Leaders are the drivers of organizations. They set direction, build an inspiring vision, create and implement strategies, push limits, and groom employees towards better growth and performance. Unfortunately, organizations often make the costly and painful mistake of tapping the wrong person for a key position. This is where Leadership Assessment can come in, as it is an effective tool for evaluating, identifying strengths and development needs of potential leaders. Ultimately, the objective of Leadership Assessment is to help organizations maximize their leadership: finding the right leader in the right role and functions where they will succeed and drive business.
Apart from performance measurements or appraisals, there are other dimensions of leadership and skills that need to be assessed when identifying the right candidates for placement or promotions into the right job functions and/or leadership roles.
However, there is no one method or assessment tool that can measure all these areas. The right selection of methods and leadership assessment tools can be useful for several applications, including:
Expected Outcomes
With Leadership Assessment tools, organizations are able to measure leadership impact and effectiveness, leadership competencies, behavioral styes, and skills.
Workplace Big Five Profile™ (coefficient alpha of .83) has the highest reliability among all assessments. It is currently used by Center for Creative Leadership in their Flagship Leadership Development Programs and is also rated Top 10 preferred assessment by Forbes Coaches Council, USA.
The WorkPlace Big Five Profile™ personality assessment is based on the Five-Factor Model of Personality, the current best-practices standard for psychologists. A typical assessment contains 107 questions online to be completed in 10-15 minutes. The assessment will reveal an individual’s 5 personality supertraits and 23 subtraits that explain work-related behaviors found in day-to-day encounters with co-workers, employees, managers and colleagues.
WorkPlace Big Five Profile™ personality assessment can be used to understand behavioral tendencies of individuals and their impact at work which can help them to effectively accomplish workplace goals and objectives. It is a framework that creates awareness and understanding of individuals at work and provides insights on how work teams and individuals can contribute and lead more effectively. Besides, it also serves as a guidance in creating a powerful and valuable workforce. It is uniquely designed for any corporation or organization that seeks to optimize:
The DISC Personality System and PeopleKeys® developed by Institutional for Motivational Living (USA) are valid and reliable profiling tools approved by the American Psychological Association (APA). With over 35 years of market experience and product success, this personality system allows practitioners such as us to identify one’s environmental preferences, predictable behaviors, communication tendencies, motivators, and more. This assessment identifies four traits, present at some level within everyone’s personality. These four quadrants are Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Compliance.
DISC can be incorporated into everyday work cultures to increase communication and efficiency amongst co-workers. This assessment is most often applied in the areas of:
EQ-i 2.0® and EQ 360® is the first Emotional Intelligence Assessment to be validated and is currently one of the Emotional Intelligence Assessment with highest validity and reliability scores in the world. Paired with research from premier organizations, it is currently used in over 60+ countries for all level organisations from Fortune 100 companies to government and military services. Thus, giving you valuable insights into areas of development in Emotional Intelligence.
This tool is suitable for:
Resilience is a critical competence that can be learnt and cultivated, especially during these times of change and challenge. With resilience, challenges can be navigated with calm and confidence while individuals remain physically, emotionally, and mentally fit to best support their teams and sustain performance. Resilience Diagnostics was founded by Dr Sven Hansen, who has been researching, consulting, and training on building personal and team resilience in securing individual and team success for more than 20 years.
This tool is suitable for measuring:
TRACOM® Group – The Social Intelligence Company – is a workplace performance company and has helped millions of people around the world to uncover hidden barriers and identify strategies that enable more positive outcomes and professional success. TRACOM’s Social Intelligence solutions include robust assessment and learning programs in the areas of Mindset, Resiliency, Agility, Emotional Intelligence and Behavioral Style – all focused on helping to create a more engaged, productive, and effective environment. These tools are suitable for:
The Strengthscope® tool was built to respond directly to the issues of reduced workplace engagement, productivity, meaning and stress, amongst other challenges at work today. It is the first strengths assessment system to have achieved Registered Test Status with the UK’s British Psychological Society (BPS) and has also been verified as a valid and reliable measure of work-related strengths by City University, UK. It helps individuals identify who they are when at their best, the qualities and strengths that make them different, and how they can utilize these qualities in order to drive up their confidence, engagement with work, productivity and build better relationships with colleagues. Strengthscope® also helps people identify the risks that may get in the way of them performing at their best, including managing overplayed strengths and minimizing the impact of areas that drain them.
Backed by over 10 years of research, Strengthscope® is used to deliver a wide variety of talent and HR outcomes, including:
Reina's Trust Assessment allows leaders, teams, and organizations to understand where trust is working for them and, with a laser-sharp focus, where more work needs to be done. These signature assessments are the product of over 25 years of academic research and rigorous testing.
The Reina Trust Scale® Assessments are proven to equip people at all levels of responsibility to build trust and break through critical barriers in order to:
Mercer | Mettl offers holistic pre-employment tools to scientifically measure core traits as well as acquired skills of candidates. The suite of tools consists of personality assessments, behavioral assessments, cognitive assessments, technical assessments, coding assessments and communication skills assessments, which are suitable for:
Grounded in 30 years of proprietary research on the behaviours of the most impactful leaders, the Purposeful Leadership® Assessment is based on Linkage's Purposeful Leadership® Model. It is designed to measure an individual leader’s effectiveness and inclusiveness across the five core commitments that all leaders make to their stakeholders: Inspire, Engage, Innovate, Achieve, and Become. This tool is suitable for:
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ Powered by DiSC® process has a simple goal: To create a team experience that helps team members understand how to increase team cohesiveness. The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team harnesses the power of Everything DiSC and the The Five Dysfunctions of a Team model based on Patrick Lencioni’s best-selling book. This tool is suitable for:
Belbin Team Roles are used to identify behavioural strengths and weaknesses in the workplace. Whether developing people, resolving conflict, or fine-tuning high performance, Belbin Team Roles provide the language to ensure that individuals and teams communicate and work together with greater understanding. This tool is suitable for:
Our Leadership Development Programme is endorsed by Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), UK. We get your leaders ready for growth, future challenges and digitalization.
We leverage scientifically proven, well-researched assessment tools that provide reliable and valuable insights about your talents and leaders’ potential, strengths, limitations and role-fit.
Our personalized, flexible and bite-sized learning solutions are both digitally and virtually enabled – and our AI-driven platform is suited to meet employers’ different needs and preferences for learning and development at all levels.
Strengthen team cohesiveness, improve employee engagement and enhance your organization’s culture via strong intervention sessions and engagement through various team assessments, experiential learning activities, as well as simulations.