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Mettl Leadership Development Assessment
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Email Address: sample.report@mettl.com
How to Interpret the Report?
- This assessment measures work-relevant personality traits that might be manifested in work behaviour and therefore influence success on the job. This report summarizes the strengths and areas of development along with a detailed competency profile of the candidate. The competency framework used here is comprehensive and suitable to evaluate the role-fitment of the candidate for a wide-range of jobs across various industries.
- When interpreting the report, it is important to remember that the scores are not good or bad, only more or less appropriate to certain types of work. Since the results are based on one's own view of behavior, the accuracy of the results depends upon both honesty and self-awareness while taking the assessment.
Response Style
Response Style Genuine
Explanation of Response Style:
Genuine
If questions are answered in a sufficiently varied manner.
Social Desirability
It is a measure of respondents' concern with social approval or conforming to societal conventions. It also indicates one's attempt to project oneself in a more positive light than accurate.
Central Tendency
It is a tendency of an individual to choose the middle options (Somewhat Disagree & Somewhat Agree) in majority of the responses.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Strengths
Learning Orientation
Likely to seek out challenging experiences and opportunities to develop one's skills and abilities, and be able to learn from one's past successes and failures.
Fostering Diversity and Collaboration
Likely to create an inclusive work culture where diversity and individual differences among employees are valued and respected.
Leveraging Networks
Likely to have an interest in establishing contacts and building strategic relationships to ensure benefits to the organization.
Areas of Development
Fostering Innovation
Needs to regularly derive novel and original methods to solve business problems and foster a culture of continuous innovation within the organization.
Navigating Ambiguity
Needs to deal more effectively with ambiguous situations and more often encourage team members to perform their best even while working with limited information.
Strategic Thinking
Should make more of an effort to understand the long term implications of one's decisions and accordingly choose an appropriate course of action to accomplish organizational goals.
Dominant Leadership Styles
1. Delegative Style
Definition
Description
Suitable Leading Style when
Unsuitable Leading Style when
Advantages
Disadvantages
Dominant Leadership Styles
2. Directive Style
Definition
Description
Suitable Leading Style when
Unsuitable Leading Style when
Advantages
Disadvantages
EVALUATION OF COMPETENCIES
Lead by Example:
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1. Lead by Example:
Learning Orientation: High
Likely to reflect on past experience and be able to learn from one's own and others' successes and failures. May be willing to unlearn outdated skills and knowledge and is likely to possess a learning mindset. May actively seek feedback on one's behavior and performance and incorporate it in one's work. Likely to pursue challenging experiences and opportunities to develop one's skills and abilities and may often keep oneself updated about information and knowledge on the latest industry and market trends.
Resilience: Moderate
Moderately likely to effectively manage one's emotions and may occasionally be able to deal with pressure by being calm and poised. Somewhat likely to maintain stability with regard to one's emotions when faced with stressful situations. Moderately likely to think with clarity and maintain optimal performance during difficult circumstances. May at times be able to overcome failures and setbacks at work by using effective coping strategies.
Build High Performing Teams:
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2. Build High Performing Teams:
Developing Team: Moderate
Somewhat likely to provide team members with constructive feedback to help them understand their strengths and areas of development. Moderately likely to give team members challenging tasks and opportunities that enable them to develop their skills and abilities. May occasionally provide the team with timely and focused input and guidance on their progress to ensure improvement in overall performance. May sometimes support team members' continued professional growth and development by using appropriate coaching and mentoring methods.
Fostering Diversity and Collaboration: High
Likely to be understanding and sensitive towards others who might be different from oneself. Likely to leverage on diverse opinions in order to understand issues from multiple perspectives and find varied solutions to the same. May foster an inclusive workplace culture where individual differences are recognized, respected and valued. May often help diverse individuals and teams work collaboratively on common goals and objectives.
Accelerate Innovation and Orchestrate Change:
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3. Accelerate Innovation and Orchestrate Change:
Fostering Innovation: Moderate
Moderately likely to be innovative and may sometimes be able to generate original and out-of-the-box solutions for solving business problems. Somewhat likely to foster a culture of constant innovation by encouraging ideation and experimentation, and providing necessary resources to develop the ideas. May occasionally look for novel ways of working through problems to ensure that the organization stays ahead of the curve by innovating continuously. Moderately likely to have the ability to quickly identify patterns and the logical rule underlying those patterns to arrive at solutions. May somewhat be able to gather work related information quickly, from various sources and apply it in innovative ways to solve problems.
