Tools to assist in identifying and developing leadership potential

Here are a number of tools available to assist you in identifying and developing leadership potential.

The foundation stone to all of these tools is the Smiths Leadership Competency Model.

These eight competencies act as the compass by which you can measure leadership ability.

These tools include:

PPDR: Suitable for use with all leadership potential employees with the recognition that this tool is designed to measure current performance rather than as a predictor of performance.

Profiling by Kaisen: Suitable for level 3 leaders and above. Click here for an overview of this.

360 Feedback: Suitable for employees already in a leadership role at levels 4 and above. Click here for an overview.

Discovering Your Potential Development Centre: Suitable for employees in level 4 & 5 type roles. Click here for an overview

Career Development Interview: Suitable for all employees and the structure is particularly useful to obtain the necessary information to nominate an employee to a talent pool using the TIMS database tool. Click here to download the form.

Developing your ability:

You may consider attending the Facilitating Talent Management workshop designed to prepare leaders for participating in the Leadership Talent Review and Succession Panning Process. Click here for details.

Taking the role as an observer on the Discovering Your Potential Development Centre is a excellent way of developing your skills in identifying potential leadership talent. Click here for details.

There is also a workshop available to help you develop your skills in developing leadership talent. Click here for details.