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Companies focusing on fast-track group.


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 becoming widely recognized that the biggest source of an organization's future leaders Future Leaders is a UK schools-led charitable organisation that aims to widen the pool of talented leaders especially for urban challenging secondary schools. It was founded in March 2006 by Nat Wei, a former founder of Teach First.  are its own high-potential Adj. 1. high-potential - operating on or powered by a high voltage; "a high-voltage generator"
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 employees. As a result, companies are more frequently developing these fast-trackers into future senior managers than they are promoting current executives into upper management or recruiting leaders from outside.

That's among the chief conclusions of a survey by Right Management Consultants, the Philadelphia-based career transition and organizational consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee
consulting company

business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a
. Right polled human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees.  managers at 168 companies nationwide.

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 Right, almost eight out of 10 (77 percent) companies said they don't have enough successors to senior-level managers already working in their organizations--raising a pressing need to develop or acquire their next generation of leaders.

Forty-three percent of companies are providing the necessary developmental training and coaching to their high-potential employees so they can acquire the requisite skills to become senior-level managers. That compares with 39 percent of companies who said they are promoting their now-ready executives to higher management. Also, fewer businesses are hiring senior-level executives from outside their organizations (see table below).
Hiring Outside the Organization

29 percent -- Hiring from competitors at the same managerial level
27 percent -- Hiring executives with the experiences they want from
              businesses other than competitors
20 percent -- Hiring from companies completely outside their industries
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Title Annotation:future leadership
Author:Heffes, Ellen M.
Publication:Financial Executive
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 1, 2006
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