CHALLENGE & OPPORTUNITY

The demerger of Amcor’s Australasian and Packaging Distribution businesses in 2013 along with the challenges of a mature market contributed to a challenging business environment for the Fibre Division of Orora. In the previous two years significant performance improvements had been made, so the decision was made to invest in the Executive team to support their progression from being a good team to being an ‘outperforming’ team. 

WHAT WE DID

The work with the Fibre Division Executive team included:

• Supporting Executives to generate self awareness of their own leadership capability through assessment
• Using the leadership capability assessment data, supporting the generation of individual development plans
• Using the leadership capability assessment data to generate commitments to better team effectiveness and performance
• Integrating the leadership development and team effectiveness work with the enterprise leadership development program of work underway. 

LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT TOOLS

Two main tools were used to support Executives to generate self awareness of their leadership capability:

• The Denison Leadership Development 360 is a developmental tool, measuring a leader's performance on a set of 12 leadership behaviours linked to high performing business cultures. By providing data-based feedback, this tool allowed the Executives to compare their own ratings to those of their team, colleagues and manager and to identify gaps in perceived strengths, weaknesses and capabilities.
• The Denison Leadership Potential Report combines data from the Denison Leadership Development 360 and Hogan Assessment Systems to provide a statistically valid prediction of leadership potential, aligned to the 12 leadership behaviours linked to high performing business cultures.

THE OUTCOME

The leadership assessments and skilled debriefs contributed to clarity about individual Executive strengths and development areas as well as agreement on the key themes helping and hindering team effectiveness and performance.