Feedback Instrument Descriptions

MYERS BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR For more than 50 years Myers Briggs has helped millions of individuals throughout the world gain a deeper understanding of themselves and how they interact with others by giving them a powerful tool for improving how they communicate, learn, and work. Can be used by Individuals, Organizations, and Teams to identify strengths, management development areas, enhance leadership effectiveness, team building, improve communication, career exploration, executive development, change management, decision making, conflict management,developing emotional intelligence.

 

STRONG INTEREST INVENTORY  For more than 75 years the Strong Interest Inventory has helped organizations  and thousands of individuals from high school/college students to individuals seeking a career change  in their search  a rich and fulfilling career. It is the most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world. Provides information on how client interests,preferences, learning, leadership and risk-taking styles link to various jobs,work settings, and career fields.
Also may be used as a career enrichment, career development tool.

 

WORK-LIFE VALUE CHECKLIST

 Values contribute significantly to a sense of fulfillment or meaning in our lives.  Alternately, when values are thwarted, people often report feeling that they are “living life on a treadmill” or that they are burned out.  The Work/Life checklist should help you sort out what is important in both your work and your life.  You are most likely to find satisfaction from work and in life roles that match your values.

 

360 FEEDBACK TOOLS

FIRO-B  Is one of the most widely used tools for helping individuals understand their own behavior and that of others in interpersonal situations. FIRO –B provides powerful insightful information for organizations to target areas of development for careers, explaining team roles, improving team effectiveness and development, and identifying leadership operating styles.

 

KEYS is an organizational survey that assesses the climate for creativity and innovation that exists in a work group, division or organization. It measures specific management practices that impact the work environment.
The KEYS assessment tool:

    * Measures specific management practices that impact innovation.
    * Quantifies how productivity and creativity are perceived across an organization.
    * Compares an organization's innovative climate with other organizations in the KEYS database, providing a benchmark for improvement.
• Informs development of an action plan, based on hard data, to improve the innovative culture within and across businesses.

 

BENCHMARKS
Assessing Leadership Skills and Enhancing the Development Process
A comprehensive, 360-degree assessment tool for experienced managers that measure 16 skills and perspectives critical for success. Benchmarks offers an in-depth look at development by assessing skills developed from a multitude of leadership experiences, identifying what lessons may yet to be learned and helping the executive determine what specific work experiences need to be sought out in order to develop critical skills for success.
Through the Benchmarks process, participants:

    * Learn how others perceive their strengths and development needs.
    * Learn how they compare with similar managers in other organizations.
    * Focus on skills and perspectives critical to being effective and successful.
    • Design a plan that links needs to specific developmental experiences.

 

 SKILLSCOPE
A straightforward, effective and efficient 360-degree feedback tools that assesses 15 key job-related skills essential for managerial success.

    * SKILLSCOPE provides insightful feedback on job-related strengths and weaknesses.
    * Feedback is provided in a clear, graphic format, enabling participants to quickly assess strengths and development needs.
    * Participants receive a workbook-style Development Planning Guide, which helps them analyze their feedback report, identify developmental needs and set an action plan for long-term development.

 

PROSPECTOR 
A unique 360-degree feedback tool that provides feedback on two types of behaviors: the skills most often found in successful executives, and the learning behaviors needed to acquire those skills.
Based on research with successful global managers and international executives, Prospector:

    * Gives important feedback on skills that help managers improve their ability to learn from experience and willingness to engage in and take advantage of growth opportunities.
    * Helps establish a culture in which improved learning skills are recognized and highly valued as an overall organizational objective.

 

360 BY DESIGN

Build Your Own Assessment Tool Matched to Your Organization's Needs.
360 BY DESIGN is a robust, fully internet-based feedback and development process that can be tailored to match the competencies important to your organization. It provides online assessment and feedback, as well as development planning.

The implementation of 360 BY DESIGN involves straightforward steps, which take you from survey construction through the delivery of the final feedback reports and development planning guides.

 

 EXECUTIVE DIMENSIONS
The challenges faced by executives at the top levels in an organization can differ a great deal from those at the middle management level. Executive Dimensions is a 360-degree assessment for development instrument designed to address the specific leadership issues of presidents, CEOs, COOs, and executive and senior vice presidents.

    * Provides senior executives with feedback on specific critical leadership skills
    * Helps individuals compare their results to other top leaders
    * Starts the process of feedback-based individual development

 

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