This €800 Danish-based engineering company’s home market was saturated and it needed to accelerate its international expansion. Previous experience had shown that the growth would not come without a more effective and internationally-oriented global mid-to-senior management team.
Quo helped in the design and execution of an international leadership development programme for 100 experienced and “next-generation” managers, incorporating input and delivery from the London Business School, the Copenhagen Business School and Summit Consulting of Denmark.
Personal understanding (for the delegates and the programme leaders) was initially provided through 360 degree assessment, emotional intelligence measurements and the Hogan tool, built on with frequent one-on-one and group feedback. Across a 3-level modular programme, individual and group tasks challenged their problem-solving and cultural adaptability, and two-way feedback happened continuously in real time.
The programme helped participants define their own personal leadership route map, (which they agreed with their managers), and understand the means of operating as a leader in their own group/cultural context. Interestingly, it brought to the fore a number of managers whose talents and motivations would have been overlooked by more conventional leadership approaches.
