MANAGER skills assessment tool

Our smart management and leadership assessment tool identifies the skills needed for your people to fulfil their current roles and their future aspirations.

If you are in HR: How do you know where to spend your precious learning and development or training budget? Which managers need development, how much and what type of development?

If you are a manager of managers: Do your people have the knowledge, skills and attitude – the capability - needed to deliver? Do you know each manager’s skills gaps? And where it is best to focus training efforts to make the most difference?

This manager assessment tool will give you a clear picture of your people’s management and leadership capability and where to focus investment to give the best return.

What do you get?

A skills assessment for each individual

• Done online, the tool comprises a self-assessment, 360° feedback from up to 6 people such as the manager’s manager, peers and those reporting to them. If you have a  Discovery Insights profile, you can add your summary ‘postcode’ to give a more rounded assessment.

A skills assessment at team level

• The individual assessments can be summed to give a team, department or organisational view of management and leadership capability. This can be used to make decisions about where to spend your training budget for best return on investment.

Optional extras:

• Integrate your competency framework: the tool uses Treehouse’s Contribution Curve to assess skills - we can use yours instead – it’s easy for up to 10 themes and 5 levels. Beyond that it’s still possible, just a little more investment.

• Personalised Growth Plan: a coach will work 1:1 with your manager or leader to co-create a personalised Growth Plan. The coach uses the data from the online tool plus all sorts of relevant supporting information such as where the manager sits in the organisation, the managers’ current role profile and future role aspirations too.

• Discovery Insights profile and 1:1 debrief: understand yourself and others better by doing a Discovery Insights personality profile and have a 1:1 debrief with a licensed Discovery Insights practitioner. The ‘postcode’ (the summary of your personality preference) integrates with our tool to give a more rounded assessment.

So what? How could you use this valuable information? If you have an internal learning and development curriculum, then simply use the skills assessment to plan the training you need for each manager. If you want to outsource all or part of your training, then we can help…

What’s Next?

We offer a full Management Development Programme for managers and leaders in your organisation - the skills assessment forms the first step, so you already have a head start!