The Management Effectiveness Profile is a competency-based diagnostic instrument that will give your key leaders a valuable snapshot of their strengths and weaknesses. Once they recognize their own competencies, they can explore where to concentrate their improvement efforts so they can manage even more successfully in the future.

The trusted profile is self-scoring, user-friendly, and validated by research. Used in organizations across the country and in individual coaching situations, the tool is a must-have if you want to maximize the power of your most important resource—your leaders.

The profile contains 144 questions organized into 12 key categories of management effectiveness:

Managing Your Job

Managing and Prioritizing Time

• Setting goals and standards
• Planning and scheduling work

Relating to Others

• Listening and organizing
• Giving clear information
• Getting unbiased information

Developing the Team

• Training, coaching and delegating
• Appraising people and performance
• Counseling and disciplining

Thinking Clearly

• Identifying and solving problems
• Making decisions and weighing risk
• Thinking clearly and analytically

Also available:

The Management Effectiveness Profile Facilitator’s Guide—a complete how-to manual for facilitating a workshop based on the Management Effectiveness Profile.
Conduct a one-of-a-kind learning experience that helps all the managers and supervisors in your organization leverage their strengths and improve upon weaknesses. The guide is also perfect for individual use and self-improvement.

The guide introduces facilitators to the instrument and how it can best be administered. It describes the 12 most-important competencies and how they fit into an overall model of managing effectively. Included are a variety of exercises, discussion ideas and suggestions for workshops and additional learning activities.

Also included are suggestions for bolstering weaker areas, followed up by a Personal Action Plan template and a Contract for Change—both helpful tools in guiding each manager’s step-by-step efforts to improve.