We specialize in leveraging our assessment-centered approach to talent management for predicting and improving leadership performance across your organization’s pivotal roles.

• • Executive  (VP, AVP, SVP, EVP, Managing Director, Executive Director)
  • Mid-Level  (Director, Senior Director)
  • Emerging  (Supervisor, Manager, Senior Manager)

For each tier, there is a specific battery of assessments that measures the leadership potential of an individual at that level. These assessment batteries are carefully constructed for each tier to gather the necessary information about the individual in a highly reliable, effective and engaging manner.

The Personality assessment is an implementation of either the widely respected Operational Personality Questionnaire OPQ32r or the Hogan assessment. They provide a clear framework for understanding the impact of personality on job performance, and are internationally recognized for their accuracy.

The Growth Factors assessment consists of multiple-choice items which assess personal experiences, characteristics, and preferences related to growth mindset in individual leaders. It addresses learning factors (adaptability, learning, interest/orientation, and openness to feedback) and motivational factors (drive, energy/initiative, career ambition and commitment, result and achievement orientation, and risk).

The Critical Thinking assessment measures the multi-dimensional elements of intelligence as used in a work environment that are situationally relevant to a wide range of jobs, levels, and organizations.

The Leadership assessments are delivered in two distinct styles with content appropriate for a specific tier. Simulation-based Leadership assessments utilize a rich multimedia format that delivers the sophisticated, immersive situations necessary to effectively evaluate senior people. Journey-based Leadership assessments use an engaging visual graphical presentation to take participants along a “journey” which frames a narrative used to present a range of situations for measurement.

In a similar manner, each tier includes corresponding analytics providing tabular and graphical reporting, which can then inform decisions on the appropriate adjustments to move individuals farther along the leadership pipeline and position them for future success.

Analytics leverages assessment and other organizational data streams to provide insights into important business challenges, including but not limited to talent opportunities. Assessment data can offer powerful insights into the capabilities of teams, high potential pools, and pivotal roles that allow organizations to plan for the talent capabilities needed to meet strategic needs. These data, when combined with operational and other data streams, yield insights into pressing business challenges.

Adjustments are talent practices that integrate seamlessly with client environments to deliver on strategic business and socially-driven goals.  Adjustments are developed for specific client needs, building on what may already exist and aligning to the desired state intent and best practices in the field.

Example adjustments include Development Resource Guides, Career Development Guides, Goal Setting Workshop Facilitation, Succession Planning Processes, and Internal Mobility Guidelines.  Target audiences for Adjustments may be individual employees, leaders, teams, or whole organizations, and may range across the employee lifecycle from talent attraction and acquisition to talent management and development to organizational effectiveness.