Assessments

Human Synergistics International

Their goal is to offer products that meet scrupulous academic and psychometric standards while being practical and relevant to the real world. HSI leadership assessments are designed to:

• Measure leadership strategies, skills, styles and impact
• Identify strengths and development opportunities
• Pinpoint barriers to successful performance
• Develop more constructive strategies, skills, and styles
• Monitor change and improvement over time

 

Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

CCL blends cutting-edge research with innovative assessments. CCL pioneered the use of assessments and feedback in leadership development. Their research based tools have earned the trust of thousands of professionals the world over. CCL assessments include:

• 360-degree assessments
• Self assessments
• Team & Organizational assessments

 

Myers Briggs Type Indicator®

The MBTI is a registered trademark of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Trust and is published by CPP, Inc (formerly Consulting Psychologist Press) who also distributes the Inventory. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality questionnaire designed to identify certain psychological differences.

The essence of the MBTI is that much seemingly random behaviors are actually consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment.

The assessment focuses on area’s such as people’s natural energy systems; people’s ways of perceiving the world; ways of forming judgments or making choices; and lastly people’s ways of making decisions or taking action.

This type of assessment is a self-assessment and is used when an individual seeks more information about their preferences or when a team seeks to understand and work with the diversity of its members.

Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior (FIRO-B®)

This is an assessment that has helped people understand how their need for inclusion, control and affection can shape their interactions with others at work or in their personal life. The FIRO-B® assessment is ideal for:

• One-on-one coaching
• Team-building initiatives
• Communication workshops
• Leadership development programs

 

DISC™ Profile

This assessment examines the behavior of individuals in their environment or within a specific situations. DISC looks at behavioral styles and behavioral preferences as it is based strictly on a person’s behaviors. The assessment classify four aspects of behavior by testing a person's preferences in word associations. DISC is an acronym for:

• Dominance - relating to control, power and assertiveness
• Influence - relating to social situations and communication
• Steadiness (submission in Marston's time)- relating to patience, persistence, and thoughtfulness
• Conscientiousness (or caution, compliance in Marston's time) - relating to structure and organization

 

Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)

This is a very trusted leadership tool developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. It is a 360-degree leadership tool that helps individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner's acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® Model to real-life organizational challenges:

• Model the Way
• Inspire a Shared Vision
• Challenge the Process
• Enable Others to Act
• Encourage the Heart

 

Appreciative Inquiry (AI)

This is not so much an instrument as it is a process of assessing an organization’s strengths and then designing and developing ways to replicate more success based on past strengths. AI assumes that whatever you want more of in an organization already exists and that when you tap into it can produce powerful, purposeful active change in an organization.