Leadership/Impact® and Management/Impact® represent the cutting edge of research into leadership effectiveness.
Who is the Leadership/Impact® survey for?
For executives to be leaders, they must transform, shape, and influence the environment within which people operate and the ways in which they approach their work and interact with each other.
The L/I is designed specifically for:
- CEOs
- Executives
- Senior managers
The L/I provides those in leadership positions with unique insights into their leadership strategies and the impact of this on the behaviour and performance of those being led.
Leadership impact refers to the effect a leader’s behaviour, communication and decisions have on the people around them. The Leadership/Impact® survey helps leaders understand how their approach is experienced by others and where their leadership behaviours may be supporting or limiting team effectiveness.
Leadership/Impact® and Management/Impact®
Benefits of the L/I
The L/I provides leaders with feedback on their leadership strategies in prescriptive ways (their guidance of other’s behaviour towards goals) versus restrictive ways (constraints or prohibited behaviours).
You then look at how those strategies impact the behaviour of others in Constructive, Passive/Defensive, or Aggressive/Defensive ways.
It also provides a structured way to measure leadership impact by comparing a leader’s intentions with how their behaviour is experienced by others. This can highlight gaps in perception and give leaders clearer areas to focus on through coaching or development.
Benefits of the M/I
Feedback from the M/I enables leaders to compare their desired future effectiveness against their current effectiveness, as described by the people around them. It is the impact they would ideally have on others versus their actual impact.
The M/I also compares their self-perceptions of their leadership strategies to the descriptions by others.
These insights can help leaders identify which behaviours to strengthen, adjust or practise more consistently as part of their ongoing leadership development.
Strategies the Leadership/Impact® Survey Measures
Envisioning
Role Modeling
Mentoring
Stimulating Thinking
Referring
Monitoring
Providing Feedback
Reinforcing
Influencing
Creating a Setting
Unique Characteristics of the L/I
The Leadership/Impact® provides leaders with extensive gap analysis of the impact they want to have, their actual impact, and the implications this has for organisational culture. It links behavioural impact directly with specific leadership strategies and how these impact upon leadership effectiveness. Using rigorous and psychometric standards, the L/I integrates with the GSI and OCI to further explore the connection between individual, group, and organisational behaviours.
The value of the assessment is not only in identifying leadership behaviours, but in showing how those behaviours affect individuals, teams and the wider organisation. This gives leaders a practical basis for building greater self awareness, improving their leadership impact and tracking development over time.
