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Having the right leaders – in the right place and at the right time – is pivotal to any organisation’s success.
Need to ensure a more well-informed recruitment process? Are you about to implement or enter into a merger or acquisition and need to audit your team to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the people organisation? Or do you perhaps need to make a professional development plan for people in your organisation, a whole team or your entire organisation?
We help you reduce the risk often associated with a wrong hire and give you insight into the potential of your current and future leadership.
For a successful M&A, we help you identify cultural fit, what key skills you have or need, build clear communication and have the right incentives in place for core talent to stay engaged throughout the value creation process.
We help you ensure the right leadership to execute on your strategic objectives.
Investing in key people and getting an objective assessment of their overall potential, strengths and development areas is the foundation for successful talent management strategies.
Our solutions suit all levels, from key players and management team members to CEO and board directors.
We are a long-term strategic partner when it comes to recruiting, assessing and developing leaders who will take your company strategy into the future.
Partnering with us you obtain impartial advice and recommendation to support your human capital investments.
Second opinion
Does your candidate have what is required to take on a specific role? Let us help you uncover your candidate’s true potential and how to make the most of it.
With a strong track record and long experience in the business, Alumni successfully identifies key strengths, risks and vital improvement areas in your candidate and provide you with a clear picture of current capacity and future potential – and how to bridge the gap. Beyond our in-depth analysis we provide you with tangible, distinct and an objective outcome. We will help you get ahead in your succession planning, support in your onboarding initiatives and gain valuable input to your recruitments, promotions and development initiatives.
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With Alumni you are ensured:
- in-depth behavioural interviews conducted by chartered psychologists
- the best tests and exercises tailored to your specific requirements
- evaluation of functional competencies
- a benchmark of your candidate against current market.
With skilled executive search consultants covering a broad range of industry expertise, Alumni has the resources to add an assessment of your candidate’s functional competence and experience. This assessment provides insight into current skills and capabilities, to help evaluate the candidate’s match to a specific role and requirements – a benchmark of the individual against current market. The result will enable you to make informed decisions and highlight how to create the optimal environment to maximise performance.
Benefits of a Second Opinion
Enable quicker onboarding and reduce time to productivity by gaining a better understanding of your candidate.
Improve your candidate experience by helping to strengthen your candidate’s self-awareness and personal development.
CEO evaluation
We conduct CEO evaluations with focused input on performance and leadership.
An evaluation of the CEO will provide the board with hard-to-access insight into the leadership of the company.
Not only do boards have the responsibility to evaluate CEO performance, ensuring the right CEO is also often their most direct impact on the success of the organisation.
We understand that each situation is unique, so while we rely on several well-developed process elements, we design a bespoke process in dialogue with the specific board.
As a leading Nordic firm within board services and with more than thirty years experience of executive search, Alumni has the knowledge and the experience to provide critical value to boards when evaluating their current CEO.
We understand how sensitive these processes can be, and support our client in obtaining the trust and buy-in not only from the CEO but also other internal and external stakeholders involved.
Management audit
Alumni’s management audits are often called upon when:
Organisational transformation requires a review of the current leadership team.
A new CEO (or other leader) needs to understand their leadership team.
Investors need to review the leadership team in post-acquisition phase.
The process begins with a thorough analysis of competence, motivation, and possible development areas – all in the context of the organisation and its unique situation. We identify the challenges and focus areas linked to leadership and provide insight and advice on these.
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The typical outputs of a management audit include:
- In-depth personality assessment of each team member covering motivation, personality and leadership, analytical capacity and stress style.
- Functional assessment comparing the individual’s current skill-set against what is needed for the role.
- Management team effectiveness assessment, covering fundamentals such as team dynamics, meeting culture, decision climate and adherence to decisions and strategic vs. operative focus.
Human due diligence
Align your human capital with company strategy.
We will assess the present so you can navigate future direction, reduce risk and make well-informed decisions in your acquisitions and investments.
Surveys show that mergers often fail to prioritise people and culture, resulting in an adverse effect on value creation. People success is key to building business success. In M&As it’s essential to identify what key skills you have or need, build clear communication and have the right incentives in place for core talent to stay engaged throughout the value creation process.
We help investors review the leadership team in pre-acquisition phase and determine if it is the right leadership team to deliver on future strategy.
With our human due diligence we provide you with valuable insight to your human capital investments and input to your development initiatives, that can further be used as a basis for future comparisons to track progress.
Perspektiv
Perspektiv is a personality test developed by PAT Management, now Alumni. It leaves no stone unturned and offers a complete picture of your candidate’s strengths, weaknesses and the nuances in between.
“Perspektiv is a highly valuable contribution when assessing candidates from different angles – it helps us understand and predict future behaviour. By using Perspektiv we quality assure all our recruitment processes.”
