The Leadership Effectiveness Profile (LEP) – in the individual competency range of diagnostic instruments –is the core resource to which many other profiles in this catalogue are linked. By completing this profile, the individual will get a strong indication regarding other instruments useful for giving them a more focused and deeper view. Each of the eight leadership effectiveness categories and their links to twelve other instruments are shown on the diagram below.

Although there are different views about what constitutes leadership excellence, it is possible to distil the key themes or broad categories from which most good leaders will draw to a greater or lesser extent. In total, eight categories are identified, and these are:

• Emotional intelligence
• Contextual thinking
• Directional clarity
• Creative assimilation
• Change orchestration
• People enablement
• Reciprocal communication
• Driving persistence

These categories are suggested to be the main factors that constitute the relative effectiveness of your efforts to lead others in a range of different situations. Like other competency instruments, individuals rate themselves on a 1-5 Likert scale in all eight categories in order to build up a rich profile indicating where their strengths and development needs seem to lie. Full interpretive notes are then provided to allow people to write personal action plans.

Author: Jon Warner
Publisher: Team Publications
Publication Date: ©2007 All Rights Reserved

For 15 years WCOD and Team Publications have been developing and marketing assessment solutions to all kinds of public sector and private enterprises. Most of our solutions can easily be used by individuals, teams, trainers, coaches, managers, HR professionals, and others engaging in or managing a development journey. Assessments of this kind can help individuals to reflect on their relative strengths and development needs on a structured basis. In addition to self-assessment, many of the products offer options for 180-degree feedback (to bring a supervisor or managers perspective to the individual) or 360-degree feedback (bringing a manager and a group of colleagues perspective in aggregate).

All WCOD/Team Publications assessments include interpretive information regarding your scores, along with development and action planning suggestions. The online versions of these reports also include an extensive printable interpretive report of results and development suggestions.

Facilitators Guides and Detailed Coaching Guides are available in the ReadytoManage webstore for most of these assessments, and include more information on each of the dimensions measured, development paths, and coaching tips. They are most frequently used by managers, trainers and coaches who want to offer a richer coaching experience or to run face to face sessions with groups of people who have undertaken an assessment.

All WCOD diagnostic instruments and assessments fall into three main categories, with a range of different instruments or assessments available in each:

Assessments that measure the person or the individual in terms of specific competencies. Profiles that measure the person in terms of competency are all inventory type tools which use histogram graphs to indicate particular skills in a given area. This might include leadership or management competencies or particular competencies such as selling or time management ability, for example.

Assessments that help to measure a particular task or situation (and how a particular individual handles it). Instruments which take a "Situational" perspective generally use a four quadrant grid format to help an individual to determine which style he or she seems to favor the most in a given situation. Once known the person can access how readily he or she may be able to "flex" into the available styles in order to match the different circumstances or "Situations" that may be encountered on a day to day basis.

Assessments that measure individual behavioral style. Profiles that measure a person's behavior or their style allow individuals to answer a series of paired statements, which ultimately plot their output scores onto a four-quadrant grid. This grid will show a dominant and a secondary preferred style in the particular situation, and give individuals an indication of what they are likely to encounter in terms of behavior when they face a specific set of circumstances.

Diagnostic assessments and profiles published by WCOD and Team Publications (with questions relating to competencies, attitudes, styles and behaviours) are all designed to offer individuals an opportunity to complete a simple questionnaire for themselves and via reading a full interpretive report then gain what are hopefully a number of new insights into themselves. Most of our solutions can easily be used by individuals, teams, trainers, coaches, managers, HR professionals, and others engaging in or managing a development journey. Assessments of this kind can help individuals to reflect on their relative strengths and development needs on a structured basis. In addition to self-assessment, many of the products offer options for 180-degree feedback (to bring a supervisor or managers perspective to the individual) or 360-degree feedback (bringing a manager and a group of colleagues perspective in aggregate).

This product is a downloadable PDF. By purchasing this product, you are entitled to print one copy for your use. Photocopying and distributing the booklet to others is a violation of the copyright. If you wish to make additional copies of this instrument for use in a classroom or other group setting, you may purchase a reprint licence from this webstore.