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Banking, Financial and Accounting
The financial services industry is undergoing massive restructuring, requiring employees to acquire new skills and assume new roles. For their part, leaders must address resistance to change and fill skill gaps through better hiring and development processes. [more...]
Business Development Bank of Canada Research Result (PDF)
Providing emerging leaders with an opportunity to develop skills and imporve communication, trust and the work environement for their employees.

Business Development Bank of Canada Research Result (PDF)
Providing practicing leaders with skills that have a direct impact of their performance and that of their direct reports.

Community Credit Union Client Success
Putting a leadership development program in place to support 200 leaders.

Community Credit Union Research Result (PDF)
Improving retention and creating a positive work environment by developing newly promoted leaders.

CUNA Mutual Group Client Success (PDF)
Using Strategic Leadership Experience® to create internal networks, focus on leadership skills, identify and target high potential leaders, and incorporate multi-level assessments and development planning.

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Research Result (PDF)
Creating a customer-focused culture by introducing an effective performance management system.

Midwest Insurance Company Research Result (PDF)
Combining classroom training with ongoing online support and reinforcement opportunities provides leaders with skills to meet future challenges.

New York Life Insurance & Annuity Corporation Research Result (PDF)
Supporting and maintaining a customer-focused culture.

New York Life Taiwan Client Success
Developing a top-notch service center staff.

TSYS Client Success
Building strategic relationships with customers.

Health Care
Our Focus On Health Care
Consumer-directed health care, increased consolidation, funding pressures, and staffing shortages are straining the health care industry. A new type of leadership is required to help health care organizations navigate these challenges. [more...]
Akron General Medical Center Client Success
More than 3,400 hospital managers, nurses, and other workers learn skills to satisfy patients' personal and practical needs.

Children's Health System Client Success
Solving turnover problems by hiring the right people for the right job the first time.

East Alabama Medical Center Client Success
Establishing new behavior-based competencies for use in job descriptions, performance appraisals, and selection.

Guidant Corporation Client Success
Building bench strength across three levels of leaders.

HCA Inc. Client Success
Attracting, hiring and developing leaders.

Presbyterian Healthcare Services Client Success
Better leadership and service skills to achieve national recognition.

Providence Health System—Oregon Research Result (PDF)
Improved leader skills mean better personal productivity and a strong ROI.

Quest Diagnostics Client Success
Making an acquisition work by choosing the right leaders for the blended organization.

St. Luke's Shawnee Mission Health System Research Result (PDF)
Prescribing a leadership training program to improve employee retention and overall work environment.

Tenet Healthcare Corporation Client Success
Giving its 10,000 leaders the skills for success.

Texas Children’s Hospital Research Result (PDF)
Customized Performance Management Delivers for Texas Children’s Hospital.

Texas Children's Hospital Client Success
Putting leadership excellence at the heart of the strategic plan.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Client Success
Upfront diagnostic assessments pave the way to leadership development successes.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Client Success
Nurturing next-generation healthcare leaders and reducing turnover.

High-Tech
After a number of disappointing years, the IT industry is making an impressive turnaround. But as the industry grapples with increased global and pricing competition, continued innovation, and negotiating outsourcing relationships, the key to its future success will be providing its employees and leaders with new skills. [more...]
Dell Computer Corporation Research Result (PDF)
Implementing a leadership development program that focuses on performance management and people management skills.

Infosys Client Success
Developing a global sales force to grow revenue from $1 billion to $4 billion in just four years.

SAP Client Success
Identifying the right leaders to lead a systems integration.

Sensis Pty Ltd. Client Success
Designing and implementing a performance management system that reflects "People Commitment" to personal and career development.

Sensis Pty Ltd. Research Result (PDF)
Making the customer a high priority.

Unisys Australia Client Success
Preparing promising employees to assume leadership roles.

Manufacturing
Manufacturers are under intense pressure to provide higher quality, speedier delivery, better service and support, and lower costs. Successful manufacturers know they must develop their employees-from the front line to the executive suite-to take on these challenges. [more...]
BASF Corporation Client Success
Development of a selection system to rapidly hire a large number of people.

BASF Corporation Research Result (PDF)
Developing a high-involvement culture.

BIC Research Result (PDF)
Reducing turnover, ensuring high-quality hires, and ascertaining job fit by implementing a structured hiring process.

Caterpillar Client Success
A multinational manufacturer overhauls its performance management system and reaps huge benefits.

Caterpillar Client Success
Developing the skills supervisors need to succeed.

Caterpillar Research Result (PDF)
Providing leaders with the skills, knowledge, and tools to manage employee performance effectively.

General Motors Corporation Client Success
Standardizing selection and assessment to boost quality and improve performance.

GKN Client Success
Identifying high-potential leaders and targeting individual development needs.

ICI Group Client Success
Recruiting the best and the brightest by implementing a four-stage recruitment and selection system.

Interbrew Client Success
Cultivating and developing future leaders is key to ambitious growth strategy.

Mattel Client Success
Development programs help shape leadership skills in fast-paced environment.

Mattel Research Result (PDF)
Staying on top by providing leaders with the skills to guide and improve employee performance.

Philips Client Success
A complex organization streamlines its global approach to training.

PPG Industries Client Success
Rebuilding bench strength through a 2-tiered career management program.

Siemens Client Success
Creating tailored individual assessment centers to test defined capabilities in order to identify leaders who are ready to take on leadership roles.

