Top Leadership Assessment Tools from HRDQ

Embedding leadership into your organizational ethos helps increase productivity, empower team members, challenge ideas, and, ultimately, improve your bottom line. At all levels, leadership skills like thinking ahead, practicing empathy, making strategic decisions, taking a birds-eye view, etc., are what make every organization tick. Let’s dive into some of the most effective and engaging leadership assessment tools to help you benchmark and improve leadership skills across your organization.

To Help Leaders Understand Their Strengths

One of the fundamental aspects of being an effective leader is recognizing how you operate. What's My Leadership Style is a powerful leadership assessment tool provides participants with a comprehensive overview of their preferred leadership style. Their results fall into one of four categories: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, or Systematic.

This training program includes both an assessment and a workshop. Assessment-takers are presented with 20 pairs of actions relating to leadership behavior, and they must indicate the degree to which they prefer either action when acting as a leader. After scoring, you can work with the assessment-takers to interpret the scores, discuss, debrief, and plan the next steps. The accompanying Facilitator Guide helps outline this process and expand it into a formalized two-hour workshop program.

When leaders understand their personal style, they can leverage their leadership strengths while working on their weaknesses, and they can adapt their style to fit the needs of their employees, ultimately becoming effective leaders for everyone on the team.

To Evolve Leadership Within Your Workplace

The way we work is changing rapidly, and so is the way we manage. The workplace is becoming more networked and collaborative, moving away from a hierarchical, top-down model. With all this change, it can be hard to keep up. More and more is being asked of leaders, and without the right skills, they can fall behind.

Equip your leaders for success with Matrix Manager. This training tool helps both new and experienced leaders master a quickly changing approach to management, and it offers strategies for when to employ each type of leadership style.

To Develop Leadership That Lasts

Are you working to establish a culture of collaborative leadership and nurture effective leaders? Try the Legacy Leadership 360-degree assessment. This total-package assessment and workshop will offer strategies to help you develop leaders for the long run – leaders who perpetuate a culture of leadership.

The program begins with an assessment to help you evaluate participants’ strengths and weaknesses as leaders, which can then be addressed and improved through the comprehensive workshop phase.

To Get the Full Picture

What’s the difference between management and leadership? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone – and that’s why the Leader Manager Profile exists! Today’s business climate demands leaders and managers to almost be one and the same. The Leader Manager Profile is a leadership assessment tool and workshop that measures participants’ leadership AND management competencies, mapping them against one another and highlighting areas of strength and areas to improve.

This is a holistic assessment that helps pinpoint the hard and soft skills involved in managing a team AND embodying a leader. Get the full view for equipping your employees with a deeper understanding of leadership and management in the workplace.

To Empower Leaders

The Campbell Leadership Descriptor self-assessment empowers employees to define leadership for themselves, encouraging critical thought on what leadership qualities they value and what leadership characteristics are considered essential for success.

Assessment-takers are presented with pairs of adjectives and are asked to choose which are “good” and “bad” in their opinion. After judging these adjectives, participants then map their skills against those they defined as critical. In the examination process, employees can see how they match up to personal standards, identify areas for improvement, and focus on moving forward.

Your Turn

Now is the time to get clear on your leadership training objectives. Make sure your organization is aligned on leadership goals, definitions, next steps, and a plan for moving forward. Our leadership training tools are here when you’re ready to make transformative and lasting change for your workplace and its future leaders.