Strategy, succession planning and talent management for a global professional service firm
Background
Our client is a strategic territory (in Asia) of a global professional service firm seeking to align and refresh their strategy and implementation plan.
The scope of our work included:
- Working with the Territory Senior Partner and Territory Leadership Team (TLT) to align the firm’s local strategy with the global strategy
- A second phase of work to align the TLT on succession planning and strategic talent management (as a key investment area)
Our work
Phase 1 – over a 6-9 month period this included:
- Facilitating TLT workshops to define strategic direction and priorities and key investment areas
- Coaching and supporting the TLT in securing strategic investment from the global firm
- Facilitating alignment workshops to agree deployment of investment once secured
- Co-facilitating technology immersion workshops for the wider leadership team to promote a growth and innovation mindset in considering strategic investment areas
Phase 2 – over a 6 month period this included:
- Gathering and interpreting all talent data for senior leaders
- Co-chairing (with Territory Senior Partner) the first Leadership Talent Council to align the Territory Leadership team around
- Facilitating implementation of talent practices to identify short, medium and long term successors)
- Identifying key leadership talent in the partner population for nomination to global key talent programmes
Outcomes
- Aligned local strategy to global strategy
- Secured investment funds (including for catalyst hires)
- Created strategic alignment among TLT
- Created a People Strategy and a new organisation design for the HC function
- Implemented key talent practices for succession planning and talent identification
