360-Degree Leadership Assessment
The Leadership Performance Index survey (LPIndex survey) is an online multi-source, 360 degree feedback system that brings together views from a leader's direct manager, peers, direct reports, and other relevant stakeholders. It is uniquely designed on the basis of the Leadership Pipeline concept and it enables the organization to assess leaders on the actual job that needs to be done rather than abstract theoretical leadership competencies.
Most similar leadership assessment tests or 360 degree tools are based on the assumption that leadership is just leadership, not differentiating between leadership levels and how each leadership level uniquely adds value. This is exactly the assumption that causes most problems for an organization’s ambition to build an internal leadership pipeline.
Impact of Leadership Talent Assessment
The LPIndex survey supports leaders in accelerating their development by:
Understanding to what extent they have successfully transitioned into their leadership roles
Maps the leaders’ strengths and weaknesses in their current roles
Provides 360 degree feedback on how the leaders perform as leaders
Indicates the potential of the leaders to step into a higher leadership level
Significantly improves the leaders’ alignment of self-perception with reality
The Survey Can Be Utilized for Multiple Purposes
To conduct leadership assessments in connection with talent selection and promotion decisions
To facilitate individual development plans this assessment contributes to more evidence-based coaching conversations
To conduct structured organizational leadership performance surveys where the organization wants to assess all leaders in the organization and conduct various analyses based on the results
In connection with the Leadership Pipeline Transition Programs, this survey report can serve as “the message from home” which will often improve the impact of the training.
Customization
Many organizations have their own unique leadership competency model that they need to be mirrored in the survey.
Organizations are also faced with different strategic directions on the people side which need to be mirrored in the survey.
The LPIndex survey is built to be easily customized to different organizations’ needs. We offer support in how to combine the existing survey with your specific needs in order to get the best of two worlds and we offer support in translating your leadership competency model into impactful questions and observable key behaviors.
You may also choose the LPIndex survey as your in-house leadership survey tool. In that connection we can easily change the graphical set-up to match your company design in terms of color codes, pictures and logo.
Languages
The LPIndex survey is one of the most international multi-source/360-degree surveys on the market.
It allows you to assess leaders at all levels in 15+ different languages.
All the questions in the LPIndex survey have been carefully translated and subjected to thorough in-country review to ensure cultural neutrality. With our portfolio of available languages, we reach out to more than 50% of the global population.
Special features for international organizations:
• All the selected respondents can respond in any of the available languages irrespective of the original survey language
• Reports are provided in any available language irrespective of the survey language
• The company survey administrator does not need to know what language the respondents prefer.
Scientific Background
You will find a wide variety of 360-degree leadership assessment tools on the market. The vast majority of 360-degree tools are based on the assumption that leadership is just leadership. However, as the Leadership Pipeline book documents, this is exactly the assumption that causes most problems for an organization’s ambition to build an internal leadership pipeline.
The LPIndex survey is uniquely designed on the basis of the Leadership Pipeline concept and the decades of field observations and research that resulted in the book.
Accordingly, you cannot just ask the same questions in a leadership assessment across different leadership levels. Some questions may be the same but most questions must vary from level to level.
Some will argue that you can ask the same questions but interpret them differently depending on the leadership level. However, the problem is not the interpretation of the results. The problem is that all the respondents are left to interpret the subtle differences themselves. This will simply not provide sufficient validity and reliability.
To secure a high level of reliability and validity, we must ensure that the questions in the survey are strictly related to the leader's critical success parameters and that all questions are behavior-oriented and relate to behavior that can be observed.
The LPIndex survey has a set of questions that are unique to each leadership level. Each set consists of 30 questions divided into the five key themes for the leadership level concerned. Every question has been carefully developed to capture the uniqueness of the relevant leadership level.
Over time, more than 15,000 leaders have been assessed in the system and we have captured input from more than 60,000 respondents.
The validity of the questions is tested on an ongoing basis in connection with our Leadership Transition Programs. The validation base includes more than 1,500 leaders per year across different cultures.
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