Test Your Management Skills

Overview

This easy to use, practical and effective book contains six psychometric assessment profiles covering the key aspects of leadership:
** Leadership style
** Professional style (Decision-making)
** Power and empowerment
** Management action
** Leadership 360 degree profile.

It contains the profiles and detailed analyses to aid evaluation of the results.

Who will benefit from this book?

Anyone involved in the management of people will value psychometric assessment profiles, including:

• Personnel professionals
• Trainers and consultants
• Line managers
• Individuals planning their personal professional development

Content

1. Using psychometric assessment profiles in management

• What are psychometric assessment profiles?
• Why use psychometric assessment profiles?
• The two main types of psychometric instruments
• The psychometric assessment profiles featured in this book
• The role of psychometric assessment profiles in identifying individual potential
• Trends in psychometric profiling
• What to do after the tests
• Overview of the six profiles featured

2. The management assessments

• The Leadership Style Profile & Analysis
• The Professional Style Profile & Analysis
• The Management Decision Making Profile & Analysis
• The Power & Empowerment Profile & Analysis
• The Management Action Profile & Analysis
• The Leadership & Management 360 degrees Profile & Analysis

The author

Michael Williams is an international management consultant with associate companies in Geneva and Copenhagen. He teaches at leading European Business Schools. He draws on over 20 years’ managerial experience in the printing, iron and steel engineering and automotive industries. He is author of several books on organisational behaviour, leadership and management, and is a member of the British Psychological Society and the Institute of Directors. He served full-time and as a reservist with the Royal Navy (Intelligence) and the Royal Marines (Commando and Special Boat Service).