Frontiers in Assessment: Leadership Versatility Index
Our 360-degree feedback tool, the Leadership Versatility Index®, employs our research-based innovations in assessment technology. It is a revolutionary 360 instrument, measuring not only deficient skills but the strengths that leaders overuse.
Effective leadership development rests upon a clear and compelling picture of the individual’s current leadership. We have continually challenged ourselves to improve the tools we use to help leaders understand their strengths and limitations.
The LVI has a breakthrough rating format that allows raters to tell the whole story: not just identifying where leaders are under-developed, but also where they are over-developed and go to counterproductive extremes. “In your own words” comments bring LVI ratings to life. We’ve developed techniques for distilling the essence of voluminous feedback data—so that feedback recipients get simple unifying themes that nonetheless capture their individual complexity.
These enhancements help us get at what really matters in an executive’s performance. They provide the individual with an unprecedented level of insight, which sparks the motivation to take action. The result is potent assessment that produces both light and heat.
Learn about the research behind the patented 360 Leadership Versatility Index®:
Selected Research
- Kaiser, R.B., & Craig, S.B. (in press). Building a better mousetrap: Item characteristics associated with rating discrepancies in 360-degree feedback (PDF file). Consulting Psychology Journal: Research and Practice.
- Craig, S.B. (2004, April). 360, the Next Generation: Innovations in Multisource Performance Assessment (.zip file). Symposium presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.
- Kaiser, R.B. & Kaplan, R.E. (2004, April).Overlooking overkill: On the folly of linear rating scales for a non-linear world (PDF file). Paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.
- Kaiser, R.B., Craig, S.B., Kaplan, R.E., & McArthur (2002, April). Practical science and the development of Motorola’s leadership standards (PDF file). Paper presented at the 17th annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Toronto, Ontario.
- Kaplan, R. E. (1998). Getting at character: The simplicity on the other side of complexity. In R. Jeanneret and R. Silzer (Eds.), Individual assessment: The art and science of personal psychological evaluation in an organizational setting. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- Kaplan, R.E. & Palus, C.J. (1993). Enhancing 360-degree feedback for senior executives. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.
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