Strategic Talent Solutions
Challenging what is and inspiring what could be, we at IMD develop leaders who transform organizations and contribute to society. IMD Voyager achieves this goal by assessing whether leaders engage in behaviors known to lead to transformations and then prescribing development activities that help them exhibit these behaviors.
Now in its second year, Voyager comprises a tightly integrated but customizable set of activities to respond to the demand for highly targeted interventions tailored precisely to an organization’s needs so they can be more effective quickly.
Moving leaders forward
Voyager Talent Solutions have now been implemented in more than 25 client organizations. According to Voyager Academic Co-Director Professor Ric Roi, cultivating the talent they need to be future ready is a top priority for many companies. “Clients want to enable progression planning for their people, but they are seeking guidance on where to invest to accelerate growth and maximize the impact of learning, both for leaders and for the organization. Voyager provides a holistic assessment to create targeted individual development plans that feed into an overall learning roadmap that strengthens talent pipelines and enhances organizational resilience.”
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Organizations
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Programs
Voyager has quickly gained ground with clients and leaders. Building on this foundation, Voyager Talent Solutions are now moving to the next level. Academic Co-Director Professor Misiek Piskorski highlights three ways in which Voyager will be expanding.
Voyager Expansion
“Voyager continues our commitment to innovation in developing leaders who transform organizations and contribute to society. It will also generate a wealth of data for our ongoing research focused on supporting leaders and organizations to be Future Ready.”
Professor Misiek Piskorski, Professor of Strategy and Innovation
Supporting a bank’s dual transformation
Bank Mandiri had set its sights on becoming Indonesia’s best financial services player and prominent in the ASEAN region. To achieve that objective and face up to an increasingly challenging competitive landscape, it embarked on a dual transformation: transplanting its wholesale-banking DNA to other segments, while asserting itself in new, digitally powered value chains and ecosystems.
The bank’s Corporate Plan for 2020-2024 recognized talent as the key enabler of this transformation. In search of an integrated approach to talent assessment, development, and leadership progression, Bank Mandiri partnered with IMD to co-design and launch a series of integrated talent development programs for multiple cohorts of the bank’s executives.
Launched in early 2020, the programs have continued through 2021/22 and into 2023.
The program has allowed the bank’s executives to shift from a small-picture, heads-down approach to visualize Mandiri as a Bank of the Future and to firm up their individual contributions to that vision.
“This program was different. It taught us the importance of engaging with people, not just following the SOP (standard operating procedure) and meeting targets. Now my team has a voice. By encouraging them as well as challenging their thinking, there is a lot I can learn.”
