Agusta Westland Case Study
Agusta Westland, part of the Finmechanica Group is one of the largest helicopter companies in the world, producing rotary wing aircraft for both civil and military customers. Based in Yeovil, Agusta Westland employs around 6000 people engaged in helicopter design and production as well as logistics support and training for a number of international defence programmes.
We worked with Agusta Westland to:
- Develop a process to assess and validate the potential, motivation, strengths and development needs of over 100 managers against Agusta Westland’s own standards of competence, as well as external benchmarks.
- Provide professionally qualified assessors and development specialists to run a series of one day development centres where we used a range of profiling instruments, feedback tools and bespoke assessment techniques.
- Provide participants with 1:1 feedback on the results of their assessments.
The outputs from each Development Centre were:
- A summary report for senior management on the outcomes from the development centre identifying high potentials and key development needs across the group.
- A detailed report for each participant detailing an assessment of their competencies against the job profile requirements, likely potential, key development needs and their performance benchmarked against managers from other organisations.
What was the impact?
Our work provided the organisation with a number of benefits such as:
- Independent, objective assessment and identification of managers with talent and high potential.
- Career paths and ‘gateways’ for talent and high potentials identified.
- Managers who were empowered and committed to developing themselves and improving their personal performance.
- Independent assessment of the capability, strengths and weaknesses of specific management teams and more effective and productive working relationships within those teams.
Client Feedback:
I have been impressed by the service delivered, which has been both flexible and professional.
David Edwards - HR Manager
Training Courses
- Assertiveness Skills
- Appraisal Skills
- Coaching Skills
- Communication Skills
- Conflict Management
- Creative Problem Solving
- Customer Service Excellence
- Decision Making
- Facilitation Skills
- Finance for non Financial Managers
- Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Improving Impact and Influence
- Interviewing Skills
- Leading Teams
- Managing Diversity
- Managing Discipline and Grievance
- Negotiation Skills
- Performance Management
- Personal Effectiveness
- Presentation Skills
- Stress Management
- Target Setting
- Team Briefing
- Team Working
