Acumen Leadership Skills
A multi-rater feedback tool for guiding managers and leaders in the development of core leadership skills.
Effective leadership skill development requires measurement and feedback in key skill areas. Support your leadership development initiatives through the use of a personalized skills inventory that is founded on valid, reliable, and personalized feedback.
Acumen Leadership Skills provides leaders with in-depth information about how they perceive themselves and how others see them in their work environment. The 360-degree feedback provided enables them to see how they compare to other managers and leaders within a large norm base. Acumen Leadership Skills specifies the skills on which leaders should focus to enhance their own effectiveness as well as that of their team. Composite reports, which combine feedback results for two or more individuals, are also available. The assessment is taken online and requires 30 minutes to complete (paper assessment forms are also available).
Audience: Managers, executives, supervisors, and others in leadership positions
Most Frequently Used for:
- Enabling managers and leaders to compare how they see themselves to how they are viewed by others (including people within or outside their team)
- Providing leaders with feedback on the quality of their task and interpersonal skills and the relative importance of those skills
- Setting priorities for the development of specific skills for increasing professional effectiveness
- Monitoring the personal and skill development efforts of leaders and managers
Presentation of Results: An in-depth and personalized feedback report, averaging about 60 pages, is developed for each leader. Survey results in each of the skill areas are plotted on separate bar charts. The report includes the following major sections: Overview of Your Management Skills, Skill Area Detail, Breakout of Item Results from Different Raters, and Comments from Co-Workers.
Associated Outcomes: Research shows that the leadership skills as assessed by people’s co-workers are related to leadership effectiveness as evaluated by their superiors. Different leadership skill areas are related to different aspects of effectiveness, confirming the importance of measuring multiple skill areas.
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