Toolbox - assessments

Excellence Audit™ The Excellence Audit is a powerful business improvement tool. It engages key groups of people on how best to close the gap between present business reality and future excellence. Fifty characteristics of excellent companies are rated and the resulting data is positioned on the Future Shape of the Winner™ model. This provides a clear picture of the performance improvement challenges and identifies the most potent performance improvement channels. They define a work context that will sharpen focus, increase engagement, raise discretionary effort, and improve performance. The Excellence Audit rates current reality and future aspiration mapped onto the Future Shape of the Winner framework. It provides data about the “aspiration” gap, and shows where improvement activities will generate the most benefit. It provides invaluable information about the degree of buy in to future strategy. It informs leaders where they need to reshape existing change agendas. It confirms whether to expect acceptance or resistance to proposed changes. The Excellence Audit is often conducted at the start of a change initiative. Repeat audits are used to track progress and assess change over time. The Excellence Audit can be positioned as a stand-alone assessment as part of a client’s internal change initiative, or can be included in an overall change project designed and facilitated by Tom Peters Company consultants. For more information about the Excellence Audit, and how you can use it in your situation, click here. Back to top...
Culture Audit You know you’ve got a culture in your team or business, but wouldn’t it be great to be able to put your finger on exactly what that culture is? You know some departments have a completely different feel to others, but what is behind that? And when you are launching something new, wouldn’t it be useful to be able to anticipate where you will find solid acceptance, and where you will have to deal with difficult objections? Also known as Re-imagine! Corporate Productivity (R!CP), the Tom Peters Company Culture Audit is a powerful web-enabled tool that measures culture on 54 dimensions providing intuitive web-based reports and feed back. It gives clients invaluable data about the underlying norms, values and belief systems that are creating the culture of their organisations. Used under licence and based on the extensive academic research of professors at the University of California Berkeley; Stanford Graduate School of Business; and Santa Clara University, this tool is the only validated and widely accredited culture assessment method of its kind. R!CP is available as a stand alone service, or as part of bigger change initiatives. Click here for more information Ideas to help you get started yourself... Back to top...
Kouzes and Posner Leadership Practices Inventory The Leadership Practices Inventory is a 360-degree assessment instrument which participants take as part of their pre-work for The Leadership Challenge® Workshop. It is an intensely practical tool that helps leaders assess the extent to which they actually use the five leadership practices so that they can make plans for improvement. The LPI is a questionnaire with thirty behavioural statements—six for each of The Five Practices of the Leadership Challenge. Leaders complete the LPI-Self, rating themselves on the frequency with which they think they engage in each of the thirty behaviours. Five to ten other people—typically selected by the leaders—complete the LPI-Observer questionnaire, rating the leaders on the frequency with which they think they engage in each behaviour. Independent studies consistently confirm that the LPI has very strong reliability and validity. Today, it is one of the most widely used 360-degree leadership assessment instruments available. More than 250,000 leaders and nearly one million observers have completed it. Since the LPI was first used in 1985, surveys from more than 100,000 respondents have been analysed to determine the relationship between The Five Practices and a variety of measurable outcomes. Click here for more information Ideas to help you get started yourself... Back to top...
Belbin Team Roles Assessment The elusive subject of why some teams perform better than others has been the focus of the attention of Dr Meredith Belbin. During a period of over nine years of experiments Dr Belbin and his team of researchers at Henley Management College in the UK studied the behaviour of managers from all over the world. His findings are documented in his best selling book Management Teams-Why They Succeed or Fail (1981 & 2003). He discovered that optimum performance in teams takes place when a combination of nine key team roles comes together. Each team role that he identified is associated with a particular type of personality. The mix of personalities in a team therefore has a major bearing of the outcome of a team’s effort to reach its objective. As part of our WOW! Projects methodology, TPC has adopted the use of the Belbin Team Roles Assessment to assess and align individuals with project teams and to optimise team productivity and project outcomes. Click here for more information. Ideas to help you get started yourself... Back to top...
Honey and Mumford Learning Styles Assessment Learning styles preferences determine the things people learn and the ease with which they learn them. They exert a hidden, but powerful, influence on learning effectiveness. Everyone, without exception, finds it helpful to know their preferred learning style. The Honey and Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire is the market leader. It has been used for over 20 years in every sort of organisation and educational institution. The questionnaire determines whether they are inclined towards activist, reflector, theorist or pragmatist. Tom Peters Company employs this assessment tool in workshops that focus on individual and team development in order to help delegates to: Become smarter at getting a better fit between learning opportunities and the way they learn best. This makes your learning easier, more effective and more enjoyable. Become aware of the differences between their own learning style preferences and those of their colleagues. Understanding the different approaches that each person is likely to take to problem situations can help improve working relationships Improve learning skills and processes. Increased awareness of how people learn opens up the whole process to self-scrutiny and improvement. Click here for more information. Ideas to help you get started yourself... Back to top...