Assessments

Awareness of self is the foundation for long-term effectiveness as a leader and manager. FMI utilizes established and well-researched personality, natural ability, and social ability instruments to assess individual leaders, executive leadership teams, high-performance teams, and entire organizations. Our goal is to facilitate the enhancement of individual and team performance and to help organizations create effective talent development systems.

Assessments used by FMI for leadership and organizational development include:

  • FMI 360 Feedback
  • Personality Assessments
    • Myers Briggs Type Indicator
    • DiSC Personality Assessment
  • Natural Ability Battery and The Leadership Potential Indicator

 

ASSESSMENT DETAILS

FMI 360° Feedback Survey

The 360° survey is a tool for gathering constructive feedback on your leadership skills. It consists of 42 questions covering several categories of leadership behaviors. Feedback is anonymous and will be kept confidential to ensure raters feel comfortable giving the open and honest feedback you will need to assess your strengths and developmental needs. The more you do to solicit open feedback, the better your experience will be. Many participants tell us that the feedback from this assessment is the best part of the week.

This Survey:

  • Provides feedback from your direct reports, peers and leaders
  • Allows you to identify blind spots in your performance
  • Enables you to identify patterns that may be limiting your leadership effectiveness
  • Provides access to specific feedback from those who work with you, regarding your performance as a leader
  • Nurtures a deeper appreciation for the gift of feedback

A final report will be received at the Institute and reviewed during a personal interview with an FMI consultant. This report will allow you to compare and contrast how you view yourself as a leader with how others view you. It will also be used to help you create an individualized development plan.

 

MBTI
The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality assessment used for many years to help people in organizations:

  • Leverage individual's natural strengths
  • Improve teamwork
  • Understand and adapt to differences in leadership/management style
  • Coach individuals
  • Assist in career development and direction
  • Enhance effective communication

A mother-and-daughter team, Kathryn Briggs and Isabel Myers, developed the MBTI in the United States based on C.G. Jung's theory of psychological type. The MBTI:

  • Describes and predicts behavior; therefore, it is used to open possibilities, not limit options.
  • Identifies preferences and not intelligence, values, skills, experience, training, or education and states that all preferences can be used by all persons.
  • Is the most well-documented personality assessment with thousands of scientific studies conducted over 50 years.
  • Has ongoing research to support its applications.

DiSC
The DiSC personality assessment measures observable human behavior and emotions. In organizational setting, it measures:

  • How one responds to problems or challenges
  • How one influences others to one's point of view
  • How one responds to the pace of the environment
  • How one responds to the rules and procedures set by others

Within the organization, the DiSC can also help to:

  • Align the personality with job roles/functions for increased satisfaction and productivity.
  • Improve teamwork
  • Understand and adapt to differences in leadership/management style
  • Coach individuals
  • Enhance effective communication

NATURAL ABILITY BATTERY
The Natural Ability Battery (NAB) is a state of the art assessment that objectively measures an individual's innate abilities through the performance of timed work samples. The NAB report identifies 19 individual abilities and styles that link to key leadership competencies such as:

  • Managerial and leadership ability
  • Inductive and analytical reasoning ability
  • Capacity for learning
  • Team orientation
  • Entrepreneurial orientation
  • Sales and marketing ability
  • Communication ability
  • Time frame orientation
  • Preferred channels of learning

The Leadership Potential Indicator (TLPI) is a customized summary report, which integrates data derived from the Natural Ability Battery and the Myers Briggs Type indicator. The summary comments serve as a starting point for developing a realistic action plan to integrate these behavioral predictors:

  • Management/leadership style
  • Decision making/problem-solving style
  • Contributions to the team
  • Cautions for you as a manager/leader

 

For more information on FMI's Leadership Institute, please contact Tom Alafat at 303.377.4740.