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
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| 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
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| 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
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A data-driven analysis of capability strengths and gaps
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An identification of career-limiting "blind spots"
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Feedback from others to validate (or refute) self-perceptions
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Insight into capabilities important for a particular level or role
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A baseline to measure future developmental progress
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A roadmap for future developmental work
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The impetus for a commitment to improve
What Your Organization Gets
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A sense of urgency to close your talent gaps
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Insight into individual, team, and organizational effectiveness
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Identification of your high potential employees
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Defined capabilities for success in particular levels or roles
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Concrete feedback on your organizational design and dynamics
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Data to ensure that your talent pipeline remains robust
Our Capabilities-7 Key Differentiators
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We customize.
Tailoring our instruments to fit your needs, culture, and strategic objectives
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We create.
Working with you to develop your own unique models, objectives, and assessment
tools and instruments
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We integrate.
Making the assessment tool fit within the context of your overall leadership
development or strategic change initiative
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We serve.
Employing our established "A-Z" process for administration, freeing you from
unnecessary burdens or hassles
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We amplify.
Utilizing interpretative sessions and reports to provide you with deeper
understanding and further developmental guidance
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We coach.
Connecting you with a world-class executive coach who can leverage assessment
data to spur individual growth and development
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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:
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Grounded in research and relevance
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Available off-the-shelf or customized
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Available online or in paper
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Available as a self or multi-rater assessment
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Designed to be user friendly
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Designed to ensure accurate, reliable results
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Administered with appropriate confidentiality
Our hallmark assessment instruments include:
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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 |
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The Hogan Personality Instrument (HPI)
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| 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 |
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The Communication Styles and Abilities Inventory for
Leaders (C-SAIL)
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| 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 |
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The Compleat Consultant
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| 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
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The Essential Coach
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| 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
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The HiPlay Team Assessment
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| 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 |
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The Denison Organizational Culture Survey
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| 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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