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Leadership Assessment Surveys
Gain Information and Insight for Increasing
Leadership Effectiveness in Your Organization
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
- Peter F. Drucker
"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."
- Ray Kroc
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
- Andrew Carnegie
"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."
- Jack Welch
Assessing Leadership Effectiveness
The most successful organizations in any field have highly-effective leaders, from top to bottom of the organization. No other factor can substitute for weak leadership.
Quantisoft's Leadership Assessment Surveys provide organizations with two critical types of leadership effectiveness information and insight:
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Leaders receive anonymous feedback from any or all of the following groups: the leader's direct reports, the leader's peers and leaders at a more senior level (leader’s manager and if desired, other managers at a more senior level). The feedback is on a comprehensive set of leadership criteria, including ratings on their leadership effectiveness and comments/perceptions based on first-hand experience reporting to him/her. Leaders become aware of how they are perceived, providing them with useful information and insight that enables them to strengthen their leadership effectiveness.
Leaders complete a self-evaluation, enabling them to compare how others perceive them with how they see themselves.
Leaders receive a circular profile graph that displays their leadership profile. This makes it easy for them to see their strongest leadership characteristics and the leadership characteristics they should work on strengthening. They also receive a summary report of their leadership ratings in an easy to read tabular report, along with the feedback comments, which provide insight about how they are perceived as a leader, and what they can do to become a more effective leader.
- Senior management and HR receive comprehensive leadership effectiveness reports for the organization overall, and leadership effectiveness reports based on organization demographics (we work with your organization to determine the appropriate demographics - e.g. department, division, location, leader's gender, direct report's gender/race/age range, etc.). The senior management team and HR receive information and insight that identifies strengths and areas to focus on. Note: Individual leaders do not receive feedback based on demographic criteria which might enable identification of individuals providing feedback.
Leadership Assessment Survey Metrics
Through extensive research and consultation with business leaders and with leadership and organizational effectiveness consultants, we have identified 36 personal leadership and organizational leadership competency criteria that define the profiles of highly successful leaders. Our leadership assessment surveys utilize all or a portion of the following leadership criteria, or we can include leadership criteria identified by our clients:
- Integrity
- Respect for others
- Charisma
- Vision
- Fairness
- Consideration for individuals
- Leading diverse employees
- Intellectual stimulation
- Courage
- Loyalty
- Dependability
- Self confidence
- Responsibility and accountability
- Flexibility
- Judgment
- Perseverance/tenacity
- Desire
- Mentoring and developing
- Decision making
- Communications
- Negotiation
- Delegation
- Empowerment
- Prioritizing
- Decisiveness
- Physical and emotional stamina
- Goal setting
- Planning
- Organizing
- Performance measurement
- Assessing risks
- Reward and recognition
- Political diplomacy
- Timing
- Competitiveness
- Execution - getting things done
Benefits of Quantisoft's Leadership Assessment Surveys
Leadership Assessment Surveys go well beyond typical 360 feedback surveys that provide feedback to selected leaders in two important ways:
- Leadership Assessment Surveys provide 360 feedback to all leaders of an organization, not just a selected few. The idea is that all leaders can benefit from receiving 360 feedback, not just leaders having leadership difficulty.
- Leadership Assessment Surveys provide senior management and HR/Organizational Effectiveness management with a wealth of information and insight about the entire organization's leadership competencies, and about opportunities for strengthening the entire organization's leadership.
Some of the benefits your organization can expect to achieve from Quantisoft's leadership assessment surveys include:
- Provide leaders with honest, anonymous feedback for increasing their effectiveness
- Create and maintain organizational leadership competency inventory/database
- Identify training and development needs for individual leaders and the organization overall for 36 leadership criteria
- Identify high potential leaders based on feedback from any or all of the following groups: the leader's direct reports, peers and leaders at a more senior level
- Focus recruiting and hiring based on the organization's leadership criteria
- Gain critical information and insight for increasing the effectiveness of your organization's leaders at all levels of your organization
- Use leadership assessment survey data for succession planning
- Use leadership as a competitive advantage (enhanced reputation, increased profit, increased business growth, improved employer of choice status, etc.)
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