In this white paper, George Klemp describes five scenarios in which a rigorous executive assessment process can help ensure that organizations have the right talent to feed their leadership pipeline.
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Download and read the chapter about Cambria’s Coaching Impact Study™ from the newest volume in SIOP’s Professional Practice Series “Advancing Executive Coaching.” Chapter 14, The Coaching Impact Study™: A Case Study in Successful Evaluation, tells the story of the study’s origins, objectives, design, and implementation across a variety of organizations. The evaluation instruments, our challenges in implementing them, and a number of lessons learned from the effort are shared with readers.

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The most effective way to reduce the risks of “organ rejection” or the promotion of people beyond their level of competence is a comprehensive, rigorous assessment of the characteristics, capabilities, preferences, aspirations, and leadership behavior of the individual or candidate in question.
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Three years ago, Cambria embarked on a strategic coaching initiative with a Fortune 200 global manufacturer that began with one person – the company’s Chairman and CEO – and progressed to include over 100 top executives to support a global vision and the leadership capabilities needed to achieve it. This article, co-authored by Cambria’s Derek Steinbrenner and two of the client’s principal program managers, chronicles how the company, through executive coaching, not only created sustainable behavior change but began to change the culture of the company as well.
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This paper describes how to downsize in a fair, efficient way that also helps retain top talent for the future.
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At the recent Human Resource Council Conference in Boston, Ellen Kumata, Cambria’s Managing Director, shared insights learned from helping embattled executives as they fight for their companies’ viability. The tips and resources in this paper were selected with senior leaders in mind and were shared with conference attendees; however, many of these tips are also applicable to all employees, even if your company and its leaders are confident about the future.
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Russell Reynolds Associates, in partnership with Cambria Consulting, has published a series of diagnostic frameworks for assessing “best in class” competencies for key executive roles. You can download the Leadership Diagnostics series here.

• Navigating a Path to Change (2008)
  The changing competitive landscape in the automobile industry has driven a new set of relationship between OEMs and their suppliers, with implications for fundamental leadership changes in the industry that are as relevant today as when this white paper was written.
• The DNA of the Global Health Leader (2008)
  The tremendous change underway within the global health arena demands new organizations and new leadership to fight infectious disease, increase access to medical care and improve timely distribution of therapies. This paper spotlights how to identify leaders who have the range of competencies needed to meet these extraordinary challenges.
• Chief Compliance Officer Leadership Diagnostic (2007)
  In an increasingly regulated environment and with Sarbanes-Oxley in the US, compliance has now become a fundamental focus for corporations worldwide. This paper presents results of over 1,000 interviews with “best in class” Chief Compliance Officers conducted during the past five years.
• Business Services Leadership Diagnostic (2007)
  Heads of business and shared services who can strike the balance of people, process and technology in ways that attract and impress customers and produce scalable, profitable businesses share a universal set of characteristics that distinguish them as best in class.
• Asset and Wealth Management CEO Leadership Diagnostic (2007)
  For firms seeking visionary, dynamic wealth management CEOs to build the next generation of investment and client-service leadership, this report provides a diagnostic framework for assessing “best in class” characteristics across eleven competency areas.
• CIO Leadership Diagnostic: A Path to Best-in-Class Performance (2006)
  Technical skills alone are no longer sufficient to be an effective Chief Information Officer. In addition to these core skills, the world’s leading CIOs, despite different skills and experiences, share a set of key competencies that allow them to run IT strategically like a business.

This white paper describes how we applied our approach to a high-technology client’s need to understand the impact of workplace environment – specifically building design and functionality – on employee productivity and retention.
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Highly effective global leaders, despite their many differences, act in many consistent ways and have certain experiences in common that taught them how to lead. These lessons can help companies do a better job of developing people to lead with a global perspective.
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Technology-based HR systems are evolving from integrating transactional processes to strategic talent management processes. Cambria’s Joyce Quindipan takes the position that getting the underlying HR processes right before investing in an integrated technology solution is the best way to go.
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