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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 a չ