How can you improve as a leader, manager, consultant, or coach? How does your team become high performing? How does your entire organization get to the next level?

In making these crucial front-end determinations, there is no substitute for data-tangible feedback that leads to insight, direction, focused action, and measurable improvement.

That, in a nutshell, is the value proposition for Linkage's assessment services.

How Our Services Meet Your Challenges?

Your Challenge	Our Assessment Services Help You Determine
Selection	Who you should hire and why?
Promotion	Who you should promote and why?
Development	What specific areas your leaders/managers need to focus on to reach their goals?
Succession	Who you should identify as next in line for a key position?
Restructuring	Who has the right skill set for the job that has changed?
Downsizing	Who has the right versatility for the leaner organization?
Cultural Transformation	How the culture is shaped-and how it needs to change?
Training Strategy	What skills you should be providing your employees from a systems perspective?
Team Building	How your team can align for higher levels of performance?
Organizational Analysis	Where your organization excels-and how it needs to improve?

What Your Employees Get?

• A data-driven analysis of capability strengths and gaps
• An identification of career-limiting "blind spots"
• Feedback from others to validate (or refute) self-perceptions
• Insight into capabilities important for a particular level or role
• A baseline to measure future developmental progress
• A roadmap for future developmental work
• The impetus for a commitment to improve

What Your Organization Gets?

• A sense of urgency to close your talent gaps
• Insight into individual, team, and organizational effectiveness
• Identification of your high potential employees
• Defined capabilities for success in particular levels or roles
• Concrete feedback on your organizational design and dynamics
• Data to ensure that your talent pipeline remains robust
  

Our Capabilities / 7 Key Differentiators

• We customize. Tailoring our instruments to fit your needs, culture, and strategic objectives
• We create. Working with you to develop your own unique models, objectives, and assessment tools and instruments
• We integrate. Making the assessment tool fit within the context of your overall leadership development or strategic change initiative
• We serve. Employing our established "A-Z" process for administration, freeing you from unnecessary burdens or hassles
• We amplify. Utilizing interpretative sessions and reports to provide you with deeper understanding and further developmental guidance
• We coach. Connecting you with a world-class executive coach who can leverage assessment data to spur individual growth and development
• We reinforce. Providing you with development guides with recommendations for actions as well as targeted reassessments (e.g., "mini-surveys") to measure change

Our Portfolio

LINKAGE has a host of proven and effective assessment instruments. Each instrument is:

• Grounded in research and relevance
• Available off-the-shelf or customized
• Available online or in paper
• Available as a self or multi-rater assessment
• Designed to be user friendly
• Designed to ensure accurate, reliable results
• Administered with appropriate confidentiality