The Management Effectiveness Profile can help a manager identify personal strengths and weaknesses within 12 specific competency areas. A manager’s effectiveness is tied to the following competencies, under four clusters:

Managing Your Job:
• Managing and Prioritizing Time
• Setting Goals and Standards
• Planning and Scheduling Work

Relating to Others:
• Listening and Organizing
• Giving Clear Information
• Getting Unbiased Information

Developing the Team:
• Training, Coaching and Delegating
• Appraising People and Performance
• Counselling and Disciplining

Thinking Clearly:
• Identifying and Solving Problems
• Making Decisions and Weighing Risk
• Thinking Clearly and Analytically

The MEP takes around 30 minutes to complete and is designed to help individuals understand more about their relative abilities in the 12 competencies. A total of 84 questions assist individuals in determining their overall competence in each of the dozen areas.

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).

See a sample of a personalized report of results from the Management Effectiveness Profile by clicking on the link below. This sample is from a 360 degree assessment, meaning that the learner, his/her boss and colleagues all completed the profile to give the learner some insight into how they see themselves as well as how others see them.


Sample Report: Management Effectiveness Profile 

This online assessment is delivered via the internet. At the completion of your purchase, you will be provided with a web link (website address) and a password to access your assessment.

At the conclusion of the assessment, be sure to download your personal report and development resources.