Executive Success ProfileSM

The Executive Success ProfileSM describes the skills, experiences, knowledge, and personal attributes executives must have to successfully execute organization-specific challenges. Consistent, relevant, fair, and legally defensible, an Executive Success ProfileSM provides concrete criteria for guiding significant hiring, promotion, and development decisions.

An Executive Success ProfileSM is proven to help organizations:

  • Objectively measure the capability to deliver against highly specialized business situations.
  • Quantify and project gaps in the amount of executive talent needed.
  • Efficiently align and integrate phases of succession and talent management processes from hiring to promotion.

An Executive Success ProfileSM includes:

  • Job Challenges (what one has done)—The kinds of situations that someone entering top management should have experienced or, at least, had some exposure to.
  • Organizational Knowledge (what one knows)—The degree of understanding that senior managers must have about how the organization operates, such as functions, processes, systems, and services.
  • Competency Development (what one is capable of)—Clusters of leadership behavior, knowledge, and motivations that are related to job success or failure.
  • Personal Attributes (who one is)—Personality factors that enable or derail success as well as motivational fit and cognitive ability.