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How to Spot Red Flags in a Leadership Team
Understanding what makes a bad leader is important, but knowing whether a leadership team will work well together is even better.
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The Ideal Leader Profiles for Value Maximisation in High-Growth, PE Businesses
Mapping out the Organisational C-Suite Personas using PACE
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How to Identify High Performing Leaders in Tech
How to find individuals who can navigate the fast paced and complex environment of the tech sector, and how to ensure they can work well as a leadership team.
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How to Identify High Performing Leaders in Life Sciences
The importance of going beyond the CV and the interview when recruiting leaders from a small pool of those who have the right domain and situational experience
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How to Identify High Performing Leaders in Healthcare
The differences in finding leaders for healthcare companies, what you should be looking for and how you should conduct leadership assessments.
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5 Emerging Applications for Private Equity Software
Portfolio management software has many applications, but as competition intensifies, here are some interesting ways to give investors an edge.
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The 14 Most Important Leadership Qualities in Portfolio Companies
No one leader can possess all the leadership qualities required for high performance, but a team can. So what are they and how do they impact the dynamic?
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How to Assess Your Portfolio Companies’ Leadership Styles
Forget online quizzes, how can investors identify the leadership styles right for their businesses and identify new leaders to fill the gaps?
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Unravelling the Evolution and AI-Empowered Future of the C-Suite
Leadership Dynamics explore the evolving C-Suite landscape, encompassing AI integration, diversity promotion, and environmental stewardship including predictions for emerging C-Suite roles.
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Why Private Equity Investors Should Focus on Leadership for Value Creation
Leadership is the most important value creation lever portfolio companies have at their disposal, more so than M&A, digitisation or internationalisation.
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The Guide to Effective Leadership Assessment
New and effective ways to assess leadership skills, behaviours and experience that go beyond the traditional CV and interview.
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Leadership Assessment: The Importance of Behaviours
There are many leadership assessment models and tools available, but without the behaviour element, they cannot truly predict performance.
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The Top Psychometric Tests for Leadership Assessment
How do MBTI, HPI, EQ-i, FFM and PACE compare as psychometric testing models when looking through the specific lens of leadership?
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The Importance of Leadership in Effective Change Management
Why are change leaders so critical to successful organisational change? Here is how they overcome resistance to change and a poorly communicated vision.
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Change Management for Founders Undergoing Investment
How to manage change during an acquisition process in terms of leadership, operations, talent and value creation.
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Case Study
Supporting a Private Equity firm to maximise their portfolio firms’ value creation potential
In September 2021, LCap was engaged by a leading mid-market Private Equity firm to help assess leadership teams currently in their portfolio, as well as those they were looking at pre-deal. The Private Equity firm in question had made a series of changes to their portfolio but had never done so with the innovative and rigorous approach that Leadership Dynamics analysis provides.
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Pre-merger leadership evaluation
In Q3 2021, LCap was engaged by a leading private equity fund to help assess the leadership structure of a proposed merger between two Financial Services portfolio companies.
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Evaluating the leadership of acquisitions
In Q1 2022, LCap was engaged by a leading vacant property services business to help assess the Managing Director level leadership structure of the organisation. As a result of three acquisitions, the client had three Managing Directors on the senior leadership team.
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Case Study: Building a single leadership team post merger
In Q3 2021, LCap was engaged by a leading European Investor to help assess the leadership structure of two recently merged portfolio companies. The two businesses each had functional leadership teams independent of one another and also operated across different geographical footprints; specifically the UK & Ire as well as Central and Eastern Europe (Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Luxembourg
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Podcast with More2: What are the traits of a successful leadership team in Private Equity
What are the traits of a successful leadership team in Private Equity backed businesses? The four key behaviours of leaders, the importance of curiosity, team dynamics, leadership insights, leadership and growth mindset.
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Guide
Managed Talent Document
The analysis provided in this search deck provides a comprehensive understanding of the experience required for a CXO inbound into Company X and the profile that would be most complementary to the existing team.
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Leadership Development: The Role of Emotional Intelligence
How a degree of emotional intelligence is critical for improving in key leadership development areas. This article runs through the key components of emotional intelligence and why it helps support learning and development.
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Team development following change in the SLT
In February 2022, LCap was engaged by a private equity backed B2B software business to support team development and then optimise the working dynamics within the group. The portfolio company had multiple members of the senior leadership team who had joined the business in the preceding months
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Why Private Equity Succession Planning Is Good Governance
The role of governance in private equity portfolio companies is the sustainability of value creation. So is succession planning.
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Leadership Qualities: The Characteristics of Effective Teams
The two main characteristics of effective leadership teams in private equity portfolio companies and how to achieve them so you can adhere to the VCP.
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Benchmarking your team against successful private equity peers
In 2019, Saga, the listed Insurance, Holidays, and Cruise business was embarking on a strategy of divesting non-core assets which focused predominately on the travel portfolio including Titan Travel. Drax worked with a private equity fund pre-deal to support the carve-out. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the deal did not materialise.
