Transformational leadership is a leadership style in which leaders encourage, inspire and motivate employees to innovate and create change that will help grow and shape the future success of the company. This is accomplished by setting an example at the executive level through a strong sense of corporate culture, employee ownership and independence in the workplace.

Transformational leaders inspire and motivate their workforce without micromanaging — they trust trained employees to take authority over decisions in their assigned jobs. It’s a management style that’s designed to give employees more room to be creative, look to the future and find new solutions to old problems. Employees on the leadership track will also be prepared to become transformational leaders themselves through mentorship and training.

Transformational leadership characteristics

A transformational leader is someone who:

• Encourages the motivation and positive development of followers
• Exemplifies moral standards within the organization and encourages the same of others
• Fosters an ethical work environment with clear values, priorities and standards.
• Builds company culture by encouraging employees to move from an attitude of self-interest to a mindset where they are working for the common good
• Holds an emphasis on authenticity, cooperation and open communication
• Provides coaching and mentoring but allowing employees to make decisions and take ownership of tasks

What is Leadership Performance?

Leadership performance is about building a supportive work environment for your top performers. It involves goal setting, evaluating an employee’s progress, and rewarding them based on the results they’ve achieved. Many companies also provide coaching and feedback sessions in order to help their employees improve.

Well-executed leadership performance provides a framework for employee interactions from hire to departure, with milestones at every major life cycle stage. It includes not just regular performance reviews, but a system of regular meetings, training catered to their specific needs, ongoing education opportunities, regular coaching and feedback sessions, and an award system to recognize and incentivize exceptional work.

Through leadership performance, companies work closely with employees in several ways. This not only helps the company to develop a strong core of reliable employees, but it guides those employees in achieving their career goals – ideally with your company.

Executive Assessment and Succession Planning

Whether you need a new leader, or clear guidance on who to promote, our objective, data-driven methods can help you to select and integrate the individual. Our succession planning system of leadership development, measurement, and selection mitigates risk, stabilizes organizations, and fuels resilience and growth.

Talent Strategy, Performance and Rewards

IMG designs and implements talent strategies that are informed by a close and careful assessment of a firm’s human capital. We create performance management systems that reflect the organization’s core values and drive the right behaviors by aligning the reward system with the desired outcomes.

Effective governance is increasingly recognised as part of the value creation process within successful businesses. However, the design and operation of an effective system of governance requires both careful consideration and informed evaluation of a series of variables.

IMG can provide valuable independent advice on corporate governance, either to individuals, groups, committees, or the Board/governance entity. As a knowledgeable and experienced external resource, IMG brings a measure of impartiality and objectivity to the process.

We have the experience of working with large cap, small to mid-cap companies and private equity investors in improving corporate governance practices and structures. Furthermore, we also have the experience of working with corporate boards to undertake meaningful self assessments and improve their oversight processes.

Our approach to governance transformation is holistic and goes beyond the board of directors and regulatory compliance, encompassing areas such as:

Board operations and oversight

• Board processes and structures
• Board and audit committee effectiveness assessments
• Subsidiary management
• Legal and regulatory
• Strategy

Business Ethics

• Integrity and ethics
• Human capital
• Communication and external relationships
• Sustainability

Risk and Assurance

• Risk management
• Internal control systems
• CxO mentoring and assessments

In today’s workplace, companies are in a nearly constant state of organization change – whether it’s a large-scale makeover or a shakeup of departments or geographies. And if they aren’t continual, the redesigns emerge in faster and faster intervals.

The reasons for warp-speed change are clear: to keep pace with ever-evolving consumer needs and technology, the persistent drive for efficiency and productivity to meet investor – and often activist – demands, and to compete with nimble rivals.

Yet, while org redesigns aim to be smooth, short, and deliver more efficient and effective operations, they often spark frustration and failure. They frequently trigger business disruption that strains affected employees. Their intended impact seldom occurs, and they often deliver only incremental results and significant disruption costs.

Organization Design and Change Leadership

IMG takes an evidence-based approach to make sure that your organization supports your talent, aligns with your business strategy, and enables you to execute more effectively. We work closely with you to develop the right structures, processes, and systems to support your specific business strategy. Together, we then employ the effective change-management strategies that underpin successful, large-scale, sustainable transformation.

