Achieving your financial objectives means appointing the right people to run your businesses. As a CEO or investor, your success depends less on decisions you make. It depends on decisions they make. We have a saying at ghSMART: “You are who you hire.”
Unfortunately, hiring decisions often result in failure. Hiring mistakes in key positions can destroy billions in shareholder value. Failures typically result from a lack of clear understanding of the business challenges at hand, or from a lack of knowledge of a candidate’s true strengths and risk areas.
SmartAssessment® begins with a careful discussion about the management outcomes that will drive your financial performance. We then conduct an in-depth, structured interview of a candidate’s entire relevant career history. No “off the shelf” personality tests are used. You receive a customized 20+ page report on each candidate’s strengths and risk areas relative to your specific role, with actionable recommendations on how to reduce risk and ensure success.
Smart Assessment®
An intensive, fact-based process of identifying the right person to achieve a specific set of strategic outcomes to drive the financial performance of a business.
Client Case
A private equity firm improved its hiring success rate within its own firm, and with CEOs in whom it invested, from 45% to 90%+ over 2 years. “Our improved hiring success was a key factor in our achieving top quartile returns,” the client concluded.