Strengthening the
Future Leadership Pipeline

A holistic approach to preparing and developing top talent across levels through foundationally strong virtual interventions

Category: Talent Assessments

Client: Global Leader in Personal Care Products

The Challenge

The client organization sought to strengthen its talent pipeline across levels, particularly at the middle and junior levels. The purpose of the initiative was to have a future ready talent pool to fill in important and critical roles when needed.

While the intent to build from within was strong, several challenges emerged:

Limited visibility into talent readiness

Inconsistent understanding of leadership capabilities across levels

Lack of data to support succession planning
A need for a scalable, virtual-first development approach
The organization needed a sharper, insight-led framework to assess, develop, and future-proof its internal talent.

Our Approach

Think Talent partnered with the client to design a fully virtual intervention, combining contextual diagnostics, simulation-led exercises,
and targeted learning journeys.
 
01
Grounding the Design
We began by engaging senior leaders and participant managers to understand role realities. FGDs with participants helped surface key development priorities and align the design to business context.
02
Cohort-Specific Frameworks
Two distinct competency frameworks were created for middle and junior managers, tailored to role maturity and growth paths. Each mapped both functional and behavioral capabilities aligned with real-world expectations.
03
Simulation-Based Exercise
A virtual development centre was deployed, using contextualized simulations to mirror job challenges. Trained assessors observed and evaluated key functional and behavioural competencies; resulting in detailed participant profiles.
04
Reports & Debriefs
Each participant received a personalized report outlining key strengths, development areas and support to create individual development plans (IDPs).
05
Capability-Focused Learning Journeys
The learning journey was designed based on the output of group report. Each journey blended live sessions with self-paced learning for real-world application.

Program
Focus Areas

Middle Managers

  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Commercial and Business Thinking
  • Influencing without Authority

Junior Managers

  • Time Management
  • Business Acumen
  • Conflict Resolution and Team Management

Business Impact

The initiative enabled the organization to:

01

Build visibility into talent readiness across cohorts

02

Drive personalized development plans at scale

03

Identify high-potential clusters for future roles

04

Lay the foundation for a robust, insight-led succession pipeline

It also reinforced a culture of internal growth and capability building.