Steelcase Canada Client Success
Assessing lower-level to senior leaders, and furnishing them with a comprehensive skill-building program that combines classroom learning with ongoing on-line development support.

Syngenta Client Success
Designing and delivering a leadership development program to reinforce an emerging organizational culture.

The Boeing Company Client Success
Developing a selection system to rapidly hire 2,000 people.

VP Buildings, Inc. Client Success
Realized $3 million in process savings by fostering teamwork, making team leaders more effective, and promoting accountability for action.

Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical companies are experiencing immense growth opportunities. To keep pace, industry leaders must have the appropriate technical skills as well as the people skills to retain and develop talent in a competitive global environment. [more...]
AstraZeneca R&D Montreal Research Result (PDF)
Creating an exceptional workplace by strengthening overall leadership opportunities, teamwork, communication, and operational excellence.

Bristol-Myers Squibb (Australia) Research Result (PDF)
Developing future leaders by evaluating 61 middle managers.

Covance Inc. Client Success
Improved hiring practices mean attracting better talent, reduced turnover and shorter drug development cycles.

Innovex Client Success
Implementing a multiphase selection system to quickly attract, screen, assess, and manage high-quality sales candidates.

Innovex Research Result (PDF)
Creating an online system to attract, screen, and manage applicants for sales rep positions.

McKesson Information Solutions Client Success
Leadership development leads to great business results.

Pharmacia Client Success
Making training and development available to a worldwide workforce of 42,000 with a high-quality e-learning solution.

Roche Diagnostics - Puerto Rico Client Success
Becoming a high-performance organization and an employer of choice.

Roche Diagnostics - Puerto Rico Research Result (PDF)
Developing a training solution that focuses on core leadership skills, leveraging employee talent, and creating a more positive work environment.

sanofi-aventis Client Success
Rx for staffing a great sales force.

sanofi-aventis Client Success
The best sales talent to drive continued growth.

Warner-Lambert Consumer Health Care Research Result (PDF)
Rolling out a customized leadership training program tailored to meet the needs of new as well as experienced leaders.

Wyeth Consumer Healthcare Research Result (PDF)
Maintaining a healthy bottom line involves acquiring and retaining high-caliber employees.

Retail
Retailers have razor-thin margins. Superior customer service is key to survival. Leaders must hire people who have the ability and motivation to provide exceptional customer service, and they must master the skills required to retain and engage those people. [more...]
7-Eleven Research Result (PDF)
Strengthening leadership skills and improving consistency of hiring practices.

Advance Stores Company Research Result (PDF)
An efficient, accurate process for hiring new store managers.

The Schwan Food Company Client Success
Developing future leaders to drive growth.

True Value Company Client Success
The skills leaders need to build a winning work environment.

Telecommunications
Rapid advances in technology have changed the telecommunications industry at an extraordinary pace. Managing talent will be key to success. Telecommunications companies are under pressure to bring on board, develop, and retain over time, a new breed of young talent, who can work successfully across global boundaries. [more...]
Bell Canada Research Result (PDF)
Providing frontline employees with a broader understanding of business operations.

CableVision Systems Research Result (PDF)
Helping employees grow in their current position and developing the skills they'll need throughout their career.

Puerto Rico Telephone Research Result (PDF)
Maintaining strong business results by improving leaders' ability to facilitate change, build a service culture, and develop high performers through coaching.

Verizon Wireless Research Result (PDF)
Designing a customized solution to enhance client retention representatives' skills in customer service, negotiation, and stress management.

Other
DDI professionals understand and work clients in most industries. Here are additional client success stories we'd like to share. [more...]
City of Pittsburg, CA Client Success
Partnered with DDI to develop a new, competency-based hiring process that would enable better hiring decisions.

Columbia Gas of Ohio Client Success
Identifying the right leader for restructuring success.

Con-way Inc. Research Result (PDF)
Improving the communication, trust and coaching skills of its leaders.

Elk Valley Coal Corporation Research Result (PDF)
Developing an approach to training leaders that improved their skills and improved the productivity and work environment of other employees in their organization.

JetBlue Airways Client Success
Hiring the right pilots for high-flying customer service.

Manheim Client Success
The structure, tools, and training to make better hiring decisions.

Marathon Oil Client Success
Designing a comprehensive leadership program that combines assessment and people-skills training.

Michigan Family Independence Agency Client Success
Accelerating development to address an impending leadership gap.

Michigan Family Independence Agency Research Result (PDF)
Creating a unique, multifaceted succession management initiative to identify high-potential employees and prepare them for senior-level positions.

Northern Indiana Public Service Company Research Result (PDF)
Meeting strategic objectives by improving leaders' core interaction and service skills.

ONEOK - Texas Gas Service Research Result (PDF)
Launching an organizational development program that improved engagement as well as the coaching and management skills of its leaders.

Orica Limited Research Result (PDF)
Providing support for employee development and company growth by supplying greater opportunities for employee professional advancement and personal development.

Ontario Power Generation - Nuclear Waste Management Division Research Result (PDF)
Improving the number of leaders displaying positive leadership behaviors after attending leadership development training.

P&H Mining Equipment Research Result (PDF)
Developing a customized series using IM:EX to train their leaders to improve their accountability, performance and trust.

Pratt & Whitney Canada Client Success
Overhauling leadership training to align with organizational goals.

Reuters Client Success
Developing the skills to support change.

State of Delaware Client Success
Driving the value of customer service.

Xstrata Client Success
Preparing high-potential leaders for promotion sooner.