SYNAPSE - 2014
SYNAPSE - 2014
2025.
Also teaming with marketing and operations
personnel MB and her staff have crafted a set
of global and local “scanning tools” to understand the shifting talent geography impacting
short term and longer term personnel availability and costs.
Global Leadership Mindset and Development
Start the conversation
around drivers of the
facts; Facilitate the
sharing of possible
solutions; End the
conversation and Act!
I can tell you that we have made great progress in building a talent pool with the global
operating skills, digital capability, and interpersonal competencies needed to meet our
growth plans. MB has lead this work. Specifically, we have crafted a leader development
“Play Book” reflecting line leader agreed
upon set of leadership development beliefs,
tight governance, calendar of regular activities, and a disciplined process to manage the
issue. One agenda, one set of standards, one
common process guide our work. MB developed an enterprise wide process to identify,
assess for development, and execute development (primarily through planned job rotations
across business units and geo units). In five
years the results are significant: 75% of our
top 1,000 positions have been filled with new
personnel (most are high potential internal
resources) who possess the desired cross cultural and global operating skills. No senior
management role can be filled without the
approval of the Leadership Development
Council. We also regularly assign these individuals and other hi-potentials to cross unit
project teams in order to solve specific business problems, build their experiences, networks, and multi-cultural expertise.
tion of several high potential personnel from
other functions to “learn” the HR processes,
while HR professionals get a taste of business
by rotations into sales or operation roles.
MB has also launched a 24/7 “HR Help Desk”
application to answer employee and manager
people-related inquiries. In addition, she has
helped me rethink our ethics program and she
has created Standard Operation Tool Kits to
support the planning of organization issues in
all new ventures, mergers, and partnerships.
We also have a tight set of people standards
and regular HRM audit privileges in all supplier agreements.
As you can see, MB will bring to her new role
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