SECTION 51 MANUAL FOR WOODBURN MANN

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A: INTRODUCTION TO WOODBURN MANN

Woodburn Mann (Pty) Limited is a leading Executive Search and Leadership Consultancy in Southern Africa and has been in operation in South Africa since 1982. It has associate offices worldwide. These associations allows Woodburn Mann to extend its activities and to provide a broader service to multinational clients on a global basis.

Woodburn Mann has built up a reputation for quality and service excellence by assisting companies to put in place exceptional individuals and systems, to ensure their companies’ success. The client base consists of astute decision-makers in many of the world’s top ranked companies.

In South Africa, Woodburn Mann offers consulting services that address the key leadership needs of major organisations; the appointment, evaluation and development of world class, globally competitive executive talent. The suite of consulting services includes:

Top Level Appointments

• Identification of key decision-makers through discreet research
  • Main Board Non-Executive Chairman and Non-Executive Director Search
  • Executive Search: for remuneration levels above R900 000 per annum
  • Interim Executive Search: Short-term contract executives
• Identification of senior managers through electronic and print media advertising
  • Management Selection: for remuneration levels between R500 000 and R900 000 per annum

Evaluation Consultancy

• Board of Directors: Composition, profiling and appraisal in terms of King II recommendations
• Top Executive Succession Planning
• Holistic Audits: Assessment of strategy, structure and management capability
• Subjective Individual Assessment: Identification of potential for promotion or development
• Psychometric Assessment: Appropriate level occupationally oriented assessment batteries conducted by Industrial Psychologists
• Executive Remuneration: Comparative market related pay, benefits and incentives through an association with 21st Century Pay Solutions Group (Pty) Limited, one of the largest remuneration consultancies in Africa
• Performance Management: using Resonance, a Web-based system
• Contract Research: Sophisticated niche market research for business planning

Executive Development

• Coaching: Developing leadership skills through an association with Change Partners (Pty) Limited
• Counselling: Retrenchment, attitudinal, mid-life/career, stress, retirement

A hallmark of Woodburn Mann is that it is able to view an organisation from a holistic point of view, using a well-qualified multi-disciplinary team approach. Strategic alliances with organisations that provide specialist synergistic services, augment those provided from Woodburn Mann’s internal resources.