Leadership Diagnostics overview: a unique (and proprietary) approach to ensuring IT leaders focus on value
We partner with CEOs, CHROs, Boards and Global Technology leaders in order to help identify and establish the optimal leadership culture necessary to strengthen their leadership capability. We focus on assessing and developing the leadership skills (and behaviours) needed to increasing the value delivered from your various IT and digital investments. Senior technology leaders, such as CIOs, CTOs, and their C-suite counterparts (across data, digital and security), shoulder the crucial task of steering organisations through technological change, delivering strategic impact and value. The world is moving at lightning speed yet at the same time is becoming more complex and ambiguous. These leaders are tasked with not only simplifying and reducing complexity within organisational systems, which necessitates a blend of social competence and adept people leadership and influencing skills but also in navigating these high levels of ambiguity. To add to the task, these leaders must foster innovation within budget constraints, collaboratively navigate across departments, manage talent effectively, and exhibit adaptability to these evolving market dynamics.
Assessing CIOs and their peers in the C-suite is challenging due to their diverse skill sets, complex role dynamics, and the continuous evolution of technology. Evaluating their impact on business outcomes, vision, and intangible contributions requires a tailored approach encompassing technical, strategic, and leadership competencies. Investing in the assessment and development of senior technology leaders ensures that technological strategies align with overall business goals. This alignment drives competitiveness and fosters long-term success by nurturing high-potential talent and differentiating organisations in the market.
Our EQ/IQ Framework: the glue to our Leadership Diagnostics approach
In response to these considerable challenges faced by senior technology leaders, The Digital Board has pioneered an innovative assessment methodology. This unique approach amalgamates EQIQ leadership skills to effectively address the complexities inherent in steering organisations through technological change while delivering strategic impact and value. Designed to elevate the capacity of senior technology leaders, this assessment draws from extensive research spanning over two decades in the technology leadership domain. It is tailored specifically for CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and similar leaders who, despite their pivotal roles, often confront challenges leading to shortened tenures and inadequate succession planning.
The EQIQ Approach is founded on assessing over 7,000 senior technology leaders across 20. This framework aims to aid informed decision-making and foster collaborative team dynamics in the technology leadership sphere. The comprehensive study culminated in the identification of ten critical competencies and behavioural indicators necessary for success, leading to the development of a proprietary 360 assessment tool securely hosted on the SAP cloud. This tool offers a structured, data-driven approach that aligns technology capabilities with business objectives. Our assessment tool follows a leadership diagnostic process, offering customised assessments aligned with individuals' organisational fit criteria. It evaluates emotional intelligence, intellectual intelligence, and cultural alignment, providing detailed individual and team reports with actionable insights.
The reporting generated by the assessment tool highlights strengths, weaknesses, and provides actionable development advice for individuals and teams. The Digital Board's Global Resource Library offers over 1,000 resources, aiding leaders at different career stages in their continuous development.
In conclusion, the EQIQ Approach offers tangible benefits for advancing leadership capabilities and fostering organisational growth. Organisations are encouraged to explore this assessment tool to empower their senior technology leaders and drive long-term success
Process overview:
Outlined below is the 8 stage process of our Leadership Diagnostics service. Each project is uniquely planned out to this format, ensuring an accurate and valuable assessment of any team. 
Our assessment process (in more detail):
During the first stages of our Leadership Diagnostic process we ask the client to select the competencies they would like us to assess their teams on. They are then asked to choose from a range of specific behaviours that underpin these competencies.Clients are also asked to set a benchmark for each of the behaviours they have asked us to assess, this benchmark acts as an indicator of what level each candidate should be working at in regard to each behaviour. By working with the client to select competencies and behaviours from our EQ/IQ framework as well as specific benchmarks, we are able to provide a unique assessment that fits the needs of the client and their teams.
Once we have established an assessment criteria with our client, we proceed to develop a customized assessment for each candidate to complete. This tailored approach ensures that we capture specific information relevant to the individual and their fit within the company. The assessment comprises various sections, one of which focuses on comparing each candidate with the company's culture. This section helps determine the alignment between the candidate's values, beliefs, and work style with the organization's ethos. Additionally, the assessment includes a comprehensive review of each candidate's competencies, skillsets, and aptitude, juxtaposed with a carefully selected range of behaviors from our EQ/IQ framework. This allows us to evaluate candidates holistically, considering both their emotional intelligence and intellectual intelligence. By incorporating these diverse elements into the assessment process, we gather a well-rounded understanding of each candidate, ensuring a thorough evaluation that considers cultural fit and behavioural competencies.Our reporting process:
Everything comes together in the final stages of our Leadership Diagnostics, through the production of individual and team reports. These reports contain a detailed summary of our findings, highlighting strengths and weaknesses as well as offering tailored expert advice directly addressing team/individual areas that need development.
Our team assessment report provides a comprehensive analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of a team, utilizing our EQ/IQ framework. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative data, the report highlights a teams performance across a personalised range of behaviours within our 10 competencies.The report features insightful graphs and charts that visually represent key observations, allowing for a quick and easy understanding of the team dynamics. These visual aids help identify trends, patterns, and areas for improvement. The report also includes interesting observations derived from the data, providing valuable insights into team dynamics and potential areas of development. Overall, the team assessment report offers a comprehensive evaluation that enables assessors to leverage the strengths in their teams and address any weaknesses to enhance team performance and effectiveness.In addition to the team report, an individual report is also created for each candidate, this report is valuable for both the candidate themselves as well as the client. These reports provide detail on the gap between how candidates assessed themselves and how they were assessed by their evaluators. They also provide individual candidates with specific resources curated from our Global Resource Library that can help them build on their weaknesses (see below section).
Global Resource Library:
Each candidate is provided with a set of curated resources from our High Performance Leaders Global Resource Library, these resources are selected with the candidates performance within the Leadership Diagnostic in mind. Examples below for illustration purposes.Our Global Resource Library has over 1000 resources and caters to both aspiring leaders aiming to reach a higher level of performance as well as established leaders looking to stay sharp and keep up to date with the latest trends and developments. All of the content neatly aligns to at least one of of our key EQ or IQ competencies, allowing leaders to easily identify content relevant to their particular development needs. We are constantly updating and refreshing our library to ensure that the latest trends in business and technology thought leadership are covered.The resource library contains:
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