Servant Leadership Profiler
Unlike conventional frameworks that often focus on a single dimension—such as efficiency, authority, or engagement—this tool reflects the interconnected realities of leadership. It measures a leader’s capacity to reconcile competing priorities and adapt to diverse cultural and strategic contexts. By highlighting the importance of servant-leadership principles, it equips organizations with a transformative approach to leadership that drives sustainable performance.
What is this tool?
The Profiler evaluates leadership through the lens of Servant Leadership, focusing on reconciling key dilemmas such as short-term results vs. long-term vision, empowerment vs. structure, and authority vs. collaboration. Providing personalized feedback, it aligns actions with a servant-leadership ethos. Distinctive for its focus on reconciliation, complexity, and culture-neutral principles. It is not just a diagnostic tool but a developmental tool which equips leaders with actionable strategies to navigate diverse challenges and align leadership with long-term, human-centric goals.
What is the purpose?
By assessing the competence of an individual to effectively reconcile dilemmas, the tool elicits training needs. The tool can be used as a part of a coaching and development process through indicating priority areas leading to personal action plans. It allows also to monitor progress over time on the development of an individual’s intercultural competence to reconcile cultural-related dilemmas.
Diagnostic and Developmental: The tool quickly identifies areas of strength and improvement, empowering leaders to refine their approach in real time.
Integrated Approach: Based on decades of research and consulting expertise, the tool transcends traditional leadership models, avoiding binary assessments to embrace the complexity of modern leadership dilemmas.
Practical Insights: Leaders receive tailored guidance to enhance team cohesion, foster innovation, and achieve organizational goals while staying aligned with values that prioritize people and purpose.
Key Value for the Organization
Promotes adaptability in navigating cultural diversity and organizational complexity.
Aligns leadership behaviors with long-term strategic objectives and core values.
Builds a resilient, people-focused leadership culture that enhances both individual and organizational success.
This tool is not just a measure of effectiveness; it is a roadmap for growth, equipping leaders with the insights needed to excel in today’s rapidly evolving world.
Team Effectiveness Profiler
A transformative tool for organizations in diverse, multicultural environments, this profiler goes beyond traditional approaches by addressing the complexities of diverse, virtual, and specialized teams. By leveraging digitalization, it uncovers cultural differences, identifies key challenges, and highlights recurring dilemmas. It empowers leaders with actionable insights to turn diversity into a competitive advantage and foster collaboration for enhanced team effectiveness.
What is the Team Profiler?
It is an advanced tool designed to enhance team dynamics by identifying and addressing cultural orientation differences within and across teams. By providing insights into the cultural profiles of team members and comparing them against benchmarks, this profiler equips leaders with the knowledge to bridge gaps, manage diversity effectively, and drive better performance.
What is the purpose?
To provide a better understanding of cultural differences in a team, the reasons for cultural differences, and most importantly to increase the team leader’s cross-cultural management and integration capabilities.
Cultural Awareness: Builds awareness of cultural differences within the team and how they influence workplace dynamics.
Cross-Cultural Integration: Helps team leaders and members develop skills to manage and integrate diverse cultural perspectives.
Enhanced Team Performance: Provides practical guidance to optimize job performance, innovation, and bottom-line results in diverse teams.
Key Value for an Organization
The profiler elicits what one does well and suggests specific areas of focus for personal development, the responsibility for which is assigned to respondents (self-sufficiency).
Improves team cohesion and collaboration by addressing the root causes of conflict or misalignment.
Builds cultural competence within teams, making them more adaptable and effective in global or diverse settings.
Drives bottom-line business results by optimizing team performance through better understanding and integration of diverse cultural perspectives.
The basic principles
Assessment/feedback versus a mirror/reflection of the respondent (and, therefore, we speak of “describing” instead of “scoring”): it is about how the respondent sees him/herself. This way we avoid cultural bias.
Giving advice versus (self-) guiding (reflection questions): we give guidance as to what they can reflect on in the team performance.
Responsibility for development with coach versus responsibility for development with respondent (self-sufficiency): it is about coaching – the coach helps the team members with the development of the team.
“Static” tool versus developmental tool: you can do the tool over time and see the changes.
· Linear approach to development versus reconciled approach to development: we encourage the respondent to use DRP in the team development, instead of for instance SMART objectives.
Culture for Innovation Scan
What is the Culture for Innovation Scan?
There are more aspects to Innovation than simply assessment of creativity. Use this Innovation Scan to explore our integrated approach based on our extensive research and consulting practice.
What is the purpose?
This App enables you to quickly assess your organization’s innovation profile and gives you some personalized feedback and explanation of our methodology.
Creating a Culture of Innovation
This quick assessment based on only 12 questions is obviously limited in terms of reliability and we would normally recommend our comprehensive Organization Innovation Profiler webtool based on some 46 diagnostics and responses collected from relevant employees.
The conceptual framework and methodology is the same – namely the identification of key competing demands that will manifest as dilemmas and their measurements of current and ideal scenarios.
Integrated Innovation Profiler: Focuses on individual and cultural cognitive styles related to innovation and organizational fit, particularly adaptors vs. innovators. It also critiques traditional models and emphasizes the impact of culture on creativity.
Culture for Innovation Scan: Assesses the organization’s overall innovation culture, providing a quick evaluation with the option for a more detailed, comprehensive analysis. It measures how well the organization balances dilemmas and supports creativity in its culture.