Striding Out uses the The Leadership Circle Profile (TM) to help leaders determine their strategic and operational leadership style.

It’s a powerful way to explore how people operate when going about their work and the impact they have on the people around them.

It explores the way that we are Reactive vs Creative, and how we balance Relationship vs Task. Leadership can have a profound impact on companies. Recent studies have shown that effective leadership can add as much as 40% to bottom line profit. What would you do with 40% more profit?

It is the only 360 degree assessment that measures the two primary leadership domains—Creative Competencies and Reactive Tendencies—and integrates this information so that the key opportunities for development immediately rise to the surface.

• Creative Competencies are well-researched competencies that measure how you achieve results, bring out the best in others, lead with vision, enhance your own development, act with integrity and courage, and improve organizational systems.
• Reactive Tendencies are leadership styles that emphasize caution over creating results, self-protection over productive engagement, and aggression over building alignment. These self-limiting styles overemphasize the focus on gaining the approval of others, protecting yourself, and getting results through high control tactics.

The Leadership Circle Profile integrates well-researched leadership competencies into a unified framework.

This framework accelerates insight, deepens awareness, and highlights leverage points for change.TLCP displays results within a high impact framework, not merely in the rank order scores found in most 360 degree assessments. TLCP's high impact framework springs from the very best models of adult development. This framework shows leaders both how they are doing and spotlights the hidden motivators that drive successful and unsuccessful behaviour. It also enables the coach who works with the person to “meet with them where they are”—at whatever level or depth at which they have the capacity to work.TLCP’s focus and accessibility never overwhelms people with unrelated data. Using TLCP, people can, at a glance, see the whole picture without labouring over volumes of data. TLCP elegantly displays the critical relationships between strengths and weaknesses, creative competencies and reactive tendencies, and the interaction between inner assumptions and outer behaviour. The profile is very easy to complete and even easier to interpret – and it’s an incredibly powerful and visual way of seeing just how people see your leadership.

We believe it is the most effective leadership development tool available.

Most importantly, TLCP is unique in that it reveals a leader’s Operating System: The internal assumptions (beliefs) that run behaviour in both domains. This allows the person to see how his/her inner world of thought is translating into a productive or unproductive style of leadership. Ultimately TLCP increases the inner awareness that affects outward behaviour.Unlike most 360 degree assessments, TLCP is a world beyond a mere laundry list of behaviours.

The profile is delivered by certified Striding Out practitioners who are licensed to use this cutting edge tool.

It is used worldwide by leading blue chip organisations. A client list can be found by visiting www.theleadershipcircle.com.

“To develop leaders, organizations need to help them get clear insight into their behaviour—what's working and what's not. We need to help them understand relationships between how they habitually think and behave. This is what TLCP provides. Once this awareness is established, leadership development can proceed. Without it, change seldom happens.”

Bob Anderson, Founder and Chief Creative Officer, the Leadership Circle

If you’re curious about how your need to please other people impacts on your leadership, or how visionary people find you, what your key strengths are for you to leverage and you primary focus for your personal development – then contact Striding Out to organise getting your own profile done.

You may be eligible for funding to cover the cost of the profile as well as any subsequent coaching to springboard your development.

To find out more email Simon Ireland-Davies - [email protected]