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Leading From the Future Assessment
Leading From the Future is an online assessment for gathering respondent’s perceptions of the degree to which certain critical factors are perceived to be an impact or influence in the future and for identifying the respondent’s present state, in terms of readiness to deal with these critical factors.
The assessment recognizes the difference between managing and leading in that one manages from the present and conversely, one leads from the future. The supposition is, to be an effective and successful leader; one will need to be effective in dealing with certain identified critical factors.
Additionally, the use of verbatim responses gathers qualitative feedback for each of the critical factors for an in-depth understanding of relevance and deviation.
Critical Factors Scope of Inquiry
Complexity chaos, ambiguity, uncertainty, turbulence, volatility
Competency knowledge, skills, and abilities, behaviors, attitudes
Creativity innovation, inventiveness, originality
Change reshaping, alternations, renewal, inconstancy
Culture generational issues, diversity, people
Context seeing the big picture, visioning, relevance
Confliction disagreement, controversy, incompatibility, interference
Crisis upheaval, instability, turning point, confrontation
Appropriate audience
The assessment is appropriate for executive leadership teams, senior management staff, boards of directors, team leaders and members, business unit work groups, and functional departments.
What is measured?
Perceptions of future critical factors (impact)
Assessment of current degree of readiness (competence)
Gaps, Alignments, and Agreements/Disagreements
How is data collected and analyzed?
Quantitative – Scaled responses
Qualitative – Verbatim feedback
Rank order perception activity for identifying the rank order of
Most impacting on future success
Most difficult to deal with
Most developed competencies
Least developed competencies