Global Leadership Roles
The success of organisations is ever more dependent on their ability to take advantage of emerging opportunities in a dynamic and increasingly global landscape in which they exist. Identifying future leaders who can operate in such an environment is key to taking advantage of global opportunities. The purpose of the global leadership solution is to identify individuals whose cognitive and personality characteristics dispose them towards leadership roles in dynamic multi-cultural environments.
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What the Solution Measures
The global leadership model developed by Psytech builds on contemporary leadership studies by combining standard trait theory categories used to predict effective leadership with additional categories used to predict global mind-set and business understanding. The model focuses on four main areas which global leaders most commonly have to understand and navigate.
Leadership Domains:
- Interpersonal Understanding (People) investigates how the individual interacts with others and builds relationships. People with particularly high scores on this category will most likely enjoy working and collaborating with others. The competency dimensions measured under this category are: Understanding and Support, Engaging and Outgoing, Diplomacy and Collaboration.
- Global Outlook (Cultures) measures the individual’s openness to diversity and other cultures. It combines a global knowledge based test with the personality scales for openness to other cultures and experiences. The competency dimensions measured under this category are: Global Knowledge / Awareness, Cultural Curiosity, and Tolerance.
- Business Understanding (Concepts) concerns the thought processes used to make decisions. The dimension combines cognitive reasoning abilities with learning and thinking styles in order to investigate the individual’s ability to process a wide range of information and make decisions. The competency dimensions measured under this category are: Holistic Thinking, Openness to Ideas, as well as Verbal Critical Reasoning, Numerical Critical Reasoning and Abstract Reasoning.
- Organisational Impact (Organisations/Systems) investigates the individual’s ability to effectively influence the actions and opinions of others in order to achieve organisational objectives. The competency dimensions measured under this category are: Ambition, Resilience, Influence, Accountability and Empowering Others.
