Individual and Leadership Assessments
Scientifically validated assessment tools provide you and your people with holistic insights.
Comprehensive Assessments for Individual and Organizational Growth
Effective talent management starts with the assessment of the strengths, development needs, and the potential of each current and future leader. Our individualized tools create options for:
- Personality and behavioural assessment
- The evaluation of leadership skills and competencies
- Multi-perspective approaches through 360-degree feedback
Each assessment process is curated to offer a comprehensive learning and development experience, providing an effective means to support employee development and performance, increase satisfaction and retention, as well as maximize alignment with organizational culture, needs and goals.
360-Degree Leadership Assessment
We offer a customized 360-degree feedback system designed to foster self-awareness and support growth through insights from a variety of sources and perspectives related to a manager’s performance, talents, and development needs. We guide you through each step from setting up to implementing the 360-feedback process. A positive and impactful 360-feedback experience includes debriefing each report with an expert coach to create development actions.
Leadership Competency Assessment
Identify areas of current skill and further development for both existing, prospective, and emerging leaders across a series of key leadership competencies proven to be associated with leadership success. Each assessment is designed to align with the leadership competencies required of the leader’s current or aspiring role, determined collaboratively from the outset.
Executive Leadership Assessment
Assessments at the executive level will typically involve analysis and evaluation of strategic level competencies, including strategic thinking and planning, visioning, high-level problem solving, and innovation, to name a few. We use a combination of 360 leadership assessments as well as objective assessment measures to provide multiple data sources about the executive’s skills, competencies and development areas.
Personality and Behavioural Assessments
Support an understanding of leadership capabilities, personality, emotional intelligence, conflict style, and more using our suite of behavioural assessment tools, each designed to assess a specific element of individual and group dynamics, including:
- Leadership Effectiveness Assessment
- Occupational Personality Questionnaire
- Emergenetics
- Workplace Personality Index
- Myers-Briggs
- EQ-i
These tools include analysis and evaulation by an expert psychologist or coach, providing insights into strengths and growth recommendations.
Customized Assessments for Strategic Talent Management
- Assessments modeled after your business needs: we develop assessments based on the key skills and competencies needed by your organization and leadership roles, allowing for tailored results based only on those areas deemed most important.
- Individualized assessment process: our assessments are curated to offer a comprehensive learning and development experience for individuals and leaders at all levels, from individual contributors to senior leadership.
- Designed to support development: support the potential of your leaders and employees by investing in assessments built to evaluate both strengths and development opportunities, complete with strategies to enhance effectiveness and support growth.
Individual and Leadership Development with Targeted Feedback and Support
- Personalized insights: we bring practical insights into every assessment, creating a unique and individualized approach to each debrief based on a person’s purpose and goals.
- Customized development plans: our assessment process incorporates recommendations and discussions about actionable next steps. Each plan is tailored to the learning styles and goals of each individual to support long-term career growth, development, and performance.
- Ongoing support and feedback: we offer ongoing support through various options including coaching packages, one-on-one check-ins, and progress reviews to keep individuals on tracks towards their goals.
Why Choose Leadership Assessment Services from Canada Career Counselling?
- Scientifically-validated: we utilize evidence-based assessment tools and methodologies that ensure accurate and meaningful insights.
- Organizationally embedded approach: our assessments are always customized to specifically measure the skills and competencies necessary for success so that the process and learnings are most relevant to the needs of a person’s role.
- Expert coaching and support: our consultants are trained at the graduate level in psychology, business, and leadership development bringing decades of industry experience and education to our work.
Our assessment tools are powerful on their own, but when integrated with expert coaching they support intentional leadership development, aligning with both personal goals and organizational needs. More information about our leadership and executive coaching services can be found here.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What are the benefits of workplace assessments for organizations?
Leadership assessments allow for deep self-insight, which is invaluable at all levels of leadership, from first-time or potential supervisors all the way to the executive and board levels. Training and coaching help with development, but assessments identify what should be developed.
What types of leadership and workplace assessments do you offer?
We have a wide range of assessment options to suit all needs, from self-assessments (e.g., personality, leadership style, and tools that measure communication preferences, motivation, or workplace behaviours), facilitated assessments (e.g., cognitive tests, in-basket tools, role plays and interviews), and other feedback measures (e.g., 360-degree assessments). Organizations often use these assessments to support leadership development, hiring decisions, executive coaching, and team effectiveness initiatives.
Are workplace personality assessments accurate?
Workplace personality assessments can be highly accurate and useful when they are scientifically validated and administrated by trained professionals. All of our assessment tools are evidence-based and designed using psychological research to provide meaningful insights.
What is a 360 degree leadership assessment?
360-degree feedback is an assessment of a leader’s strengths and development opportunities through the ratings of several groups, including their direct reports, peers, supervisor, and sometimes other groups internal or external to the organization. This method of feedback is also known as multi-rater, and allows for feedback based on the perceptions of multiple people that the leader works with in order to get a full picture of their impacts, including strengths and gaps.
How do leadership competency assessments work?
Leadership competency assessments work by evaluating a leader’s potential and effectiveness through using multiple valid and reliable tools, including self-report and objective measures. These assessments provide deep insights across the competencies or capabilities deemed important to success in the current role or next level of leadership. The reason we use multiple tools is that there are different ways to assess each competency, and the more data points we have the more valid and accurate the assessment.
How does a leadership assessment support development?
Leadership assessments support development by evaluating key skills, strengths, and growth opportunities that can then be developed further. The insights from an assessment are extremely useful for informing an actionable development plan, and being supported through follow up coaching. They serve as a helpful tool to support not only employee development and performance, but also to increase satisfaction and retention as well as maximize alignment with organizational culture, needs, and goals.
To learn more about how our assessments and other employee development service offerings can be used in your organization, reach out today to speak with one of our organizational psychologists