Unlock Talent Leadership ibook

UNLOCK TALENT LEADERSHIP

Every organization claims its people are its greatest asset. Few know how to prove it.

Unlock Talent Leadership hands executives, HR leaders and assessment practitioners a complete working method for finding out who can really lead, and why. Built on the Talent Leadership Process, a method refined over decades of executive assessment and development work across banking, technology, manufacturing and professional services, it replaces guesswork and gut feel with observed behavior, structured evidence and a common language every level of the organization can use.

Inside, readers get the full design of a modern assessment and development center, from job analysis through simulation design, assessor training, scoring and feedback. They get a working competency dictionary, built and levelled for real roles rather than borrowed off a shelf. They get the behavioral interview method that turns a candidate's own stories into hard evidence. And they get a complete library of ready to use exercises, in basket scenarios, case studies, group discussions, role plays and business simulations, drawn directly from live assignments and ready to run.

It is a field manual written by a practitioner who has run these centers for the world's most demanding organizations, from the boardroom to the front line. Whether the task is hiring the next generation of leaders, closing the gap between average and outstanding performers, or building a succession pipeline that survives contact with reality, Unlock Talent Leadership shows exactly how the work gets done.

Talent is not scarce. The ability to see it clearly is.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Ganesh Shermon has spent forty years building and running talent assessment and development practices for organizations across banking, technology, manufacturing and professional services, including senior leadership roles at KPMG and Andersen. He now leads RiverForest Connections and Advisory Channels, working across Dallas, Toronto and Mumbai. He is the author of more than twenty books on competency based human resource management, talent assessment and, increasingly, the role of algorithms and AI in judging human capability.