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New AppointmEnts in Sheffield Christchurch Office

Search Principal - Tim Kernahan
Tim has worked exclusively in executive search since 1991 having spent the early part of his career as a commercial lawyer, initially in Canada and then in his native New Zealand. His wide-ranging experience, grown over many years of leading national and international searches, has resulted in the development of far-reaching networks and excellent market knowledge. His career encompasses the appointment of Chief Executives, Non Executive Directors and Senior Executives in nearly all areas of the economy embracing both the private and public sectors.

Research Associate - Bridget Vaney
Bridget has worked in executive search since 2006, when she left the education project, Secondary Futures, to join Wellington-based search firm Bell McCaw Bampfylde. Over the following year she honed her skills as a Researcher working on an array of high-level appointments across both the public and private sectors. She was promoted to the position of Associate in 2007, taking a lead role in the coordination of national and international searches, and gaining a wealth of experience in candidate and client management. Bridget joined the team at Sheffield at the beginning of 2010, having spent the previous year on maternity leave caring for her first-born child. She has a BA in political science from Victoria University of Wellington and has previously lived and worked in Sydney and London.

Senior Organisational Development Consultant - Louise Green
Louise brings a wealth of practical Organisational Development and Leadership experience to Sheffield, having previously in her career held the roles of Regional Manager Sport Canterbury, Project Manager NZ Institute of Sport, Training Manager Christchurch Casino, Training & OD Manager for City Care and most recently, gaining significant management experience leading a team of 16 as the Centre Manager of Westfield Riccarton, including managing the $80m redevelopment in 2008/09.
We are sure that the blend of Louise’s exceptional interpersonal skills and great personality together with her extensive hands-on OD, leadership, management and business experience will quickly enable her to add value to our client’s organisations and we look forward to you meeting her in due course.

Tim Kernahan

Bridget Vaney

Louise Green

DDI Global Leadership Forecast - Participate Now

The 2010/2011 DDI Global Leadership Forecast will point the way to best practice in leadership development and management innovation. This global study will build on significant trend data and findings from previous bi-annual Leadership Forecast studies. The 2008/09 survey had more than 14,000 leaders and HR professionals participate across 76 countries and provided stark trend data and insightful findings on leadership practices and trends.

Organisational benchmark reports are available where more than 30 leaders participate from your organisation, enabling you to identify how your organisation's HR and leadership development practices stack up against global findings.

As the exclusive licensee for DDI in New Zealand, Sheffield and our New Zealand research partner, Management Magazine, invite you to MAKE AN IMPACT on Leadership Development thinking. The extensive global report and Australasian regional reports will be published in May 2011.

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DDI Leads in Leadership Training

Leading researchers in HR have independently recognised DDI as an outstanding provider of leadership development tools. Sheffield is the exlusive licensee for DDI in New Zealand.

The latest recognition comes from the training industry research and information portal, TrainingIndustry.com, which has named DDI in its list of the 2010 Top 20 Leadership Training Companies.

Selection was based on the following criteria:

Thought leadership and influence on leadership training industry
Industry recognition and innovation
Breadth of programmes and audiences served
Delivery methods offered
Company size and growth potential
Strength of clients
Geographic reach
Experience in serving the market

In 2009, Aberdeen Group published Succession Management: Addressing the Leadership Development Challenge, a benchmark report of 300 organisations worldwide. This research found that DDI clients achieved greater than average improvements in key performance indicators.

The research compares 29 DDI clients against 250 other companies.

According to Aberdeen's report "there is no doubt that DDI's clients are outperforming their counterparts. The data shows that they are achieving significantly better gains across the key performance indicators, including those that were used to determine best-in-class performance."

A study in 2008 by Bersin & Associates, High Impact Leadership Development: Trends, Best Practices and Industry Solutions, describes DDI as a powerhouse of the leadership development industry.
"DDI understands the changing landscape of leadership development today and the urgent need for companies to grow leaders more quickly.
"Bottom line - If a company is looking for a partner that offers 'the full circle' in terms of content, services and assessments related to leadership development, DDI is the right choice."

For further information about our DDI solutions, please contact Christien Winter.

Sheffield Top in 2009

Great companies always need great talent. Certainly that was Sheffield’s experience of 2009, when we were confirmed as the top print advertiser among recruitment consultancies in the New Zealand Herald and the Sunday Star Times.
The New Zealand Herald research measured total column centimetres of advertising space placed by the top 12 recruitment consultancies. It showed that Sheffield placed the largest volume of advertising by a significant margin. It had 22.46% share, compared with the No.2 consultancy among the top 12, which had 12.54% share.
A Sunday Star Times analysis also reports that Sheffield has been the top print advertiser amongst recruitment consultancies, by a huge percentage. It calculates Sheffield placed 3197 column centimetres of recruitment advertising from January to December 2009, which was considerably more than the next recruitment consultancy.
Sheffield director Ian Taylor says both sets of research confirm that demand for great talent has not abated over the past year. “During a year of economic uncertainty, there was clearly a need for the degree of rigour that we bring to Search and Selection.”
Mr Taylor adds that newspaper advertising continues to be the strongest medium to reach executive candidates. “Print is the preferred way for candidates to gain a depth of information about the role, and the employer.”
For more information, please contact Ian Taylor.

Psst... Are your best and brightest looking to leave?

A recently conducted DDI study reveals that 51% of workers surveyed say that their career is stagnant or in limbo, and 44% of those respondents will be seeking a new job when the economy improves. What can you do now to make sure your organisation doesn’t fall victim to a talent exodus when the economy picks up?
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Memo to Leaders at all Levels: Keeping YOU Engaged

Leaders today face enormous challenges - difficult staffing decisions, completing mroe work with fewer resources, managing fear and uncertainty... With so much focus on what leaders need to do for others, there's little time to explore what leaders should do for themselves in these tough times. In this article, Mark Hoban at DDI explores three steps to effective leadership today.
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