Working to your strengths: Pharmaceutical firm’s choice for change

Abstract

Purpose

Sets out ways in which a pharmaceutical company embedded a strengths-based approach to the assessment and development of field-based staff during a period of structural and cultural change. Provides an overview of how strengths-based methods were implemented and embedded.

Design/methodology/approach

Describes how collaboration with a people-management consultancy introduced strengths through recruitment and development to the company.

Findings

Relates the positive perception of the assessment and development program by candidates and assessors.

Practical implications

Provides advice for how other organizations could introduce strengths-based solutions into similar culture change, team and personal-development projects.

Originality/value

Points out that the pharmaceutical company – Boehringer Ingelheim – is one of the first UK-based organizations to take a strengths-based approach to aid culture change.

Citation

(2015), "Working to your strengths: Pharmaceutical firm’s choice for change", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 23 No. 4, pp. 21-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/HRMID-05-2015-0065