The move from an individual contributor to a leadership role marks a critical and challenging career transition. Many people who are outstanding in their functional area prove to be less than successful leaders when it comes to motivating, developing, and retaining top talent. For new leaders (and their organizations) the stakes are enormous. They need to be accountable for their own performance and to drive and leverage others’ performance. Since first-time leaders must exhibit a set of new leadership skills, organizations often lack meaningful data with which to make the best selection decisions. Highly predictive results minimize the risk associated with selection and helps accelerate the development of leaders.

Through our partnership with DDI, we offer Assessing Talent: People Leader^SM—a web delivered behavioral assessment program—an excellent tool for hiring and promotion decisions, and development of future first- & second-level leaders and current leaders. The program accurately evaluates participants’ skills and readiness in managing a work unit and motivating, developing, and retaining talent.

The assessment activities in this program are particularly effective in helping companies diagnose the development needs of their leaders prior to implementing a training program.

The Assessing Talent: People Leader^SM program is a totally modular system, allowing clients to select the components most relevant to their first- and second-level leadership positions. The components in the program are set up in a day-in-the-life format so that your leaders go through roleplays that emulate interactions that typically occur on the job. The core program assesses proficiency in areas critical to leadership effectiveness. Additional components could then be added to supplement the core program as needed by the organization.

Read more about this “day-in-the-life” process here.