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CPI 260® leadership personality test

Deep and circuitous insights for leaders

The CPI 260 (California Psychological Inventory®) is a sophisticated personality cess that provides deep and complex insights for apply in executive recruitment and leadership development.

Leadership development tools: the CPI 260® assessment

CPI 260: a vibrant portrait of how others see you

CPI260The CPI 260 personality assessment provides a distinctive view of people applying for or incumbent in leadership positions in organisations. Using a sophisticated technique to extract detailed insights about someone's personality, it is able to summarise and explain how other people would see that person, and how others would guess their leadership style. In this manner, it provides a unique view of leadership ability or potential that cannot exist accessed by near other personality assessments.

CPI 260 - key features

  • Measures work-related characteristics, motivations and thinking styles using 26 individually researched trait measures
  • Gives feedback on how the individual measures up against 18 leadership competencies, showing which are their strengths and development areas
  • Looks at individual motivation and current level of satisfaction
  • Reports aimed at the qualified professional person (Candidate Feedback Written report) give full details of all the results
  • Reports aimed at the leader (Coaching Study for Leaders) requite a comprehensive run-downward of their performance against a serial of competencies, written in the direct and accessible linguistic communication of a respected peer

Revealing the less obvious aspects of personality

The CPI 260 instrument is infrequent in its refined approach to gathering information. Because of the manner information technology is designed, it can deliver information about a person that is less obvious, or of which the respondent themselves may be unaware, ensuring that a recruiting manager or executive omnibus is able to really get to know their candidate or coachee. This approach also means that the tool is highly resistant to faking, as the questions are not plainly related to the qualities they measure.

Highly resonant for senior people

We know that people in senior leadership positions have ofttimes already experienced personality assessments, and may be sceptical about their usefulness. The CPI 260 is especially resonant for people at senior levels because it can highlight contrasts between a person'south own perception of themselves, and the views of others around them. Validated against a group of high-performing senior managers, the CPI 260 gets at what a leader'southward peers are likely to think about their leadership style, and how the individual rates against specific competencies known to predict leadership success.

How do I buy the CPI 260 tool?

Admission to the CPI 260 questionnaire and associated products is restricted to qualified CPI practitioners. You can railroad train to use the CPI 260 tool on our CPI 260 Qualifying Programme or, if you lot hold a principal's degree in psychology, you may exist eligible for our psychologist access policy.