LPA^TM An Integrated Personal Style and Preference Tool

LPA^TM is a computerised 'expert' psychometric assessment system combining 6 assessments to cover 29 behavioural characteristics.

Developed over a 30+ year timeframe, LPA^TM covers:

•  Team Roles: is based on the work of Meredith Belbin (Belbin 1981), and it covers eight different roles.

•  Conflict Handling: is based on the work of Thomas and Kilmann, as adapted by Malcolm Levene at Ashridge Management College, and it covers five dimensions.

•  Work Styles: is based on the work on Telic Dominance by Murgatroyd, Rushton, Apter and Ray (1978) to measure preferences in areas of work.

•  Learning Styles: originally developed by Honey and Mumford (1982) and has been adapted by Malcolm Levene to measure preferences in four areas.

•  Personality: designed by Malcolm Levene (1997), draws on his experience in applying computerised personality evaluations over a fifteen-year period. This questionnaire is a measurement of personality traits as seen by the candidate. It covers eight core personality factors.

•  Professional/Managerial Style: originally created by Prof Edwin Ghiselli as part of his studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in the area of managerial potential. Very large numbers of people were tested, and their success or otherwise predicted. Many years later this cadre of people was evaluated for their success in management, and it was clear that the evaluation had predicted with great accuracy who would succeed and who would not.

These are six key areas that condition how executives function as members of a managerial team. This gives LPA^TM a major advantage over other psychometric assessments that use a single questionnaire and then 'infer' behaviour in other areas based on the results from the single questionnaire.

LPA^TM is completed online, or it may be downloaded and completed on the candidate's own computer. Feedback to the individual is given face-to-face but it can also be given telephonically. The programme provides a range of text reports based on combinations of scores from across the different assessment instruments.

LPA^TM outcomes include:
For individuals:

•  How they are most likely to react in the normal range of business interactions with other executives - both collaboratively and when under stress

•  Whether or not their underlying personality supports their outward display of characteristics

•  The working culture which best supports their own unique range of abilities

For organisations:

•  What their management culture really is

•  How to map psychometric data in selection and succession planning

•  Why management teams may be succeeding or failing

•  Where talent may be found

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