Leadership Character Insight Assessment

The Leadership Character Insight Assessment is the product of a creative and dynamic partnership between experts in leadership at the Ivey Business School.  It is designed to measure leadership character and provide leaders and potential leaders with practical insight regarding:

• What leader character is and why it is essential for building strong leaders and organizations
• Key dimensions of character, their corresponding elements, and how they interact to influence leadership effectiveness
• Character strengths as well as information on how leaders can grow and develop on each character dimension

Applications

• Equipping leaders and organizations with a deeper understanding of character and the language to discuss leader character in a meaningful way
• Providing a platform to initiate learning and development around leader character
• Identifying and addressing problems that stall careers and contaminate working relationships
• Augmenting a competence-based leadership assessment process with a unique, powerful predictor of leadership performance

What It’s Best Used For

• Informing senior hiring and promotion decisions: Supplementing traditional skill-based interviews with deep metrics on an applicant’s core values, ethics, and operational drive.
• Driving leadership coaching and training: Equipping corporate mentors and organizations with a shared professional language to target a manager’s specific character strengths and blind spots.
• Fixing damaged workplace relationships: Pinpointing specific behavioral issues—such as a lack of temperance, transparency, or humility—that can stall executive careers and cause conflict within a team.
• Developing MBA and collegiate talent: Utilizing the specialized LCIA-Student version to benchmark business students against peer norms as part of higher-education academic paths.
• Profiling comprehensive trait interactions: Evaluating how complex dimensions like justice, integrity, courage, and collaboration interact to influence a professional’s daily management style.

Description

The Leadership Character Insight Assessment measures leadership character on 11 dimensions and 61 elements:

Accountability

• Accepts Consequences
• Conscientious
• Responsible
• Takes Ownership

Collaboration

• Collegial
• Cooperative
• Flexible
• Interconnected
• Open-Minded

Courage

• Brave
• Confident
• Determined
• Resilient
• Tenacious

Drive

• Demonstrates Initiative
• Passionate
• Results-Oriented
• Strives for Excellence
• Vigorous

Humanity

• Compassionate
• Considerate
• Empathetic
• Forgiving
• Magnanimous

Humility

• Continuous Learner
• Grateful
• Modest
• Reflective
• Respectful
• Self-Aware
• Vulnerable

Integrity

• Authentic
• Candid
• Consistent
• Principled
• Transparent

Judgment

• Adaptable
• Analytical
• Cognitively Complex
• Critical Thinker
• Decisive
• Insightful
• Intuitive
• Pragmatic
• Situationally Aware

Justice

• Equitable
• Even-Handed
• Fair
• Proportionate
• Socially Responsible

Temperance

• Calm
• Composed
• Patient
• Prudent
• Self-Controlled

Transcendence

• Appreciative
• Creative
• Future-Oriented
• Inspired
• Optimistic
• Purposive

Administration Languages: English
Report Languages: English

Leader and Student Versions

The LCIA is available in 2 versions:

• The LCIA-Leader version is designed for use with people already in leadership positions, and presents comparison scores based on a norming group comprised of people in similar positions.
• The LCIA-Student version is designed for students in MBA and other leadership programs, and presents comparison scores based on a norming group comprised of students in similar programs.