Sample CCi Surveys for Individuals

We market the most comprehensive range of performance-based assessments in the world. Each of our 100 plus ready-to-use assessments is anchored in research and our more than 31 years experience with clients around the world. Our comprehensive products measure a wide range of competencies. Our shorter products focus on a single topic or a narrower range of competencies. All of our assessment products include free text or open-ended questions to provide participants with both quantitative and qualitative feedback from any internal or external source.

Selected Samples:

Leadership Assessment Survey
Global Leadership Performance
Developing Leadership Performance
Senior Leadership Performance Survey
Civil Service Leadership
Managing Sales Performance
Individual Development Survey
Team Development Profile
Sales Development Survey
Managing Interpersonal Skills
Managing Task-Project Skills
Management Development Survey
Emotional Intelligence
Conflict Styles
Negotiating Skills
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Customer Focus

1. Leadership Assessment Survey

The first internationally marketed 360° survey (1982). Originally titled, Leadership Development Profile, this survey is the most widely used around the world. We designed this product for supervisors, sales managers, and executives. It measures 16 competencies and 96 behaviors and practices. Applications include career and leadership development, succession planning, coaching and counseling, experiential learning, and implementing change.

Competencies and selected items:
Initiative and Risk Taking

  • Demonstrate a willingness to take the lead
  • Take prompt action when unexpected opportunities arise
  • Accept responsibility for her/his mistakes
  • Persevere despite organizational obstacles
  • Display energy, drive to accomplish personal or work goals
  • Willingly take an unpopular stand
  • Promote his/her new ideas to you

Personal Integrity

  • Exercise confidentiality when dealing with sensitive issues

Vision

  • Keep people focused on future possibilities, rather than past accomplishments

Quality of Results

  • Demonstrate a consistent commitment to quality

Empowerment

  • Allow you to use your judgment when making decisions

Communicating

  • Express ideas clearly
  • Present ideas, information in a well organized manner
  • Allow you to finish what you have to say
  • Answer questions specifically and to the point
  • Demonstrate that you've been heard and understood
  • Ask questions to learn more about (or to clarify) what you are saying
  • Write in a clear, concise style
  • Display an interest in you while you're speaking
  • Present ideas or information in a persuasive manner
  • Appear to be approachable and easy to talk with

Delegating

  • Let people know what is expected of them before they begin a task

Motivating

  • Set an appropriate example for others to follow

Coaching

  • Provide feedback in a constructive manner

Planning and Goal Setting

  • Develop realistic plans for reaching goals

Problem Solving and Decision Making

  • Generate alternative solutions when resolving problems

Creativity and Innovation

  • Challenge current thinking for the way we've always done it

Technical Competency

  • Discuss technical matters so you can understand them

Diversity

  • Accept differences of opinion

Team Work

  • Work across functional groups to achieve company goals

Mentoring

  • Increase levels of responsibilities to prepare you/others for a higher level position

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2. Global Leadership Performance Survey

This product is for supervisors and mid to upper level managers. It measures six competencies and 50 behaviors and practices. Applications include identifying personnel who should be effective in other cultures before they are assigned and for ex-pats who want to increase their effectiveness with those they work with in another cultural environment.

Competencies and selected items:
Visionary Thinking

  • Focus on why something could succeed, rather that why it could fail

Global Perspective

  • Initiate actions to improve company's global influence, competitive position

Decisiveness

  • Assign personal accountability along with appropriate levels of authority

Building Alliances

  • Adjust her/his leadership style to meet the needs of different individuals, teams

Judgment

  • Develop contingency plans to sustain our competitive edge

Cultural Diversity

  • Demonstrate sensitivity to racial, ethnic, gender, cultural or other differences when working with you (others)

 

3. Developing Leadership Performance

We designed this product for supervisory and managerial personnel. It measures nine competencies and 64 behaviors and practices. Applications include self-development, career development, and for becoming a more effective leader for an existing or future leadership role.

