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A medium-size construction company’s President needed a team he could count on. The challenge: develop a system to hire and groom the right senior managers.
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Constructing A Senior Team
After ten years in business, the President of a medium-size construction firm found himself and his firm at an impasse. The company had been successful, but he anticipated an increasingly competitive future. As he thought about recent experiences, he realized that he was having trouble assessing, hiring, promoting and retaining senior level project managers crucial to construction project execution. Typically, project managers were technically adept, but lacked superior management and leadership skills.
The President engaged Innolect Associates to enhance the company’s
Capability.
Working with the President, Innolect Associates designed an initiative
to:
- Identify
necessary job competencies
- Establish
performance standards and measures
- Groom
internal candidates for specific positions
- Evaluate
the initiative’s impact
Results. In short order, two qualified and
successful senior project managers were in place; one manager self-selected
out of the position and accepted a more junior position; one candidate
was de-considered for promotion; and another candidate – previously
undervalued – was promoted. The company hired its first senior project
manager from outside the company using the new approach.
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