The following are samples of the tools available to support the diagnosis of individual and team strengths and risks. They are all powerful aids to help hold a mirror up to people to build awareness, understanding and help focus development and action effectively.
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is psychometric, self-report questionnaire designed to help you understand your behavioural preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.
The Hogan High Potential Talent Solution is a development too to equip an organisation’s high-potential talent population to become the next leaders. The High Potential Model measures the three dimensions of leadership potential, highlighting individual strengths and ranked areas of actionable development. The intent is to prioritise areas where focus and attention should be targeted, resulting in maximised leadership potential.
The LVI is an advanced 360° feedback survey. It is based on a leadership model that offers a simple, compact framework to account for the complexities of the manager’s job—the tensions and trade-offs and the balances that need to be struck in any given situation. It covers both the interpersonal aspects of leading with the forceful-enabling duality as well as the business side with the strategic-operational duality.
Facet5 provides a simple, and graphic based model and a common language to explain how people differ in their behaviour, motivation and attitudes, and more importantly, what can be achieved. Whilst an excellent tool to help individuals understand themselves, Facet5 really comes to life in helping teams work better together.
The Rocket Model™ is a framework and set of tools for boosting team performance. It can be used to diagnose team dynamics, assess leadership capabiltiy in developing high performance teams and to provide leaders with specific tools and activities to improve team performance.
Hogan Assessment Systems publishes a suit of assessments, which provides insight regarding personal characteristics related to your current ot future job performance.
The personal characteristics measured by the HPI impact how you approach work and interaction with others.
The HDS provides insight regarding eleven “derailment” tendencies that, when incited by stress, pressure, or boredom, are capable of impeding your work relationships, adversely impacting leadership style, hindering productivity, and limiting overall career potential and effectiveness.
The MVPI provides insight regarding a person's core values, goals, and interests, information that relates to (a) the environment in which the person will perform best and derive the most motivation and (b) the kind of culture you will be motivated to create as a leader.