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PATH Leadership Growth Potential

The first and potentially best place to start your search for new leaders is within your own organization. The Talegent Leadership Growth Potential solution gives you the tools to quickly and effectively identify those people with the cognitive abilities and personality characteristics that best predict successful performance in a leadership role. It also identifies strengths and areas for growth, and provides a development plan to assure an individual’s successful transition into a leadership position.

Why assess Leadership Potential?

Finding effective leaders is essential to creating the following successful organisational outcomes:

Motivating and directing employees
Facilitating innovation and change
Creating a positive workspace and increasing staff well-being
Building the confidence and morale of teams

The first and potentially best place to start your search for new leaders is within your own organization. Thus, screening your employees for leadership growth potential is an important step to take to ensure effective leadership succession.

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Key Leadership Indicators

Lateral Thinking

Lateral Thinking is a measure of an individual’s tendency to think ahead and to generate novel strategies and ideas. This score should provide an indication of the individual’s foresight around anticipating problems and issues, whether they take a creative approach to solving problems, how likely they are to seek out opportunities for change and improvement, and how likely they are to generate innovative ideas.

Learning Focus

Learning Focus is a measure of an individual’s motivation to learn new knowledge and skills and to continually develop themselves. This score should provide an indication of whether they enjoy keeping up to date with developments in their field and researching new information. This score also takes into account the individual’s openness to feedback and whether they are likely to be defensive about improving themselves.

Social Intelligence

Social Intelligence is a measure of an individual’s tendency to dedicate time and effort into understanding other people’s thoughts and perspectives. This score should provide an indication of the individual’s ability to interpret and respond appropriately to social cues when interacting with people, as well as their interest in interacting and communicating with people.

Inner Drive

Inner Drive is a measure of an individual’s motivation to work hard and strive to achieve success. This score should provide an indication of the individual’s energy levels and desired pace of work, as well as whether they are likely to set challenging or more modest goals for themselves, and the passion they are likely to show in the pursuit of these goals. It also contains a measure of their ambition and motivation to advance.

Desire to Lead

Desire to Lead is a measure of an individual’s motivation to take responsibility for a team. This score should provide an indication of whether the individual is actually interested in being developed for leadership positions and whether they enjoy directing others. This score also reflects the individual’s confidence in their powers of persuasion and ability to motivate others.