Psychometric tools - SKILLSCOPE®
If they are to achieve success as leaders, junior managers need clear feedback on their proficiency in the skills vital to a management role.
The SKILLSCOPE questionnaire enables managers to compare their perceptions of their strengths and development needs with those of their superiors, peers and subordinates.
It examines 15 clusters of skills, each proven to be critical to success in the workplace:
- Gathering and making sense of information and identifying problems
- Administrative/organisational ability
- Communicating information and ideas
- Managing conflict and negotiation
- Making decisions, taking action and following through on ideas
- Time management
- Risk-taking and innovation
- Selecting and developing people
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- Energy, drive and ambition
- Knowledge of job and business
- Relationships
- Coping with pressure
- Influencing, leadership and power
- Self-management, self-insight and self-development
- Openness to influence and flexibility
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Advantages
The SKILLSCOPE questionnaire can be used for:
Individual development – help individuals identify their key strengths and development needs as the basis for designing an individually tailored development programme.
Teambuilding – identify team strengths and development needs and determine how teams can work together more effectively.
Designing group training programmes – develop training programmes to meet the specific development needs of individuals and teams.
Benefits
The latest release of this tool has been designed to be more user-friendly and easier to understand. It seeks to capture and mirror the reality of working life so that completing it feels authentic and relevant to the user, and the output is as meaningful as possible to the individual recipient.
It is based on years of research, and whilst not intended as a psychometric measure, has been proven to help junior managers achieve readiness for a bigger role more quickly, and thus move more successfully up the leadership ladder.