Leadership Development Tools
Accelerate growth with leadership development tools that are proven to work, integrated into your programs, and customized for your organization.
3 High-impact Tools for Your Leadership Development Toolkit
Leadership development is only effective if you have a comprehensive set of well-curated tools that have measurable impact. At PCI, we specialize in delivering 3 solutions that can be tailored to your leadership development strategy. With a few customizations, you can plug these tools into your existing programs to create a seamless experience and have greater impact.
Psychometric Assessments
Leverage psychologist-led, data-driven assessments to diagnose strengths, gaps, and potential derailers.
360-Feedback Tools
Pinpoint specific behaviors that your leaders need to start, stop, and continue doing to elevate their performance.
Coaching for Growth
Accelerate development with coaches who understand how to use assessment and 360 data to activate change.
Diagnose Needs with Psychometric Leadership Assessments
Leadership development is a lot more than training. Training programs typically assume that everyone has the same level of knowledge and skill development needs. However, in reality, everyone's personality, leadership style preferences, and cognitive abilities are different. And, all of these things are strong predictors of leadership effectiveness.
At PCI, we use validated psychometric tools and a structured interview as the starting point for leadership development. Then, our psychologists write a report that describes the individual's strengths and growth opportunities, which can be mapped to the organization's values and competencies. This foundation ensures every development plan is tailored to the individual, not built on generic assumptions.
Our CF Values are core to everything we do. The PCI team have been incredible partners in aligning insights and reports to reinforce our Values Behaviours that support our OneCF Culture and enable business performance.
SVP, Human Resources & Change Management Cadillac Fairview
Psychometric Assessment Inputs
- Personality Surveys - How the person is naturally wired to think, feel, and act.
- Leadership Style Survey - How often the person engages in people-focused and task-focused leadership behaviors.
- Cognitive Ability Tests - Timed verbal, numerical, and non-verbal tests plus an untimed critical-thinking test.
- Career Path - Leadership journey and career goals, gathered during the interview with a PCI Psychologist.
- Self-awareness - Interview responses and reactions to feedback on the psychometric assessments.
Psychometric Assessment Deliverables
To ensure alignment and follow-through, we provide deliverables designed for the participant, their manager, and HR/L&D leaders.
Prioritize Leadership Development Goals with 360 Feedback
When implemented poorly, 360-feedback can demotivate the leader and waste time and money due to the lack of actionable next steps. When done right, it uncovers rich insights that pinpoint critical gaps and accelerate growth.
- Interview-based 360 for senior executives.
- Customized online tool that measures your leadership competencies.
- Off-the-shelf 360's for ease of set up and quick results.
Every 360-process is followed by a debrief with the leader to ensure they understand their results, see patterns, and feel motivated to act on the feedback. Effective debriefs are also crucial to the process. Our leadership development consultants are trained psychologists who know how to help the person interpret the information objectively, focus on themes, and feel motivated to use the information productively.
Integrated Psychometric and 360 Summary
There's nothing more powerful than two independent sources saying the same thing. However, it's not easy for leaders to objectively review two very different assessment reports and prioritize areas for development . So, our psychologists can write a 1-page summary that points out consistencies and inconsistencies across the two assessments. This helps the leader focus on broad themes and pinpoint the one or two growth areas that will have the greatest impact on their performance.
Coaching for Leadership Development
Every coaching engagement starts with a psychometric assessment. We often supplement this with a 360-feedback survey. This dual-data approach gives leaders and coaches what they need to prioritize growth areas and set development goals.
Organizations partner with PCI for leadership coaching in two ways:
- Coaching Provider. We conduct the assessments, debrief results, and provide the coaches.
- Coaching Partner. We provide assessments for firms who specialize in executive coaching.
Contact us to learn more about how we can help your leaders grow or accelerate the pace at which your coaches activate change.
The PCI team has served as a great partner in my executive advising and coaching work. Their objective and holistic assessment approach allows my clients and me to focus on their most impactful strengths to leverage and their development needs that require the most attention. The executive report is personalized and actionable and serves as a critical component in creating a development plan.
Marty Gervasi, Senior Advisor MyNextSeason (Former CHRO, The Hartford)
Maximize leadership development ROI with hard data and deep insights.
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