Competencies and selected items:
Business Acumen-Measuring Outcomes

  • Effectively organize people, activities, resources to accomplish specific tasks

Managing Innovation

  • Encourage you (others) to be creative in what you do, how you do it

Dealing with Ambiguity

  • Conduct risk assessments to make sound business decisions

Building Effective Teams

  • Bring together people with varied talents, perspectives to resolve work group problems

Performance Management

  • Create developmental plans designed to help you (others0 reach your potential

Decision Making

  • Generate alternative solutions to problems

Interpersonal Skills

  • Resolve personal issues by focusing on the situation, rather than the person

Drive for Results

Act as a positive, ethical role model for you

Execution and Implementation

  • Remove barriers to help you/others get the job done effectively

 

4. Senior Leadership Performance

This survey is targeted to upper level managers and executives. It measures four competencies and 61 behaviors and practices.

Competencies and Selected items:
Judgment and Decision Making

  • Identify the underlying issues that cause problems

Business Knowledge and Insight

  • Take a pro-active leadership role to move decisions forward
  • Take an unpopular stance on issues that may not be politically correct

Managing Performance and Developing Talent

  • Identify talented people who can make a positive contribution to the organization

Influencing Others

  • Make her/himself accessible to you
  • Display a sense of humor

 

5. Civil Service Leadership

We designed this survey for supervisory and managerial personnel in government organizations. It measures five competencies and 74 behaviors and practices.

Competencies and Selected items:
Leading Change

  • Keep people focused on future possibilities, rather than past accomplishments

Leading People

  • Allow you (others) to use your judgment when making decisions

Results Driven

  • Attack problems head on and work to resolve them as quickly as possible

Business Acumen

  • Allocate, reallocate resources as necessary to meet new, challenging needs

Building Coalitions-Communication

  • Communicate the political consequences of his/her decisions, actions

 

6. Managing Sales Performance

Designed for sales managers who manage sales personnel and account executives. It measures eight competencies and 73 behaviors and practices.

Competencies and Selected items:
Organizational Values

  • Collaborate with others outside his/her function

Organizational Alignment

  • Adapt sales goals to meet changing organizational requirements, polices

Analyzing

  • Identify poor performance (e.g., missed sales targets, goals) in terms of behavioral indicators

Planning

  • Identify the key behaviors, activities required to achieve performance standards

Performance Problem Solving

  • Identify potential solutions to emerging, on-going problems

Coaching

  • Communicate performance expectations, upfront, so they are easily understood

Development

  • Use multiple methods to develop you/others, e.g., coaching, mentoring, training)

Staffing

  • Recruit potential employees from non-traditional sources

 

7. Individual Development Survey

The first internationally marketed 360 survey designed expressly for individual contributors and non-managerial personnel. This survey is for people who manage projects and tasks rather than people. It measures 11 competencies and 59 behaviors and practices. Applications include self and career development, identifying high potential performers, coaching, and project team member effectiveness.

Competencies and selected items:
Initiative and Risk Taking

  • Demonstrate a willingness to take the lead

Personal Integrity

  • Follow through on agreed to actions

Quality of Results

  • Demonstrate a consistent commitment to quality

Planning and Execution

  • Complete tasks, projects within the allocated budget

Problem Solving and Decision Making

  • Identify problems in their early stages

Creativity and Innovation

  • Engage in idea generating or what if discussions with you

Technical Competency

  • Display self-confidence in her/his technical abilities

Communicating

  • Present ideas or information in a persuasive manner

Diversity

  • Remain calm when confronted with different points of view

Team Work

  • Understand how his/her actions impact the work of others

Mentoring

  • Help you/others develop new skills or capabilities

 

8. Team Development Profile

The first internationally marketed 360-survey for assessing individual team member's effectiveness, who perform in an intact team environment. It measures 12 competencies and 63 behaviors and practices. Applications include self and team development, identifying high potential team leaders, coaching, team building, experiential learning, and implementing needed change.

