A variety of competency-based
leadership assessments are available to be delivered by STEP and
may be used depending on the needs and circumstances of the situation.
Assessments provide objective information that can:
- Enhance self-awareness of one’s impact.
- Enhance awareness of others and their circumstances.
- Provide a benchmark for creating coaching goals and actionable
strategies.
- Offer a method for evaluating progress using both internal
and external metrics.
Leadership Assessments
360 degree feedback, sometimes referred to as
multi-rater feedback, is a process where performance feedback
is sought from a selection of an individual’s direct reports,
peers and supervisors in critical areas of interpersonal effectiveness.
The process can be used to gather information on categories for
job success such as leadership, communication, problem solving
and teamwork. The assessment reports on the skills, knowledge
and style of the individual.
The individual’s self-assessment may then
be compared with the 360 degree feedback in order to identify
development opportunities for enhanced interpersonal and leadership
effectiveness.
The Leadership 360 Scorecard™ is a tool
that may be used in conjunction with a professionally trained
coach or other professional for self-discovery and development.
It may be used to enhance the leader’s capability across
the following skill areas:
Envisioning Success
Engaging Commitment
Energising Others
Shifting Perspective
Challenging Others
Endorsing
Self-Management
The DISC assessment helps the leader discover
his observable behavioural style and how this behaviour is perceived
by others.
For example:
- Are you a people person … somebody who is persuasive,
outgoing, optimistic?
- Are you competitive, driving and results oriented?
- Are you relaxed, patient and predictable?
- Are you a systematic, orderly person who likes to have a
lot of data before making a decision and wants things to be
correct?
This can then be used to focus on optimising
the leader’s areas of strength resulting in more successes.
Also, as self-awareness is enhanced, the leader
can also identify the behavioural styles of others and learn to
adapt accordingly.
Benefits:
- Improves self awareness
- Helps identify training needs
- Cost effective
- Available on-line
- Many applications including team building, personal development,
recruitment.
TST provides a reliable, accurate and valid means
of identifying how quickly a person can learn and retain new skills
and procedures.
Academic achievement is not an effective measure
of a person’s mental ability and potential. TST measures
a person’s ability to learn and how they will respond to
training programmes. It is applicable for all levels of people.
TST is an ‘ability’ test, not an ‘intelligence’
test. It includes five timed tests: perceptual speed, reasoning,
working memory, number speed and accuracy, and spatial visualisation.
TST can provide the answer to questions
such as:
Can this person think on their feet?
Can they cope with the mental demands of the job?
Could this person be a high flyer?
Is this person a problem solver?
Benefits:
- May be used for succession planning
- Provides objective data for matching individuals with requirements
of job
- Useful to use in recruitment
PCSI is a self-inventory to determine personal
style of interaction. It gives a snapshot of how people give and
receive feedback and how they communicate.
With a deeper understanding of style, the person
can learn to flex their style in interactions with others. A good
communicator needs to be able to adapt their style to gain credibility
and influence with others.
Benefits:
- Easy to use
- Provides short, simple snapshot of unique styles
- Provides a means of building rapport by flexing styles
- It can eliminate miscommunications
- Cost effective
The Leadership EI Scorecard™ is a tool that may
be used to cultivate a deeper understanding of the ‘internal
metrics’ for a leader’s success. The knowledge obtained
from the scorecard may then be used to enhance capability across
the following skill areas:
Emotional self-regulation
Personal Resiliency
Maintaining Optimism
Collaborative Leadership
Non-anxious Presence
Communication Effectiveness
Learning Mastery
Organisational Stewardship.
When combined with leadership coaching or other
leadership development initiatives, the EI Scorecard™ can be powerful
in developing change-agile and self-managing leaders.
Harnessing
Team Intelligence Scorecard™ |
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This tool is for those who support teams and
who wish to:
- Measure a team’s performance against standards of excellence
- Audit a team to identify what’s working well and what’s
missing
- Support a team to create a roadmap for improved results
- Support the team leader to lead the team without overusing
authority
- Score early wins that can be translated into peak performance.
The scorecard allows you to analyse the gap between
the team’s current capabilities and peak performance. Team
leaders can quickly identify and fully leverage the team’s
strengths while identifying opportunities for development.
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