Because the World needs great leaders – Assessing contemporary leadership behaviours

Because the World needs great leaders – Assessing contemporary leadership behaviours

Resourceful Pro is an Australian Executive Search and Leadership Advisory firm with a global reach within the Power, Water, Oil & Gas, Energy, Mining and Infrastructure sectors.  We formed the organisation as we had seen a growing level of discontent in the market with products, services and pricing amongst the traditional Executive Search firms. Our vision is to continually strive to provide offerings that solve the needs of our clients.

As part of this overarching purpose, we have developed a unique model for finding and assessing leaders.  While many executive search firms focus solely on assessing achievement, our process measures talent to find the best leaders, rather than simply hiring people who have performed similar roles in the past.

Resourceful Pro employs an evidence-based behavioural competency assessment framework that measures both talent and achievement. At the core of the model is a fair, accurate and rigorous methodology of assessing potential candidates against contemporary leadership attributes.

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES THAT COUNT

Contemporary businesses strive to be seen as innovative, adaptable and dynamic. In this environment, a combination of relevant experience, business smarts and non-cognitive skills are critical for modern leaders.

Before we embarked on building the framework, we wanted to understand what behavioural competencies truly are. A competency can be behaviour, knowledge, skill, ability or any other characteristic that contributes to the employees’ success in performing their identified duties and areas of responsibility. Whilst technical & professional, core and job family competencies are critical for leaders to succeed, for us, operating in the Executive Search space, we were primarily interested in leadership competencies.

Having a well-designed and relevant competency framework allows an organisation to articulate what ‘good’ looks like. For an Executive Search firm or an internal HR team, it provides a means to assess existing capability as well as to improve the validity and accuracy of the recruitment process.

Our behavioural competency framework has been established after significant consultation with the industries in which we work and by understanding what our clients are seeking in their Executive and Group Managers. We challenge candidates with complex scenarios encouraging them to demonstrate solutions to real-world work situations across these 7 principal behaviours.

Agility

Able to adapt to a variety of evolving situations and maximises the value of different views and approaches. Encourages a culture of workplace flexibility and makes improvements through embracing change.

Intrapreneurship

Change agent, whose creative behaviour seeks to disrupt the economic equilibrium of an industry. Develops value for the organisation by producing innovative new ideas for business ventures, products, processes, services, and technologies. Capitalises on business opportunities and is willing to take calculated risks to achieve significant gains.

Transformational

Inspires and motivates high levels of performance from others by creating a shared, compelling vision for the future.

Energise, Motivate & Engage

Creates a positive work environment and supportive culture where employees are committed to their organisation and involved in their work. Tackles change resistance.

Resilience

Able to cope and persevere in the face of challenges, setbacks and pressure. Learns from their experience and proactively prepares for future challenges.

Self-Awareness

Understands one’s internal states, preferences and strengths and weaknesses. Knows who they are, what they want to accomplish. Seeks out and values others’ opinions.

Lead, Don’t Do

Shares authority with others and promotes self-directed and autonomous decision making. Shares decision making power.

These competencies align well with other in-demand capabilities that are measured through our interview and assessment process within customer-centricity, commerciality, inclusion and conflict management.

If you’d like to learn more about our Behavioural Competency Framework and how we could support your leadership development and leadership recruitment initiatives, please get in touch with our General Manager Executive Search, Matthew Woodall, on matthew@resourcefulpro.com.au