Competencies and selected items:
Flexibility

  • Quickly adapt to change, new ways of doing things

Integrity

  • Accept responsibility for his/her mistakes

Quality of Work

  • Pay attention to critical details

Communication

  • Allow you to finish what you have to say

Valuing Differences

  • Treat you with respect

Commitment

  • Set aside personal needs for those of the team

Technical Competency

  • Demonstrate technical competence when working with you

Problem Solving and Decision Making

  • Quickly gain insights to complex problems

Customer Relations

  • Treat the custom as a valued partner

Organization and Focus

  • Help clarify what is expected of each team member

Supporting Others

  • Recognize your creative or innovative ideas

Mentoring

  • Share relevant insights and personal experiences with you

Empowerment

  • Give you the freedom to manage how you do your work

 

9. Sales Development Survey

This was the first performance-based 360-degree survey marketed in the USA expressly designed for sales personnel and account executives. It measures 11 competencies and 66 practices. Applications include self-career development, coaching, identifying high potential sales managers, increasing sales performance and competitiveness, and implementing needed change.

Competencies and selected items:
Communication

  • Identify the purpose of the sales call

Active Listening

  • Allow you to finish what you have to say

Presenting Information

  • Deliver well organized presentations

Handing Concerns

  • Ask for your business

Personal Integrity and Image

  • Serve as someone you can rely on to follow through

Personal Initiative

  • Provide services that exceed your expectations

Product and Market Acumen

  • Keep up to date with industry practices and developments

Problem Solving and Decision Making

  • Develop creative solutions to help you make decisions

Timeliness

  • Arrive on time when meeting with you

Customer Service

  • Respond quickly to resolve product performance

Developing Partnerships

  • Suggest ideas to help your organization become more competitive

We designed the following shorter feedback products for supervisory and managerial personnel.

 

10. Managing Interpersonal Skills

This product focuses on critical relationship skills. It measures seven competencies and 35 items.

Competencies:
Communication
Delegation
Empowering Others
Building Commitment
Managing Performance
Diversity
Developing Others

 

11. Managing Task-Project Skills

This product focuses on critical task skills. It measures seven competencies and 37 items.

Competencies:
Self Management
Planning-Implementation
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Expansive Thinking
Technical Acumen
Initiative-Accountability
Monitoring Progress

 

12. Management Development Survey

This product includes both task and people skills. It measures seven competencies and 45 items.

Competencies:
Work Planning
Delegating
Empowering
Motivating
Coaching
Managing Results
Creativity and Synergy

 

We designed the following feedback products for personnel at all levels within the organization.

 

13. Emotional Intelligence

This product measures five competencies and 33 behaviors and practices. Applications include self-development, understanding the consequences of one's behavior, and for interacting more effectively with others.

Competencies:
Self Awareness
Self Management
Self Motivation
Social Awareness
Social Skills

 

14. Conflict Styles

This survey complements the Thomas-Killman Conflict inventory. It includes five competencies and 25 items.

Competencies:
Competitive Style
Avoidance Style
Accommodating Style
Compromising Style
Collaborating Style

 

15. Negotiating Skills

This survey measures two competencies and 21 items. It focuses on a win-win style.

Competencies:
Collaborating with Others
Tactics and Strategies

 

16. Problem Solving and Decision Making

This survey measures two competencies and 21 items.

Competencies:
Clarifying the Problem
Making the Decision

 

17. Customer Focus

We designed this 360-degree survey for managerial personnel who supervise and lead customer service personnel and key individual contributors who are more pro-actively involved with your customers (internal or external). It measures eight competencies and 51 behaviors and practices.

Competencies:
Ethical Behavior

  • Follow through on commitments

Communication

  • Display patience (and attention) when listening to you (others)

Adjust her/his communication style to the situation, person

Service Excellence

  • Respond to customer requests in a prompt, reliable manner

Negotiation Skills

  • Focus on the situation, the issue, not the person

Creativity and Innovation

Challenge current thinking for the way we've always done it

Problem Solving and Decision Making

  • Identify customer needs before recommending a solution

Technical Competency

  • Present technical information in a clear, understandable manner

Planning and Execution

  • Treat customers as a valued partner by keeping them informed at all stages of the process

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