The Behavioral Assessment is designed to meet the needs of organizations and individuals who wish to develop leadership capabilities in organizations or move into leadership roles. The LBL will provide services and tools in personal assessment inventories, personality profiles, team and organizational assessments, and behavioral simulation.
The Behavioral Assessment offers a learning experience designed to provide both the individual and the organization with critical information about the strength of its leadership and business skills. For an individual, a structured leadership assessment experience offers an opportunity to demonstrate skills and capabilities in a challenging environment and to receive feedback on that performance. For the organization, this process provides an accurate, independent assessment of the talent pipeline, a tool that will be invaluable to the organization's individual and organizational development efforts.
The Behavioral Assessment provides a more effective tool for evaluating the skills and abilities needed to fill leadership positions than by simply conducting interviews. The assessment provides an opportunity to see leadership candidates in action.
The Behavioral Assessment consists of personality and aptitude assessments, structured exercises and 360 degree feedback. The core of the assessment process is a simulation, which provides an opportunity to observe candidates while they work in a team to solve problem, develop ideas and make decisions that will control the destiny of their simulated business as it competes in a virtual market. The simulation requires participants to demonstrate a range of skills including strategic thinking, business acumen, team leadership and interpersonal expertise. These observations, along with tests and work measures, become the basis for an overall assessment of a participant’s strengths and development needs.
In addition to the expert facilitator's feedback, participants also provide input for each candidate and they are encouraged to spend time observing each other's performance in the team-oriented exercises. This allows participants to not only receive feedback, but to practice giving feedback as well, making it a richer learning experience. Research and practice reveal that the best way to develop one's skills is to provide feedback on how well they perform on a variety of challenging tasks, thus promoting personal insights.
