BLF

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The BLF

At the core of Boyden’s Leadership Consulting services is our proprietary tool, the Boyden Leadership Framework.

The Boyden Leadership Framework (BLF) was joint research project developed in partnership with the University of St Gallen’s Institute of Management & Strategy. It is a synthesis of academic investment, client collaboration and a business partnership with Nicholson McBride.

The objective of the partnership was to develop a framework for understanding and evaluating the strategic leadership competencies of individual executives or executive teams. The research identified methodologies for measuring these competencies, while providing a rigorous, scientific approach for predicting performance to manage risk in the hiring of executives or the development of existing leaders.

The culmination of the research led to the tool we refer to as the Boyden Leadership Framework, an evidenced-based framework for evaluating the capabilities of an executive or executive team to strategically lead an organisation.

The solution helps boards and committees to achieve strategic goals by discovering the right leaders for their organisations.

Leading the Organization, Leading People, Leading Yourself

The Boyden Leadership Framework is a conceptualisation of a senior executive’s capability to strategically lead an organisation. It is a research- and evidence-based tool which offers one answer to the question what it takes to be a strong leader in today’s environment.

The BLF provides numeric, standardised, transparent data to support selection, assessment and development processes while allowing for tailoring to context and expert judgement. It also allows for easy comparison of candidates using simple visual representations.

The Framework provides quantitative and qualitative analysis of nine core leadership competencies grouped into three areas of intelligence:

Cognitive – leading the organisation
Social – leading people
Emotional – leading yourself

Taken together, these competencies combine to give an overall indicator of a person’s strategic leadership capability – their Strategic Leadership Competence Score. The evaluation of “leading yourself” or “self-leadership” is a key differentiator in the BLF.

What Issues will the BLF help with?

Minimizing the risk in hiring a new leader and understand how they are likely to perform in different scenarios.
Bringing in new leaders, and not lose key executives, when there are internal candidates keen to take the role.
Demonstrating to shareholders, analysts and other stakeholders that the process for acquiring the right leaders leverages the latest thinking and innovative methods.
Enhancing the decision-making and shorten the time taken by the board in hiring the right leaders.
Making the right decision on who should succeed the outgoing managing partner.
Understanding the leadership potential of the executives within the organization.
Understand the different approaches to leadership on global teams, to better leverage their strengths.

LEAP

LEAP is a digital platform designed to modernize and streamline the assessment process, offering a new way to register and analyze candidate data. The platform is built on Boyden’s proprietary BLF model.

Candidates are invited to complete a self-assessment, while Partners assess candidates directly on the platform. This dual approach enables robust data collection and the creation of a standardized candidate database.

LEAP is hosted on a dedicated web page, where all information and functionalities are centralized and easily accessible to users.