Executive Onboarding

Executive Onboarding
businesses. If developed and implemented well, these
corporate strategies can transcend geographical borders
and cultural boundaries, and ensure that a sense of
common purpose thrives in the organization. Thus,
monitoring compliance with the corporate strategies,
policies and guidelines becomes a key task. In terms of
business strategies, the group manager must also
demonstrate an ability to prioritize a portfolio of strategies
over individual strategies.
The internal onboarding process at this level should entail building
skills within:
o portfolio strategy,
o sophisticated data and psychological analysis,
o multiple-dimensional business management,
o corporate strategic leadership,
o corporate funding strategies and tools,
o corporate strategy development, and
o high-level talent management.
One can argue that the group manager becomes the playing coach
of a team of individualists, excellent in their own way, and the key
challenge is to make this team play effectively together (i.e. set a
team of business managers that can take the lead on their own
local team, but at the same time take a loyal and contributing
role/position in the perspective of the group). Therefore, the
group manager must be capable of building his/her personal
credibility across a multi-dimensional context of sometimes
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