LeadStyle Analysis by Alexander Hiam Managers and leaders have the ability to adapt their style to a specific situation to implement successful leadership actions.

What are the key features of this assessment?

Simple. Easy and quick to administer. Easy for people to take, even if taking it in a second language. Requires little or no facilitation and help, the instructions are obvious and intuitive.

Powerful. Each style is measured by force-choiced items, which is fully sufficient to get a useful score from a technical perspective. But it only takes 20 items to measure the four styles, which gives you speed along with measurement validity.

EI-oriented. Incorporates contemporary findings about leadership effectiveness, measuring and teaching principles of emotionally intelligent leadership. It is in fact the only style-based assessment to do so, since others were developed before EI became a topic of concern in leadership training and development.

Insightful. In a single hard-hitting page, participants are shown how to analyze their scores so as to find their dominant style, their least used style, whether they are people-oriented or task oriented as leaders, and whether they focus on today’s performance results, or on developing tomorrow’s performance capabilities. The instrument delivers lots of “ah-ha!” insights for participants with relative ease, simplicity and speed.

Behavior-based. The items and the leadership tips and planning instructions are behavior-based, emphasizing what leaders can and should do in order to get the best results.

Teaches leadership planning. The booklet provides ideas about how to use the style grid and the scores to develop a leadership vision and specific plans for leading your grouop and individual members of it.

Helps leaders handle conflicts. The first instrument and booklet to offer a new breakthrough approach for translating the leadership styles into conflict facilitation strategies that supervisors, team leaders, managers and other leaders will find helpful as they deal with the inevitable conflicts that arise in any working group.

Alexander Hiam