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Two in ten leadership appointments end in regret

The appointments that everyone knows carry the most risk still often end badly. Our leadership assessments tell you where a leader will have impact, where they'll bring risk and how well they'll drive business performance. 
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THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ASSESS WITH US

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WHAT HR LEADERS TOLD US

Leadership decisions are getting riskier

We asked 300 HR decision makers at large organizations across the UK and US how their leadership decisions actually get made.

71%

Say attrition is driven more by poor management than by the role or the pay.

20%

Are completely confident they could name a ready-now successor for a critical role. 

92%

Have known senior leaders to bypass the formal process when making a hire or a promotion. 

WHAT YOU GET

Our online leadership assessments answer what interviews cannot

Leadership Impact

Where a leader will create impact and where they will not, across the areas your business actually needs: new markets, transformation, delivery, building teams. The read a board wants before it signs anything off. 

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Leadership Risk

 The behaviors that derail senior people under pressure, and what they do to the organization and the culture around them. Only one in five HR leaders is completely confident they can spot them coming. 

Assess for risk

Leadership potential

Who can go further, and in which direction. Built from thousands of expert ratings of potential and designed to cut the odds of backing the wrong person from 1 in 5 to around 1 in 50. 

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360 feedback

How a leader is experienced by the people around them, set against how they see themselves. The gap is usually the development conversation nobody has been willing to start. 

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HOW IT RUNS

Three steps, no assessment center required

Most senior processes stall because the evidence takes weeks to gather. This one does not. 

Step 1

Agree what good looks like

We profile the role against the impact your business needs from it, so the assessment measures the job you are actually hiring for rather than leadership in the abstract. 

Step 2

One questionnaire, 35 minutes

Candidates complete our most in-depth questionnaire online, in their own time, wherever they are. No travel, no day out of the diary, nothing that makes a sitting executive think twice about applying. 

Step 3

Debrief with an expert

Our occupational psychologists walk your panel through what the reports mean and what to probe at interview. You can also train your own people to do it. 

Bring us an appointment you are weighing up

Book a demo, tell us about the role and the shortlist, and we will show you what the reports would say: where each person creates impact, what they put at risk, and how far they could go. You will see the evidence a board would want before you have to produce it. 
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ACROSS THE LIFECYCLE

Hiring, developing and promoting leaders

External appointments where the shortlist all look credible on paper and the panel has two hours to tell them apart. 

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Proven results

What changes on the ground

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 “Saville helps us find people sooner and accelerate them.” 

 

Alistair Ford
Head of Assessment - Skanska
Case-study-Skanska
Help & Support

Frequently asked questions

If it is not here, ask us. You will get a fast response from an expert member of the team. 

An online leadership assessment measures how someone will lead: the impact they will create, the risks they carry under pressure, and how much further they could go. It is completed online in about 35 minutes and produces separate reports for the panel, the sponsor and the leader themselves.

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Tell us about the appointment

The role, the level and where you are in the process. We will show you what the assessment would add.