Assessment centres-Platform for Building leadership readiness.

This research paper focuses on the details of designing and executing an assessment center towards an endeavor for leadership readiness in organizations. The paper is designed to help today's managers and professionals about the fundamental information required to create the assessment centers that can act as a springboard to develop the employee's leadership abilities. Being a talent development practitioner, the author could trace and provide insights on how assessment centers can provide an ideal platform for the high potential performers in organizations to be successful in an increasingly complex world. Based on literature review and the contemporary work done the most critical need today in business leadership is a new kind of leader: authentic leader- and the assessment center approach can serve as a pedestal and tool in evaluating the leadership traits and competencies. The efforts involved in designing and executing an assessment center is outlined that can be used in nurturing the high potential performers for leadership readiness. The assessment center is depicted to be a reliable platform and tool for gauging and evaluating the existing leadership pipeline in an organization revolving around the scope of this work. Assessment center methods can help organizations achieve the mission critical goals-helping its leaders to be successful in hostile, turbulent, ambiguous and uncertain business environment on increasing the organizational competencies to sustain the strategy. An original piece of work, this research paper can be of immense value not only for the academicians but also for the HR and Talent Development professionals more in terms of identifying, nurturing and developing leaders of tomorrow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]