Assessments are a valuable way to understand who you are at your best and what’s next for you as a leader.  Depending upon your desired outcomes, we will recommend that you complete a 360-degree feedback review, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or include job shadowing as part of your leadership development program.

360-degree Review

The 360-degree assessment gives you valuable feedback about your strengths, impact on others and what’s next for you as a leader.  It begins with identifying six to eight business associates or stakeholders to provide confidential feedback. Contributors usually include your direct supervisor, peers, direct reports and sometimes customers. 

Next each stakeholder is interviewed to gather information about your strengths and opportunities for growth. The results are compiled into a summary document. (We keep the comments of individual stakeholders confidential to encourage candor.)  At the same time, you conduct a self-assessment so that we can see where the gaps are between how you view yourself and how others see you. 

We then present the results to you and follow-up with a confidential written report.  Once you have had an opportunity to read the results, we meet to create a learning agenda and talk about how to communicate commitments to the contributors.

Myers Briggs Type Indicator

The Myers Briggs assessment is a powerful way to maximize your effectiveness by increasing your self-awareness and understanding of others. This assessment with a personalized written report will give you a greater understanding of what energizes you, and how you prefer to make decisions and take in information.  It also provides you with the particular strengths and pitfalls of your leadership style as well as ways to identify and work with colleagues who have different styles.

Job Shadowing

If you would like direct feedback about your leadership style and the opportunity to make changes in real time, than job shadowing is a great tool.  Exactly as it sounds, job shadowing is when a coach shadows you as you go about your work.  Our role is to observe you as a neutral third party in your interactions with team members and other stakeholders.  Job shadowing gives leaders and teams the opportunity to get direct and objective feedback about what works and doesn’t work in their performance.