In any facet of your life – from building friendships into lasting relationships, advancing a job into a career path, being a better team member, or navigating the tricky terrain between co-worker to leader, the more you know yourself, that is, the more self-aware you are, the more success you will have. To this end, there are a number of assessments that can help you gain new perspectives about yourself and your colleagues. Whether you are doing it to further goals for yourself, or for your organization, this is the starting point to better outcomes all around.
Here are a few assessment options available to you as well as their importance:
Hogan Personality Assessment
What it measures:
- Personality, values
- Counterproductive behaviors (derailers)
Importance and application:
Individuals can gain a deeper self-awareness by understanding their personality and values. Allows for coaching discussions around counterproductive behaviors and ways to improve. In a team context, Hogan can be used to identify similarities and differences across team members and help identify skills and perspectives that may be under- or over-represented.
Leadership Competency Assessment
What it measures:
- Self-assessment of personal leadership effectiveness, based on a model of emotional intelligence
- Allows for measurement of four domains of emotional intelligence
Importance and application:
Leaders can gain a deeper understanding of their own areas of strength and weakness, broken down into four facets of emotional intelligence This tool provides a foundation for more effective leadership and growth.
Burnout
What it measures:
- Assesses individual burnout in the areas of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment
Importance and application:
Allows individuals and teams to identify burnout indicators and heighten their awareness of potential burnout. Leaders can identify ways to support their team members with higher burnout risk.
Team Effectiveness Assessment
What it measures:
- Determines a team’s effectiveness based on Tuckman’s 4 stages of team development
- Identifies specific areas of team strength and opportunity (e.g. trust, team cohesion, feedback etc.)
Importance and application:
Teams can diagnose barriers to performance and take concrete steps to improving their effectiveness. This tool allows for a deeper understanding of exactly what effectiveness looks like, and lets leaders see where team members perceive areas of opportunity. From this, actions and strategies can be developed to support increased team performance.
Culture Assessment
What it measures:
- Profiles an organization’s culture on several dimensions
- Provides a framework for describing a culture using neutral language (not “good” or “bad”) and offers a foundation for the development of culture strategies
Importance and application:
Leaders can understand if there are gaps between leadership’s perceived/desired culture and employees’ perceived culture. Provides a connection between culture, strategy, and concrete processes/mechanisms to facilitate a deliberate shift in culture.
Trust Assessment
What it measures:
Set of two assessments for individuals to measure
- their own trustworthiness and
- the level of trust on their teams
Importance and application:
Individual and team effectiveness is largely built on a foundation of trust. This activity allows individuals to gain an awareness of how they may be inhibiting their own ability to build trust. It also allows for group discussions around ways to enhance the level of trust on a team.
Innovative Connections offers these assessments and can also combine these offerings with professional coaching, which can enhance the process even further. Having an impartial person to look at your results, listen to your perspectives and give you unbiased feedback to help you grow, can be just the experience you need to propel yourself and your teams forward to achieve the outcomes you’ve been seeking. If you’d like to learn more, contact us at admin@innovativeconnectionsinc.com or call us at 970-279-3330.
