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Spencer Stuart: Building Executive Development on Assessment
When a c-suite level role is attained, professional development is often no longer a focus in these leaders’ careers. However, responsibilities and focuses of a position naturally shift throughout time and it’s important these executives continue to have the ability to adapt and develop along with their roles. Yet, Spencer Stuart cites that numerous research shows executive development effectiveness is inconsistent and often very low. In this article, Spencer Stuart outlines how for executive development to be effective, the training needs to be specific to their jobs and specific to each executive and the best way to achieve this is to base all development on assessment.
Spencer Stuart outlines four principles to build assessment of executives for development on:
- Measure future capabilities
- Consider the relevant leadership context
- Potential for what? And motivation to move
- Embrace multiple methods and perspective for precision