Leadership Development Report

The Leadership Development Report (LDR) is a powerful, objective personality assessment tool designed to evaluate 25 distinct personality scales packed into 13 key leadership dimensions. Rather than trying to fundamentally alter an individual’s core character, this system uses data-driven algorithms to outline an executive’s natural style and provide tailored, actionable strategies to improve overall workplace effectiveness. Taking less than an hour to complete online or via paper, it is built upon items from three highly researched personality assessments—the Jackson Personality Inventory-Revised, Personality Research Form, and Survey of Work Styles—to provide a clear view of an executive’s workplace tendencies.

Leaders have an impact on employee productivity, turnover, and organizational morale.  The Leadership Development Report (LDR) is a powerful, objective assessment that provides insight into leaders’ work-oriented personality, and helps them to increase their overall effectiveness. This sophisticated expert system provides detailed advice based on the leaders’ scores on 25 personality dimensions. The LDR is useful in a variety of situations. It is quick and easy to complete, and is a non-threatening assessment that facilitates interpersonal and work-related success and growth.

150 score-relevant descriptions have been added for the 25 LDR personality scales in the latest version, resulting in a more accurate depiction of subtle differences in leadership personality and style.

A comprehensive developmental report that provides your client with practical management and leadership advice. The report translates technical, psychological and personality language into business oriented language, and gives your client an understanding of how his/her personality affects his/her management style. The report has been carefully developed by a successful management psychologist and a leading personality assessment research psychologist based on research with more than 1500 senior managers. It employs leading-edge technology based on complex statistical modeling to provide focused advice, free of contradictions. This in-depth report includes graphs and extensive narrative materials

Applications

• In business and industrial settings for pre-hire assessment
• As a development and counseling aid for managers and executives
• Useful in team building exercises

What it’s Best Used For

• Managerial and executive development: Supplying active corporate leaders with personalized behavioral strategies to maximize their real-world productivity and management habits.
• Pre-hire selection and placement: Providing an objective baseline measure of an applicant’s temperamental, cognitive, and accountability orientations before hiring them into high-stakes leadership roles.
• Executive counseling and coaching: Acting as an empirically validated foundation for workplace psychologists and professional mentors during coaching sessions.
• Graduate business program enrichment: Assisting university students enrolled in MBA and leadership tracks to discover their professional strengths early in their careers.
• Strengthening corporate team building: Providing leadership data to help teams understand interpersonal friction, reduce employee turnover, and optimize morale.

Thorough Research & Development

Over 30 years of research has identified the personality dimensions that predict leadership performance. The LDR is based on and draws the best items from the Jackson Personality Inventory-Revised (JPI-R) , Personality Research Form (PRF), and Survey of Work Styles (SWS). These tests are among the most widely researched personality assessments in existence – over 2000 published research articles reference one or more of these assessments. The LDR items were selected with high-performing managers and executives in mind.

Item Selection

The statements comprising the LDR were selected using complex statistical analyses, and represent the most reliable and predictive items drawn from a pool of more than 4500 statements on which the JPI-R, PRF and SWS were based. Individual test scales were validated with respect to 42 managerial performance dimensions. Careful factor and item analyses were conducted to identify the best items for the reduced set of 25 scales. The scales were then standardized with regard to a population of managers and executives.

Superior Developmental Advice

Research on each of the personality measures was carefully reviewed in relation to actual case studies to aid in the development of advice. The advice seeks to optimize leadership effectiveness given a high or low score on each of the personality dimensions. The LDR advice is not designed to change one’s personality; rather, it promotes the development of strategies that allow managers and executives to work and manage more effectively, given a set of personality characteristics.

Leadership Dimensions

The following 25 LDR personality scales are aggregated into 13 Leadership Dimensions and 5 Leadership Orientations.

1. Orientation to other people

• Extraversion
• Sociability
• Dominance
• Social Confidence
• Expressiveness
• Independence
• Independence
• Approval Seeking
• Agreeableness

2. Orientation to Work

• Industriousness
• Work Orientation
• Energy Level
• Opportunism
• Risk Orientation
• Social Astuteness
• Job Satisfaction
• Competitiveness
• Work Involvement
• Time Urgency
• Work Involvement

3. Temperamental Orientation

• Anger
• Emotionality
• Anxiety
• Supportiveness
• Impatience

4. Accountability

• Dependability
• Organization
• Traditional Values
• Responsibility

5. Cognitive Orientation

• Openness to Experience
• Intellectual Curiosity
• Change
• Open-Mindedness

Norms

The norms for the LDR are based on the responses of a substantial group of male and female managers and executives (N = 227) from diverse types of organizations. Ages ranged from 25 years to 65 years and older.

Reliability

Good internal consistency and test-retest reliability for the three well-researched and standardized tests on which the LDR is based. For example, the Personality Research Form (PRF) has a median internal consistency reliability of .70 and median test-retest reliability of .91.

Validity

The 25 personality dimensions measured by the LDR show substantial empirical validity. They were validated by computing multiple correlations between personality and 360-degree feedback ratings for 42 leadership skill ratings. Multiple correlations ranged from .42 to .56. All were substantially significant to the .01 level. Furthermore, the PRF, JPI-R, and SWS, the measures upon which the LDR is based, have consistently displayed solid evidence of convergent and discriminant validity with self and peer ratings, as well as with numerous other measures. All measures show meaningful correlations with executive performance.

Internet Scoring

The Leadership Development Report can also be completed at on-line, which allows you instant local and remote testing and administrative access to tests and test results.