One option is the Leadership Circle Profile, which is a 360-degree assessment tool that measures a leader's emotional intelligence (EI), team dynamics, and strategic thinking. The Leadership Circle Profile was created based on over 25 years of research into leadership effectiveness and uses self-report questionnaires, peer feedback, and supervisor ratings to provide a comprehensive view of a leader's strengths and areas for development.
Ennegram is a unique leadership tool that envisions the motivations leading to actions/reactions. The tool categorizes people’s traits and behaviors into 9 types with 9 subtypes for each section. Enneagram assessments thoroughly investigate the motive of each action of an individual, leading to unpredictable results. This process differs from many other leadership assessments that factor a person’s behavior and then check if they are ideal leaders. The tool is complex but offers the best insight about a person much deeper than what he/she appears to be.
Most 360 leadership assessment tools have the same drawback that people often experience in relation to analyzing behavior, which is they look at the actions and not the motivation behind them, and it is this weakness that Enneagram addresses. Although over 80% of fortune 500 companies use 360 leadership feedback, many miss the mark because they focus solely on surface behaviors rather than underlying reasons. Enneagram attempts to address these shortcomings by looking at 9 categories of behavior types, and then create subtypes to analyze motivations that lead to certain behaviors. In doing so, it eliminates a one size fits all approach, and can more accurately identify issues and deal with them effectively. By categorizing possible underlying causes, Enneagram is an effective way to get to the root of a problem to foster a successful leadership style, rather than just creating a temporary solution.