Leadership Assessment

Change is inevitable. Success depends on how you react to change which in turn is determined by how well you planned for the future.

We help business leaders develop and implement strategies for effective leadership assessment.

Leadership Assessment

Leadership and succession is consistently ranked among the top issues on the c-suite agenda. But often, when evaluating leadership, assessments focus on the candidate in isolation and not relative to the total talent market. Understanding what a good leadership team looks like is vital for benchmarking your current leaders and planning for the future.

We provide data and primary insights to help ensure that when you make a leadership appointment, you recruit the best possible candidate available - improving your market competitiveness and working towards your corporate diversity targets. By ensuring organisations have a complete view of any cohort of talent, including its diversity, we can ensure representation is appropriately considered.

We help corporations reshape, restructure and redesign their leadership assessment providing market insights and benchmarking, not tests.

We’re passionate about our work, helping you create a robust leadership assessment process and ensuring you build a better leadership team either now or in the future.

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Assessing Leadership on more than just tests.

Traditional leadership assessment centres focus on ‘testing’ candidates by using psychometrics and personality tests. Whilst these are an essential part of leadership assessment, they do not address three key points that we think are important:

Total Talent Landscape. Where do the identified candidates sit in relation to the total talent population for the role?
Competitor Benchmarking. How does your leadership team and structure compare to your competitors?
Diversity. Understanding the overall diversity of your leadership team and highlighting whether a particular appointment improves representation. What impact does this have on business diversity efforts?

It is important to assess leadership in relation to the entire market to gain a competitive advantage.

How We Help

Leadership evaluation helps hiring managers to identify gaps in their talent pools
Our leadership evaluations help you establish who is prepared to take on senior positions when vacancies arise internally and if you should be looking at external talent.

Ensure the continuity of successful leadership
Successful succession plans balance both the data-driven and people-centric elements of the process. HR leaders need to critically appraise their organisation’s strategic direction, conduct detailed competitor and sector analysis, and identify what skills will be required for the future leadership team.

Our approach is simple yet successful. We provide data and primary insights so that your hiring managers can be confident that they are recruiting the best possible candidate.

Benchmark your Leadership Team

At Armstrong Craven we are always looking for new ways to help organisations solve their most critical talent issues.

We are often asked to calibrate their internal leadership bench strength while building robust external succession talent pipelines to mitigate Leadership Risk. This is why we have partnered with IntelligentBoardRoom (IBR) and are delighted to be their exclusive partner.

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Our company has used Armstrong Craven for over 10 years to source high quality talent. As we work to ensure our talent management strategy supports our business strategy, we are increasingly using AC to provide customised insights to inform our mid- to long-term talent planning. Our needs vary but overall, the information we get from AC ensures we create an employment offering that ensures we attract and retain the high calibre people we need, when we need them.Global Talent Business Lead, Global Pharmaceutical Company

The business really appreciates your support. Your Insights capability accelerated our knowledge transfer. Without partnering with Armstrong Craven, it would have taken us a year to get to the same point in our understanding of the market.Director, Global Talent Acquisition, Global Biotech

Armstrong Craven was recommended to me by the Group HR head of a FTSE 250 company in the UK. We were provided with a set of very viable candidates in each of the assignments and they helped us through the difficult selection process, as the finalists in both cases were all quite exceptional. Interim CEO – Innovative UK Start-up

We are increasingly retaining Armstrong Craven for roles at the highest levels and can rely on them to deliver the same level of service as Executive search firms using a much better cost model to the standard starting salary percentage model.Head of Resourcing, ASDA

We have used Armstrong Craven on a number of occasions now for executive research at the very highest levels and on each and every occasion they have helped us locate the right candidate, all of whom have gone on to make a fundamental contribution to the health and development of our businesses.Managing Director, Liquid Plastics Ltd

We are increasingly using Armstrong Craven rather than traditional search or head-hunters to support us with innovative, timely and cost effective sourcing of candidates. Armstrong Craven take a different approach to executive search and talent planning and are a great supplier for a business like us who is moving to direct sourcing.Global Recruitment Partner, AstraZeneca plc

Thanks for all your help in scouring the field for talent. I think the mapping and search worked out very well! I’d be happy to work with you again on similar talent needs.SLT Member, Major Pharma Company

We thank you for the excellent support and will definitely come back to AC for future pipelining.Global VP HR, Major Medical Devices Company

Spot on and thorough project, Great job, looking forward to reaching out to the individuals Really great, very happy, good to engage in more work including pipeline, search and mapping.TA Head, Major Pharma Company

Leadership Assessment

Change is inevitable. Success depends on how you react to change which in turn is determined by how well you planned for the future.

Leadership Assessment