PE|LA©
For clients with a private equity background Confidence Consult developed a special and proprietary service:
PE|LA© – “Private Equity Leadership Assessment”
In close cooperation with market leaders PE|LA© has been exclusively designed and specifically validated for senior-level search and evaluation needs of the Private-Equity industry, both at an individual executive level, as well as with a management-team view (see below).
PE|LA© is a state-of-the-art
decision-support tool that yields
a comprehensive validation of an individual’s (or a team’s) executive and leadership quality - now and in respect of future tasks.
PE|LA© consists of a 4-5 hours process:
A deep dive interview, following a tried and tested method mainly built around systematic competency-driven interviewing, is enriched by both, substantial elements of semi-structured self-reflection exercises as well as by online psychometrics, and is completed by a critical and constructive feedback dialogue with the assessed candidate(s).
It is conducted with the aim of providing highest objectivity evaluations and is therefore executed on a totally arms-length basis by a trusted, but totally independent professional partner, Confidence Consult, in strictest confidentiality.
The PE|LA© process serves various important purposes:
- it yields clarity and objectivity as well as decision-making support in critical search and evaluation processes,
- with its clear leadership metrics it constitutes a substantial add-on in risk-reduction,
- by providing critical and validated peer-group benchmarks for our private-equity clients, and
- it assures a neutral third party opinion to our findings.
It is advised to apply the “PE|LA©” process in one or more of the following circumstances:
- when your internal interviews have yielded a strong tendency that one or several candidate(s) were actually found and require the “last and final thumbs-up or thumbs-down”,
- when you as private-equity investor have to assume an existing leadership-team that comes with the acquired company and e.g. you need to be assured of their skills, potential, capability and their reliability: to understand, carry and execute your new vision,
- when you are faced with wanted or unwanted “go" or "no-go” situations with one of your senior executives,
- when you have the need to critically evaluate the 2nd-liners in a portfolio company in order to be certain about the efficiency of your target-operating model
The PE|LA© results are swiftly...
... feedbacked to clients in a structured and comprehensive debriefing and scored in writing along mission-critical executive “skill dimensions” on a scale of 21 leadership descriptors.
This allows to further benchmark the candidate’s results against his/her peer-group and against other successful placements in private equity.
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