Knowing your starting point: The power of taking a leadership assessment

Our high-level goal for every client is the same: help them become a leader who has an effortless influence on others, including their teams, coworkers and peers. But meeting that goal takes a completely unique approach for each client — and that begins with knowing their exact starting point. 

An ELI (Energy Leadership Index) Assessment has the power to pinpoint that location. It will teach you all about yourself as leader — how you respond, how you motivate teams, how you make decisions, and more — and help us customize the best leadership development approach for you. 

That’s why taking that assessment is the most important first step in starting your journey toward realizing your leadership potential. 

Take our quick, comprehensive ELI (Energy Leadership Index) Assessment

What a leadership assessment can do

1. Determine your place on the energy scale

Photo by Zac Durant on Unsplash

Every leader has energy, and that energy falls in one of two categories. There’s anabolic energy, which empowers leaders to build strong teams and groups, find solutions, be more productive and foster participation.

Then there’s catabolic energy — negative energy that focuses on victimization and fuels drama. It’s destructive, especially when it’s present in C-suite individuals. These leaders and their teams aren’t as happy, efficient, productive or profitable.

An assessment will tell you where on the energy scale you fall, and thus, importantly, how far you’ll need to go to convert your energy to purely anabolic. 

2. Create awareness of your leadership style

Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash

It’s this simple: If people aren’t aware of how they lead and where they fall on the energy scale mentioned above, they won’t know what to improve or if they are making progress.

A leadership assessment will dive into the leadership details, establishing rankings in 14 different categories, both personal and professional — and creates “aha!” moments for leaders.

That kind of self awareness can be empowering and inspiring, but also humbling. You might learn about areas where you’re underperforming as a leader, and underperformance can be something of a slow, silent killer in professional settings.

3. Help us choose the right direction and approach

Photo by Jamie Templeton on Unsplash

With so many possible starting points — so many strengths, styles and places on the energy scale — there’s no one-size-fits-all way to drive leadership growth. Every professional deserves and needs a customized approach. 

We take great pride in treating everyone we work with as a unique professional with unique potential, and building the kind of approach that will be highly effective for them and them only. 

To create something so customized, we rely on the results of a leadership assessment. It shows us exactly where to start and which direction to go — to help give our clients palpable, measurable results quickly.

It’s our job to make sure every professional we coach reaches the highest energy levels possible, as often as possible. When we help professionals raise their level of energy, we can help them bring about more authentic behaviors that raise their level of confidence. 

Increasing that energy starts with converting any catabolic energy to the anabolic — and that starts with knowing where each candidate falls on the energy scale.