Developing Leadership Talent

2.3. WHERE TO LOOK

There are many ways to assess your company's business and organizational needs. These can include interviews with key executives, focus-group sessions, or organizational surveys. Exhibit 2.1 contains a series of questions that you could adapt for your own survey instrument or interview guide; questions 6 and 7 specifically address organizational challenges, but all are prompts for information useful throughout the DLT process.

We recommend that you interview a minimum of five senior-level leaders in your organization, ideally from different functions. Functions could include Sales, Manufacturing, Customer Service, Finance, Human Resources, etc. The data from these interviews can be used at various times throughout the DLT ...