Navigating Ambiguity: Moderate
Somewhat likely to be willing to proceed with tasks without having all the necessary details. May sometimes tend to effectively receive and use information as and when it comes. Moderately likely to encourage team members to deliver on tasks, even when limited information or resources are available. May at times provide team members with support and encouragement in the face of ambiguous and unknown situations.
Change Management: Moderate
Somewhat likely to clearly understand the rationale for change mandated by the organization, and may sometimes be able to adapt to it quickly. May occasionally communicate to teams the need for change and how it would impact their work. May at times be able to highlight the benefits of change to help team members adapt effectively to the change transformation process. Somewhat likely to find synergies between old and new ways of doing things, so as to reduce the disruption to work as much as possible.
Lead Business:
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4. Lead Business:
Strategic Thinking: Moderate
Moderately likely to demonstrate an interest in understanding the market and the industry and may sometimes be able to identify emerging business opportunities and potential threats to one's business. May at times take actions and decisions after considering the short and long term implications of the same on the organization. Moderately likely to be able to critically assess situations and identify informational gaps. Also somewhat likely to be able to evaluate given information and draw logical conclusions. Somewhat likely to consider challenges that may arise in the future and prepare strategies to deal with them. Somewhat likely to focus resources towards planning the execution of business strategies in alignment with the organizational vision. May at times take significant calculated risks to capitalize on emerging trends and facilitate organizational growth.
Leveraging Networks: High
May be interested in socializing and establishing positive and constructive relationships with others based on mutual trust and respect. May build a wide range of connections and networks with internal and external stakeholders and gather and leverage resources for the benefit of the organization. Likely to nurture and leverage one's network to work towards mutually beneficial goals. May often cultivate strategic relationships to gain multiple ideas and perspectives and develop new business opportunities.
Critical Decision Making: Moderate
Somewhat likely to make effective decisions after critically examining issues, problems, and opportunities. Moderately likely to seek information from diverse sources and analyze the same in order to identify the most relevant details. Moderately likely to effectively analyze a scenario and choose among many possible solutions to a particular problem in any complicated situation. Moderately likely to consider all available data and facts before making a decision. May at times try to logically and rationally interpret information in order to draw valid conclusions.
Individual Development Plan
1. Fostering Innovation
Developmental Tips
• Never be afraid of thinking "out of the box". Be curious about new approaches to problem identification and look beyond the obvious information when generating solutions for critical problems.
• Question conventional processes at work. Break your existing thought patterns by rewording the problem statement, changing assumptions, or thinking in reverse. This will help you get a new perspective on business challenges and generate optimal solutions.
• Expand your knowledge base and stay updated with innovation, trends and new technologies in the market. Experiment with new product ideas to ensure that the organization stays ahead of the curve.
• Encourage teams to be flexible and open-minded. Motivate them to continuously review work processes to identify problem areas and bottlenecks, and make necessary modifications to resolve them effectively.
Suggested Movies/ Videos
• The TED Talk Where good ideas come from by Steven Johnson. In this insightful talk, the speaker challenges the notion that innovative ideas are the result of individual "Eureka!" moments.
• The movie The Aviator. It is a real life story of Howard Hughes who was an incredibly ambitious entrepreneur. The movie tracks his bold business tactics and inventions in the aviation industry and emphasizes that when one has to compete with a major player in the industry, one has to be innovative, creative and a risk taker.
Suggested Books/ Readings
• The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge by Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble. The book talks how the terms creativity and innovation are used synonymously, and lays emphasis on turning novel ideas into tangible ideas.
• Innovation Leaders: How Senior Executives Stimulate, Steer and Sustain Innovation by Jean-Philippe Deschamps. This book is a systematic presentation of innovation drivers and their implications.
Suggested Online Courses
• The course Leading with Innovation by Haiyan Wang and Anil Gupta on LinkedIn Learning. This course chalks out how any organization can systematically be smarter at innovation by leveraging concepts like design thinking, digital transformation and redefining target customers, to discover new approaches to innovation at your organization.
