Toolbox - assessments

Excellence Audit™ What does Excellence look like, for me, for this team, for my business? What should we be doing now to achieve it? The Excellence Audit helps people who take questions like these seriously. It provides a structure for them to explore their aspirations and create personal excellence agendas. It is a “navigation aid” that helps determined people to find the best way forward for them and their business. It is a rare example of an audit instrument that assesses the tangible and intangible attributes of business excellence. It is usual for an Excellence Audit to be conducted at the start of a structured change initiative or when a business team feels it needs to take a fresh direction. Repeat audits are used to track progress and recalibrate over time. Tom Peters Company offer the Excellence Audit as a stand-alone assessment service, or as a key part of a bespoke change project designed and facilitated by our specialist consultants. Independent consultants and internal change agents can be trained and become licensed users of the Excellence Audit. For more information about how to use the Future Shape of the Winner model and the Excellence Audit in your organisation, see the What Shape Are You? section or contact us for more information. Using the Excellence Audit Results Excellence Audit results provide a robust structure for personal development planning and coaching. Excellence Audit results provide a tangible framework for broad based management discussions and focused action planning at strategy meetings. Take a look at our Shape Up Event which uses excellence audit results in this way with senior decision-making groups. The whole experience of team members completing Excellence Audits, reviewing the results, and agreeing improvement resolutions forms the basis for powerful leadership and team development events. Excellence Audit results have been incorporated into custom performance improvement initiatives and workshops of various kinds. Back to top...
Kouzes and Posner Leadership Practices Inventory The Leadership Practices Inventory is a 360-degree assessment instrument which participants take as part of their pre-work for The Leadership Challenge® Workshop. It is an intensely practical tool that helps leaders assess the extent to which they actually use the five leadership practices so that they can make plans for improvement. The LPI is a questionnaire with thirty behavioural statements—six for each of The Five Practices of the Leadership Challenge. Leaders complete the LPI-Self, rating themselves on the frequency with which they think they engage in each of the thirty behaviours. Five to ten other people—typically selected by the leaders—complete the LPI-Observer questionnaire, rating the leaders on the frequency with which they think they engage in each behaviour. Independent studies consistently confirm that the LPI has very strong reliability and validity. Today, it is one of the most widely used 360-degree leadership assessment instruments available. More than 250,000 leaders and nearly one million observers have completed it. Since the LPI was first used in 1985, surveys from more than 100,000 respondents have been analysed to determine the relationship between The Five Practices and a variety of measurable outcomes. Click here for more information Ideas to help you get started yourself... Back to top...
Belbin Team Roles Assessment The elusive subject of why some teams perform better than others has been the focus of the attention of Dr Meredith Belbin. During a period of over nine years of experiments Dr Belbin and his team of researchers at Henley Management College in the UK studied the behaviour of managers from all over the world. His findings are documented in his best selling book Management Teams-Why They Succeed or Fail (1981 & 2003). He discovered that optimum performance in teams takes place when a combination of nine key team roles comes together. Each team role that he identified is associated with a particular type of personality. The mix of personalities in a team therefore has a major bearing of the outcome of a team’s effort to reach its objective. As part of our WOW! Projects methodology, TPC has adopted the use of the Belbin Team Roles Assessment to assess and align individuals with project teams and to optimise team productivity and project outcomes. Click here for more information. Ideas to help you get started yourself... Back to top...
Honey and Mumford Learning Styles Assessment Learning styles preferences determine the things people learn and the ease with which they learn them. They exert a hidden, but powerful, influence on learning effectiveness. Everyone, without exception, finds it helpful to know their preferred learning style. The Honey and Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire is the market leader. It has been used for over 20 years in every sort of organisation and educational institution. The questionnaire determines whether they are inclined towards activist, reflector, theorist or pragmatist. Tom Peters Company employs this assessment tool in workshops that focus on individual and team development in order to help delegates to: Become smarter at getting a better fit between learning opportunities and the way they learn best. This makes your learning easier, more effective and more enjoyable. Become aware of the differences between their own learning style preferences and those of their colleagues. Understanding the different approaches that each person is likely to take to problem situations can help improve working relationships Improve learning skills and processes. Increased awareness of how people learn opens up the whole process to self-scrutiny and improvement. Click here for more information. Ideas to help you get started yourself... Back to top...