Burke comments that, as in all economies,
there is variation across industry sectors in the success in capturing leadership potential. Looking at South Africa in more detail, leadership potential is strongest in the oil and gas and in the materials sector (chemicals, industrial metals and mining) when compared with South Africa in general.
Sectors that come in around the South African average include telecoms, healthcare and customer services such as retail, media and travel and leisure. Those sectors where the leadership challenge is highest include industrials (construction and industrial engineering) and consumer goods (automobile industry, food and beverage producers and producers of personal goods).
Nadene Venter, MD of SHL South Africa, (pictured right) said that drilling into SHL’s people intelligence database shows that the talent in South African has clear leadership strengths when benchmarked globally. “South Africans have the energy to achieve, the talent to analyse issues and come up with solutions, as well as the capacity to translate ideas into effective plans and deliverables.
“If South African businesses want to step up as powerhouses in the global economy there are two key areas they need to address to meet the leadership challenge: “Firstly, identify those with the ability not merely to cope with change but to engage proactively and effectively with the rapid change that
is happening in South Africa and globally. As leaders, they must support others in how they engage with the rapid pace of change. “Secondly, identify
those who will take
people with them in the way they articulate their plans and goals to others, and engage others with those ideas. While there is clear strength in the capacity to analyse and unpack issues, knowing what needs to be done is only one step in making things happen which will often be down to the actions of others, and their buy-in to the ideas pitched to them.”
The global comparisons of leadership potential are an example of the power of SHL Talent Analytics, which uses SHL’s database to enable organisations to benchmark their people by industry, business function and job level across the geographies that they operate in. Talent Analytics(™) was launched to the South African market in Johannesburg in February this year.
For more information, please contact: Nadene Venter, MD, SHL South Africa, +27 12 425 0100 Hugo van Zyl, Business Development Director, SHL South Africa, +27 12 425 0100 Michael Acott, Baird’s Renaissance, +27 11 504 4000 or 082 821 5656
May 2012 | Management Today 49
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