Leadership Assessment
Measuring Critical Areas of Leadership Capability
In working with hundreds of companies over the years, BST has found that certain management and leadership practices recur across those organizations that have outstanding safety performance. Our Leadership Assessment is designed to measure these critical areas of leadership capability.
The Leadership Assessment gives normed, percentile feedback to leaders on how others perceive their execution of seven safety leadership best practices and four dimensions of transformational leadership.
There is a proven correlation between leaders who focus on these safety practices and use a transformational style of leadership, and an organizational culture that is capable of sustaining safety performance excellence (see BST's Organizational Culture Assessment). BST's Leadership Assessment is designed to enable client organizations to leverage that correlation to achieve performance breakthroughs for safety-and often for other critical business goals as well.
More on BST's Assessments of Leadership Practices and Style
The following leadership practices, which are assessed in BST's Leadership Assessment, have been demonstrated to have a direct impact on the factors measured by BST's Organizational Culture Assessment. Focusing on these leadership best practices has a direct impact on organizational functioning, and that translates to predictable outcome success.
Safety Leadership Best Practices | |
| Visionary | Describes compelling and vivid picture of what desired safety state could/needs to be. |
| Credibility | Perceived as honest and reliable, treats others with dignity, respect; follows through on safety commitments. |
| Action Oriented | Performance oriented, proactive in reducing exposure; persistent solving safety problems. |
| Communication | Actively keeps all people informed about relevant safety information and the big safety picture, as well as details. |
| Collaboration | Promotes cooperation and collaboration to solve safety problems. |
| Feedback & Recognition | Gives positive feedback about good safety performance, publicly recognizing safety contributions of others and celebrates safety success. |
| Accountability | Communicates clear safety roles and responsibilities, ensures people receive frequent, fair appraisal of efforts and results; holds people accountable for their responsibilities. |
In addition, the Leadership Assessment measures the four dimensions of transformational leadership style. This style results in growth of new leaders and easier and more effective organizational change and development. It has been shown to predict safety performance.
Dimensions of Transformational Leadership Style | |
| Challenging | Helping people to change their paradigms about how things are done and to think creatively about how to do things differently. |
| Engaging | Helping each individual to be successful, such as by coaching, mentoring, providing feedback, etc. |
| Inspiring | Painting a picture for people about where you see the organization going, and helping them see (and become enthused about) their role in that future state. |
| Influencing | Affecting the performance of those around you by acting in ways that build respect, trust, and admiration. |