The Situation

ARCADIS is a leading international company providing services across three fully integrated business lines: Infrastructure, Environment and Buildings. With headquarters in the Netherlands and offices across the globe, the company adopts a ‘one team’ outlook that enables it to operate seamlessly across multiple geographies.

The Challenge

Keen to take a proactive approach towards talent identification, succession planning and the acceleration of personal development, ARCADIS recently asked Cubiks to help it design and roll out the ‘ARCADIS Talent Challenge’. The Talent Challenge would be an international Development Centre programme for 200 High Potential managers who had been identified as having the potential to move into the most senior management positions within the organisation.

The Solution

Cubiks developed a business-focused development experience that had credibility with participants and incorporated innovative psychometric tools at key stages to guarantee rigour. The process concentrated on evaluating each participant’s overall potential and boundaries in relation to their career development within ARCADIS.

The Results

To date, assessments have been carried out across Europe, the USA and South America with particular care taken to calibrate results and ensure global consistency. Now well established within the company, The ‘Talent Challenge’ process has enabled ARCADIS to understand the strengths and development needs of its top management tier, and provided participants with the impetus required to enhance their performance and thrive in a fast-track career.