"I feel I built a whole new skill set that will hopefully accelerate my progression within the firm.”
SA, Ernst & Young (Participant)

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Overseas experience engages leaders

As global leaders in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, it’s important that Ernst & Young’s leaders have the skills to give their clients the very best service. They worked with Emerging World to develop a series of overseas experiences that would stretch and challenge leaders on their Accelerated Leadership Programme.

Leaders have been partnered with a number of innovative organizations across India, assisting with assignments such as developing business plans, building carbon credit financing schemes and reviewing management information systems. organizational systems reviews.

Emerging World identified suitable partners, developed appropriate experiences for each participant and prepared them for their assignments. In the field, they provided support for both participants and partners to maximise the impact of the programme.

“The single biggest impact that the programme has had so far is a massive increase in personal confidence,” explains Julia Jameson, Director of Talent Management EMEIA, Ernst & Young. “By taking people to a very different environment where they may be asked to do something quite similar to their day job, but in a very different context and a very different time frame, has really helped them grow the confidence that they can operate in different environments.”

  • 100% - Ernst and Young leaders achieved things on assignment in addition to their planned objectives
  • 100% - Ernst and Young leaders thought the business skills they’d gained would be useful in their day-jobs
  • 89% - Ernst and Young leaders didn’t believe that cultural differences were a barrier to their work whilst on assignment

“Professionally I was able to experience a number of new challenges which I would not have gained exposure to... I feel I built a whole new skill set that I will regularly call on in my new role at E&Y.” Simon Anderson, Senior Manager Ernst &Young