulting to support the implementation of competency scales
Are you interested in learning how we
assess competencies? Would you like to compare or link your model with ours?
Our consultants would be pleased to discuss scaled leadership competencies with you.
