Successful leadership takes many forms. Today’s leaders must navigate a host of rapidly changing global trends in answering the critical life-cycle questions:
Strategy, structure, culture and people are all vital elements of accountability.
Taking the right decisions at pivotal moments requires insight and teamwork. We have a long-standing track record in identifying, assessing and developing executives and their corporate context. The solid experience of our consultants is supported by a proven set of bespoke tools and approaches.
Over the past 15 years Amrop has established an executive assessment process that can be applied in a number of situations. From internal recruiting, to potential analysis and/or M&A contexts.
Our assessment team blends two axes: experience in business and in leadership assessment. When staffing our assessor teams, we consider this diversity of experience and perspective to be key.
Our clients know us for our trustworthy and thorough approach. We care for the people who are assessed. We believe in the value of communication - in preparation, during the appraisal process and in the feedback phase. We want everyone involved to feel they have been treated with respect and consideration.
We are experts in leadership and know what it takes for individual leaders and leadership teams to fulfill their full potential and create future oriented, sustainable and successful organizations.
We offer to our clients a broad range of services to develop and grow, not only individual leadership capabilities but also the team’s effectiveness.
Our approach is highly individualized and customized, understanding both, the leader´s personality and experience as well as the organization’s aspirations and needs. Beyond individual or team coaching, we help organizations setting up leadership development and succession planning processes, tools and programs to ensure leadership excellence for the long run.
Our holistic understanding of organizational design goes well beyond a narrow focus on span of control, layers and boxes.
We understand our clients’ strategic direction and ambitions and are their partners for a successful and sustainable transformation journey. We help them build an agile structure adapted to strategic intention that provides space for innovation as well as strategy deployment.
We facilitate the cultural shift and support and advice in creating a strong leadership team and a strong succession pool. Without losing attention from running the business – as it often happens during transformations - but ensuring operational excellence as well as efficiency improvements.
Our clients choose us for the insight, care, and integrity of our senior partners, who guide them every step of the way.
The result of our executive search activities is designed to present our clients with several candidates who all are a very good fit for the open position.
In order to support you as the client in deciding between several equally top-qualified candidates, we offer to carry out a Final Candidate Evaluation.
The focus of our evaluations lies on particularly important skills and potentials about which you would like to have more clarity. Criteria that you would like to use to objectively compare the candidates before making your final decision are also included. Based on a customized list of questions aligned with you, we conduct an in-depth personal interview with the chosen candidates.
Our assessment and recommendations are underpinned by a personality diagnostic analysis. This analysis provides you with information about which personality traits support the candidate's professional performance and which could potentially be a hindrance in their day-to-day work.
Through a detailed discussion of the results with you, with detailed evaluation reports and a clear recommendation from our Amrop consultants, we give you an objective basis for making an informed decision.
Personality assessment
Competency-based in-depth interview
Written evaluation reports
Results discussion and recommendation to the client
Personal feedback meeting with each candidate
Who wouldn't want to be "spoiled for choice" when it comes to applications from internal candidates for vacant management positions?
As much as this speaks in favor of a functioning career development in the company, the decision for an internal candidate is ultimately a delicate one, because at the same time it always means a decision against all others.
However, if external experts are commissioned with an objective audit process, the appointment decision has a much higher level of acceptance and thus relieves the burden on internal decision-makers.
Depending on the requirements of the vacant position, we will put together the right mix of Management Audit tools for you.
Personality diagnostic assessment
Competency-based in-depth interview
Hearing
Business case
Management simulations
Written audit report
Results discussion and recommendation to the client
Personal feedback meeting with each candidate
Is your company facing changes that will be a major challenge for your entire leadership team? You don't yet have a clear picture of who will meet the requirements? Are you wondering whether you have the right managers in place?
In order to find good answers to these questions, you need an assessment of your current situation. A well-founded evaluation of your management team members as part of the Amrop Leadership Team Assessment will show you which skills and potential they have and which they lack.
Our recommendations as to who you should focus on in the future, who you can develop further and who should be part of your management team are based on a multi-stage process.
Our Leadership Team Assessment is based on a diagnostic personality assessment which your managers go through.
The next step is to conduct an in-depth, competency-based interview with each candidate. In the course of a briefing, the focus for this interview is determined with you. Our underlying Amrop competency model includes social and leadership competencies as well as competencies in the areas of business and strategy. These competencies can be supplemented by further focus areas, resulting in a tailor-made questionnaire.
As part of a personal hearing, candidates have the task of working on a business case and presenting concepts on business-relevant issues. Both are discussed with you and the Amrop consultants.
In the final assessor conference, you will receive an overall picture of the most important results of the personality analysis, our assessment of the competencies and the strategic and professional skills.
Personality diagnostic assessment
Competency-based in-depth interview
Hearing with presentation of a business case and additional business-relevant questions
Moderated assessor conference with final assessment
Proposal of individual development plans
Written assessment reports
Personal feedback meeting with each candidate
Are you a new member of the Board of Directors or Executive Board and need to be able to quickly assess the managers and key players in your area of responsibility?
In the first few weeks in particular, answers to questions like these are crucial if you are to be able to work effectively and successfully in your new role:
Key People Evaluation is a tool for the "first 100 days" for board members and managing directors. It was especially developed to enable quick and direct decisions to be made during management changes, pre- and post-merger phases, restructuring processes or takeovers.
Personality diagnostic assessment
Competency-based in-depth interview
Written evaluation reports
Results discussion and recommendation to the client
Personal feedback meeting with each candidate
The shortage of qualified managers on the labor market makes structured succession planning a success factor for many companies.
The Amrop Leadership Succession Mapping gives you a clear picture of the leadership talent and potential you have in your organization. You gain certainty when deciding for which leadership positions you can develop internal candidates. This will enable you to make targeted investments in the right people.
In addition, you will receive recommendations for which roles a search on the external market is the better solution. The Leadership Succession Mapping provides you with a tool that allows you to plan for the long term, from filling entry-level management positions to appointing members of the Executive Board or Senior Management.
Together with you, we analyze which management functions will play a central role in your company in the coming years. At the same time, we define which management talent and potential will be required in the future to ensure the success of your company. Based on this target picture, we assess the people in your organization who are suitable for this role.
Personality diagnostic assessment
Competency-based in-depth interview
Written evaluation reports
Proposal of individual development plans
Written succession plan and development needs of managers for the client
Results discussion and recommendation to the client
Personal feedback meeting with each candidate
We are excited to learn about your views and needs.
