Facing a shortage of top executives in the market, Text 100 has opted to nurture its own brightest talent
GOOD LEADERS ARE born, not bred, so the adage goes. But finding a good, business-minded 'natural born leader' is not always easy in a world where the value of good leadership can mean the difference between a company's mediocrity and success.
This is especially true in Hong Kong, where the local job market is very competitive at the leadership level. Here, the pool of executive talent is too small to satisfy everybody's needs and companies often compete for the same calibre of high-level personnel. Meanwhile, executives are able to leapfrog from job to job with increasingly lucrative deals.
'It's hard to find good, strong leaders,' said Chris Tang, managing director, China and Hong Kong of Text 100, a global public relations company with regional offices in Hong Kong and the mainland.
'PR is people-centric, and the success of the business depends on the people at a senior level,' she said 'Every agency is struggling to find high-calibre people.'
To address the situation, Ms Tang and human resources manager for Greater China, Zhang Dongmei, have initiated a series of in-house training programmes designed to identify and nurture the existing leadership talent in the company.