Tag: Leadership

NEO-select leadership value profiling

NEO-select personality profiling is a tool to get a better insight in the different strengths of individuals. The inventory is developed based on the model of the big five dimensions of personality, and is conducted as a self-reporting assessment. Using a combination of selected facets in these dimensions, a ranking of leadership values is derived. It will give you a better insight in your behavior, and the driving values behind it.

You might download the questionnaire and the quick guide, how to fill below.

Fill out the questions, and you will get an immediate quick report of your levels and rankings in the broad five personality dimensions. The questions are available in English and German language. As a result you will get a quick and very simple summary.

To receive the full report – with much more detailed information – simply submit the completed questionnaire to the author.

Important note:

  1. Unzip the downloaded file into a working directory.
  2. Open Excel and load the xls file from there.
  3. The questionnaire is realized in Excel, and requires Macros to run for the control of the answering flow: enable macros.
  4. Once all questions are answered, the file will be stored under the exact same name in the same directory. (Don’t worry, your answers are saved)
  5. Submit the Excel file to the author and receive the full report.

If you don’t use a Microsoft environment, a simple spreadsheet version is available on request.

Quotes

  • Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people  (Eleanore Roosevelt)
  • Much learning does not teach understanding (Heraclitus,  540 BC – 480 BC)
  • The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. (Frank Herbert, 1920 – 1986)
  • Victory belongs to those who want it the most and stay in it the longest. (Sharif Khan)
  • In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. (attributed to Theodore Roosevelt)
  • Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. (William James)
  • Some things are too important not to share. (Bottom line of a commercial by a major European manufacturer of luxury automobiles after a certain safety innovation, not patented for altruistic reasons. I wish, more companies would follow instead of suing each other about patents …)
  • Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
    (Japanese proverb, as quoted in Civilization’s Quotations : Life’s Ideal (2002) by Richard Alan Krieger, p. 280)
  • Knowledge is now longer king. Instead, the application of knowledge in innovative ways is king.

My AHP Video got more than 10000 viewers

Thanks to all visitors and viewers of my AHP video. Views exceeded 10000, quite a lot for such a special topic. I hope, you all enjoyed and could take something usefull out of it.

Here the Youtube link to this AHP video

Another practical application for ANP is in preparation: The Marketing Mix. Will still take some more time, as ANP is more complex than AHP.

More interesting things to come!

Currently I am working on the leadership topic, still trying to get more people to try out the personal inventory.

You will receive a full report free of charge when sending the file back to me. (bpmsg at bpmsg dot com)

For those, interested in nature: have a look at my sunbird video, its in HD and some of the shots are really nice in quality.

Value Driven Leadership

  • Succession planning for leadership positions plays an important role for the future business of any company. Leaders have not only to have a strategic view, good management skills and the necessary technical knowledge. With their behavior they also determine the motivation of their teams and employees, and with that finally the productivity and profitability of the whole organization.
  • Leaders have to give an example, they need to show initiative and have to be efficient. In a continuously changing business environment leaders need also to be open to new experiences, and they must show willingness to change. Emotional intelligence and critical self reflection combined with integrity will yield to mutual respect of their people, and result in a high acceptance for necessary business decisions.

Only with the right values behind people driving their behavior, the most important pre-condition for a successful leadership is met.

But how to assess these values?

NEO-select personality test is a tool to get a better insight in the different strengths of individuals. The test is developed based on the model of the big five dimensions of personality, and is conducted as a self-reporting assessment. Using a combination of selected facets in these dimensions, a ranking of leadership values is derived. It will give the person a better insight in his or her behavior, and the driving forces behind it.

  • The test is not equivalent to the commercial inventory on which it is based, the NEO PI-R™, but it is constructed from the public domain IPIP items, assembled by Dr. Lewis R. Goldberg.
  • The inventory does not reveal hidden, secret information. The five dimensions (broad domains) cover normal differences in personality that should be obvious to people who know the person well. NEO-select is designed to complement other assessments of job suitability, as for example the Harrison Innerview or others.

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