Assessment & Development








Leadership Effectiveness Analysis

 Frequently asked questions about Leadership Effectiveness Analysis

A strategic approach to transformational leadership development

"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." Peter Drucker, the doyen of management consultants recognised the critical contribution of leaders in successful organisations.

 

 


Effective leaders possesses attributes which can be defined, learned, practised, improved and passed on to others.

Frequently asked questions:


Why should my company benchmark and assess leadership competence?

Well-led organisations not only transact tasks efficiently and make good technical use of resources. They go further. They develop, evolve, explore, improves, plan. Successful organisations take the kinds of business risks that are likely to pay off because the risk-takers have a clear vision of what they are trying to achieve and the solid support of those who are going to help them achieve it.

There are five key areas of executive competence that correlate strongly with superior performance:

  1. Cognition or intellectual functioning directed at problems solving and managing complexity (refer to our Cognitive Process Profile).
  2. Motivation or individual values and drivers.
  3. Personality and Temperament, which determine how closely personal characteristics match those of the role.
  4. Technical Know-how related to the business.
  5. Management Behaviours demonstrating Leadership competence.

Among the most important components of behaviour relate to Leadership Effectiveness:

  • The link between having a strategy and achieving business objectives is the practice of effective leadership behaviour.
  • Objective knowledge of how your leaders rank against others is a good starting point for honing skills. (Extensive norm data is available for comparison with UK, European and USA norm groups)
  • The essential purpose of leadership assessment is to provide insight and information to improve leadership effectiveness. The Leadership Effectiveness Analysis (LEA) is designed to increase the effectiveness of team members by providing an individualised feedback profile. This profile gives a framework for understanding how your style and approach affects your ability to lead and influence others.
  • Leaders need to take responsibility for their interpersonal impact. Individuals are assisted in setting goals for enhanced interpersonal performance and create action plans to modify their behaviour in need.


What dimensions of leadership are important?

Every organisation needs to determine how they define their desired culture and leadership style, which must support their unique vision. There are some elements of leadership which are important to the effective functioning of leaders in any environment, irrespective of function, level or corporate need. The following areas are assessed by LEA:

Creating a vision

  • Traditional
  • Innovative
  • Technical
  • Self
  • Strategic

Developing Followers

  • Persuasive
  • Outgoing
  • Excitement
  • Restraint

Implementing the Vision

  • Structuring
  • Tactical
  • Communication
  • Delegation

Team Playing

  • Co-operation
  • Consensual
  • Authority
  • Empathy

Follow Through

  • Control
  • Feedback
  • Achieving results
  • Management focus
  • Dominant
  • Production
  


Does this imply that one size fits all?

Each organisation must define and redefine its Strategic Leadership Directions, which will be unique to that organisation. Senior Management must identify the specific leadership practices, which are required to meet the organisation’s strategic business objectives of the future. Depending on where the client organisation finds itself in the planning cycle, the LEA can be used in three phases, the first being the definition of the strategic leadership directions. LEA provides the framework for the process of defining the leadership requirements, setting strategic leadership directions and role expectations. Some functional roles that may require some leaders to adopt a style that is somewhat at variance with the overall leadership culture, such as a Financial Controller in a highly entrepreneurial company.

Thereafter, a 360 degree executive assessment may be conducted. Based on responses to the LEA Diagnostic Questionnaire, a feedback report is generated for each individual participant based on the input from self, boss, peers and direct reports. The feedback covers the 22 specific areas listed above. There are many different styles that will be more or less appropriate to an organisation at different times or different circumstances.

Each individual’s leadership success will depend on their ability to create organisational relationships that facilitate co-operation, performance, production and mutual satisfaction of needs and goals. The LEA places the emphasis on the future, on goal setting and movement towards attaining objectives.


Is it just about analysis, what about development?
Change on an individual or corporate level starts with self-analysis and self-awareness, but does not end there. Once the assessment is complete a clear picture emerges of what kind of leaders you have in the organisation. Our consultants provide development support to individuals and groups. The LEA has as one of its components a supplementary development workbook, which provides for goal setting and supports longer-term development.


When should clients use the LEA?

When they need to:

  • Assess the competencies and development needs of the management team.
  • Address post-merger and acquisition issues such as integrating management teams and identifying change agents or transformation leaders.
  • Make the right appointment decision without knowing a lot about the candidates.
  • Ensure that new entrants add to the pool of intellectual talent generating value.
  • Assess future development potential and plan career paths.


Has the LEA been shown to be reliable and valid?
  • The LEA offers a 360 degree or self-report process for benchmarking the competencies of Executives on 22 behavioural characteristics using UK, European or International norms. Norm data contains over 62 000 cases.
  • LEA has an excellent research foundation, wide international use in top companies and has sound metric properties or reliability and validity.
  • The LEA is the product of extensive research by its authors and is available in most major languages with agents operating worldwide. A wide range of top performing organisations such as AT&T, Deloitte & Touche, Intel, NASA, Credit Suisse and many others have adopted the approach.
  • Analysis on its own is not sufficient, the energy and commitment shown by the executive and their openness to change will govern the real measure of success of transformation. A rigorous programme of coaching follows the analysis phases of LEA. When used together with other powerful diagnostic interments such as CPP and 16PF, Leadership Effectiveness Analysis will clearly show executives how to close the gaps between their current performance and the desired leadership profile and behaviours.


Where do I find out more?

Please contact John Queripel at John Queripel Associates Limited for a sample Leadership Effectiveness Analysis report or any additional information you might need on values management in your organisation.

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