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Building a single leadership team post merger
In July 2021, Drax was engaged by a leading European Investor to help assess the leadership structure of two recently merged portfolio companies.
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The Importance of Succession Planning in Healthcare
While succession planning is important in all industries, healthcare comes with unique challenges that change priorities for effective leadership.
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Hedge Fund vs Private Equity: 6 Key Differences
Detailing the main differences between private equity and hedge funds in terms of structure, liquidity and methodology, as well as cases where leadership optimisation is key.
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Supporting a Team with new Private Equity Investors
In September 2021, LCap was engaged by a leading workforce management software developer that had recently received backing by a UK mid-market Private Equity Sponsor. The business had successfully been through one growth journey with an investor, and was now seeking to go again for growth with the support of the new partner.
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EQ vs IQ: Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Why a diversity of emotional intelligence and balance across leadership teams is important for portfolio companies to achieve their value creation plan.
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Succession Planning
In March 2022, LCap was engaged by a leading vacant property services business to help assess the current leadership structure of the organisation and plan the CEO succession post acquisition by a European Investor. The portfolio company had multiple members of the senior leadership team which intended to change their current role which we needed to factor into our analysis.
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Leadership Development: The Guide to Getting It Right
As businesses evolve, the requirements of leaders change and skills and behaviours need to be refined. This guide is a collection of articles that will show you why and how to implement a leadership development programme that maintains a high performing team at the top.
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Human Capital Management: What Is It and Why Is It Important?
New ways of working require new ways of managing human capital. Here is why human capital management and leadership capital management are more important than ever.
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Supporting a Founder-led business working towards continued growth pre-Private Equity
In September 2021, LCap was engaged by a leading founder-owned biomedical testing business that was first established in 2012. The business had successfully achieved growth under founder ownership, expanding into the US via acquisition and taking on minority, early stage venture capital investment
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Restructuring a leadership team for growth
In February 2021, Drax was engaged by a large (£40M+ EBITDA) private capital backed multi-channel retail business to assess the suitability of the leadership team structure against the company’s value creation plan.
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The Change Management in Private Equity Explainer
Change management is becoming more and more important in PE for unlocking value and successful exits. This article explains what it is and why it is important.
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How to Build a High Performance Leadership Team
A group of talented individuals are nothing if they cannot function as a team. Here is how to put together the right behaviours, skills and experience.
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The Differences Between Leadership and Management
Both sets of skills are required for high-performing leaders, but subtle differences in focus and approach are needed to go from great manager to great leader.
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How to Avoid Leadership Failure With Leadership Development
What are the causes of leadership failure in business, and how can we prevent and/or overcome them with leadership development programs?
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How to Develop Leadership Qualities for a High Performing Team
The 4 ways you can develop the leadership qualities and behaviours that build a high performing team in high-growth businesses.
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Supporting a Private Equity firm pre-deal
In Q2 2022, LCap was engaged pre-deal by a leading lower mid-market Private Equity firm to help assess the leadership team of a business they had entered into exclusivity with.
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ESG Investing in Private Equity: Benefits and Challenges
Making the case for ESG investing in private equity and why leadership is a key factor to consider when investing with ESG funds
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Restructuring a European leadership team
In July 2021, LCap was engaged by a leading European Investor to help assess the leadership structure of a European division within an international industrial manufacturing company in Europe (headquartered in United States). The business is a Global leader in the Energy to Waste Space, focussing on sustainability to offer their customers and communities world-leading, end-to-end materials management solutions.
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The Top 6 Leadership Qualities for High-Growth Companies
Predictors for high-performing leaders are more than just past performance and personality. We look at the behaviours needed for high-growth businesses.
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How to Manage Succession Planning in Life Sciences
Tips for a private equity firm to manage succession planning in life sciences where leaders must have both commercial and academic mindsets.
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Adam Neumann can be a great CEO, but he needs the right team around him
Should Adam Neumann be trusted with more VC funding? Yes, but only with a well-balanced executive team.
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How to Improve Emotional Intelligence in a Leadership Team
Our top tips on how to improve emotional intelligence in your leadership team so you can achieve the diversity and balance needed to reach top performance.
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How High-Growth Companies Manage Founder Succession Planning
Successful founder succession planning comes from open dialogues. This article offers best practice advice on the pitfalls during the transition to a scalable business.
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How to Manage Succession Planning in Private Equity
This 7-step guide will help investors, chairs and leadership teams understand how to do succession planning at any stage of a value creation plan.
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Leadership Development Planning for a Culture of Continuous Learning
How to build a culture of continuous learning by creating a leadership development plan for your high-potential employees.
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The Guide to Emotional Intelligence for Leadership Teams
The Guide to Emotional Intelligence for Leadership Teams
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Supporting a Family-owned business to effectively manage intergenerational succession planning
In Q1 2022, LCap was engaged by a family-owned international plastics manufacturer to support succession planning in the business.
