Overview

Job Evaluation

Job Benchmarking

Behavioural Assessment

Aptitude Assessment

Emotional Intelligence

Interviewing

Personal Assessment

Relationship with Manager

Relationship with Team

Coaching

Team building

Identifying Leaders

Training

Succession Planning

Identify and Develop Leadership Talent

"We don't understand why most of the people we move into management positions are failing."

Finding a successful leader is a common challenge in organizations today. The best performer in a role is not always the best candidate for a leadership position. As a leader, managing the complexities of business and staff requires a unique skill set including:

• Ease in interacting with people at all levels
• Effective delegation
• A positive approach to dealing with conflict
• Inspiring and engaging team members
• Motivating others
• Clear communication of a shared vision even when times are tough
• Delegating technical or specialist areas to others

Often when companies identify potential leaders for succession planning purposes, they fail to assess their candidates against the leadership competencies required for promotion. In effect, companies actually end up setting their people to fail in leadership positions.

"Our managers and leaders are technically competent but their inability to manage and motivate others is causing high turnover and low morale."

It is imperative to assess management and leadership skills when filling a position that requires the management and leading of others. The PPA assessment takes ten minutes to complete online and can accurately and objectively identify an individual's leadership behaviour and natural management style. The Management Audit and Strengths and Limitations reports provide further detail about critical leadership competencies. This allows an organization to identify, upfront, the type of leaders they have, the suitability of fit with the role and the necessary training and support required for success.

Furthermore, the Management Audit, Training Needs, and Strengths and Limitations reports can be used for self-directed learning by a leader in training to enhance understanding of:

• Their leadership impact on others
• Leadership gaps
• Their natural management style

Are you interested in our Leadership Development tool? We want to hear from you.

• Call our toll free number 1-888-597-6455 (locally in the Toronto area call 905-270-2331)
• Write to us or email us
• Complete our online needs analysis form

Assured Logistics (54KB)
We were forming a new management team, and needed an assessment that would provide concrete information about individuals being considered.

The Northern Group Retail Ltd. (69KB)
“Wanting to understand the behaviours of our Management Teams and make them aware of their own style, as well as how to change or adapt when required, led us directly to Thomas International.”

Ben and Jerry's (327KB)
“We use PPA as a development tool to get people to the next level. We owe it to the people who work for us to equip them with the skills they need to make them national account managers.”

See sample reports for assessing management style and leadership development:

	Management Audit Sample Report: a recommended report for assessing management style and leadership development (611KB)
	Strengths and Limitations Sample Report: a recommended report for leadership development (615KB)

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