Leadership Potential Assessment

The Leadership Potential Assessment is an online, 100-question situational evaluation designed to identify whether an individual has the foundational personality traits and management techniques required to be a successful leader. Taking about 30 minutes to complete, this test scores candidates across 15 distinct scales split into three core pillars: Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, and general Leadership Potential. The final report provides graphs, interview questions, and a detailed narrative interpretation outlining an applicant’s specific strengths, limitations, and honesty patterns (Impression Management).

Purpose

The Leadership Potential Assessment will determine whether a person possesses the personality traits that characterize good leaders, and evaluates the type of techniques he or she would utilize if given a leadership position.

A POST-TEST COACHING REPORT IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS ASSESSMENT

What It’s Best Used For

• Screening job applicants: Evaluating incoming hires before investing time and money into specialized management or leadership training track pipelines.
• Assessing transactional management capabilities: Measuring an individual’s practical ability to delegate tasks, set clear goals, provide structural feedback, and reward team performance.
• Identifying transformational leadership traits: Pinpointing whether a professional can naturally coach employees, share a cohesive corporate vision, solve problems, and set an excellent baseline example.
• Mapping core personality styles: Evaluating an executive’s foundational behavioral metrics, including conscientiousness, emotional stability, open-mindedness, and collaboration.
• Guiding professional coaching loops: Leveraging the available post-test coaching report and narrative advice to fuel long-term employee development tracks.

Application

• Pre-employment
• Leadership Development
• Training Tool

No. of questions: 100
Question type: Situational, self-report,
Estimated completion time: 30 minutes
Longer versions of assessment: N/A
Recommended age level: 18+
Qualification Level: Class A
Compliance: APA standards; EEOC standards (gender, age, disability, ethnicity)
Validation Information:
Sample Size: 37,869
Cronbach’s Alpha: 0.95

The Leadership Potential Assessment  Scales

• Delegating
• Giving Feedback
• Goal-setting
• Rewarding Performance
• Motivating
• Coaching
• Problem-solving
• Vision
• Collaboration
• Setting an Example
• Agreeableness
• Conscientiousness
• Open-mindedness
• Extroversion
• Emotional Stability

Features

Benchmarks: Available – General Population & Managers
Interview Questions: Available
Group Comparisons: Available

Report Includes:

• Summary
• Introduction
• Graphs
• Detailed narrative interpretation
• Strengths and Limitations
• Impression Management
• Advice

Factors and Scales

Overall Score plus 3 factors, divided into 15 scales:

• Transactional Leadership: Ability to set clear guidelines for behavior, reward good per­formance and punish poor performance, provide feedback, and take a management role in assigning tasks to others.
• Transformational Leadership: Involves motivating and coaching employees, sharing a vision for the company or organization, problem-solving, decision-making, and setting an excellent example.
• Leadership Potential: Level of suitability for a leadership role.