Our Products and Services
Our focus is to create greater synergies between the executive, his/her portfolio and the organisation. Through employing a unique combination of methodologies and services, we help to achieve the following:
We do this by crafting strategically timed initiatives for the key stages of the lifecycle of an Executive career, namely when:
– Preparing for the role
– Transitioning into the role
– Navigating difficult decisions
– Preparing to exit
Each of our services can be stand-alone or used in combination with others to achieve greater synergy and insight.
Mindset Index™
– mind intelligence for a world in flux
The Mindset Index, developed by international strategist Dr Morné Mostert and C-Suite Sherpa, is a world-first in the assessment and mapping of mindset. Senior leaders in business and government, with influence over significant resources, make decisions that impact large numbers of stakeholders over extended periods of time.
As a tool for predictive analytics, the Mindset Index provides a unique opportunity to gain greater insight into the philosophical foundations of strategic decision-making.
- It identifies the cognitive patterns (paradigms) that characterise the various lenses that people may adopt to make sense of and interpret the world of the present and the options for the future.
- It creates a philosophical framework of how someone thinks or approaches life in general.
- Unlike many assessment, it does not assess behaviour, but rather identifies the core paradigms as an aid to anticipate the most likely strategic direction leaders might take.
These philosophical patterns of thought illustrate a set of dominant intellectual preferences. While many instruments exist to evaluate past behaviour, the Mindset Index detects intellectual and philosophical preferences as indicators of likely future decision-making.
This instrument contains 19 main domains, some with sub-domains, which constitute 24 constructs in total. Each construct has a maximum of 8 questions. The instrument contains 174 questions in total.
Its application is wide and varied and includes the following:
- Mapping the compatibility between the individual and the organisational mindset
- Strategic decision-making
- Selection of senior leaders
- Identification of individual strategic development
- Foresight and strategic anticipation
Team Facilitation
C-Suite Executives can often feel isolated due to expectations from the organisation, their peers and team that they are supposed to be experts in all areas. This often makes it difficult for them to admit to failure, lack of knowledge or knowing the way forward. This can have a negative impact on creativity and collaboration within the C-Suite.
In our Team Facilitation workshops, we help Executive Teams to increase their insight into themselves and each other with a view to strengthen collaboration. By helping the team to understand how their own mindset relates to that of their colleagues, we create an appreciation of how different perspectives motivate and influence behaviour. Then, through linking it to each Executive’s portfolio and strategic contribution to the organisation, we develop clear development plans with each Executive.
Executive Assessment
Our more than 25 years in the assessment industry gives us the ideal base from which to conduct psychometric and competency-based assessments at Executive level. These can be used to help the organisation understand the Executive better, whilst at the same time increasing self-insight for the Executive.
Essentially, the way in which we use assessments help us to understand the individual, in relation to the specific C-Suite role, within a specific industry. As such, it can be used for selection of a new Executive, whilst being equally beneficial when applied for development of an existing Executive.
Our unique methodology enables us to uncover the following:
- Current and future capability
- Job-fit
- Culture fit
- Leadership style and capability
- Self-management and resilience
- The drivers / motivators for decision-making and preferred behaviour
- Inhibitors of high performance, i.e. what holds the person back
Executive Transition Programme / Executive On-boarding
One of the biggest drivers of executive failure is the absence of a proper on-boarding process. Executives are appointed and then, left to fend for themselves. Fewer than 20 % of organisations’ onboarding programmes for their executives last longer than a week. The result is that 60% of executives take longer than 6 months to have a full impact in their role, with 20 % taking longer than 9 months.
Through properly integrating the executive into the organisation the return on investment of executive remuneration can be optimized significantly, with higher performance and better sustainability for the organisation.
C-Suite Sherpa designed an executive on-boarding methodology that makes organisations part of the top 2 % globally who go the extra mile to integrate their top team into the organisation.
6 Key Benefits of our Executive Transition Programme
Our programme means that the Executive is able to make fewer mistakes in the first year, get more momentum in terms of achieving results that align with expectations and company reality, whilst also ensuring integration with the company culture. This means that the organisation gets a bigger and faster return on the investment in executive remuneration.
