Enabling leaders to navigate change

Case Study

Our leadership development solutions

Davidson’s leadership development solutions armed leaders with the capability to manage an increasingly complex environment, through experiential programs.

Challenge

The sector faces complex challenges while delivering a broad range of services with limited resources. Employers must equip their leadership teams with the capability to respond to this complexity and meet the demands of multiple stakeholders.

Our client is a large local government authority. It identified that leadership was key to its ability to perform to meet community needs. Davidson partnered with it to support leaders through transformational leadership initiatives and the implementation of a new leadership competency framework.

The goal was to provide senior managers with the opportunity to undertake scenario-based activities that enabled them to demonstrate leadership competency and to receive individual feedback and development.

Solutions

Focus on developing leadership capability


Davidson developed a program with two components:

Experiential development centre

Debrief session

Experiential development centre


Participants underwent a mix of practical and challenging exercises. These targeted core capabilities critical in promoting and preserving the client’s value-based leadership culture.


The program followed best practice principles by:

including both individual and group-based

scenario activities

targeting each activity to assess no more

than three key capabilities

designing highly experiential and

challenging real-world scenarios

Independent observers assessed leadership abilities and effectiveness, identifying areas for development and improvement.

Debrief session


Upon completion of the Leadership Assessment Centre, we invited each participant to meet with a Davidson consulting psychologist to discuss their observations and to transfer learnings.


The session provided clear feedback on their

leadership competency,

identified strengths,

areas for improvement,

and suggested meaningful

improvement actions to pursue.

Outcomes

Alignment with leadership goals


The Executive Leadership Development Centre’s comprehensive integrated design and delivery system produced a number of outcomes aligned with the client’s goals and aspirations

It provided participants with clear, consistent and relevant expectations

regarding leadership roles and responsibilities.

Participants acquired new knowledge and perspectives about their own position from completing the program and debriefing their experiences. They

reported a renewed sense of self-awareness as a leader.

Participants had a better understanding of how their personal and professional

development strategically impacted the council’s growth.

Executives rated their satisfaction level with the program at

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The average Net Promoter Score for participants recorded

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As a result of attending the Executive Leadership Development Centre, many participants developed a behaviour change action plan.


Applying their new knowledge and understanding would ultimately deliver real results and public value.


This outcome gave the client confidence that its workforce was led by people
with the skills to

balance competing priorities

manage change

and develop new approaches

to delivering high quality and valued services.

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