Leadership Skills Profile-Revised

The NEW Leadership Skills Profile-Revised is an updated and unique, personality-based assessment that uses information about an individual’s personality to predict their strengths and development opportunities. It replaces the 2013 version of the Leadership Skills Profile.  The LSP-R predicts performance on 50 competencies that are critical to leadership effectiveness. When combined with the benchmarking option, this assessment allows you to identify in advance those leadership competencies that are most critical for effectiveness in your organization and generate a report that includes information on only those competencies.

The Leadership Skills Profile-Revised (LSP-R) is an advanced, online personality-based assessment designed to predict an individual’s strengths, growth areas, and real-world performance across 50 core competencies critical to effective leadership. Serving as an updated, streamlined replacement for the older version of the assessment, it features a shortened administration time of approximately 25 minutes. The test uses quantitative scoring algorithms backed by extensive psychological research to analyze a candidate’s personality and generate user-friendly reports for hiring or corporate coaching pipelines.

What It’s Best Used For

• Vetting external job applicants: Utilizing the LSP-R Selection Report to gather quick “at-a-glance” score comparisons alongside deep behavioral reviews of an applicant’s potential leadership success.
• Isolating rapid development opportunities: Leveraging the unique myZONE feature in the Focus Report to identify the exact day-to-day skills a leader can realistically build and improve quickly.
• Structuring corporate succession planning: Identifying high-potential internal employees who exhibit the correct personality indicators to take on advanced management roles.
• Guiding self-directed leadership coaching: Providing managers with an integrated development guide and dynamic narrative advice to help them understand how their unique personality dictates their management choices.
• Targeting custom organization needs: Pairing the assessment with optional benchmarking tools to identify, filter for, and report on only the specific, specialized competencies your business cares about most.

Applications

• A pre-hire assessment for selection and placement of job applicants
• An aid for succession planning and other HR functions such as talent management
• A foundation for leadership development and executive coaching programs

Advantages of the LSP-R

Shorter administration time

• We’ve reduced the administration time to approximately 25 minutes

More comprehensive coverage

• We’ve added 9 new leadership competencies : Business Acumen, Prioritzing, Client/Customer Focus, Operating Upwards, Desire to Learn, Integrity, Valuing Diversity, Work/Life Balance, and Developing/Coaching Others

Enhanced prediction of leadership competencies

• We’ve optimized the scoring algorithm to enhance prediction of performance on competencies measured with the LSP-R

Updated Selection and Focus Reports

• We’ve created reports that are user-friendly and easier to interpret

 

The Leadership Skills Profile-Revised predicts leadership performance on the following 50 competencies:

Cognitive Leadership Skills

• Analytical Orientation
• Business Acumen
• Creativity
• Decisiveness
• Objectivity
• Prioritizing
• Risk Taking
• Technical Orientation
• Thoroughness

Interpersonal Leadership Skills

• Active Listening
• Client/Customer Focus
• Communication
• Conflict Management
• First Impression
• Formal Presentation
• Interpersonal Relations
• Negotiation
• Operating Upwards
• Persuasiveness
• Sensitivity
• Social Astuteness

Personal Leadership Qualities

• Achievement and Motivation
• Ambition
• Dependability
• Desire to Learn
• Emotional Control
• Flexibility
• Independence
• Integrity
• Open-Mindedness
• Productivity
• Self-Discipline
• Self-Esteem
• Valuing Diversity
• Work/Life Balance

Senior Leadership Qualities

• Assuming Responsibility
• Attracting Staff
• Delegation
• Developing/Coaching Others
• Emphasizing Excellence
• Facilitating Teamwork
• Inspirational Role Model
• Involving Direct Reports
• Monitoring and Controlling
• Motivating Others
• Organizational Spokesperson
• Organizing the Work of Others
• Short-Term Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Vision

Development

The Leadership Skills Profile-Revised is rooted in three well-researched, standardized measures of personality: the Personality Research Form (PRF), the Jackson Personality Inventory-Revised (JPI-R), and the Survey of Work Styles (SWS). The LSP-R items were selected from a pool of over 4700 personality items using
rigorous quantitative techniques.

Reliability and Validity

The PRF, JPI-R, and SWS, the measures upon which the LSP-R is based, have consistently displayed solid evidence of convergent and discriminant validity with self and peer ratings, as well as with numerous other measures. The research literature in psychology contains approximately 2000 articles citing one or more of these measures. Reliability estimates of each measure’s scales are reported in detail in the respective manuals.

Administration Languages – English

Report Languages – English

LSP-R Versions

The Leadership Skills Profile-Revised (LSP-R) family now features three products designed to fill your leadership development and selection needs:

• LSP-R Focus Report
• LSP-R Selection Report
• LSP-R Selection + Focus

LSP-R Focus Report (LSP-R Focus)

The LSP-R Focus Report provides a powerful leadership solution that simplifies leadership development by clearly identifying those traits that leaders can realistically develop quickly to strengthen their day-to-day performance. The report also includes an easy-to-use development guide to support either self-directed or coaching-augmented leadership development.

Features and Benefits

• Concise, focused report
• myZONE feature highlights those competencies that represent a leader’s most immediate opportunities for development
• Dynamic narrative feedback provides insight into how personality may affect an individual’s leadership
• Integrated LSP-R Development Guide facilitates self-directed development

LSP-R Selection Report (LSP-R Selection)

The LSP-R Selection Report uses the latest data-driven science on leadership theory and personality measurement to predict performance on critical leadership competencies and explain, in detail, how the candidate’s personality is likely to impact their leadership effectiveness.

Features and Benefits

• Concise, focused report
• Summary scores make “at a glance” comparisons between candidates easy
• Detailed analysis for candidate on each of the 50 leadership competencies provides breadth of coverage

LSP-R Selection + Focus

When used together, the LSP-R Selection and Focus Reports deliver a powerful, complementary leadership solution that allows you to make the most of your selection assessment and development efforts.