Organizational Talent Management Framework

IMG’s Talent Management Framework (TMF) is the first step toward creating high performing operating environments. This in-depth, rapid diagnostic tool focuses on talent and organizational issues that can hinder value creation and prevent sustainable change. Built around a flexible framework of three dimensions, we use this tool to identify opportunities, obstacles, and root causes within organizations.

Corporate culture is a key differentiator between the companies that sustain winning performance and those who barely meet average benchmarks. Those who get it right thrive when culture and strategy work together. Culture is invigorated when who you are on the inside, and who you are on the outside, is aligned.

IMG assesses and nurtures thriving cultures – and evolves organizational culture when changing circumstances demand it.

• Creating and sustaining effective company culture
• Developing compelling business rationale
• Aligning culture with business strategy
• Building leadership alignment, commitment, and behavior for success
• Engaging and empowering people to aspire to and cultivate culture

Corporate Culture vs. Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is sweeping the business landscape. Leaders are embracing it wholeheartedly because they recognize its power. But as companies advance from pilot programs to wide-scale adoption, they often run into an unexpected obstacle: culture clash.

Being a digital organization means not only having digital products, services, and customer interactions but also powering core operations with technology. Becoming one, therefore, requires a tectonic change in the activities employees perform as well as in their individual behaviors and the ways they interact with others inside and outside the organization. Although it should come as no surprise that the traditional ways of working are incompatible with the new ways, it often does.

Leaders need to acknowledge digital transformation as the fundamental, strategic paradigm shift that it is. Like any major transformation, a digital transformation requires instilling a culture that supports the change while enabling the company’s overarching strategy.

Embedding a digital culture in an organization is doable, but it takes a clear methodology and a disciplined effort.

Talent and Culture Integration

At IMG we work with you to identify the optimal culture to enable you to achieve your desired business outcomes, and then we partner with you to help you create it. In post-merger situations, we include an analysis of culture compatibilities and a data-focused talent assessment to help achieve sustainable post-merger goals. If a company is undergoing a digital transformation, we design for rapid innovation, agile market adaptability and efficient transactions.

Executive Search is one of our primary areas of service. We help you find the best people, build successful teams, and generate value for shareholders through excellence. We find exceptional leaders who are in tune with your markets and the culture of your organization.

Close Working Relationships and Understanding

At IMG, our executive search teams develop close and effective working partnerships with you to ensure we understand your strategic challenges and search requirements. This relationship is based on listening, integrity and trust.

Deep Local Knowledge

Success in executive search requires being in tune with local markets. Our partners are business leaders with deep roots in their communities. Through local ownership, we understand emerging regional issues and provide you with important local insights.

Global Coverage

IMG has the coverage to search the world for talent and tap into the increasingly international pool of senior executive leaders. We deliver executive search and leadership consulting solutions through our powerful network of offices in Europe and North America.

International/Cross-Border Capacity

We seek the best candidates, wherever they are located; the extensive cooperation among our branches enables us to spread a far-reaching net. Our global partner offices work together seamlessly to meet your executive search needs.

Industry Specialization

We offer you deep industry knowledge through our specialized industry practice groups. Our global consultants have extensive industry and sector expertise and stay on top of global trends and issues within these industries.

Our Search Process

In a world where CVs are available everywhere on the internet, we add value and insight to the identification of singularly viable candidates. Our work is founded on a comprehensive, disciplined approach that ensures finding suitable candidates who match above and beyond your technical requirements.

Leadership Consulting

Our approach is rooted in consulting. We listen closely to understand your situation and your needs. You may be inclined towards a leadership assessment, management audit, cultural review, or other focused investigation. In addition to executive search, you may also benefit from other value-added services such as market intelligence, leadership advice, competitive analysis or market benchmarking.

IMG provides companies and other organizations with the timely delivery of personalized and cost-effective corporate services, structuring and restorations, and compliance with routine corporate and commercial tasks.

At the core of our corporate service delivery is our ‘expert hand, human touch’ ethos. Our clients benefit from the individual experience that our corporate specialists have in their chosen sectors, giving them a unique understanding of each industry and its day-to-day matters.

• Corporate Structuring
• Shareholder Agreements
• IPR
• Company Reconstruction
• M&A Advisor
• Business Start-Up, Seed Funding and Venture Investments
• Partnerships and other Business Structures
• GDPR Compliance