Leadership Practices Inventory

360^° Leadership Behaviors Assessment

“I ask for feedback on how my actions affect the performance of other.”

Statistically, this is the behavior that is the least practiced by individuals in positions of leadership across all levels of seniority, types of organization, geographic locations, etc.

What do you know about how your actions affect the performance of others?

If your honest answer to the question is something along the lines: “I’m not sure,” or “I’ve got a vague idea,” or “I’d like to find out more,” this is where we can help.

We avail ourselves, and you, of an assessment tool that allows you to gather anonymous input from a wide variety of members of your community – your manager, your colleagues, your partners, and others – on their perception of your behaviors as a leader.

We use the world-class Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)[1] which measures the frequency with which you engage in 30 behaviors that are most closely associated with five practices of exemplary leadership. Those 30 behaviors have been discerned and defined by leadership authorities Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner during the past twenty years, and documented and illustrated in their best-selling The Leadership Challenge, now in its fourth edition. The Leadership Practices Inventory is one of the most widely used 360° leadership behaviors assessment tools in the world.

The assessment is administered on-line over a few weeks. You may collect anonymous feedback from up to 15 individuals of your own choosing. Upon completion, you will receive an objective feedback report on your behaviors as a leader. The results are confidential and available only you. You may also engage us to give you one-on-one coaching and objective insight on you feedback.

One-on-One Coaching

The challenge for each of you will be to discern what your colleagues are telling you - what your key strengths are as a leader, and what your challenges are. If you choose the course of an individual coaching session, we will challenge you to begin to address any behaviors or patterns that you and we identify from your feedback report that might be getting in your way as a leader (unwittingly or not), and adversely affecting the performance of the people you lead. Additionally, we will encourage you to identify behaviors and patterns that are your strengths, so that you might draw on them to the continued benefit of your crew and colleagues.

We believe that your curiosity in asking for feedback on how your actions affect the performance of others and your humility to demonstrate a commitment to personal and professional growth will serve you well in all of the roles you assume as an active citizen and engaging leader.