Services

Leadership assessment

Hire and develop leaders with confidence

Identify leaders’ strengths in alignment with your goals.

Leaders and teammates

​​Organizations need accurate, actionable data—not intuition or paper pedigrees—to make informed hiring, promotion, and development decisions about leaders.

Leadership assessments with Accelerated Performance Group provide a clear understanding of what drives each leader. 

Whether we’re assessing incumbent leaders for promotion and development, or external candidates for selection, our team collects insights about your organization’s leadership needs and utilizes validated and empirical assessments.

We deliver actionable insights into how your current and potential leaders thrive–and where they may struggle–in alignment with your specific goals.

Incumbent assessment benefits

  • Use valid empirical methods to identify strengths and opportunities for growth in your leadership team.

  • Support strategic development of your leaders throughout selection, onboarding, promotions, and transitions.

  • Reduce politics and bias, providing a fair assessment process for every leader.

  • Proactively identify high-potential leaders for growth and succession management.

  • Develop leaders to drive increased employee engagement and organizational performance.

Candidate assessment benefits

  • Minimize costly hiring mistakes that lead to wasted resources and opportunity loss.

  • Create a fair and consistent process for assessing candidates aligned to your organization’s needs.

  • Reduce reliance on guessing, intuition, and pedigree.

  • Integrate scientifically proven leadership candidate evaluation processes.

“50% of senior executives fail within the first 18 months,
often due to misalignment with organizational needs.”

Source: Harvard Business Review

Program overview

Whether we’re helping your organization develop incumbent leaders or select the best fit leadership candidates, we follow the same process of open inquiry, accurate assessments, and supportive integration of new information.

Step 1: Learn

  • Understand your strategic goals, opportunities, and challenges to shape the assessment focus

  • Clarify the role’s requirements and leadership competencies critical for success

  • Define and confirm specific success metrics for selecting and/or developing leaders

Step 2: Assess

  • Administer valid assessments

  • Analyze results in the context of your organization’s needs, strategy, and industry-specific demands

  • Identify strengths and growth opportunities to empirically inform selection and/or development planning

Step 3: Integrate

  • Present tailored reporting

  • Provide targeted feedback and action planning to support new leader onboarding and/or development - may include executive coaching

  • Follow-up to ensure success metrics are achieved

“Leadership assessments contribute to 35% faster development of high-potential employees into leadership roles, ensuring a robust pipeline of future leaders.”

Source: Wesley Cherisien

Hire and develop leaders with confidence.

Identify leaders’ strengths and growth opportunities in alignment with your organizational goals.

  • Support strategic development of your leaders throughout selection, onboarding, promotions, and transitions

  • Reduce politics and bias, providing a fair assessment process for every leader

  • Minimize costly hiring mistakes that lead to wasted resources and opportunity loss

  • Create a fair and consistent process for assessing candidates aligned to your organization’s needs