Leadership
4 Key Assessment Metrics to Improve Leadership Effectiveness
Using the right leadership assessment data points can inform decisions that significantly boost your team’s leadership effectiveness.
The right leadership can make or break a business, so it’s vital that your leaders have the skills, behaviors, and abilities your organization needs for success. Great leadership maintains stability, facilitates change, increases employee engagement, and powers growth.
Discovering who among your workforce has the potential to be a strong future leader is critical—and difficult. This is no time to go with your gut. You need a leadership assessment tool, like Korn Ferry’s Success Profiles, to help you understand the leadership styles, traits, skill sets, and mindsets needed for your organization. Then, you need to evaluate your people against the ideal to see how they stack up.
But what leadership competencies should be included in an effective Success Profile in order to ensure maximum impact?
Four Leadership Qualities to Measure
Effective executive assessment will measure talent in four key areas:
- Performance: Assess the current effectiveness of your people and locate your A-players
- Potential: Identify a person’s capability to handle complex roles and predict how far they can go within the organization
- Readiness: Evaluate a potential leader’s preparedness and run a gap analysis
- Fit: Determine immediate role suitability and the potential for cultural integration
Benchmark your workforce in these four areas, and you’ll be able to see the gaps in your team, identify the people with the right leadership strengths, and fill your leadership pipeline.
Planning for Transformational Leadership
Leaders who are most aligned with your customized Success Profiles are more likely to be highly engaged in their roles, leading to greater leadership impact.
“When you use an assessment, you’re stacking the odds that you’ll select someone who not only fits the profile for that role, but who will likely go on to be a high performer, contribute more value over time, and have the potential to be promoted into bigger and more impactful roles,” says Evelyn Orr, Korn Ferry’s Head of CEO and Executive Assessment for North America.
Read our flipbook to find out:
- Why finding the right leaders is imperative to the success of your organization
- How to use Korn Ferry’s Success Profiles to find future leaders
- The key areas to measure with executive assessments
To learn more about the metrics and assessments that can help identify the inspirational leadership your organization needs, read our flipbook Future Leadership Success: A Strategic Assessment Checklist.
