Assessments

Dynamic Growth Strategies is certified to use 3 assessment products from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). These deal with measuring managerial skills, managerial knowledge, and organizational culture.

They are:

SKILLSCOPE®
Prospector®
KEYS® to Creativity

CCL is an internally recognized resource for understanding and expanding the leadership capabilities of individuals and organizations from across the public, private, nonprofit, government and education sectors. Their mission is to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide. Their role is to help address the leadership component of both business and organizational challenges - helping to build, extend and revitalize the practice of leadership.

In addition to these tools, we have many years of experience in the following:
Learning Style Inventory by David Kolb (Hay)
Survival Scenarios by Human Synergistics
Group Development Assessment by Hones and Bearley

SKILLSCOPE® provides individuals with insightful, valuable feedback on 15 job-related skills - critical information that can help managers be more successful. It assess managers on 15 key skills.

Information Skills
- Getting and making sense of information
- Communicating information and ideas

Decision-Making
- Taking action, making decisions
- Risk-taking and innovation
- Administrative/organizational ability
- Managing conflict and negotiation

Interpersonal Skills
- Relationships
- Selecting/developing people
- Influencing, leadership, power
- Openness to influence and flexibility

Personal Resources
- Knowledge of job and business
- Energy, drive, ambition

Effective Use of Self
- Time management
- Coping with pressure
- Self-management, self-insight, self-development

Prospector® is unique 360-degree feedback tool that provides feedback on two types of behaviors: the skills most often found in successful executives, and the learning behaviors needed to acquire those skills. It assesses the following 11 competencies. The assessment is internet-based.

Learning to Learn
- Seeks opportunities to learn
- Seeks and uses feedback
- Learns from mistakes
- Open to criticism

Learning to Lead
- Committed to making a difference
- Insightful - sees things from new angles
- Has the courage to take risks
- Brings out the best in people
- Acts with integrity
- Seeks broad business knowledge
- Adapts to cultural differences

KEYS® to Creativity is an organizational survey that assesses the climate for creativity and innovation that exists in a work group, division or organization. It measures specific management practices that impact the work environment. KEYS assesses six management practices that support the work environment:

- Organizational Encouragement
- Supervisory Encouragement
- Work Group Supports
- Sufficient Resources
- Challenging Work
- Freedom

In addition, KEYS looks at two management practices that inhibit the work environment:
- Organizational Impediments
- Unrealistic Workload Pressure

KEYS also includes data on how productive and creative the work environment is:
- Productivity
- Creativity