Assessments & Profiling

We use a range of reliable assessments, psychometrics and profiling tools to help people improve their self-awareness, and aid personal and team development.

The key assessment and profiling tools we use are:

• VIEW: An Assessment of Problem Solving Style

• Situational Outlook Questionnaire

• Personal Values Discovery

• Characteristics of Admired Leaders

• Leadership Practices Inventory

VIEW: An Assessment of Problem Solving Style is a self-assessment tool developed specifically to help individuals and teams solve problems and manage change more effectively.

VIEW assesses ‘problem solving styles’, which are consistent individual differences in the ways people prefer to behave when managing change, processing information and making decisions – individually or in groups. Problem-solving styles are value neutral – there are no better or worse styles.

Based on many years of research and development, VIEW is designed to help establish an environment in which team members can play to their strengths as individuals and appreciate differences in others to collaborate more effectively as a team.

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The Situational Outlook Questionnaire (SOQ) assesses psychological aspects of the work environment – commonly referred to as organisational ‘climate’ or atmosphere. It helps make the invisible aspects of climate more visible so that they can be improved. (Note: Organisational climate is connected to ‘culture’ but they are not the same. See our thought leadership article on culture versus climate.)

Based on the work of Göran Ekvall and over 50 years of research, the SOQ is a reliable and practical tool that assesses nine aspects or ‘dimensions’ of climate associated with organisational change, creativity and innovation. We use the SOQ as a basis for leadership, team and organisational development.

Find out more: To find out more about the Situational Outlook Questionnaire, please see our Insights article, contact us or send us an email via the button below.

Personal values are ‘a small set of timeless guiding principles that require no external justification because they have internal value to you’. Perspectiv works with leaders and teams to clarify personal values and affirm ‘congruence’ with team / organisational values. This process helps with personal development and enables teams to understand and honour their individual differences so that they can work together more productively to tackle complex challenges.

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Leadership is a relationship between those who choose to lead and those who choose to follow, and we look for special characteristics in people we willingly follow. Based on more than 30 years of research, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner (authors of the best-selling book ‘The Leadership Challenge’) have identified the enduring, cross-cultural qualities an individual must meet for others to willingly follow them.

Built on the foundations of Kouzes and Posner’s research, The Characteristics of Admired Leaders (CAL) survey enables participants from any team, organisation or industry to identify the characteristics they would most look for and admire in a leader they would willingly follow.

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Leadership is not about personality, it’s about behaviour – an observable set of skills and behaviours that can be taught and learned. The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) is a 360-degree assessment that measures how frequently individual leaders display behaviours from The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership model developed by Kouzes and Posner, which is based on over 30 years of research, more than five million collected surveys and hundreds of research studies.

With this information, individuals at any level and in any organisation can identify exactly where they excel as leaders and where they have opportunities to improve. The LPI is now one of the most widely used leadership assessments in the world.

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