Assessments built to show you the patterns in how you lead that you cannot see yourself.
Most leadership assessments tell you what you already know. The point of an assessment is to show you where you are succeeding and failing in ways that are not obvious to you.
Some of what we most need to learn about our own leadership is exactly the part we cannot see. So we build assessments to reveal what a leader can’t see. An assessment gives you evidence. A diagnosis reads that evidence in context, across several sources, to work out what pattern is operating.
You can read the full thinking behind this work in Diagnosing Leadership: Assessments That Change How You Lead.
Our assessments come at this from different angles, each exploring a different kind of insight.
The Insight Decision Labs start with a situation rather than a statement. You watch your own thinking as it happens, and you see the patterns that build across different scenarios. A rating can tell you where you land. The Decision Labs show you why.
The Insight Leadership Flight Simulator takes that further. It is a practice tool and an evaluation tool at once. A leader works through a realistic scenario that unfolds in real time and has to make real moves as it does. The simulator captures the choices you actually made and your rationale for them, which is something a self-report or a colleague's later memory can never show.
This is the one question you cannot answer from the inside. Our 360 gathers it from the people in the room with you - your manager, your peers, the people who report to you - so you see your leadership through the eyes of the people who live with it.
That is what the Insight Leadership Behaviors Assessment follows. It tracks a range of complex leadership behaviors - collaborating across teams, say, or holding a crucial conversation without damaging the relationship - and asks two separate questions about each: how often you do it, and how well. You can be capable at something and still do it rarely. You can do it constantly and have it land badly.
Before a program and again at the end, the Insight Leadership Skill Assessment asks leaders to reflect on both - what they now think leadership requires, and where they place themselves in it. The reflection is where the real movement shows.
These assessments explore your responses to different situations. They look for patterns in your assumptions, your go-to responses, and your understanding of what may be running underneath a particular scenario.
You work through five situations that don't have a simple correct response. At the end, the assessment names a pattern in how you relate to your authority. It is free to run.
Start the free assessment →People need things from the person in charge, and they notice what they get. This assessment puts you in a series of situations and reads what you reliably provide for the people around you, and what you tend to leave for someone else to pick up.
Situations differ more than they look. Some have a clear answer, some have too many, and in some you cannot yet tell what you are dealing with. This assessment runs you through very different situations and shows whether you change your approach to fit what is in front of you, or bring the same approach to all of them.
The intro assessment takes about 25 minutes. You work through five scenarios and make your own choices in each one. You get feedback after every scenario, and a synthesis at the end. Nothing is labeled for you while you take it. The framework sits underneath, in the scoring.
The intro assessment runs in about 25 minutes from start to finish.
You work through five situations and make a real choice in each one.
You get feedback after each scenario, so you learn as you go.
At the end you get a synthesis that names the pattern in your choices.
Take the intro assessment and see the pattern in how you relate to authority. If you want to talk through what it shows, book a call.
Free. Sign in with your email, and get your pattern synthesis at the end.
The same discipline runs through how we evaluate our leadership programs: paired before-and-after assessment of concrete behaviors, checked against how each leader’s team experiences them.
An assessment shows you the pattern you fall into under pressure. The Leadership Flight Simulator is where you practice a different move. You step into a scenario that unfolds in real time and make the calls as they come.