• The course The Innovation Masterclass - Creating an Innovation Culture by Ross Maynard on Udemy. This course gives an understanding of the main areas wherein an organization could innovate, utilizing a four step business model which would boost innovation within the organizational setup. It also talks about changing market and global trends which could act as a catalyst to 'think out of the box' in order to achieve long term organizational success.
Individual Development Plan
2. Navigating Ambiguity
Developmental Tips
• Learn to consider whatever information is available and utilize that in task completion. When in doubt, rely on your strengths and what you know, to navigate through ambiguous situations.
• Be prepared to incorporate additional information in your tasks, as and when it is available. Seek necessary clarifications about the new information to help you deal with novel situations.
• Provide team with necessary clarity on tasks and their execution when there is limited certainty. Keep your team regularly updated about new information that will help them perform optimally.
• Support team members during uncertainty. Enlist what everyone knows and doesn't know, and focus on collectively looking for alternatives.
Suggested Movies/ Videos
• The Tedx Talk Dealing with Uncertainty by Caspar Berry. In this interesting video, speaker talks about how uncertainty and ambiguity eventually help us in making better decisions.
• The Ted Talk The wisdom of Not Knowing by Steven D'Souza. In this video, the speaker attempts to reframe the phrase "I don't know" into a positive expression. He explains how not knowing something helps a person avoid overconfidence and arrogance and allows one to take responsibility.
Suggested Books/ Readings
• Tolerating Ambiguity for Leadership and Professional Effectiveness by Andrew J. DuBrin. The purpose of the book is to enhance the reader's tolerance for ambiguity as a method of fortifying his or her leadership and professional effectiveness.
• The Ambiguity Advantage: What Great Leaders are Great At by D. Wilkinson. Here, the author reveals how to lead others through times of uncertainty so as to create opportunity, innovation and competitive advantage.
Suggested Online Courses
• The course Successfully leading through change and uncertainty by Skill Boosters and Sarah Lewis on Udemy. With help of this course, one can learn the skill to work in complex and ambiguous situations and adapt oneself as per the changing environment. It would also help understand principles of maintaining flexibility in dynamic situations and leading the team to achieve organizational goals, when the future is uncertain.
• The course How to Thrive in a VUCA Work Environment by Mike Clayton on Udemy. Through this course one learns to deal with uncertainty at work and develop strategies to thrive within a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment.
Individual Development Plan
3. Strategic Thinking
Developmental Tips
• Focus on the future, and consider not only the current market trends, but also the emerging trends and developments both within your industry as well as beyond it. Ensure that these are included in the day to day work to ensure a competitive advantage for your organization.
• Think long-term, and align your immediate action plan with the overall strategic goals and vision of the company. Take a broad perspective and think about the long term consequences of your actions and decisions.
• Try to evaluate obstacles associated with every course of action, and make effective contingency plans to deal with them.
• Gather sufficient information to understand the probability of success, and the consequences of failure associated with different courses of action, and accordingly take calculated risks for the benefit of the business.
Suggested Movies/ Videos
• The movie The Big Short. It shows how 4 men, using their understanding of the financial markets and current market trends, take full advantage of the impending economic collapse in America.
• The movie Moneyball. It tells the story of how a new manager of a baseball team implements change strategies and takes a huge, but data-driven risk by signing up players who had been discarded by other teams for poor recent performance to get the results he wanted.
Suggested Books/ Readings
• Making Strategy Work: Building Sustainable Growth Capability by Timothy J. This hands-on book outlines the steps managers need to take so they can confidently implement corporate strategy within their departments and divisions and throughout their organizations.
• What the CEO Wants You to Know: Using Your Business Acumen to Understand How Your Company Really Works by Ram Charan. The author emphasizes on the idea that universal laws do apply in running a successful business. According to him, business acumen is acquired by understanding the basic principles which apply to any business, whether it is a Fortune 500 company or a small shop selling fruits.
Suggested Online Courses
• The course Strategic Thinking by Dorie Clark on LinkedIn Learning. This course throws light on thinking strategically, being perceived as a strategic leader and carving out time to create the thinking patterns. One learns to take decisions and implement informed strategies for organizational success basis historical data.
• The course Mastering Your Industry: Competitors, Products, & Suppliers by The Main Street Entrepreneur on Udemy. With the help of this course, one can understand the importance of having industry knowledge and the different methods to procure it. The course also teaches us how to gain insight about market standards, rivals in the industry, and value of in-depth understanding of one's unique services.
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