Mercer APAC Leadership Development Practices Study

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Uncover the blueprint for building extraordinary leaders : To capture wisdom into what\’s working when it comes to grooming leaders from within, Mercer has conducted one of the most comprehensive studies on the state of leadership development that covered close to 700 organizations from across Asia Pacific. Through these slides we unveil the research findings. You can also the web recording on http://bit.ly/OXSaop

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UNCOVER THE BLUEPRINT FOR BUILDING EXTRAORDINARY LEADERS

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Mercer’s Leadership Practices Research

Comprehensive insights:• Leadership development strategies• Leadership assessment• Leadership development• Leadership performance and

succession• Core competencies required for

leaders to be successful in APAC• Trends in grooming global leaders• Interviewed over 30 organizations

across APAC to understand their journey in building leaders from within

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Focused on two research elements: collecting comprehensive insights and company practices interviews

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58% have defined and agreed leadership development strategies

Key FindingsLeadership practices survey

Let’s start with what’s going well…

Source: APAC Leadership Practices Survey, Mercer, 2012

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Strategies contain many of the key

elements necessary to a

robust strategy.

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Source: APAC Leadership Practices Survey, Mercer, 2012

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Leaders and managers are not being held accountable for groomingleadership talent.

59% of organizations in Asia Pacific say that their people managers have little or no accountability for developing future leaders

54% of organizations report that their top executives spend a very small percentage of their time (1%-10%) grooming current and future leaders

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Key FindingsLeadership practices surveySystems and processes for executing talent management processes are extremely inefficient.

89% of companies continue to use paper-based forms or e-mailed “Word” or other similar documents;

Good news: 63% of organizations in Asia Pacific say they have succession plans in place at least for their top tier leaders

Bad news: only 35% of companies say they plan to develop or implement new technology to support succession planning in the next two years

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51% say their performance management processes are not effectively identifying who is ready for the next move or position within their leadership pipeline

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Systems and processes for executing talent management processes are extremely inefficient.

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Key Findings

So, what’s holding organizations back?

Not enough time invested in development (45%) and a lack of urgency by the organization (43%) holds organization’s back from achieving desired results.

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A lack of funding is NOT one of the barriers to leadership development.

Almost a third of companies are spending more than $5,000 USD per person annually to train and develop their senior level and global leaders

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62% use overseas assignments, one of the most expensive as well as one of the most effective development tools

Overseas Assignments

Source: APAC Leadership Practices Survey, Mercer, 2012

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Organizations may not be reaching deeply or early enough into their leadership pipelines.

31% don’t address the development of

young leaders; only49% address the development of

emerging market leaders; 42% address women as a segment

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60% are not regularly conducting leadership pipeline projections to plan for future leadership needs.

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Source: APAC Leadership Practices Survey, Mercer, 2012

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In case of questions, contact our leadership development experts:

REGIONAL AND AUSTRALIAAlison Tickner+61 3 9623 5014alison.tickner@mercer.com

ASEANRosie Fennell+65 6398 2616rosie.fennell@mercer.com

AUSTRALIARaphaele Nicaud+61 7 3234 4941raphaele.nicaud@mercer.com

CHINAMiranda Shu+86 21 6103 5509miranda.shu@mercer.com

CHINAMel Sun+86 21 6103 5581mel.sun@mercer.com

HONG KONGKate Bravery+852 3476 3818kate.bravery@mercer.com

INDIAAnurag Aman+91 124 417 5610anurag.aman@mercer.com

JAPANTetsuya Furusawa+81 3 5354 1780tetsuya.furusawa@mercer.com

SOUTH KOREAKi Young Sung+82 2 3404 8340kiyoung.sung@mercer.com

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