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What is a Leadership Assessment?

When should a Leadership Assessment be carried out?

1. Major transformations

  • Mergers & acquisitions (M&A)
  • Hypergrowth / change of scale
  • Reorganisation or rapid integration of new teams

Secure strategic alignment, streamline collaboration and clarify responsibilities.

2. Change of strategic direction

  • New vision or repositioning
  • Expanding into new markets
  • Evolution of the business model

→ Ensure that the team embodies the course and expresses it with clarity, consistency and conviction.

3. Arrival or creation of a new management committee

  • Key positions
  • Leadership restructuring
  • Integration of a new CEO, CFO, COO, etc.

→ Accelerate integration, clarify roles, consolidate collective dynamics.

4. Promotions & talent management

  • Identifying high potentials
  • Inheritance decisions
  • Building a strong leadership pipeline

→ Secure, objectify and prepare for the future.

5. When performance or collaboration falters

  • Slow or unclear decision
  • Silos and tensions
  • Communication that doesn't flow
  • Projects making slow progress

Why?

  • Aligned on vision, priorities and roles
  • Decisive & strategic in decision-making
  • Inspiring in its communication and exemplarity
  • Collaborative and able to cooperate smoothly
  • Agile, able to lead change over the long term
  • And above all: guided by solid mutual trust

For whom?

  • CEOs & Management Committees
  • Investment funds & Venture Capital
  • HRD, HRBP and People teams
  • New or fast-growing leaders

What leadership assessment evaluates

We analyze, in a structured and pragmatic way :

Assessment focusWhat we see

Leadership skills

Communication, decision-making, team management

Personal traits

Strategic vision, emotional intelligence, integrity

Deep motivations
What drives, gives meaning and generates commitment

Development potential

Ability to take on more complex responsibilities

Fit culture & mindset

Alignment with mission, values, dynamics

Objective: aligning leadership, culture and strategy.

The Laughing Willow method

The Laughing Willow method

A tried-and-tested, human, practical approach. Simple in its approach, powerful in its effects.

1

Targeted interviews & individual and group analysis

Structured interviews (2h each), based on :

  • Strategic alignment & priorities
  • Team dynamics
  • Leadership skills
2

Psychometric assessments

Depending on the context and the assessment to be carried out, we deploy the most appropriate psychometric tools, which are particularly robust, research-based and widely recognized for assessing leadership and team dynamics.

Among the most widely recognized are Hogan Assessments, the Process Communication Model and the Lencioni Team Assessment, which assess personality, potential, style, emotional intelligence and individual and collective impact.

3

Actionable recommendations & development plan

Visual, clear and concrete executive presentation.

You'll leave with :

  • Strengths to be reinforced
  • Priority focus areas
  • An individual & collective development plan
  • Simple first actions that can be activated immediately

Getting support

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