Leadership Skills Insights℠
Focus and Accelerate Development with Personalized Insights
Leadership Skills Insights℠ offer a flexible way to get immediate, objective feedback on leaders’ strengths and growth areas. You can select key competencies to assess and gain instant access to unbiased group data, making it easy to identify skill gaps and create targeted development programs. Focused and actionable insights empower leaders to fast-track their skills and improve performance.
Featuring 15 competency-based assessments for frontline leaders, each assessment takes less than 10 minutes to complete and can be easily added to development programs. Unlike self-assessments, Leadership Skills Insights deliver objective measures of practical skill knowledge. With accurate and reliable data, you can personalize development at scale.
Key Benefits
The Impact of Insights for Development
Included with all DDI Leadership Development Subscriptions, Leadership Skills Insights empower HR teams and leaders with instant, accurate, and unbiased data to improve skills and performance.
Designed for Flexibility
Select from 15 assessments to target the competencies that matter most. Assign a few assessments to shape individual development plans or integrate some in learning journeys to personalize facilitated sessions and peer-led discussions.
Group Data on Skills
Look across data from teams or departments for trends to design group development experiences. Individual data remains confidential, ensuring a psychologically safe and supportive environment for leaders to grow.
Not a Self-Assessment
Leadership Skills Insights go beyond perceptions and offer accurate and unbiased data for development. Unlike self-assessments, these situational judgment tests evaluate a leader’s practical knowledge of applying skills in real-world scenarios.
Immediate Insights
Leaders identify their top strength and area for improvement with real-time, objective, and focused feedback on key actions and specific behaviors. Clear guidance helps them pinpoint what to amplify or adjust to become better leaders.
Clear Development Path
Create a safe and supportive environment for leaders to grow. These assessments are designed for development, not evaluation or decision making. Feedback is only shared at the group level, ensuring a focus on collective insights rather than individual scrutiny.
Which Skills Are Developed?
Leadership Skills Insights develop the competencies frontline leaders need most to succeed, backed by our research and years of experience shaping leaders. They Include:
- Aligning Performance for Success
- Building Partnerships
- Building Talent
- Coaching
- Creating a Culture of Trust
- Creating an Inclusive Environment
- Decision Making
- Delegation and Empowerment
- Emotional Intelligence Essentials
- Facilitating Change
- Guiding Team Success
- Influencing
- Inspiring Others
- Planning and Organizing
- Resolving Conflict
Next Steps
From Data-Driven Insights to High-Impact Development
Our Leadership Development Subscriptions include everything you need to design personalized programs or learning journeys that build skills and boost performance.
Digital Playlists
Curated, ready-to-assign online content supports leaders in learning, practicing, and applying skills on their own or with a peer group. A corresponding competency-based playlist is included for each of the 15 Leadership Skills Insights assessments.
Live Group Sessions
Whether in person or in a virtual classroom, our live group sessions—led by our expert facilitators or your certified trainers—offer a powerful way for leaders to develop skills together. Plus, insights from assessments can personalize the experience, making learning more relevant and engaging.
Practice Tools
With their results from Leadership Skills Insights, leaders can use a variety of available tools—including job aids, games, AI-scored simulations, and more—to continue building and applying skills back on the job.
Sample Learning Journey
Insights in a Sample Leadership Development Program
Leadership Skills Insights can be used on its own or as part of a learning journey that includes live sessions, online learning, peer discussions, and more. See how it’s used in a sample frontline leader program.