Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERS

The impetus for the Bank of America’s interest in executive on-boarding is a product of its own corporate history. Over the last two decades, the bank has experienced dramatic growth through acquisitions. It began as a small regional North Carolina bank (North Carolina National Bank) and has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. As a result of this history of aggressive acquisitions, it discovered a need to more effectively on-board executive leaders from acquired companies and to quickly assimilate them into the Bank of America’s standards and expectations for performance. The organization’s leadership development group was very familiar with the research on executive ...