Examines the complexity level and quality of a leader's real-world decision-making skills. Includes:
Examines the alignment between the capabilities of a candidate and the complexity demands of a specific leadership role. Includes:
Examines the relative skills of a candidate and his or her potential supervisor, peers, and/or subordinates, ideally within the context of the complexity demands of a particular role. (Compare to the Team Fit Snapshot and Lectica for the C-suite). Includes:
The power of Lectica's recruitment tools lies in our ability to determine fit-to-role with a role complexity analysis. The complexity assessment does not include a role complexity analysis. Consequently, we do not recommend its use in recruitment.
Complexity Assessment reports include easy-to-interpret information about candidate's Lectical Scores, and a comparison of candidates' Clarity and VUCA scores.
Our Role Fit Assessment is designed to meet the recruitment needs of most organizations. Like the Complexity Assessment, it includes assessments of Lectical Level, Clarity, and VUCA skills, but unlike the Complexity Assessment, it includes an assessment of fit-to-role.
The teal band in the figure below represents the complexity range of a particular role, and the colors of the circles that represent individual scores tell us how well the scores of each candidate fit this complexity range. Role fit reports provide interpretations of fit-to-role and make recommendations about which candidates should move forward in your recruitment process.
Once we have established which candidates will move forward, we can compare these candidates' profiles with respect to fit-to-role, clarity, and VUCA scores. The Role Fit Assessment report includes an analysis of these results that includes recommendations for action, as illustrated below.
For a detailed example, see the article, Fit-to-role, Clarity, and VUCA skills.
Most hiring processes today include at least some assessment of the alignment between a candidate's beliefs, values, and attitudes and those of the organization. Lectica's Team Fit Assessment looks at another important dimension—developmental compatibility—how the complexity level of a candidate's skills dovetail with the complexity levels of teammate' skills.
A bad fit can be toxic. The subordinate whose skills are more developed than those of her boss is likely to become frustrated or disengaged. The teammates of a superstar who consistently out-thinks everyone else in the team are likely to become demoralized or hostile. When developmental compatibility is not taken into account situations like this are common, teams suffer and talent is wasted.
The Team Fit Assessment helps organizations build high functioning teams and optimize their leadership hierarchy. The following slide from our Team Fit report shows how a group of current team members fit their role.
The next slide shows how recruits are distributed relative to the complexity range of the role they are competing for and the scores for current team members.
We can build a package that works for any role you need to fill. Feel free to contact us for information or a conversation.
At Lectica, we believe in total transparency regarding the validity and reliability of all assessments employed in the workplace. We can say with confidence that Lectical Assessments are the most sophisticated assessments of mental skill in the marketplace today. Each one is based on exhaustive and ongoing research into the development of targeted skills, using a well-vetted set of research methods and our breakthrough technologies. We have conducted numerous studies of validity and reliability, several of which are published in psychometric journals. We invite you to explore our research pages or contact us to learn more.
IES (US Department of Education)
The Spencer Foundation
NIH
Dr. Sharon Solloway
The Simpson Foundation
The Leopold Foundation
Glastonbury School District, CT
The Ross School
Rainbow Community School
The Study School
Long Trail School
The US Naval Academy
The City of Edmonton, Alberta
The US Federal Government
Antonio Battro, MD, Ph.D., One Laptop Per Child
Marc Schwartz, Ph.D. and former high school teacher, University of Texas at Arlington
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., University of Southern California
Willis Overton, Ph.D., Temple University, Emeritus