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Succession Planning in Private Equity Explained
Succession planning in private equity is a unique process. This explainer details what it is, why it’s important and the benefits of data-led analysis.
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Bolt-on Origination and Leadership Evaluation
In November 2020, LCap was engaged by a private equity backed healthcare business to help map out their potential bolt-on origination landscape and to use Leadership Dynamics to evaluate the leaders within these businesses to understand which, if any, could increase their value creation potential
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Perfectus Biomed Group
Perfectus Biomed Group (PBG) is a high-growth, award-winning, globally leading, contract research organisation with over 10 years of innovative, expert, and dynamic testing. Find out how Leadership Dynamics provided a better understanding of the experience and behavioural profile mix within the team to build upon its already strong performance track record.
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Where to invest your leadership capital as a fast-growth business – it’s all about functional balance
While large corporates are blessed with the budgets and time to hire a range of specialist leaders within each business function, start-ups and fast-growth companies don’t usually have the same luxury. Business founders and CEOs must quickly weigh up where to best invest their leadership capital, deciding which functions to focus on first, and then find the right fit with their culture, current team, and business structure. Getting this leadership balancing act right can make the difference between fast growth, average growth – or no growth at all.
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Guide
Global Private Equity Report
The Global Private Equity Report looks deeply into trends that are changing the PE landscape
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The Four Behaviours That Predict Leadership Team Success In Private Equity Backed Businesses
Can investors accurately predict the success of PE-backed leadership teams? Our research shows that it comes down to four core behaviours.
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Succession Planning for Private Equity Firms - not portfolio companies
How should private equity funds manage succession planning for their own organisation and how is it different from the process with their portfolio companies?
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How to Measure Leadership Development: Key Metrics for Success
What to measure and how to measure it in order to evaluate the effectiveness of a leadership development programme.
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How to Build a Culture of Continuous Learning in Tech
Our tips on implementing a learning culture with effective leadership development programmes and a coherent leadership philosophy.
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7 Examples of Effective Leadership Qualities & Behaviours
We explore the essential qualities of an effective leader, with examples of real-world business leaders who have successfully embodied them.
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The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Tech Leadership Development
As the tech industry moves from autocratic to trust-based visionary leadership styles, leadership development must build emotionally intelligent leaders.
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How to stop leadership development programmes from failing
Why expensive leadership development programmes fail, and how organisations can ensure success with multifaceted, practical and personalised methods.
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New Research: Where Do UK Leaders Receive the Best and Worst Ratings from Workers
Leadership Dynamics reveal industries with highest/lowest senior management approval. HR & staffing and HR consulting lead with highest ratings. Sporting goods stores rate lowest.
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How to Create a Leadership Development Programme for Tech
Making a leadership development programme in the tech industry is critical for overcoming unique management challenges. Here’s how.
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Mentorship in Tech: Effective Leadership Development
How mentoring can enhance leadership development and help overcome tech sector challenges to building a high-performing leadership team.
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The Role of Mentorship in Leadership Development
And how the requirements of today’s trust-based leadership demand relationship-based learning methods like mentoring to develop effective leaders.
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The Comprehensive Guide to Succession Planning
How high-growth companies and private equity portfolio companies can ensure the right leadership team is in place at all times along the investment journey.
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The Guide to Family Business Succession Planning
How to overcome the unique challenges of family business succession with a thought-out succession planning strategy.
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Private Equity Investment: Identifying Low-Risk Management Teams
Our guide for private equity investors to derisk investments by assessing the leadership teams in portfolio companies during risk-off periods.
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Deal Origination and Due Diligence in Private Equity Explained
This article goes into detail on how to search for, identify and evaluate a private equity investment with a deal origination process and rigorously assess the leadership team pre-deal with leadership due diligence.
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Case Study
Restructuring a leadership team for growth
In February 2021, LCap was engaged by a large (£40M+ EBITDA) private capital backed multi-channel retail business to assess the suitability of the leadership team structure against the company’s value creation plan. The company had added a new CEO in recent years who increased cost in the business while simultaneously failing to achieve growth. The Vice Chair was mandated to step in and review the business with a view to optimising the leadership team structure for growth.
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Where to invest your leadership capital as a fast-growth business
it’s all about functional balance
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Building a single leadership team pre-carve out
In February 2021, LCap was engaged by a leading European Investor to help assess the leadership structure of an operating division. The multinational was in the process of carving out the business unit to become a standalone entity, thereby increasing the possibility of a future sale.
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See how we supported a team with new Private Equity Investors
In September 2021, Drax was engaged by a leading workforce management software developer that had recently received backing by a UK mid-market Private Equity Sponsor. The business had successfully been through one growth journey with an investor, and was now seeking to go again for growth with the support of the new partner.
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Leadership Dynamics Team Development Framework
Leadership Dynamics team development framework
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