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Talent Assessment Can Help Valuate Leadership Characteristics

By Bill Flatts

Personality Evaluation can help an employer who is looking for an easy way to determine future leaders among those who have applied for a job and have made the next round in the application process. to find future leaders? There is not much of a challenge for companies that only promote from within because the company can recognize its potential leaders through familiarity. However, the organization may see a deficit in available leaders and may want to recruit possible leaders among graduating college seniors or recent college graduates. One of the best tools to determine future leaders is a talent assessment.

f the organization is planning a new leadership training program owned and sponsored by the company, then developing its own assessment or utilizing one that already exists would be a valuable first step in determining likely leadership candidates. As the leadership training committee maps out a plan to find likely candidates for training, they can also develop their own assessment and interview process. The talent portion of the assessment can be directed toward the twelve traits found in good leaders.

The talent testing could be geared toward identifying the twelve characteristics of a leader listed below:

1. Carefulness - a tendency to plan and think before speaking or acting.

2. Cooperation - the willingness to work with others toward a common goal

3. Creativity. A leader is willing and able to "think outside the box".

4. Discipline - a willingness to being responsible and dependable

5. Goodwill - the ability to think well of other's intentions and forgive

6. Influence. A leader has the ability to impress others because he communicates his thoughts without hesitation.

7. Optimism - an undying positive outlook

8. Order. Organization and neatness comes naturally to a leader.

9. Savvy - ability to read people to know their needs and intentions,

10. Sociability - enjoys being with other people at work and at social gatherings,

11. Stability - ability to remain calm and rational during stressful situations.

12. Striving - abiity to keep pushing and working hard to obtain goals.

There are more than enough assessments in the marketplace to choose from. Employers may also wish to develop their own assessment the is customized to their particular organization. The best advice would be to compare several assessments to get a feel of the questions asked and what report one can expect to get before finalizing a decision. The talent assessment can help an organization save time by looking for leadership abilities at the same time it is hiring. When a company knows it is in need of potential leaders to replace leaders who will be retiring in a few years, using assessments can help identify those potential leaders.

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