PULSE POINTS
Leadership Among Top Priorities
in Global Talent Market
ccording to data in Deloitte’s 2016 Global
Human Capital Trends report, leadership
remains a top concern in today’s talent
market. Based on more than 7,000 survey
responses gathered in over 130 countries
around the world, data from the report shows that leadership
ranked higher in importance than it did in last year’s global
survey.
The report states that “as organizations become increasingly team-centric, the workforce becomes both younger and
older, technology catalyzes faster change, and business
challenges grow more global and diverse, fresh challenges in
leadership development [will also] emerge.”
In 2016, 89 percent of companies see leadership as an
“important” or “very important issue” (up from 87 percent in
2015), and 57 percent cite leadership as “very important” (up
from 50 percent). Other key results include:
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Twenty-eight percent of respondents reported weak or very
weak leadership pipelines.
Only seven percent of companies believe they are
“excellent” at building millennial leaders.
Thirteen percent of companies report they are “excellent”
at building global leaders.
Fourteen percent of companies surveyed described
themselves as “strong” at succession planning throughout
the business.
Forty percent of respondents believe that their current
leadership programs provide only “some” value while 24
percent report that they yield “little to no value.”
In your own spa or company, how much value is placed on
leadership succession and programs? What is your leadership
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development strategy? Are you producing the caliber of leaders
your spa or company needs? One recommendation from the
report is to cast a wider and deeper leadership net as well as
focus on young and diverse leaders in order to identify
leadership potential early on.