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How can you improve as a leader, manager, consultant, or coach? How does your team become high performing? How does your entire organization get to the next level?

In making these crucial front-end determinations, there is no substitute for data-tangible feedback that leads to insight, direction, focused action, and measurable improvement.

That, in a nutshell, is the value proposition for Linkage's assessment services.

How Our Services Meet Your Challenges

Your Challenge Our Assessment Services Help You Determine:
Selection Who you should hire and why
Promotion Who you should promote and why
Development What specific areas your leaders/managers need to focus on to reach their goals
Succession Who you should identify as next in line for a key position
Restructuring Who has the right skill set for the job that has changed
Downsizing Who has the right versatility for the leaner organization
Cultural Transformation How the culture is shaped-and how it needs to change
Training Strategy What skills you should be providing your employees from a systems perspective
Team Building How your team can align for higher levels of performance
Organizational Analysis Where your organization excels-and how it needs to improve

What Your Employees Get

  • A data-driven analysis of capability strengths and gaps
  • An identification of career-limiting "blind spots"
  • Feedback from others to validate (or refute) self-perceptions
  • Insight into capabilities important for a particular level or role
  • A baseline to measure future developmental progress
  • A roadmap for future developmental work
  • The impetus for a commitment to improve

What Your Organization Gets

  • A sense of urgency to close your talent gaps
  • Insight into individual, team, and organizational effectiveness
  • Identification of your high potential employees
  • Defined capabilities for success in particular levels or roles
  • Concrete feedback on your organizational design and dynamics
  • Data to ensure that your talent pipeline remains robust

Our Capabilities-7 Key Differentiators

  • We customize. Tailoring our instruments to fit your needs, culture, and strategic objectives
  • We create. Working with you to develop your own unique models, objectives, and assessment tools and instruments
  • We integrate. Making the assessment tool fit within the context of your overall leadership development or strategic change initiative
  • We serve. Employing our established "A-Z" process for administration, freeing you from unnecessary burdens or hassles
  • We amplify. Utilizing interpretative sessions and reports to provide you with deeper understanding and further developmental guidance
  • We coach. Connecting you with a world-class executive coach who can leverage assessment data to spur individual growth and development
  • We reinforce. Providing you with development guides with recommendations for actions as well as targeted reassessments (e.g., "mini-surveys") to measure change

Our Portfolio

Linkage has a host of proven and effective assessment instruments. Each instrument is:

  • Grounded in research and relevance
  • Available off-the-shelf or customized
  • Available online or in paper
  • Available as a self or multi-rater assessment
  • Designed to be user friendly
  • Designed to ensure accurate, reliable results
  • Administered with appropriate confidentiality

Our hallmark assessment instruments include:

The Leadership Assessment InstrumentT (LAIT)
Who It Helps Leaders and leadership teams
What It Measures The 5 key competencies and 5 critical skills required for high performance leadership as identified in conjunction with leadership expert Warren Bennis
What It Provides An incisive profile of a leader's strengths and developmental areas

The Hogan Personality Instrument (HPI)

Who It Helps Leaders and managers
What It Measures 7 primary personality scales and 42 personality sub-scales capturing aspects of self-perception
What It Provides A comprehensive report on a leader's personality that includes his or her emotional, interpersonal, attitudinal, and motivational styles

The Communication Styles and Abilities Inventory for Leaders (C-SAIL)

Who It Helps Leaders and managers
What It Measures 3 critical communication abilities and 10 distinctive communication style tendencies
What It Provides A complete workup of how a leader communicates- and how he or she can do so more effectively

The Compleat Consultant

Who It Helps Consultants
What It Measures The 6 key competencies of an effective human resources consultant
What It Provides Targeted feedback on a consultant's mastery of the key roles played by internal consultants

The Essential Coach

Who It Helps Coaches
What It Measures The 8 key competencies and 32 behaviors of superior coaches
What It Provides In-depth data on how a coach is performing, building partnerships, and maximizing professional growth

The HiPlay Team Assessment

Who It Helps Teams
What It Measures The 6 critical competencies of high-performing teams
What It Provides A group profile that captures the team's performance, process, and results

The Denison Organizational Culture Survey

Who It Helps Organizations
What It Measures The organization's progress toward achieving a high-performance culture and optimum results, based on the four traits and twelve management practices of the Denison Model.
What It Provides A graphical profile that compares the organization's culture to global normative database of over 700 higher and lower-performing organizations.

To learn more about Linkage Assessment Services, please call 781.402.5555.

 
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