{"id":2781,"date":"2015-05-21T12:52:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2015-05-21T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:52:31","slug":"firms-lack-strategic-leaders-says-pwc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/firms-lack-strategic-leaders-says-pwc\/","title":{"rendered":"Firms lack strategic leaders, says PwC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leadership-650\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An increasing number of employers in the UK are struggling to solve some of their most difficult problems because they are failing to identify and empower leaders within their business, according to research from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).<\/p>\n

PwC\u2019s new study, The Hidden Talent: Ten Ways to Identify and Retain Transformational Leaders<\/em>, highlights that just one in ten employers have the attributes, capabilities and mindsets to lead transformational change while also solving wicked problems.<\/p>\n

Attracting and retaining leadership talent<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jessica Leitch, a consultant at PwC People and Organization Team, said the difference between \u201ctame\u201d problems and wicked ones is that the latter directly challenge the normal thinking process behind the business and \u201ceven the business model itself\u201d.<\/p>\n

The research looked at the leadership capabilities of 6,000 European professionals with the use of psychometric specialists from Harthill Consulting, and found that only 8% of professionals currently have strategist leadership abilities.<\/p>\n

PwC highlighted that there are four ways in which young professionals develop leadership capabilities:<\/p>\n

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  1. Strategists<\/strong> \u2013 8% \u2013 will work to create organizational and personal transformation and are often shaped by the different experiences of their peers and will see things differently to conventional leaders. These individuals are more often than not recent graduates and from the millennial generation.<\/li>\n
  2. Individualists<\/strong> \u2013 33% \u2013 will work to interweave both personal and company logic in order to bridge the gap between strategy and performance.<\/li>\n
  3. Achievers<\/strong> \u2013 52% \u2013 will juggle management duties and market demands simultaneously.<\/li>\n
  4. Experts<\/strong> \u2013 7% \u2013 will rule by expertise and logic and in turn will seek rational efficiency.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    David Lancefield, PwC Partner, Strategy and Economics, said strategist leaders can fill \u201cthe aspiration gap CEOs refer to when it comes to transformation\u201d however, attracting and retaining these individuals will require a complete \u201coverhaul\u201d.<\/p>\n

    \u201cBusinesses must work hard to attract and retain strategists because they hold the keys to transformation and, in some cases, survival,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

    If you are an employer looking for leadership qualities in recent graduates, speak to Discovery Graduates today who can help with all stages of graduate recruitment<\/a>, development<\/a> and retention<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    An increasing number of employers in the UK are struggling to solve some of their most difficult problems because they are failing to identify and empower leaders within their business, according to research from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). PwC\u2019s new study, The Hidden Talent: Ten Ways to Identify and Retain Transformational Leaders, highlights that just one in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}